Salik Shah is the founder of Dirgha, an integrated product studio and accelerator for Web3 startups. Solve Scale is the strategic branding and growth marketing consultancy at Dirgha, specializing in building early traction and momentum for seed to growth-stage companies. He is a TEDx speaker, multiple awards-nominated author and publisher, and top 1% Expert-Vetted Sales & Marketing talent on Upwork. His publications include Mithila Review, the journal of international science fiction and fantasy. His clients include business leaders, startups and Fortune 500 companies from around the world.

Arkady Martine is a speculative fiction writer and, as Dr. AnnaLinden Weller, a historian of the Byzantine Empire and a city planner. Under both names she writes about border politics, rhetoric, propaganda, and the edges of the world. Her debut novel, A Memory Called Empire, won the 2020 Hugo Award for Best Novel, and its sequel, A Desolation Called Peace, won the 2022 Hugo Award in the same category. Arkady grew up in New York City, and after some time in Turkey, Canada, Sweden, and Baltimore, lives in New Mexico with her wife, the author Vivian Shaw. Find her online at arkadymartine.net or on Twitter as @ArkadyMartine.

Eliza Chan writes about East Asian mythology, British folklore and reclaiming the dragon lady, but preferably all three at once. She likes to collect folk tales and modernise them with a twist of lemon, pinch of pepper and a kilo of weird.

Eliza's work has been published in The Dark, Podcastle, Fantasy Magazine and The Best of British Fantasy 2019. Her debut fantasy novel FATHOMFOLK will be published by Orbit in Feb 2024.

Holly Lyn Walrath’s poetry and short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Fireside Fiction, Daily Science Fiction, Luna Station Quarterly, Liminality, and elsewhere. She is the author of the Elgin Award-winning chapbook Glimmerglass Girl (Finishing Line Press, 2018), a chapbook in Italian, Numinose Lapidi (Kipple Press 2020), and The Smallest of Bones (Clash Books, 2021). She holds a B.A. in English from The University of Texas and a Master’s in Creative Writing from the University of Denver. She is a freelance editor and host of The Weird Circular, an e-newsletter for writers containing submission calls and writing prompts. Find her online at www.hlwalrath.com or on Twitter @HollyLynWalrath.

Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam’s fiction has appeared in over 90 magazines and anthologies. She's been nominated for a Nebula Award, and her debut novella and story collection released in 2022. Visit her online at bonniejostufflebeam.com or on Twitter @BonnieJoStuffle

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