Nadia Bulkin writes scary stories about the scary world we live in, thirteen of which appear in her debut collection, She Said Destroy (Word Horde, 2017). Her short stories have been included in editions of The Year's Best Weird Fiction, The Year's Best Horror, and The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror. She has been nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award five times. She grew up in Jakarta, Indonesia, with her Javanese father and American mother, before relocating to Lincoln, Nebraska. She has a B.A. in Political Science, an M.A. in International Affairs, and lives in Washington, D.C.

Phenderson Djeli Clark is the author of the novellas The Black God’s Drums (Summer 2018) and The Haunting of Tram Car 015 (Winter 2019), both forthcoming from Tor.com Publishing. His Tor.com novelette A Dead Djinn in Cairo (2016) made the Locus Recommended Reading List and was listed as one of the Notable Stories in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2017, as well as republished in The Long List Anthology Vol. 3 (2017), featuring stories from the Hugo Award Nomination List. His stories have appeared in online venues such as Daily Science Fiction, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, Apex, Lightspeed, Fireside Fiction, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and in print anthologies including Griots, Hidden Youth, and Clockwork Cairo. He is loosely associated with the quarterly FIYAH: A Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction and an infrequent reviewer at Strange Horizons.

Mame Bougouma Diene is a Senegalese - American humanitarian living in Brooklyn, and the francophone/US spokesperson for the African Speculative Fiction Society. His collection of novellas Dark Moons Rising on a Starless Night is due late August 2018 at Clash Books, and he has upcoming work in AfroSFv3 and Escape Pod later this year.

Sunny Moraine’s short fiction has appeared in Tor.com, Strange Horizons, Nightmare, and Lightspeed, among other places. They are also responsible for the Root Code and Casting the Bones trilogies and their debut short fiction collection Singing With All My Skin and Bone is available from Undertow Publications. In addition, they are the creator, writer, and narrator of the Gone podcast, a serial horror-drama. They live just outside Washington, DC, in a creepy house with two cats and a very long-suffering husband.

Sabrina Vourvoulias (sabrinavourvoulias.com) is an award-winning freelance journalist whose work has appeared at PRI’s The World, The Guardian US, and The Philadelphia Daily News, among others. After years of adhering to AP-style, and juggling the conventions of English- and Spanish-language journalism, she turned to speculative fiction. Her stories and nonfiction have appeared in Uncanny Magazine, Tor.com, Strange Horizons, etc., and in a number of anthologies, including Kaiju Rising: Age of Monsters II (Abbott and Sharps, eds.), Sharp and Sugar Tooth (Cade, ed.) and Sunspot Jungle, Vol. 2 (Campbell, ed.), all upcoming in 2018-2019. She is also the author of Ink, a near-future, immigration-centered dystopia which was named to Latinidad’s Best Books of 2012. It is being reissued by Rosarium Publishing in September 2018. Sabrina lives in Pennsylvania with her husband, daughter, and a dog who is the one ring to rule them all. Follow her on Twitter @followthelede and on Facebook @officialsabrinavourvoulias.

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