Contributing Authors

Click on any of the authors below to read a bio and find their works published in DreamForge.

A.J. Mietke

A.J. is a scientist who’s discovered the best approach to time-travelling and escaping to other universes lies within fiction books. When she’s not busy crafting...

Adam Fout

Adam Fout is a writer masquerading as a marketer in the suburban wasteland of North Texas. He has been published in Factor Four Magazine and...

Adam Jarvis

Adam Jarvis has played many roles in his life, with writing as a persistent hobby. Most recently, he realized having a great wealth of experience...

Aditya Deshmukh

ditya Deshmukh is a mechanical engineering student from India who likes exploring the mechanics of writing as much as he likes tinkering with machines. His...

Akis Lindardos

In a cove of a Greek island, Akis was born a rather peculiar infant and has only grown stranger every year. By day, he's a...

Alexandra Seidel

Alexandra Seidel spent many a night stargazing when she was a child. These days, she writes stories and poems and drinks a lot of coffee...

Alice Towey

Alice Towey is a writer of speculative fiction and poetry based out of Northern California. A graduate of the Viable Paradise writing workshop, her work...

Alicia Adams

Alicia Adams (she/her) lives in the forest with her spouse, young daughter, and cat. When she was working on her MFA, a professor told her...

Alicia Hilton

Alicia Hilton is an author, law professor, and former FBI Special Agent. Her stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Akashic Books, Bronzeville Books, Daily...

Alyssa Eckles

Alyssa Eckles is a speculative fiction writer with stories in Shoreline of Infinity, The Nature of Cities anthology, and Bad Dream Entertainment (forthcoming). She also...

Amara Mesnik

Amara Mesnik is a Brooklyn-based writer and filmmaker with a love for all things science, fiction, and science fiction. A graduate of NYU’s Tisch School...

Ana Sun

Ana Sun (pronounced “Soon”) writes from the edge of an ancient town along the River Ouse in the south-east of England. She spent her childhood...

Andrew Giffin

Andrew is a high school English teacher from Richmond, VA, where he lives with his wife and two daughters. He is an autistic author whose...

Andrew Jensen

Andrew Jensen lives in Braeside, Ontario with his family and a half-dozen dogs and cats. He is the minister at Knox United Church, Nepean. Over...

Angela Yuriko Smith

Angela Yuriko Smith is an American poet, publisher and author. Her first collection of poetry, In Favor of Pain, was nominated for a 2017 Elgin...

Angelique Fawns

Angelique Fawns is a speculative fiction writer and fan of all things spooky. She's the author of three guides featuring the speculative fiction market, produces...

Anna Madden

Anna Madden lives in Fort Worth, Texas. Her fiction has appeared in DreamForge Magazine and Upon a Once Time (anthology, Air and Nothingness Press). She...

Arthur H. Manners

Arthur H. Manners is a British writer of speculative fiction, and lives near Cambridge (the real one) with his partner and his cat. His PhD...

Ash Vale

Ash Vale (they/them) is a queer, non-binary, neurodivergent Canadian. They’re a big fan of cryptids, guts, and weird lil guys. Their work has been published...

Barbara A. Barnett

Barbara A. Barnett is a Philadelphia-area writer, musician, Odyssey Writing Workshop graduate, occasional orchestra librarian, coffee addict, and all-around geek. Her short stories have appeared...

Barbara Barnett

Barbara Barnett is author of the Bram Stoker Award-nominated novel The Apothecary’s Curse (Pyr Books), an imprint of Prometheus Books. She is also Publisher/Executive Editor...

Benjamin C. Kinney

Benjamin C. Kinney is a neuroscientist, SFF writer, and assistant editor of the science fiction magazine Escape Pod. He’s never made a cyborg bird, and...

Beth Goder

Beth Goder is an archivist and author. Over fifty of her short stories have appeared in venues such as Escape Pod, F&SF, Analog, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed,...

Blake Jessop

Blake Jessop is a Canadian author of science fiction, fantasy and horror stories with a master's degree in creative writing from the University of Adelaide....

Bo Balder

Bo lives and works close to Amsterdam. Bo is the first Dutch author to have been published in F&SF, Clarkesworld, Analog and other places. Her...

Bret Nelson

Bret Nelson is an Emmy Award-winning creator. When he’s not writing stories, he directs TV shows and makes games. Over the years, he's worked with...

Bruce Boston

Bruce Boston's poetry and fiction have appeared in hundreds of publications and received numerous awards: Asimov’s SF, Analog, Weird Tales, Amazing Stories, Daily Science Fiction,...

Bruce Golden

Bruce Golden's short stories have been published across more than two dozen countries and 40 anthologies. Asimov's Science Fiction described his novel Evergreen, "If you...

Bruce McAllister

Bruce McAllister’s short fiction has over the decades appeared in SFF&H magazines, literary journals, “year’s best" volumes, and, God help him, college textbooks; and won...

C.H. Hung

C.H. Hung grew up among the musty book stacks of public libraries, where she found a lifelong love for good stories and lost 20/20 vision...

C.J. Peterson

C. J. Peterson is a writer of science and science fiction with an academic background in physical anthropology and medical research.

Catherine Weaver

Catherine Weaver is a writer, editor and educator from the San Francisco Bay Area, where her family has lived for four generations. She is the...

Chad Gayle

Chad Gayle’s science fiction has appeared in Andromeda Spaceways Magazine, Inner Worlds, and The Colored Lens. In addition to teaching English at institutions in Texas...

Chris Bannor

Chris Bannor is a speculative fiction writer who lives in Southern California. Chris learned her love of genre stories from her mother at an early...

Chris Cornetto

Chris Cornetto is a physics teacher by day and writer by night. In addition to physics, he has degrees in chemistry, philosophy, and psychology. He...

Chris Pasetto

Chris Pasetto is a video game designer who has worked on high profile franchises including Destiny, Red Dead Redemption, and Call of Duty. In addition...

Christopher Blake

Christopher Blake is a physician by day and a writer by night. He is a dad (cat and human), by his back of the napkin...

Christopher Collingwood

Chris was born and raised in Sydney Australia. He completed university in Sydney, graduating with a degree in business studies, and has worked across various...

Christopher Davis

Chris Davis is a Software Architect living in Georgia. When he isn't writing code or spending time with his wife and kids, he's reading all...

Christopher Mark Rose

In 2015 Chris won first place in the Baltimore Science Fiction Society's Amateur Writing Contest, and has been writing short fiction ever since. His work...

Colm O'Shea

Colm O'Shea teaches writing at New York University. His poems, short fiction and essays have won or been shortlisted for various awards, including Singapore University's...

Crystal Crawford

Crystal Crawford is a homeschooling mom of four, part-time non-profit Director and writing teacher, and indie author. Her imagination is her happy place! (But a...

Darrin Bright

Darrin Bright works as an accountant by day, and scripts missions for starship bridge simulators by night. The smell of petrichor and rotting tomatoes reminds...

David Amburgey

David Amburgey is an aspiring writer in Scarborough, Canada. A graduate of the University of Toronto with a BA in History and English Literature, he...

David Boffa

David Boffa is a writer, independent filmmaker, and dog lover currently located in Madison, Wisconsin. For several years he taught art history at Beloit College,...

David Hankins

David Hankins is the award-winning author of Death and the Taxman. He writes from the thriving cornfields of Iowa where he lives with his wife,...

David Weber

David Weber is an accomplished science fiction author best known for his Honor Harrington series. His novels range from epic fantasy (Oath of Swords, The...

Davide Mana

Born in Turin, Italy, Davide is a former environmental scientist currently paying his bills as a writer and translator. His stories have been translated both...

Deborah L. Davitt

Deborah L. Davitt was raised in Nevada, but currently lives in Houston, Texas with her husband and son. Her poetry has received Rhysling, Dwarf Star,...

Don Mark Baldridge

Don Mark Baldridge is an American who has lived and worked around the world, spending years at a time in the Eastern Hemisphere or South...

Donald S. Crankshaw

Donald S. Crankshaw has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from MIT, which was more useful for writing fantasy than he had expected, though less helpful...

Douglas Kolacki

Douglas Kolacki began writing while stationed with the U.S. Navy in Naples, Italy. Since then he has placed fiction in Amazing Stories, Weird Tales, Liquid...

Dr. Lee Carroll

Working abroad in 10 countries of Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America, both as a doctor and teacher, has shown me life as a...

E.E. King

E.E. King is an award-winning painter, performer, writer, and naturalist. She’ll do anything that won’t pay the bills, especially if it involves animals. Ray Bradbury...

Edward Ahern

Ed Ahern resumed writing after forty odd years in foreign intelligence and international sales. He’s had over three hundred stories and poems published so far,...

Elaine Cunningham

Elaine Cunningham is a New York Times bestselling fantasy author, best known for her work in licensed settings such as the Forgotten Realms, Star Wars,...

Eleanor R. Wood

Eleanor R. Wood’s stories have appeared in Galaxy's Edge, Diabolical Plots, PodCastle, Nature: Futures, The Best of British Fantasy 2019, and various anthologies, among other...

Elena Pavlova

Elena Pavlova lives in Montana, Bulgaria. Her short stories have appeared in various Bulgarian anthologies and magazines, winning awards from national competitions. In 2019, her...

Emily Mah

I've published short stories with Analog, The Black Gate, and anthologies such as The Change (published by Roc), The Dragon and the Stars (published by...

Eric Leif Davin

Dr. Eric Leif Davin is an award-winning historian who teaches labor and political history at the University of Pittsburgh. He won the Eugene V. Debs...

Erin Darrow

Erin Darrow writes fantasy and science fiction inspired by nature, ecology, myths, and fairy tales. After migrating near and far, she settled in Aotearoa, New...

Esteban Raposo

Esteban Raposo is a Chilean-American author living in Lake Arrowhead, California. His beautiful wife, a talented illustrator, has been the solar wind propelling his interstellar...

Evan James Sheldon

Evan James Sheldon's work has appeared recently in the American Literary Review, the Cincinnati Review, and the Maine Review, among other journals. He is a...

Floris M. Kleijne

Floris M. Kleijne writes stories in the interstices between his family, his career in finance, and his insatiable craving for Netflix binges. His stories have...

G. M. Periera

A South African of Portuguese descent. Born and raised in Johannesburg, he spent 5 years in the South African Military from 1980 to 1985, during...

Gary Kloster

Sometimes all on the same day, seldom all at the same time. His work has appeared in Analog, Apex, Clarkesworld, Escape Pod, and with many...

George Lockett

George Lockett is a London-based writer of fiction and video games. His short fiction has appeared in such places as Fireside Magazine, sub-Q Magazine, and...

George Nikolopoulos

George Nikolopoulos is a speculative fiction writer and a member of Codex Writers' Group. His short stories have been published in over 60 magazines and...

Grant Carrington

Grant Carrington, former associate editor of Amazing, is the author of 3 novels and a collection published by Brief Candle Press of Beaverton, Oregon. Grant's...

Gregory L. Norris

"Gregory L. Norris is a full-time professional writer, with work appearing in numerous fiction anthologies, national magazines, novels, and the occasional TV episode (and, so...

Gretchen Tessmer

Gretchen Tessmer is a writer/attorney based in the U.S./Canadian borderlands. She writes both short fiction and poetry (way too much poetry), with work appearing in...

Gustavo Bondoni

Gustavo Bondoni is an Argentine writer with over two hundred stories published in fourteen countries, in seven languages. His latest books are Ice Station: Death...

H. Orion Kim

H. Orion Kim earned an M.Phil in Popular Literature from Trinity College Dublin (Ireland), which means she's read all the latest stories from a hundred...

Hal Zhang

Hal Y. Zhang is a lapsed physicist and writer of oddities. Her science fiction chapbook, Hard Mother, Spider Mother, Soft Mother, was published by Radix...

Henry Gasko

Henry Gasko was born in a displaced persons camp in Yugoslavia after World War Two. He was raised on a vegetable farm in Canada, and...

Henry Szabranski

Henry Szabranski was born in Birmingham, UK, and studied Astronomy & Astrophysics at Newcastle upon Tyne University, graduating with a degree in Theoretical Physics. His...

Herb Kauderer

Herb Kauderer is an associate professor of English at Hilbert College near Buffalo, NY. He holds a PhD in Popular Literature from the University at...

Indiana Tilford

Indiana Tilford is a reformed fishing guide and river rat. When not writing, you can often find him falling into past habits on the water...

Isaac E. Payne

Isaac E. Payne is a writer from northern Pennsylvania, and a graduate of the 2017 and 2018 Alpha Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Young Writers...

J.J. Litke

J.J. Litke lives in Austin, Texas, where she writes SFF and moonlights as a graphic design instructor. She is not a robot—she enjoys non-petroleum beverages,...

J.L. Akagi

J.L. Akagi is a queer Japanese American who writes about what scares her. Her work has appeared in Strange Horizons and is forthcoming in The...

J.M. Rhineheart

J.M. Rhineheart lives in Virginia with her husband and daughter, where she also teaches English and music. She has been published in several anthologies, including...

Jack Morton

Born in New Brunswick, Canada, Jack Morton studied English and Writing at the University of Toronto. His stories can be read in Radon Journal, Year’s...

James Verran

James Verran has lived in Port Noarlunga since 1969 with his wife Betty and their three offspring. They now have a clutch of three adult...

James Verran and Scot Noel

Both Jim and Scot were winners in the 1990 Writers of the Future Vol 6. Despite the long distance, (Scot is in Pennsylvania and Jim...

Jamie D. Munro

Jamie D. Munro is our number one fan, first Patreon Supporter, Kickstarter supporter, and our Editorial Assistant, too! It seems Jamie found us the minute...

Jane Lindskold

Jane Lindskold has published over 30 novels and countless short stories. She grew up in Washington DC, got a Ph.D. in English with concentrations in...

Jane Noel

Jane is the Founder of Chroma Studios, a digital marketing agency located in Jeannette PA. She holds a degree in Visual Communications from the Art...

Jared Oliver Adams

Jared Oliver Adams lives in Knoxville, Tennessee, where he writes, explores, and dabbles in things better left alone. He holds two degrees in music performance,...

Jason P. Burnham

Jason P. Burnham loves to spend time with his wife, children, and dog. He co-edits If There's Anyone Left, a magazine of inclusive speculative fiction,...

Jean Martin

Jean Martin is a Pittsburgh based writer and member of PARSEC, Pittsburgh's premier science fiction and fantasy organization. Parsec is a 501c3 non-profit organization promoting...

Jennifer Bushroe

Jennifer Bushroe once swore on a statue of Peter Pan that she’d never grow up. She fulfills this oath daily by dancing like nobody’s watching,...

Jennifer Donohue

Jennifer R. Donohue grew up at the Jersey Shore and now lives in central New York with her husband and their Doberman, where she works...

Jennifer Hudak

Jennifer Hudak is a speculative fiction writer fueled mostly by tea. Her work has appeared on both the Locus Magazine and the SFWA recommended reading...

Jennifer Shelby

Jennifer Shelby hunts for stories in the beetled undergrowth of fairy-infested forest. She fishes for them in the dark spaces between the stars. As a...

JK Stephens

J K Stephens is a speculative fiction writer who wrote and lavishly illustrated her first science fiction when she was nine. She never did submit...

JM Williams

JM Williams is the author of Call of the Guardian, In the Valley of Magic, and other works of fantasy and science fiction. He has...

JMG Nerenberg

Jan pursued a rather circuitous path to reach her impossible dreams. “I always wanted to marry a handsome man, live in a seaport village in...

John Jos. Miller

John Jos. Miller is a science fiction author known for his work in the long-running Wild Cards shared universe series of original anthologies and novels,...

Jonathan G. Chew and Mandy D. Chew

Mandy and Jonathan love building new worlds together that inspire positivity. Their collaborative ventures stem from their shared love of Star Trek and Dr. Who....

Jonathon Mast

Jonathon Mast lives in Kentucky with his wife and an insanity of children. (A group of children is called an insanity. Trust me.) Many of...

Josh Rountree

Josh Rountree’s short fiction has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, including Realms of Fantasy, Daily Science Fiction, and Polyphony 6. His work has received...

K.S. Charlotte

K.S. Charlotte’s family immigrated from Moscow to the Chicago suburbs in the 90s. After studying history as an undergraduate, she spent six years as a...

Kai Holmwood

Kai Holmwood, a fifth-generation Californian and third-generation UC Berkeley graduate, has been a freelance nonfiction writer for over a decade. She recently completed a Master...

Karl Dandenell

Karl Dandenell is a graduate of Viable Paradise and a Full Member of the Science Fiction Writers of America. He and his family, plus their...

Kat Heckenbach

Kat Heckenbach is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Tampa with a B.S. in Biology. She spent several years teaching, but never...

Kelley Stead

Kelley Stead starting writing stories the moment she could hold a crayon. She wrote her first novel at the age of ten in a series...

Kurt Pankau

Kurt Pankau is a computer engineer in St. Louis. He has a weakness for board games, dad-jokes, and stories about time travel. His fiction has...

L. Deni Colter

Liz has followed her heart through a wide variety of careers, including farming with a team of draft horses and working as a field paramedic,...

L. P. Melling

L. P. Melling currently writes from the East of England after living around the UK. A Writers of the Future finalist, his short fiction has...

Lauren C. Teffeau

Lauren was born and raised on the East Coast, educated in the South, employed in the Midwest, and now lives and dreams in the Southwest....

Lif Strand

Lif Strand lives in New Mexico, USA, called the Land of Enchantment for good reason: the place practically demands spending time in other realities. Lif...

Lloyd Penney

Lloyd has been a science fiction fan for close to 45 years, busy with conrunning, clubs, and being a vendor, but has finally been able...

Lucy Stone

Lucy Stone is a freelance writer, lexicographer, and mother of one. Her work has appeared in Electric Spec, BFS Horizons, Unfading Daydream, Every Day Fiction,...

M.T. Reiten

M. T. Reiten served in the military and works as a scientist at a national lab in the southwest proving that there is such a...

Mara Buck

Mara Buck writes, paints, and rants in a self-constructed hideaway in the Maine woods. She hopes to leave someday. Recently short-listed for the Alpine Fellowship....

Margaret Balch-Gonzalez

Margaret Balch-Gonzalez is a writer, editor, and former science teacher living in Providence, Rhode Island. Most recently she worked as an editor of social science...

Margaret Kingsbury

Margaret Kingsbury lives in Nashville, TN surrounded by books and toddler toys. She’s a freelance writer and editor who gives daily book recommendations, says hello...

Maria Zoccola

Maria Zoccola is a Southern writer with deep roots in the Mississippi Delta. She has writing degrees from Emory University and Falmouth University. She writes...

Marie Brennan

Marie Brennan is a former anthropologist and folklorist who shamelessly leans on her academic fields for inspiration. She recently misapplied her professors' hard work to...

Marie Croke

Marie Croke went to bed with a miniature dictionary (she still has it) before she was school aged and began writing stories in first grade....

Marie Vibbert

Besides selling ninety-odd short stories, twenty-some poems and a few comics and games, Marie Vibbert has been a medieval (SCA) squire, ridden 17% of the...

Marion Koob

Marion Koob is originally from France, but she has been living in England for over fifteen years: in London, Cambridge, Liverpool and now rural Wiltshire....

Marisca Pichette

Marisca Pichette is a queer author based in Massachusetts, on Pocumtuck and Abenaki land. More of her work appears in Strange Horizons, Clarkesworld, Tales &...

Mark English

As an ex-rocket scientist Mark has an unwitting talent for taking the everyday magic out of twinkling stars, sunsets, colourful flames dancing in a roaring...

Mark Gallacher

Mark Gallacher is a Scottish writer who lives in Denmark with his wife and two sons. His stories have been shortlisted twice for the Fish...

Mary Soon Lee

Mary Soon Lee was born and raised in London, but has lived in Pittsburgh for thirty years. She is a Grand Master of the Science...

Matt McHugh

Matt McHugh was born in suburban Pennsylvania, attended LaSalle University in Philadelphia, and after a few years as a Manhattanite, now calls New Jersey home....

Megan M. Davies-Ostrom

Megan M. Davies-Ostrom is a Canadian author with a penchant for horror and dark speculative fiction. Her short stories have appeared in Fantasy Magazine, Cosmic...

Melissa Ren

Melissa Ren is a Chinese-Canadian writer whose narratives tend to explore the intersection between belonging and becoming. She is a prize recipient of Room Magazine's...

Michael McCormick

Michael McCormick's award-winning fiction, poetry, and articles have appeared in many journals and anthologies. He is currently writing an urban fantasy novel. Mike likes stories...

Michael Zahniser

Michael Zahniser lives in Boston with his wife Christina, three housemates, and two guinea pigs. As a software engineer at an autonomous vehicle company, his...

Michelle Ann King

Michelle Ann King is a short story writer from Essex, England. Her stories of fantasy, science fiction, crime, and horror have appeared in over a...

Mike Jack Stoumbos

Mike Jack Stoumbos is an author and educator, best known for his space opera series THIS FINE CREW and as a 1st-place winner of the...

Miranda Jubb

Miranda Jubb lives in Bristol in southwest England with her family and assorted animals. She has been writing all her life and her childhood ambition...

Monica Joyce Evans

Monica Joyce Evans is a digital game designer and researcher who began publishing speculative fiction in 2019. Her short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming...

Nemma Wollenfang

Nemma Wollenfang is an MSc Postgraduate and prize-winning short story writer who lives in Northern England. Her stories have appeared in several venues, including: Beyond...

Nyla Bright

Nyla Bright writes in Seven Hills, Ohio. She is a member of several local writing groups including "The Cajun Sushi Hamsters from Hell" and "The...

P.S.C. Willis

P.S.C. Willis is a queer British writer, currently living in Shanghai. They are a graduate of both Newcastle and Reading University in the UK. Writing...

Paul Dellinger

Paul Dellinger is a former newspaper reporter who writes science fiction and fantasy stories, many of which are collected in the book Mr. Lazarus and...

Peter S. Drang

Peter S. Drang builds his army of 3D printed hexapod robots by day (see VorpalRobotics.com) and writes sublimely unhinged fiction by night. Someday he hopes...

Priya Chand

Priya Chand currently resides in the vicinity of Chicago, a setting that inspired this story, along with her pandemic-acquired hobby of birding. She has also...

R.E. Rule

R. E. Rule is a speculative fiction writer from the Midwestern United States. She discovered a deep love of fantasy, written and imagined, at a...

R.J.K Lee

R.J.K. LEE has lived in Japan since 2005, though originally from Oregon, USA. Based in Tochigi, he plays games with his daughters, bicycles through sunshine...

Raven Jakubowski

Raven Jakubowski is a Bram Stoker and Dwarf Stars award nominated and Rhysling long-listed writer whose work has appeared in Nightmare Magazine, Strange Horizons, and...

Rebecca Enzor

Rebecca Enzor is an analytical chemist in Vancouver, WA, where she lives with her husband, two dogs, two cats, and sometimes chickens. Her articles on...

Rebecca Roland

Rebecca is the author of the Shards of History series, The Necromancer's Inheritance series, and The King of Ash and Bones, and Other Stories. Her...

Richard A. Shury

Richard A Shury studied literature at Otago University, and recently returned to New Zealand after haunting London for many years. He is looking forward to...

Robert E. Harpold

Robert E. Harpold has been published in DreamForge, Analog, and Dark Matter, among others. DreamForge is the first magazine to accept two of his stories,...

Robert Silverberg

In a career that goes back to 1954, Robert Silverberg has published hundreds of science fiction stories and more than a hundred novels. He has...

Roger Dutcher

Roger Dutcher lives in Wisconsin, where he enjoys jazz, wine, and poetry. His poetry has appeared in Asimov's, Modern Haiku, and Strange Horizons, with some...

Ronald Ferguson

After years of teaching college mathematics and publishing four textbooks, Ronald D Ferguson decided that writing science fiction and fantasy was more fun. Now, he's...

Sally Wiener Grotta

Sally Wiener Grotta is the author of numerous books including The Winter Boy (a 2015 Locus Magazine Recommended Read) and Jo Joe (a Jewish Book...

Santiago Márquez Ramos

Santiago is a mental health therapist working with Latinx immigrants in New York City. Originally from Mexico, he’s passionate about weaving culture, mental health, queerness,...

Sarena Ulibarri

Sarena Ulibarri is a fiction writer who lives in New Mexico. She attended the Clarion Workshop at UCSD in 2014 and earned an MFA in...

Scot Noel

Scot has always written Science Fiction and Fantasy Fiction. Indeed, from the moment he learned to scribble in cursive, he began to split his time...

Scott Edelman

Scott Edelman has published more than 120 short stories in magazines such as Lightspeed, Analog, Apex, and The Twilight Zone, and in anthologies such as...

Scott Paul Hallam

Scott Paul Hallam is a dark fiction writer living in Pittsburgh, PA. In addition to DreamForge Magazine, his work has been published in Sanitarium Magazine;...

Shanna Yetman

Shanna Yetman is an environmental writer and Latina living in Chicago. Her fiction has appeared in Cheap Pop, Sky Island Journal, MoonPark Review, the Daily...

Shannon Fox

Shannon is a multi-genre writer of stories spanning past, present, and future. Her work has appeared in several publications, including DreamForge Anvil, Air & Nothingness...

Sherri Woosley

Sherri Cook Woosley has a M.A. in English from University of Maryland and has published short fiction in both literary and genre markets. Her debut...

Somto Ihezue

Somto Ihezue(He/Him) is a Nigerian–Igbo writer. He was awarded the 2021 African Youth Network Movement Fiction Prize. A Nommo Award-nominee and a finalist for the...

Steven Brust & Skyler White

Steven Brust Steven is best known for a series of novels about the assassin Vlad Taltos in the world of Dragaera. He's also partnered with...

Susan Kaye Quinn

Susan Kaye Quinn is an environmental engineer/rocket scientist turned speculative fiction author who now uses her PhD to invent cool stuff in books. Her works...

Taffy Lamba

“Even the stars aren’t as bright as my ideas.” Taffy Lamba adores self-aggrandisement as a form of self-expression. After all, our best work comes from...

Tammy Komoff

Tammy Komoff’s fiction has recently appeared in All World’s Wayfarer, Across the Margins, and Bards & Sages Magazine. She is currently studying for her MFA...

Taylor Jones

Taylor Jones writes fiction and poetry about the possible future and the impossible present. Her work is often inspired by her background in and love...

Teresa Milbrodt

Teresa Milbrodt has published three short story collections: Instances of Head-Switching, Bearded Women: Stories, and Work Opportunities. She has also published a novel, The Patron...

Terra LeMay

Terra LeMay was born on top of a volcano (in Hawaii.) She tamed a wild mustang before she turned sixteen, and before twenty-five, she traveled...

Terry Madden

Terry’s tenth grade paper on the evolution of Frankenstein’s monster from tragic construct to boogeyman set her on the path to write her own stories...

Timons Esaias

Timons Esaias is a satirist, writer and poet living in Pittsburgh. His works, ranging from literary to genre, have been published in twenty-two languages. He...

Todd Honeycutt

Todd Honeycutt is a public health researcher whose musings lead him up odd steps and down crooked highways that manifest into fiction. A graduate of...

Tom Sheehan

Author Tom Sheehan might himself be the Old Man Who Hid Music. At 91-years-old, this venerable and award-winning writer of 35 books, honored with 33...

Tyler Tork

Tyler has published a historical science fiction adventure novel, 'Doctor Dead' (Rampant Loon Media, 2015), a nonfiction book, 'One-Hour Author Website' (self, editions in 2016...

Victoria Dixon

Victoria Dixon is obsessed with writing, culture, books, faith and family, though not in that order. She lives in Kansas, which is not monochrome, regardless...

Ville Meriläinen writes fiction like the Finnish winter: Dark and depressing and someone probably dies. His reprint short stories are collected at https://curiousfictions.com/authors/111-ville-merilainen and violin/piano...

W.T. Paterson

W. T. Paterson is a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee, holds an MFA in Fiction Writing from the University of New Hampshire, and is a graduate...

Warren Benedetto

Warren Benedetto writes dark fiction about horrible people, horrible places, and horrible things. He is an award-winning author who has published over 260 stories, appearing...

Wendy Nikel

Wendy Nikel is a speculative fiction author with a degree in elementary education, a fondness for road trips, and a terrible habit of forgetting where...

William Campbell Powell

William lives in a small Buckinghamshire village in England. By night he writes speculative, historical, crime and other fiction. His debut novel, EXPIRATION DAY, was...