About These Authors

An American with roots in the Caribbean and upper Midwest, Susan DeFreitas is the author of the novel Hot Season, which won a Gold IPPY Award, as well as the editor of Dispatches from Anarres: Tales in Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin, a finalist for the Foreword INDIES. Her work has been featured, or is upcoming, in the Writer's Chronicle, LitHub, Story, StoryQuarterly, Daily Science Fiction, Oregon Humanities, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from Pacific University and lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Dora Holland is a writer and editor. She graduated from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette with a PhD in Creative Writing in 2023. She lives in northern Virginia with two big, happy cats. She is currently working on a cyberpunk-fantasy novel. You can find her on Twitter @phantasmadora.

Nicole Kimberling is a novelist and publisher who catered her own wedding reception for one hundred. She does not recommend this at all.

Jessy Randall's poems and stories have appeared in Asimov's, LCRW, Nature, and Scientific American. In 2025, MIT will publish her new book, The Path of Most Resistance: Poems on Women in Science. She is a librarian at Colorado College and her website is bit.ly/JessyRandall.

Seth Wade is a tech ethicist studying and teaching philosophy at Bowling Green State University. You can read his fiction and poetry in publications such as Strange Horizons, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Hunger Mountain Review, Apparition Literary Magazine, HAD, hex, The Cafe Irreal, X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, BAM Quarterly, Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, The Gateway Review, and now Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet. You can follow him on X @SethWade4Real or Instagram @chompchomp4u.