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  • I own and operate Apex Publications (ApexBookCompany.com) and Apex Magazine.

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  • Arley Sorg

    Arley Sorg is an associate agent at kt literary. He is a two-time World Fantasy Award Finalist and a two-time Locus Award Finalist for his work as co-Editor-in-Chief at Fantasy Magazine. Arley is also a SFWA Solstice Award Recipient, a Space Cowboy Award Recipient, and a finalist for two Ignyte Awards. He is senior editor at Locus, associate editor at both Lightspeed & Nightmare, a columnist for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, an interviewer for Clarkesworld, and a book and film reviewer. Arley is a guest critiquer for the current Odyssey Workshop, and the week five instructor for the 2023 Clarion West workshop. Find him at arleysorg.com, his Twitter, Facebook, or Blue Sky.

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  • Ash Caballero

    Ash Caballero is a horror writer and actor who can be found at ashcaballero.com or on X @halfdeadz.

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  • C. S. E. Cooney (she/her) is a two-time World Fantasy Award-winning author: for novel Saint Death’s Daughter, and collection Bone Swans, Stories. Other work includes The Twice-Drowned Saint, Dark Breakers, and Desdemona and the Deep. Forthcoming in 2025 is Saint Death’s Herald, second in the Saint Death Series. As a voice actor, Cooney has narrated over 120 audiobooks, and short fiction for podcasts like Uncanny Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Tales to Terrify, and Podcastle. In March 2023, she produced her collaborative sci-fi musical, Ballads from a Distant Star, at New York City’s Arts on Site. (Find her music at Bandcamp under Brimstone Rhine.) Forthcoming from Outland Entertainment is the GM-less TTRPG Negocios Infernales (“the Spanish Inquisition… INTERRUPTED by aliens!”), co-designed with her husband, writer and game-designer Carlos Hernandez. Find her website and Substack newsetter via her Linktree or try “csecooney” on various social media platforms.

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  • Carlos Hernandez

    New York Times Bestselling author Carlos Hernandez is the author of The Assimilated Cuban’s Guide to Quantum Santeria, Sal and Gabi Break the Universe (which won the Pura Belpré award in 2019), and Sal and Gabi Fix the Universe, along with many short stories, poems, and works of drama. By day, Carlos is a CUNY Professor of English and a game designer and enthusiast. He is co-creating a TTRPG game, Negocios Infernales, with C. S. E. Cooney. Find him on socials @writeteachplay

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  • Photo portrait of award-winning best-selling author, Cerece Rennie Murphy. A beautiful Black woman with hair past her shoulders smiling warmly at the camera.

    Cerece Rennie Murphy is the national bestselling and award-winning author of ten novels, children’s books, and short stories. She is also the founder of Virtuous Con, an online science fiction and comic culture convention that celebrates the excellence of BIPOC creators in speculative fiction, across the mediums of fiction, comics, film, and visual arts.

    Ms. Murphy first fell in love with science fiction at the age of seven, watching Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back at the Uptown Theater in Washington, D.C., with her sister and Mom. It’s a love affair that has grown ever since. As an ardent fan of John Donne, Alice Walker, Kurt Vonnegut, Maya Angelou, and Alexander Pope, Ms. Murphy began exploring her creative writing through poetry at the age of eleven. As an adult, she earned her master’s degrees in social work and international relations at Boston College and Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies, respectively, and has built a rewarding career in program development and fundraising in the community, environment, and international development arenas – all while appreciating the stories of human connection told in science fiction through works like Octavia Butler’s “Wild Seed,” Frank Herbert’s “Dune”, and “The X-Files.”

    In 2010, Ms. Murphy experienced her own supernatural event – a vision of her first original science fiction story. Shortly after, she began developing and writing what would become the bestselling Order of the Seers trilogy, which was voted one of the best Kindle Books of 2014 by Digital Book Today. Through the framework of character-driven, action-packed narratives, her work explores essential themes of individual identity, personal power, and how these discoveries can be used to improve our community and our world

    Ms. Murphy is the recipient of Black Pearls Magazine’s Author of the Year Award for Children’s Literature, the National Best Sellers designation from the African American Literature Book Club (AALBC), and the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA)’s Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award for significant contributions to the science fiction, fantasy, and related genres community. Created in 2008, Ms. Murphy joins the ranks of distinguished previous Solstice Award winners, including Petra Mayer, Carl Sagan, Octavia Butler, and Gardner Dozois.

    Ms. Murphy lives and writes just outside her hometown of Washington, DC with her family.

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  • Photo portrait of author Elijah J Meers, a young white man with short brown hair. He's wearing a blue and pink plaid button-up shirt, unbuttoned, over top a white v-neck shirt. He's smiling warmly with his arms crossed in front of his chest.

    Elijah J. Mears is an author of science-fiction and fantasy from North Carolina. Growing up Jewish, neurodivergent, and gay in the South, great speculative fiction was Elijah’s way of escaping from a world where he didn’t always fit in. Now, he honors his younger self by writing tales of self-discovery, queer liberation, and the weirdest ideas that pop into his head. When not writing, he can often be found baking cookies, building walkable, urbanist neighborhoods for his Sims, or daydreaming about seeing the country from an Amtrak lounge car.

    His short fiction has previously appeared in Crepuscular and is forthcoming at Apex, and he is currently wokring on his first novel, Nor Gloom of Night. You can find him on Bluesky @elijah.mea.rs, on Instagram @elijahjmears, and on his website, ElijahJMears.com.

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  • Erika Williams
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  • Eugen Bacon is an African Australian author. She’s a British Fantasy and Foreword Indies Award winner, a twice World Fantasy Award finalist, and a finalist in other awards, including the Shirley Jackson, Philip K. Dick Award, as well as the Nommo Awards for speculative fiction by Africans. Eugen was announced in the honor list of the Otherwise Fellowships for ‘doing exciting work in gender and speculative fiction’. Danged Black Thing made the Otherwise Award Honor List as a ‘sharp collection of Afro-Surrealist work’. Visit her at eugenbacon.com.

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  • Jorn Otte

    Jørn Earl Otte has a BFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College, and an MFA in Writing for Young People from Lesley University. He can be reached at jotte@lesley.edu.

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  • Jonathan Gensler

    Jonathan Gensler (he/him) grew up in a haunted house in West Virginia. A recovering combat veteran, former entrepreneur, and constantly growing father and spouse, he now writes dark, speculative fiction, as seen in Cosmic Horror Monthly, Crystal Lake Publishing’s Shallow Waters, and other venues. He is an Affiliate Member of the Horror Writers Association and lives in the Rocky Mountains with his wife and three children. You can connect with him online @jongensler.bsky.social or jonathangensler.com

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  • Jonathan Wood

    Jonathan Wood is the author of 8 novels (The Hero series, The Dragon Lords series writing as Jon Hollins, and City of Iron and Dust as J.P. Oakes). His short fiction has appeared in Weird Tales, Fantasy Magazine, and Chizine, and has been collected in The Best of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Year One, The Best of Electric Velocipede, and the Mammoth Book of Steampunk Adventures among others. When not writing, he spends far too much time playing videogames and sharing memes on Facebook. He can be found online at jonathanwood.substack.com where he writes weekly free fiction.

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  • Kai Delmas loves creating worlds and magic systems. His fiction can be found in Zooscape, Martian, Crepuscular, and several Shacklebound anthologies. His debut drabble collection, “Darkness Rises, Hope Remains,” was published by Shacklebound Books. You can support him at: patreon.com/kaidelmas and find him on Twitter @KaiDelmas or Bluesky @kaidelmas.bsky.social

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  • KC Grifant is an award-winning writer based in Southern California who writes and edits internationally published horror, fantasy, science fiction and weird west stories.

    Her debut supernatural western novel, Melinda West: Monster Gunslinger (Brigids Gate Press, Feb 2023), described as a blend of Bonnie & Clyde meet The Witcher and Supernatural, has received positive reviews internationally. Readers and reviewers call the book “a fun, fast-paced, monster-filled joy ride,” “genre-blending,” “a story that is fascinating and irresistible,” and a “massive crowd-pleaser.” See what other readers are saying here: https://scifiwri.com/publications/melinda-west-monster-gunslinger/.

    She is also author of Shrouded Horror: Tales of the Uncanny (Dragon’s Roost Press, 2024), and Melinda West and the Gremlin Queen (Brigids Gate Press, 2025), and the editor of Women of the Weird West (Brigids Gate Press, 2026) and co-editor of Dread Coast: SoCal Horror Tales (No Bad Books Press, 2025).

    She is a published short story writer, with dozens of tales appearing in podcasts, anthologies and magazines, including: PseudoPod, Andromedia Spaceways Magazine, Unnerving Magazine, Cosmic Horror Monthly, Dark Matter Magazine, Sley House Presents, the British SF Association’s Fission Magazine, Tales to Terrify, the Lovecraft eZine; Musings of the Muse; Dancing in the Shadows—A Tribute to Anne Rice; the Stoker-nominated Chromophobia; the Stoker-nominated Fright Mare: Women Write Horror, and many others.

    She teaches genre and short story workshops and has been a moderator, panelist or speaker at dozens of conferences and events. In 2016, she co-founded the Horror Writers Association San Diego Chapter, an organization that helps to promote the horror genre (read more here) and she co-chaired its flagship event, StokerCon, in 2024. She is also a member of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association and served as an SFWA mentor. Aside from constructing imaginary worlds, she works as an award-winning science writer and editor and likes to haunt coffee shops, comic book stores, labyrinths and carnivals.

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  • Kirsten Lambertsen
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  • Kirsten Lambertsen, Owner/Operator of ReachYourApex.com

    Kirsten Lambertsen is the newly minted owner and operator of Reach Your Apex. She also operates a radio station showcasing indie music at TheIndieBeat.fm. She has a love affair with art and artists. After working in technology since 1997, launching and operating scores of online products, she’s a refugee of the enshittified economy in search of a better way.

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  • Lavie Tidhar

    Lavie Tidhar is author of numerous novels such as Osama, A Man Lies Dreaming, Central Station, Neom, and Maror. His awards include the World Fantasy and British Fantasy Awards, the John W. Campbell Award, the Neukom Prize and the Jerwood Prize, and he has been shortlisted for the Clarke Award and the Philip K. Dick Award. A prolific author of SF short stories, he has published more than two hundred, everywhere from Tor.com (where he created the popular Judge Dee series of vampire mysteries) to Analog, Asimov’s, Clarkesworld and Apex. As editor, he created the five-volume Apex Book of World SF series and edited the three volumes of The Best of World SF. Currently an honorary visiting professor and writer in residence at the American International University in London, he has taught both undergraduate and graduate courses on fantasy fiction and creative writing.

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  • Leah Ning lives in northern Virginia with her husband and their adorable fluffy overlords. She spends her non-writing time drawing, playing video games, and playing piano. Her short fiction appears or is forthcoming in PodCastle, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Dark Matter Magazine, and Human Monsters, among others. You can find her @LeahNing on Twitter and on her website leahning.com.

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  • Lesley Conner is the editor-in-chief of Apex Magazine.

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  • Marie Vibbert has sold scads of poems, stories, and comics to markets like Analog, F&SF, and Asimov’s. She’s been a lineman in women’s professional football, a medieval squire, and has had work translated into Chinese and Vietnamese. Her debut novel about a girl gang in outer space, Galactic Hellcats was released in March 2021. By day she is a computer programmer in Cleveland, Ohio.

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  • Marissa van Uden is a writer and editor from Aotearoa-New Zealand. She spent a whole second life in Germany but now lives next to a beaver pond in the mossy woods of rural Vermont. She’s an acquisitions editor for Apex Book Company. Her short fiction has been published in Dark Matter Magazine and the Los Suelos interactive anthology. You can find her down by the pond or posting about wild things, wild places, and weird horror at Twitter @marissavu and Instagram @marissa.vu.

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  • Author Mary G. Thompson

    Mary G. Thompson is the author of Wuftoom, which Booklist called “impressively unappetizing and absolutely unique,” and other novels for children and young adults. Her contemporary thriller Amy Chelsea Stacie Dee was a winner of the 2017 Westchester Fiction Award and a finalist for the 2018-2019 Missouri Gateway award. Her short fiction has appeared in Apex Magazine, Dark Matter Magazine, and others. Mary is originally from Eugene, Oregon, where she attended the University of Oregon School of Law. She practiced law for seven years, including five years in the US Navy JAGC, and now works as a law librarian. A graduate of The New School’s Writing for Children program, she lives in Washington, DC. Look for The Word, coming in May 2024 from Page Street YA.

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  • A community organizer and teacher, his work has appeared in magazines like Lightspeed Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Asimov’s, Magazine of F&SF, and Uncanny Magazine, with some of his stories having been collected in The Voices of Martyrs. His books include the urban fantasy trilogy, The Knights of Breton Court, the steampunk works, Buffalo Soldier and Pimp My Airship, and the middle grade detective novels, The Usual Suspects and Unfadeable. His project, Sorcerers, is being adapted as a television show for AMC. As an editor, he’s worked on Dark Faith, Fireside Magazine, and Apex Magazine. Learn more at MauriceBroaddus.com.

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  • Monica Valentinelli is an author and narrative designer whose works always include magic, mayhem, mystery—or any combination thereof. For more information about Monica, visit http://www.booksofm.com or find all her lovely links at linktr.ee/booksofm.

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  • Nick Mamatas

    Nick Mamatas is the author of several novels, including The Second Shooter and I Am Providence. His short fiction has appeared in Best American Mystery Stories, Tor.com, Weird Tales, Asimov’s Science Fiction and many other venues. Nick is also an anthologist; his most recent title is Wonder and Glory Forever: Awe-Inspiring Lovecraftian Fiction. Nick’s fiction and editorial work have variously been nominated for the Hugo, Bram Stoker, Shirley Jackson, Locus, and World Fantasy awards.

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  • Premee Mohamed

    Premee Mohamed is a Nebula, World Fantasy, and Aurora award-winning Indo-Caribbean scientist and speculative fiction author based in Edmonton, Alberta. She is an Assistant Editor at the short fiction audio venue Escape Pod and the author of the Beneath the Rising series of novels as well as several novellas. Her short fiction has appeared in many venues and she can be found on Twitter at @premeesaurus and on her website at http://www.premeemohamed.com.

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  • Rebecca grew up reading in the Rockies and has lived in many places, including Tokyo, Japan & Stuttgart, Germany. Rebecca’s short fiction has been published by or is forthcoming from Flame Tree, Zooscape Magazine, Galaxy’s Edge, Air & Nothingness Press, and others. She is the managing editor at Apex Magazine. Rebecca reads, edits, and writes when she’s not playing Stardew Valley or raising her children. She is fueled by cheese-covered starch and corgi fur. Find her on the internet: https://linktr.ee/rebeccaetreasure.

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  • Remi Cabal

    Remi Cabal grew up in an ancestral home with family portraits and mango trees. They currently nest in Chicago, and migrate between timezones.

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  • Portrait of world-renowned storyteller Sage Tyrtle. They have a shock of turqouise hair at the forehead and cateye eyeglasses of a matching color. They're smiling warmly, looking into the camera.

    Sage Tyrtle is a professional storyteller who tells stories all over the world, most recently in India. Her stories have been featured on NPR and CBC radio and she is a multiple time Moth StorySLAM winner, one-time Moth GrandSLAM winner, who has also appeared on the PBS tv show Stories From The Stage. She teaches The Art of Storytelling in schools, to individuals, and in corporate settings. Sage Tyrtle’s work is available in New Delta Review, The Offing, Lunch Ticket, and Apex among others. Read more at http://www.tyrtle.com.

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  • Steve Rasnic Tem, a past winner of the Bram Stoker, World Fantasy, and British Fantasy Awards, has published 470+ short stories. Recent collections include The Night Doctor & Other Tales and The Harvest Child and Other Fantasies. His novel Ubo is a dark science fictional tale about violence and its origins, featuring such viewpoint characters as Jack the Ripper and Stalin.

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  • Tim Waggoner has published over forty novels and five collections of short stories. He writes original dark fantasy and horror, as well as media tie-ins, and his articles on writing have appeared in numerous publications. He’s won the Bram Stoker Award, the HWA’s Mentor of the Year Award, been a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award and the Scribe Award. His fiction has received numerous Honorable Mentions in volumes of Best Horror of the Year, and he’s twice had stories selected for inclusion in volumes of Year’s Best Hardcore Horror. He’s also a full-time tenured professor who teaches creative writing and composition at Sinclair College in Dayton, Ohio.

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  • Tristan Evarts is the Editor-in-Chief of Utopia Science Fiction Magazine which he launched in 2019. He’s been reviewing, editing and providing feedback on submissions to the magazine for over seven years.

    Utopia Science Fiction Magazine is a growing science fiction magazine dedicated to publishing quality science fiction short stories, science articles, and poetry. New issues are published quarterly on the first of the month and an archive of free-to-read past stories is maintained on Medium and Substack. Since 2019 the magazine’s team has grown to seven people.

    Tristan’s first published work was in the 2013 short anthology Galaxies Crossed. He has a degree in English and Philosophy with a specialization in creative writing from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He’s studied with famous authors such as David Gerrold and Margaret Atwood. He’s also the owner of Castle Books and Tea bookshop.

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  • William Alexander
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  • Matthew C. Brown

    Matthew C. Brown is a science fiction/fantasy author. Born and raised in Princeton, New Jersey, he grew up absorbing and telling stories inspired by many films, books, and video games. Many days in the classroom were spent thinking about Star Wars instead of multiplication tables. He lives with his wife and daughter in Massachusetts.

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