James Asmus has written for books, theater, comedy, video games and TV. He’s won several awards for his work, including the plays Hearts Full of Blood and Love Is Dead: A NecRomantic Musical Comedy, as well as his run reimagining the comic Quantum and Woody, which also garnered him five Harvey Award nominations, including Best Writer. He currently lives outside Portland, OR with his wife and two weirdly wonderful kids.

Amelinda Bérubé writes about ghosts and monsters and other things that go bump in the night. She is the author of two YA novels: The Dark Beneath the Ice and Bram Stoker Award finalist Here There Are Monsters. In her other lives, Amelinda is a mother of two and a passionate gardener. She lives in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada in a perpetual whirlwind of unfinished craft projects, cat hair, and dog toys.

Deniz Camp is an award-winning writer of comics, prose, television, and film. The first generation son of Turkish and Filipina immigrants raised in the heart of the Midwest, after undergrad and med school Deniz worked in medicine and political organizing abroad, then left medicine to pursue his passion for writing. He’s done work for Image Comics, Millarworld, Vault Comics, Scout Comics, and Red Cabin Comics and has been featured on The Guardian, CBR, comicbook.com, io9, and more. He’s also a regular contributor to the Eisner-nominated PanelxPanel Magazine. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and 13 chickens.

H. Leighton Dickson grew up in the wilds of the Canadian Shield, where her neighbours were wolves, moose, falcons and deer. The threads of science and wonder are woven throughout all of her novels, most especially in the award-winning DRAGON OF ASH & STARS: The Autobiography of a Night Dragon. She loves to travel and has many adventures with 3 creative children, 1 terribly serious grandbaby, 3 big dogs, 2 wild cats, a fat horse and a very patient husband. The wolves, moose, falcons and deer still come to call.

Asher Elbein a freelance journalist, fiction writer and artist based in Austin, Texas. His bylines have appeared in the New York Times, Texas Monthly, Texas Observer, Atlantic and other outlets. He likes—in no particular order—hats, folk music, back roads and wild places, and listening to people’s stories.

Naomi Franquiz is a Latina freelance illustrator and comic book artist currently based in delightfully dank Florida. She focuses on diverse and inclusive character-driven narratives that explore concepts such as found family, identity, and independence. She is perhaps best known for her expressive character work, as well as her penchant for giving everyone an excellent pair of eyebrows.

aised among the saw palmettos and alligator snappers of the Florida swamps, Crystal Frasier is an author and game designer who now dwells in the rainy Cascades of the Pacific Northwest. She has contributed to projects ranging from Dungeons & Dragons to The Immortal Hulk, and published various original books such as the GLAAD Media Award-winning Cheer Up: Love and Pompoms.

Parker Goodreau is a writer, illustrator, and theatre artist from New England. They focus on queer speculative fiction and graphic novels, especially for young readers. Their work frequently deals with gender, mental health, and found family dynamics. Though entirely too much of their time is lost to the internet, they can also be found exploring the woods, haunting libraries, and looking for art in unexpected places.

Jess is a US-based queer writer, cartoonist, and illustrator. A Rhode Island School of Design graduate, she’s always been a fan of competitive women and dynamic action, both of which show up in her ongoing sports webcomic, Midnight Furies. When she’s not crafting feminist action sci-fi/fantasy stories, she’s spoiling her cat or making too much soup.

Kimberli is a comic book creator and illustrator. She lives in the Wild West with her horse dogs, and cat. She draws and writes about cute critters and magical folk. Kimberli has worked with companies like Oni Press, Archaia, and the Jim Hensen Company, and has had her art displayed in the Springville Art Museum.

Lee is a Dutch artist specializing in bespoke illustrations, TTRPG art, comics and storytelling. As a queer and nonbinary individual, they enjoy making inclusive work that hopefully sparks joy and invokes emotion in its audience.

Mariah-Rose Marie is an illustrator, writer & story artist currently based in the land of the Three Council Fires, aka Chicago. Mariah-Rose’s work often centers human relations with the earth as well as wildlife, politics, queer culture, history, and the intersections of identity with empathy, intimacy, and humor. Their work can be seen anywhere from Netflix and The New Yorker to Science for the People Magazine and The Nib. When not working on her upcoming graphic novels or storyboarding for TV, she can be found tending to urban gardens, cooking, or fighting people for sport.

David Faroz Precht is a Persian-American writer living in Brooklyn, but grew up outside of Chicago and was born outside Dallas. He was a tech and healthcare copywriter for over a decade before self-publishing his first graphic novel Tethered, an existentialist zombie story. David explores identity, intersectionality and philosophy through comics, prose and, like, words, man. He loves baseball, cooking, Persian tea in 100 degree heat, reading, better understanding cultures, traveling, walking his dog and collaborating on projects with his wife Lindsay.

Nathalie D. Medina is a graduate of Haverford College, where she obtained her B.A. in East Asian Studies. She lives and works from home in the Bronx, New York, with her wife, comics and fiction writer Danny Lore, and her cat, a senior rescue named Lucy. Nathalie is inspired by anime like the Gundam series and Yu Yu Hakusho, video games like Mass Effect and Fire Emblem, and legends in sci fi and fantasy like K.A. Applegate, Mercedes Lackey, and Lois McMaster Bujold. She writes weird, queer speculative fiction for all ages and enjoys bullet journaling and collecting plushes in her spare time. Her current project is a young adult fantasy.

Tintin Pantoja graduated from the School of Visual Arts with a BFA in Sequential Art. She has illustrated eight graphic novels and contributed art to magazines and anthologies. Between writing and drawing sessions, she rewatches all fifty episodes of The Untamed with her four dogs.

Val Wise is a comic artist and illustrator from Clearwater, Florida. He enjoys writing stories with a focus on atmosphere and the body. He has previously worked on Rolled & Told, Yazeba’s Bed and Breakfast, and illustrated the graphic novel Cheer Up!: Love and Pompoms. His self-published comics include Délicatesse and I Am of Two Hearts.

Riotbones is a queer illustrator and comic artist from the Philippines with a passion for exploring all things haunting, dark, and tender—whether it be through the stories of men, monsters, or anything in between. Specializing in narrative work and illustration, they've worked for various magazines, books, TTRPGs, and video games, but are drawn in particular to horror and fantasy, making comics such as The AO-33 Nebula and Nest.