Johnny Compton is a Stoker Award-nominated author whose short stories have appeared in Pseudopod, Strange Horizons, The No Sleep Podcast, and several other publications.

Anna Kovatcheva was born in Bulgaria and now lives in Brooklyn. She holds an MFA in fiction from New York University.

Christopher Huang grew up in Singapore, an only child in a family tree that expands dramatically sideways at his parents' generation.

Tom Lutz is the author of many books on literature and culture, as well as several books of travel writing and two novels.