Amal El-Mohtar is the Nebula-nominated author of The Honey Month, a collection of poetry and prose written to the taste of of twenty-eight different kinds of honey. Her work has appeared in multiple venues online and in print, including Strange Horizons, Apex Magazine, Mythic Delirium, Stone Telling, and most recently in Lightspeed magazine's "Women Destroy Science Fiction" special issue. She is a member of the Banjo Apocalypse Crinoline Troubadours performance collective, and edits Goblin Fruit, a web quarterly devoted to fantastical poetry. She lives in Glasgow with her fiancé, a harp, and two jellicle cats. Find her online at amalelmohtar.com.

Julie Hoverson has made a specialty of having no specialty. She has dabbled extensively in costuming, role-playing, LARPing, art, beadwork, acting, and writing in such disparate genres as horror, , fantasy, urban fantasy, noir, dark social commentary (and whatever else occurs to her). She has spent the last five years writing, producing, and acting in the award-winning podcast audio drama anthology series, 19 Nocturne Boulevard, and is currently recording audiobooks professionally, as well as producing her first full dramatic audio novel.

Aliya Tyus-Barnwell is an editor for Hardcore Droid and has published fiction in Sixfold, Expanded Horizons, and forthcoming in Anotherealm, among other places. Look for her on Facebook @AliyaTyus-Barnwell

Erika Brito is a wife and mother and an alumna of LaGuardia “Fame” High School. She enjoys participating in local community theater productions. Some productions include “Kiss me Kate” (as Hattie), “Damned Yankees”(as Lola) and “Into the Woods”(as Florinda). She enjoys reading aloud and bringing stories to life especially for her children.