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Pixie Bruner is a writer, editor, and cancer survivor. She lives in Atlanta with her doppelgänger and alien cats. Her collection The Body As Haunted was published 2024 (Authortunities Press). Her poetry has been published/forthcoming in Space & Time Magazine, Whispers from Beyond (Crystal Lake Publishing), Star*Line, Dreams & Nightmares, Punk Noir, and more. She wrote for White Wolf Gaming Studio. SFPA and HWA Member.
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│ Friendface (Facebook)│X.Amanda Worthington is a poet and speculative fiction writer from Kansas City, Missouri. She has had work published in Space & Time, Siren’s Call, Carnage House, and the second volume of the anthology Horrorscope, where she relished the opportunity to write about a bookstore with a coffee shop, a suspicious old dog, and vengeful Egyptian gods. She is currently working on a novel about the mob, ancient overlords, and global warming, a book of poetry about sea creatures and heartbreak, and a novella about a haunted boat. She founded and chairs the Heartland chapter of the Horror Writers Association, and also occasionally blogs about liminal spaces. When she’s not writing, she’s usually working crosswords, cooking, or getting lost in a forest somewhere.
Gordon Linzner is founder and former editor of Space and Time Magazine, author of five published novels and scores of short stories appearing in F&SF, Twilight Zone, Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine, and numerous other magazines and anthologies. He is a full member of the Horror Writers Association and a lifetime member of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association.
ayana walker is a dual wave-particle, time-traveling specter, writer, and poet that has crash landed in San Francisco, CA by way of Delano, CA. though highly addictive, in her natural state, she is neither poisonous nor virulent, but experts have recommended proceeding with caution and only indulging in small doses.
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Shane is an urban poet living in the Seacoast of New Hampshire. After his second divorce, he had begun writing as a form of grief processing for both his daughter and the parental alienation that accompanied their separation. Since then, Shane has honed his craft to blend post-modernity with speculative concepts as well as topics of contemporary horror. Shane holds a passionate fascination with anything space and identifies as a cis-gender male feminist and LGBTQIA++ ally. Shane is currently completing his Master’s in Literature at UNH, and hopes to apply to an MFA in the near future. In his spare time, Shane binges Stargate SG-1 and most anything Star Trek.
Craig's collection Thick As A Brick is available on Godless and Amazon. Read his stories in Wands: Year of Tarot, Space and Time Magazine, Unspeakable Horrors 3: Dark Rainbow Rising, Jersey Devil Press, Lovecraftiana, Stranger With Friction, No More Resolutions, and Demons & Death Drops. Find him on Facebook.
Angela Yuriko Smith is a third-generation Ryukyuan-American poet, author, and publisher of Space and Time magazine. A two-time Bram Stoker Awards® Winner and HWA Mentor of the Year, she currently serves as an HWA Trustee, coaches authors and shares Authortunities, a weekly calendar of author opportunities at authortunities.substack.com.
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