Grandpa's Deep-Space Diner
- Ray Daley was born in Coventry & still lives there. He served 6 yrs in the RAF as a clerk, spending most of his time in a Hobbit hole in High Wycombe. He's been writing stories since he was 10. His current dream is to eventually finish the Hitch Hikers fanfic novel he's been writing since 1986. Tweet him @RayDaleyWriter.
- Kevin A Davis writes fantasy, especially urban and contemporary. His urban fantasy series, AngelSong, can be found on Amazon, Audible, and Ingram. There might even be a few paperback copies in the rural bookstore that he and his wife own. His Khimmer Chronicles series will be available starting late 2022. Visit his website at www.KevinArthurDavis.com, on FB www.facebook.com/KevinArthurDavis, or Twitter @KevinADavisUF
- Jim Horlock is a UK-based author currently haunting the streets of Cardiff. He enjoys scaring people just as much as he enjoys making them laugh and short stories of his have crept their way into around a dozen anthologies. Jim is a horror movie nerd, an evil dungeon master, a comic book obsessive, and a whiskey enthusiast. You can find Jim here: jimhorlock88.wixsite.com/my-site or on Twitter @HorlockWarlock.
- Shikhandin is the pen name of an Indian writer. Her published books include "After Grief – Poems" (Red River, India), "Impetuous Women" (Penguin-Random House, India), "Immoderate Men" (Speaking Tiger, India), and "Vibhuti Cat" (Duckbill-Penguin-Random House, India). She has won various awards and honours and her work has been widely published and anthologised worldwide. Amazon Page: www.amazon.com/author/shikhandin Social Media: @writershikhandin, @Shikhandintweet, AuthorShikhandin
- WTEK is a part time author and part time artist based in Central Pennsylvania. When not writing, she enjoys stabbing with needles, pounding with hammers, and smashing all the buttons. You can find her work online at Flash Fiction Magazine, the Fiction Writers Group, and on her website wtekauthor.wordpress.com.
- G. T. Knight currently resides in South Korea and enjoys cycling, whiskey, and exploring East Asia. They are open to collaborations and can be found at \email{gtkbooks@gmail.com}.
- Katerini Koraki is a speculative fiction writer based in New York. You can find her work published in Luna Station Quarterly, and Alternating Current, among other places. When she's not writing, you can find her drinking iced lattes, rearranging her bookshelves, and crocheting up a storm. Say hello to her online at katerinikoraki.com/.
- Brent Peters is an assistant English teacher from small-town Ontario. He's currently working on joining the larger publication sphere. His other fiction can be found in NewMyths.com and The Quiet Reader. You can find his nonfiction "Chrysanthemum Roots" and "Media Bug" series on the blog Good Morning Aomori.
- Eve Morton is a writer living in Ontario, Canada. She teaches university and college classes on media studies, academic writing, and genre literature, among other topics. Her latest book is The Serenity Nearby, released in 2022 by Sapphire Books. Find more info on authormorton.wordpress.com.
- Kimber Camacho's been making up stories most of her life; from crayons on construction paper to word processing programs, from internet writing communities to published works. She lives in California and has been married to the same wonderfully talented partner for a surprising number of years. As well as being a voracious reader, Kimber is also bisexual, moderately mobility-challenged, and recently qualified to order from the senior menu at IHOP.
- J.A. Pak is the author of The Ruby Lipped Poisoner. Her writing has been published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Lunch Ticket, Joyland, etc. More of her work can be read at Triple Eight Palace of Dreams & Happiness.
- Laurence Raphael Brothers is a writer and a technologist. He has published over 40 short stories in such magazines as Nature, PodCastle, and Galaxy's Edge. His noir urban fantasies "The Demons of Wall Street", "The Demons of the Square Mile", and "The Demons of Chiyoda" are available from Mirror World Publishing. Follow Laurence on twitter: @lbrothers or visit laurencebrothers.com/bibliography for more stories that can be read or listened to online. Pronouns: he/him.
- Mike Adamson holds a Doctoral degree from Flinders University of South Australia. After early aspirations in art and writing, Mike returned to study and secured qualifications in marine biology and archaeology. Mike has been a university educator since 2006, is a passionate photographer, master-level hobbyist and journalist for international magazines. Visit his website at dream-craft.com/mikeadamson.
- Ethan Hedman is a speculative fiction writer from South Florida, the land of heat, humidity, and hurricanes. This is his third inclusion in a JayHenge Publishing anthology, having had stories published previously in both Sunshine Superhighway and Unrealpolitik. More of Ethan's stories can be found via EthanHedman.com.
- Darren is a freelance book editor for Evolved Publications, and his short fiction has appeared in more than thirty publications over the years, including Hellbound Books, Chilling Tales for Dark Nights, and The Stoneslide Corrective. He has had four plays and a feature-length film produced and a non-fiction book published. This year, look for his work in Dark Peninsula Press's Dark Highways and Black Hare Press's Grimdark anthology. While some of his works fall under the literary umbrella, he often returns to horror. His style and reading preferences tend toward the psychological, as he enjoys stories that linger in the imagination long after he's closed the book on them. He lives in Asheville, North Carolina with his son and girlfriend. See what he's up to at darrentodd.net.
- Galen T. Pickett has taught sciences at Cal State Long Beach since 1999, and lives in Southern California with his spouse and four children. He has been the caretaker of a vigorous sourdough culture since 2006.
- Maraki Piedras is a linguist, writer, tour guide and volunteer cat rescuer. She's aro/ace and in love with words and those little moments when a story just comes together. She lives on Santorini with her big sister, six adopted strays and a legion of diva muses/characters. She's been published in anthologies like From the Yonder 2 and A Quiet Afternoon 2.
- Dantzel Cherry's short fiction has appeared in Fireside, Cast of Wonders, Galaxy's Edge, and other magazines and anthologies. She teaches Pilates and MELT Method when she's not writing. She lives near the mountains in Utah with her husband, daughter, three cats, four chickens, and rather startling horde of plants and baked goods.
- K.G. Anderson is a late-blooming speculative fiction author who writes fiction as if it were fact (maybe, somewhere, it is). She lives in Seattle with the love of her life and his 50,000 rare and not-so-rare books. They have cats. Her short stories appear in magazines and anthologies including The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper Stories, Pioneers & Pathfinders, and Galaxy's Edge, as well as on podcasts such as Far Fetched Fables, StarShipSofa, and The Overcast. For links to more of her stories and information on upcoming appearances visit writerway.com/fiction.
- Ara Hone writes speculative fiction drawing on her chameleon DNA as a war-fighter, salesperson, and nonprofit novice. Her work appears in Frost Zone Zine, New Flash Fiction Review, Pulp Modern Flash, other online magazines, and the anthologies When the World Stopped, Sunshine Superhighway, and elsewhere. She's an editor at Orion's Belt Magazine and is on Twitter @rhondaschlumpb1.
- B.J. Thrower has 35 sf/f/df/h short fiction sales. Previously published in Asimov's, her latest is a df short story which will appear in Conspiracies & Cryptids by Multiminded.com/Fantastic Books. Her uf short story "The Home Town Boy" in Grandpa's Deep-Space Diner was originally published in Bending the Landscape: Fantasy by White Wolf, and was reprinted by Overlook Press in 2004. She's a Full SFWA member, and the 2022 VP of OSFW (Oklahoma Science Fiction Writers). Find her on Facebook, or at her website: bjthrower.osfw.online. She recently moved back to the city of Tulsa, OK, with her husband, the "mysterious" R.
- Damon L. Wakes was born in 1991 and began to write a few years later. He holds an MA in Creative and Critical Writing from the University of Winchester and a BA in English Literature from the University of Reading. He is the author of over 300 works of short fiction and upwards of one novel.
- Aaron Emmel's stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. He also writes essays, graphic novels and interactive fiction. Find him online at www.aaronemmel.com and on Twitter at @justicioaje.
- Ralph Benton lives under the blue skies of Florida's Gulf coast, where the weirdness oozes from the ground like a tar spring. During the day, he is a drone in a corporate arcology. By night he roams the multiverse. So many stories, so many worlds. You can see more of his work at ralphbenton.com and on Twitter @PencilNubGeek.
- Nathaniel Lee puts words in various orders. Sometimes people give him money afterward. No one knows why. You can read his other writing and projects at www.mirrorshards.net, or hire him for proofreading and editing through quasarediting.com.
- Holly Schofield travels through time at the rate of one second per second, oscillating between the alternate realities of city and country life. Her speculative fiction has appeared in many publications including Analog, Lightspeed, and Escape Pod, is used in university curricula, and has been translated into multiple languages. She hopes to save the world through science fiction and homegrown heritage tomatoes. Find her at hollyschofield.wordpress.com.
- Dawn Vogel has written for children, teens, and adults, spanning genres, places, and time periods. She is a member of Broad Universe, SFWA, and Codex Writers. She lives in Seattle with her awesome husband (and fellow author), Jeremy Zimmerman, and their herd of cats. Visit her: historythatneverwas.com or Twitter @historyneverwas.
- David F. Shultz writes from Toronto, Canada, where he is Lead Editor at Speculative North magazine. His 80+ published works are featured through publishers such as Augur and Diabolical Plots. Author webpage: davidfshultz.com.
- C. M. Fields is a queer, non-binary astrophysicist and writer of speculative fiction. They live in Seattle, Washington, with their beloved cats, Mostly Void Partially Stars and Toast, and spend their days looking for other Earths. They are also the co-editor of If There's Anyone Left, an anthology series featuring the flash fiction of marginalized writers from across the globe. C. M. can be found on Twitter as @C_M_Fields and @toomanyspectra.
- Alexander Hay is a writer and academic currently based in the UK. His previous credits include Futures (by Nature Magazine), the No Sleep Podcast and Cosmic Horror Magazine. He is also one of the few men of his generation who can enjoy baklava in a non-ironic manner. His Twitter handle is: @Alexand40457338
- Geoff Hart (he/him) works as a scientific editor, specializing in helping scientists who have English as their second language publish their research. He also writes fiction in his spare time, and has sold 49 stories thus far. Visit him online at www.geoff-hart.com.
- Shelly Jones, PhD (she/they) is a Professor of English at a small college in upstate New York, where she teaches classes in mythology, folklore, and writing. Her speculative work has previously appeared in Podcastle, New Myths, The Future Fire, and elsewhere. Find her on Twitter @shellyjansen.
- Kara Race-Moore studied history at Simmons College as an excuse to read about the soap opera lives of British royals. She worked in educational publishing, casting the molds for future generations' minds, but has since moved into the more civilized world of litigation. She currently lives in Los Angeles, the land where fact and fiction tend to blur. She can be found at: kararacemoore.wordpress.com/.
- Amanda Saville lives in North Carolina, where by day she can be found doing science. By night she explores other worlds on a ship made of a pen and a word processor. Her fiction has been published in Mermaids Monthly. Find her on Twitter @acsaville.
- Jason Lairamore is a writer of science fiction, fantasy, and horror who lives in Oklahoma with his beautiful wife and their three monstrously marvelous children. He is a published finalist of the 2012 SQ Mag annual contest, the winner of the 2013 Planetary Stories flash fiction contest, a third place winner of the 2015 SQ Mag annual contest, and a Writers of the Future contest Semi-Finalist. His work is both featured and forthcoming in over 90 publications including Perihelion Science Fiction, Stupefying Stories and Third Flatiron publications, to name a few.
- Eric Farrell (he/his) hails from Long Beach, California, where he works as a beer vendor by day, and speculative fiction author by night. His writing credits stem from a career in journalism, where he reported for a host of local and metro newspapers in the greater Los Angeles area. He runs the website stygianspace.com and posts on Twitter @stygianspace. He has fiction in Etherea Magazine, Haven Spec, and Synthetic Reality.
- Arie Kaplan is a comedy writer. His work has been published in MAD Magazine, \emph{Points in Case}, Defenestration, Slate, The Daily Drunk, Weekly Humorist, and National Lampoon. Arie is also the author of several books and graphic novels for young readers, including Frankie and the Dragon (Capstone), The Jurassic Park Little Golden Book (Penguin Random House), and The Official Stormtrooper Training Manual (Scholastic). You can find him on Twitter @ariekaplan or at www.ariekaplan.com.
- K.G. Delmare is a Brooklyn-born writer who loves to write about interesting people. They have published stories with The Colored Lens, All Worlds Wayfarer and TERSE. Journal. They have never assassinated a corrupt monarch.
- Ilene Dube is a writer, producer, curator, and artist. Her short fiction has appeared in more than a dozen literary journals. A life-long practitioner of plant-based eating, she considers the farmers' market her house of worship. And yes, her mother's favorite lunch was tomato sandwiched between two slices of onion.
- Althea Christina Hughes is the award-winning novelist of Walking the Line (YA). Her fiction has appeared in The Linguistique Mystique, Sanctuary, and AntipodeanSF. She is an MFA Creative Writing student at Reinhardt University and an Adjunct Professor of English at Towson University. Karaoke is her jam.
- Gustavo Bondoni is a novelist and short story writer with over three hundred stories published in fifteen countries, in seven languages. He is a member of Codex and an Active Member of SFWA. His latest science fiction novel is Splinter (2021), a sequel to his 2017 novel Outside. He has also published four monster books: Ice Station: Death(2019), Jungle Lab Terror (2020), Test Site Horror and Lost Island Rampage (2021), two other science fiction novels: Incursion (2017) and Siege (2016) and an ebook novella entitled Branch. His short fiction is collected in Pale Reflection (2020), Off the Beaten Path (2019), Tenth Orbit and Other Faraway Places (2010) and Virtuoso and Other Stories (2011). His website is at www.gustavobondoni.com.
- Liam Hogan is an award winning short story writer, with stories in Best of British Science Fiction and in Best of British Fantasy (NewCon Press). He's been published by Analog, Daily Science Fiction, and Flame Tree Press, among others. He helps host Liars' League London, volunteers at the creative writing charity Ministry of Stories, and lives and avoids work in London. More details at happyendingnotguaranteed.blogspot.co.uk.
- Melissa Ferguson is a medical research scientist who likes to explore scientific possibilities through fiction. Her debut novel, The Shining Wall, is available now. You can connect with her on twitter @melissajferg.
- Robert Bagnall was born in a doubly-landlocked English county when the Royal Navy still issued a rum ration, but now lives by the sea. He is the author of the science fiction thriller "2084 – The Meschera Bandwidth" and around fifty published short stories, twenty-four of which are collected in the anthology 24 0s & a 2. Both are available on Amazon. Three of his stories have also appeared in NewCon Press's annual Best of British Science Fiction anthologies. He blogs at meschera.blogspot.com and can be contacted there.
- D.T. O'Conaill is an Irish cryptocartographer, pseudopsephologist and author of speculative and horror fiction. They are based out of the Sliabh Luachra institute for Hibernofuturism.
- JB Granger is a recovering corporate professional residing in North America with a partner and feral offspring. Favorite activities include gardening, reading and cooking. You can also find them online at www.futureshards.com or on Twitter @futureshards.
- Ann Wuehler has written four novels—Aftermath: Boise, Idaho, Remarkable Women of Brokenheart Lane, House on Clark Boulevard, Oregon Gothic. Elbow and Bean appears in the current Whistle Pig Literary Magazine and Witch of the Highway was in World of Myth Magazine. Her Blood and Bread will appear in Hellbound Book's Toilet Zone 3, the Royal Flush, due in spring of 2022. Her Sefi and Des will be included in Brigid Gate's Musings of the Muses, due out in 2022.
- Tea drinker and historian, Shae Davidson has served as a museum director, toy shop clerk, and college professor. His work has appeared in a range of periodicals including Daily Science Fiction and Protodimension Magazine. You can find some of his gaming experiments at wheatpennygames.blogspot.com.
- Margaret Speaker Yuan holds a BA in French plus two advanced degrees. She has worked in finance, as a translator, and as a volunteer for several non-profits. She is published in MG non-fiction, fantasy, and in erotica. Her fiction has won prizes local writers conferences in Northern California.
- James Rumpel is a retired high school math teacher who has spent some of his additional free time trying to turn a few of the many odd ideas circling his brain into stories. He lives in Wisconsin with his wonderful wife, Mary. Together, they enjoy camping, playing board games, and staring at each other waiting for someone to say something.
- Kelly A. Harmon, MFA, is an award-winning journalist and author, and a member of the Horror Writers Association and the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America. A Baltimore native, she writes the Charm City Darkness series—an urban fantasy adventure set in contemporary Baltimore. Find her short fiction in many magazines and anthologies, including Occult Detective Quarterly; Terra! Tara! Terror! and Deep Cuts: Mayhem, Menace and Misery.
- Zach Smith is a writer of mostly short fiction in a variety of genres from the suburban Philadelphia area. Recent stories of his have appeared in Concinnity, New Pop Lit, and the Short Humour Site. He is currently working on two story collections: “Clouds Over Pancake Mountain” and “Realms Beyond Midnight World: A VHS Mix Tape.” You can find links to some of his other stories and unusual reviews at: theobscuritysymposium.wordpress.com.
- Wendy Nikel is a speculative fiction author with a degree in elementary education, a fondness for road trips, and a terrible habit of forgetting where she's left her cup of tea. Her short fiction has been published by Analog, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Nature, and elsewhere. Her time travel novella series, beginning with The Continuum, is available from World Weaver Press. For more info, visit wendynikel.com
- Cory Swanson lives in Northern Colorado with his wife, two daughters, and the ghost of an old, blind dog named Kirby. When he's not writing, you can find him camping, running, or playing one of his many, many guitars. If you'd like to watch a middle-aged man navigate the perils of social media, follow him on Facebook: \facebook{speclativemeculative}, on Instagram: \instagram{coryswansonauthor}, or on Twitter: @author_cory.
- One day Rubella Dithers hopes to start an apiary, and with their luck on that day they will discover they are allergic to bees. In the meantime, they write. They have short fiction published in Metaphorosis, The Colored Lens, and Youth Imagination. They have four cats and foolishly believe they have room for more.
- Kay Hanifen was born on a Friday the 13th and once lived for three months in a haunted castle. So, obviously, she had to become a horror writer. Her articles have appeared in Ghouls Magazine, Screen Rant, The Borgen Project, and Leatherneck magazine; and her short stories have appeared in Strangely Funny VIII, Crunchy With Ketchup, Dark Shadows: The Gay Nineties, Wicked Newsletters, Fearful Fun, Death of a Bad Neighbor, Enchanted Entrapments, Diet Riot: A Fatterpunk Anthology, M is for Medical, Blood Moon, Terror in the Trenches, Slice of Paradise, Vinyl Cuts, Sherlock Holmes and Watson's Medical Mysteries, Beware the Bugs, and Rockets and Robots. When she's not consuming pop culture with the voraciousness of a vampire at a 24-hour blood bank, you can usually find her with her two black cats or at kayhanifenauthor.wordpress.com.
- Jennifer Lee Rossman (she/they) is a queer, disabled, and autistic author and editor from the land of carousels and Rod Serling. She knows nothing about cooking, although she did put garlic salt on a shortbread cookie one time, and that was...an interesting culinary experience. Find more of her work on her website jenniferleerossman.blogspot.com/ and follow her on Twitter @JenLRossman.
- Christopher R. Muscato is a writer, adjunct history instructor, and dad of twins from Colorado, USA. He is the former writer-in-residence for the High Plains Library District, and winner of the XR Wordsmith Solarpunk Storytelling Showcase.
