Professor Feiff's Trans-Dimensional Travelogue
- Joyce Frohn has been published in magazines, anthologies and even bumper stickers, most recently in "Stellar Parallax", "The Lorelei Signal" and the anthology, "Magi". She is married with an adult daughter. She also shares a house with a black cat, too many dirty dishes and several feral dust bunnies.
- Zary Fekete grew up in Hungary and currently lives in Tokyo. He has a debut novella Words on the Page out with DarkWinter Lit Press and a short story collection The Written Path: A Journey Through Sobriety and Scripture out with Creative Texts. He enjoys books, podcasts, and many many many films. Twitter and Instagram: @ZaryFekete. Bluesky \bluesky{zaryfekete}.
- Robert Runt\'e is Senior Editor with EssentialEdits.ca and freelances at SFeditor.ca. A former professor, he has won four Aurora Awards for his literary criticism and currently reviews for the Ottawa Review of Books. His own fiction has been published over 130 times, and several of his short stories have been reprinted in "best of" collections.
- 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 was a university educator from 2006 to 2018, is a passionate photographer, master-level hobbyist and a journalist for international magazines. He is now a well-known Sherlock Holmes novelist. Ed: Have a look at Mike's exciting Middle Stars Volume 1 collection of stories from JayHenge Publishing (jayhenge.com/middlestarsv1.html).
- Rodrigo Culagovski is a Chilean architect, designer, and web developer. He has published in Flash Fiction Online, Nature, Levar Burton Reads, Future Science Fiction Digest, khōréō among others. He misses his Commodore 64. Pronouns he/him/él. SFWA | Codex | ALCiFF On Bluesky as \bluesky{culagovski.net}.
- Regina Clarke finds in storytelling her greatest joy, be it her own or the worlds others create. Her stories have been published often and she has written novels in the fantasy, science fiction, and mystery genres. Recently, stories were published in Martian Wave and for "The Future's So Bright..." anthology for Water Dragon Publishing. She would gladly time travel for a few hours with Ray Bradbury and writer Chester Geier. Her books and stories can be found at her website Regina Clarke (regina-clarke.com) and at her Amazon Author Page (amazon.com/stores/author/B001K8IWBU).
- Don Bisdorf is a writer, software developer, and game designer. He and his wife have hidden themselves away in a little house in the woods, where they look after a hoard of books, a stack of computers, and one very good dog. You can find him online at www.donbisdorf.com.
- James Rumpel is a retired high school math teacher who enjoys spending some of his free time trying to turn the odd ideas circling his brain into actual stories. He lives in Wisconsin with his wonderful wife, Mary.
- Matt Bliss is a construction worker turned speculative fiction writer from Las Vegas, Nevada. He is the author of Ill-Gotten Things, a short story collection, and his short fiction has appeared in over forty other publications including Diabolical Plots, Metastelar, and Cosmic Horror Monthly. You can find more on Matt and links to his work at flow.page/mattbliss.
- Susann Cokal is a moody historical novelist, a pop-culture essayist, a book critic, and an editor. Her novels are Mirabilis, Breath and Bones, Mermaid Moon, and The Kingdom of Little Wounds, which won several national awards, including a Michael L. Printz Honor from the American Library Association. Her sometimes prizewinning shorter work has appeared in venues such as Panorama, Hunger Mountain, Cincinnati Review, Electric Lit, Enchanted Living, Writers on the Job, Prairie Schooner, Gargoyle, and The New York Times Book Review. She lives in a creepy old Virginia farmhouse with a witchy number of cats, a drummer, and some peacocks. Her website is susanncokal.com.
- Arthur H. Manners is a British speculative fiction writer, with a background in space physics and data science. His work is published/forthcoming in places like Analog, Strange Horizons, and Solarpunk Magazine. He lives in Cambridgeshire, England. Find his website and newsletter at arthurmanners.com.
- Originally from Ireland, James Rogers lives in New York and is a teacher at the United Nations International School. His short fiction has appeared in a variety of magazines and anthologies of varying genres. His debut novel, Flight of the Eternal Emperor, was published in 2023. jameswrogers.com
- Gustavo Bondoni is a novelist and short story writer with over three hundred stories published in fifteen countries, in seven languages. He has published several science fiction novels including two trilogies, six monster books, a dark military fantasy and a thriller. His short fiction is collected in Thin Air (2023), Pale Reflection (2020), Off the Beaten Path (2019), Tenth Orbit and Other Faraway Places (2010) and Virtuoso and Other Stories (2011).
- Vincent H. O'Neil is the Malice Award-winning author of the Exile mystery series from St. Martin's Press and the military science fiction Sim War series (written as Henry V. O’Neil) from HarperCollins. His short stories have appeared in Parsec, Andromeda Spaceways, Mystery Tribune, Bourbon Penn, and other magazines. His website is www.vincenthoneil.com.
- Justin Teerlinck writes historical satire in his periodical the Dash Fire Diaries, and in his humor column Fun Patrol, in Whistling Shade. His book-length works include the epistolary novel Squabble of the Titans, Recollections of Roosevelt and His Rival's Hunt for Bigfoot in the Olympic Rainforest. His interests include doomed polar expeditions, incompetence in the face of chaos, 19th century Brit lit, and the history of pseudoscience. He lives in Gig Harbor, WA, where he hunts for exotic fungi when he isn't working as a hand therapist.
- 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.
- Stewart C Baker is an academic librarian and author of speculative fiction, poetry, and games, including The Butterfly Disjunct: And Other Stories (Interstellar Flight Press). He co-wrote the Nebula-nominated The Bread Must Rise and A Death in Hyperspace. Born in England, Stewart lives in Oregon.
- Emily Gennis writes genre-blending fiction that runs the gamut from humor to horror, historical to sci-fi and everything in between. Her work can be found in Freedom Fiction Journal, the After Happy Hour Review and Die Laughing Literary Magazine as well as her website, emilygennis.com. "Post-Apocalypse Prix-Fixe" was inspired by her time working as a line-cook in New York City, which was only slightly more terrifying than an actual zombie apocalypse.
- An award-winning author, essayist and editor, Kris Ashton has published more than fifty pieces of short fiction and several novels including Demon Drink and Invasion at Bald Eagle. He is active on social media and occasionally remembers to update his website at krisashtonwrite.com. He lives in the wilds of south-western Sydney with his wife, two kids, and a recalcitrant labradoodle named Maple.
- Mia Dalia is an internationally published, Crime Writers Association-nominated author of all things fantastic, thrilling, scary, and strange. Her short fiction has been published extensively online, in print anthologies and magazines, and featured in narrative podcasts. Mia's work has been selected as Tales to Terrify's top ten best stories of 2023, shortlisted for the Crime Writers Association's Daggers Award 2024, acclaimed by Booklist, Library Journal, and more. She is the author of the novels Estate Sale and Haven, novellas Alakazam, Tell Me a Story, Discordant, Arrokoth, Do You Know The Muffin Man? and the collection Smile So Red and Other Tales of Madness. daliaverse.wixsite.com/author linktr.ee/daliaverse
- Michael Boettcher is a retired U.S. Navy pilot and current airline pilot whose fiction has appeared with Raconteur Press, Every Day Fiction, and Bindweed Magazine. His published stories include "A Tidy Little Apocalypse", "Dead Men Tell No Tales (But They File in Triplicate)", "Long and Graceful", "In Short Supply", and "What the Fire Keeps".
- Robert Dawson teaches mathematics at a Nova Scotian university. His stories have appeared in Nature Futures,Year's Best Military and Adventure SF, Tesseracts, and many other periodicals and anthologies. He is an alumnus of the Sage Hill and Viable Paradise writing workshops. He believes that the world needs more bicycles.
- Dr. Terryl M. Asla is an award-winning nonfiction writer who began writing fiction about seven years ago. "Most of my stories come from observing real-world activities or events, and then carrying them to illogical ends," says Asla. For instance, this story was inspired by his granddaughter teaching her fellow third-graders how to sharpen their candy canes so they could have sword fights. Telephone wires humming in the wind inspired him to write the Western Sing the Wide Lonesome which appears in the JayHenge anthology, Sunshine Superhighway: Solar Sailings. Another JayHenge publication, Joining Forces, features one of his stranger stories, Dead Right, about a Basque diviner who makes his fortune by telling people if they are going to die soon, then foresees his own death. Jessica Augustsson is an editor, indie publisher, language nerd, ceramist, eclipse chaser, bleeding-heart misanthrope, and a bit of a geek. As a spec-fic editor, most of her writings can be found—as they are here—nestled among the words of other authors. As for spec fic in her own life, she was voted by her Idaho high school class to be the most likely to go live on the moon; when she was 20, she moved to Sweden so she guesses that’s pretty close.
- Eric Del Carlo is a longtime contributor to Circlet Press, starting with his appearance in Wired Hard 2 back in 1996. His mainstream science fiction has appeared multiple times in Asimov's, Analog and Clarkesworld. He lives in his native California.
- Coira MacHaffie is a writer who spends most of her time working as a lawyer to afford the lifestyle to which her cats have become accustomed. She writes under a pseudonym in the hopes that her professional colleagues may be fooled into believing she is actually a serious and somber individual, as any good lawyer should be. She resides in the Midwest of the United States.
- Glenn Dungan is a writer and 3D artist based in Brooklyn, New York City. He exists within a Venn-diagram of urban design, sociology, and good stories. When not obsessing about one of those three, he can be found at a park drinking black coffee and listening to podcasts about murder. For more of his work, see his website: whereisglennnow.com. You can also find him on Substack (substack.com/@whereisglennnow?)and Instagram (instagram.com/whereisglennnow/). If you are into his work with Blender, check out his portfolio on Artstation (artstation.com/glenndungan).
- Jeff Pepper is a writer and publisher living in Verona, Pennsylvania, just outside of Pittsburgh. His company, Imagin8 Press, has published over 100 fiction and nonfiction books for people learning to read Chinese. He’s also a lifelong science fiction fan, and has published a novel Ascent to the Sun and three SF short stories. When not sitting in front of a glowing screen, you can probably find him playing competitive pickleball.
- Miah O'Malley explores the thresholds between science, grief, and emergent ecologies in her speculative fiction. Her recent publications span science fiction, gothic biotech, and literary slipstream. She holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and can often be found researching fungi, tending experimental plants, or writing about the places where systems remember us back.
- Liam Hogan is an award-winning speculative short story writer, with stories in Best of British Science Fiction and in Best of British Fantasy (NewCon Press). He volunteers at the creative writing charities Ministry of Stories, and Spark Young Writers. Sci-Fi collection: A Short History of the Future (Northodox Press). Fantasy: Happy Ending Not Guaranteed (Arachne Press). More details at happyendingnotguaranteed.blogspot.co.uk.
- Kevin Holochwost and Anna Varlese are a husband-and-wife writing duo based in Massachusetts. By day, they work on medical device software and artificial intelligence, ensuring the latter stays in check. By night, they craft stories imagining what might happen if their daytime efforts were to fail. Recent publications include short stories in Masque & Maelström, A Coup of Owls Press, Colored Lens, and a piece in Space and Time Magazine in editorial review.
- Anthony Panegyres's novelettes and stories have appeared in The Best Australian Stories, The Year's Best Australian Fantasy & Horror Vol. 2 & 6, and the award-winning Bloodlines, At the Edge along with literary journals including Overland 204 (an Aurealis Award Finalist story), Overland 214, and Meanjin Quarterly, and also internationally acclaimed "weird lit" homes, such as Bourbon Penn 25 (highlighted by Ellen Datlow in her Year's Best intro and on her Recommended Reading List) and Bourbon Penn 31 (also an Aurealis Award Finalist story), and various other places. Recent 2025/6 story homes include the anthologies Masque & Maelström Vol. 1 and The Apparatus Almanac, along with forthcoming story in Penumbric.
- Jesse Rowell (he/him) is an award-winning science fiction author whose work explores naturalism, technology, and the human condition. He can be found at jesserowell.com.
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