A writer, musician and artist living near San Antonio, Jeff Bagato's new books for 2022 include In the Engine Room with Bettie and Andrea Reading Pornography (poetry); Savage Space (stories); and Gonch Poems. His other books include Computing Angels, The Toothpick Fairy, Dishwasher on Venus, Heta's Book, The Revenge of the Rat's Hand, and My Breasts in Darkness, My Back to the Light, and Love and Death in the Land of Souls. He has also published two other books in the Dishwasher series, Dishwasher on Uranus and Dishwasher on Mars, and a collection of limericks based on H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, naturally titled Cthulhu Limericks. Other books include a surreal science fiction novel, Kill Claus! and a photo book about now defunct Northern Virginia outsider environment Johnston's Garage.

As a musician, he has performed in several music projects including Tone Ghosting (solo electronics), Stylus (turntable ensemble), Mercury Fools the Alchemist (free improvisation trio), For Official Use Only (electronics trio), Bionic Eyes (electronics duo), and Alzo Boszormenyi and the Acid Achievers (7 piece improvising rock band). Mercury Fools the Alchemist's CD "The Science of Unobtainable Results" and Tone Ghosting's "Plastic Voice" CD are also available via Amazon.

His poetry and fiction have appeared in Exquisite Corpse, Chiron Review, Otoliths, Utsanga, Slipstream, The Chamber, Word for/Word, Outlaw Poetry, Rusty Truck, Brave New Word, Var 2(x), and many other publications.

More information about his writing and publishing efforts can be found at jeffbagato.com

Jamie Lackey lives in Pittsburgh with her husband and their cats. She enjoys reading, writing, tabletop role playing games, video games, watching anime, baking, hiking, and mushroom hunting.

She has over 160 short fiction credits, and her short stories have appeared in places like Daily Science Fiction, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Apex Magazine, Escape Pod, and Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show. Her fiction has appeared on the Best Horror of the Year Honorable Mention and Tangent Online Recommended Reading Lists, and she's a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.

Her longer works include two novellas, Moving Forward: A Novella of Life After Zombies and The Forest God, as well as her debut novel, Left Hand Gods. She also has four short story collections available: One Revolution: A Year of Flash Fiction; Second Revolution: Another Year of Flash Fiction; The Blood of Four Gods and Other Stories; and A Metal Box Floating Between Stars and Other Stories.

She graduated from the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford in 2006 with a degree in Creative Writing. She studied under James Gunn at the Center for the Study of Science Fiction's Writer's Workshop in 2010 and has taken various workshops with Cat Rambo.

She read submissions for the Hugo-winning Clarkesworld Magazine for five years and was an assistant editor for the Hugo-winning Electric Velocipede from 2012-2013. She served as editor for Triangulation: Lost Voices in 2015 and Triangulation: Beneath the Surface in 2016.

Learn more about her at her website, www.jamielackey.com

Award winning author David J. Gibbs was born and raised in the greater Cincinnati area. The oldest of three, he protected his younger brother and sister from neighborhood bullies and the monsters under their beds. Never losing touch with the wonder and terror of childhood, he continues to push the limits of imagination with his stories.

His middle-grade series Mad Maggie Dupree is a hit with all ages, book five and six due out in the coming year.

With over seventy short fiction titles published in the last four years, his work has appeared in dozens of magazines and anthologies, including; 'Shadows of Salem', 'Dark Monsters', 'Stores from the Near-Future', 'Hidden in Plain Sight', 'Massacre Magazine', 'Under the Bed', 'Sanitarium Magazine' and 'Double Feature Magazine'.

Links to his available works, free stories to read, blog and other updates can be found at http://www.davidjgibbs.com

Mandi Jourdan is the author of six published novels, two fiction collections, and numerous short stories, totaling over one hundred publications. In 2019, she won the Missouri Review’s Miller Audio Prize for Prose with “Inheritance,” the first sci-fi piece published by the Missouri Review.