Sandra Kasturi is a poet, writer and editor, and the copublisher of the World Fantasy Awardnominated and British Fantasy Awardwinning press, ChiZine Publications. She has edited the past three volumes of the Imaginarium anthology series. She is also the cofounder (with Helen Marshall) of the Toronto SpecFic Colloquium and the national Chiaroscuro Reading Series. Sandra's own writing has appeared in various venues, including ON SPEC, PRAIRIE FIRE, several TESSERACTS anthologies, EVOLVE, CHILLING TALES, A VERDANT GREEN, TRANSVERSIONS, ARC MAGAZINE, TADDLE CREEK, ABYSS & APEX, 80! MEMORIES & REFLECTIONS ON URSULA K. LE GUIN, and STAMPS, VAMPS & TRAMPS. Her two poetry collections are: THE ANIMAL BRIDEGROOM (with an intro by Neil Gaiman) and COME LATE TO THE LOVE OF BIRDS. She is currently working on two books: SNAKE HANDLING FOR BEGINNERS, and her first novel, MEDUSA GORGON, LADY DETECTIVE.

Jerome Stueart was born in the US, the son of a West Texas Southern Baptist Minister. His work has appeared in Fantasy, Strange Horizons, Geist, On Spec, Joyland, Geez, Lightspeed's Queers Destroy Science Fiction, Icarus, Queerwolf and other journals and magazines, as well as three of the Tesseracts anthology series of Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy (Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing). His work was runner up to the 2005 Fountain Award and honorable mention for Year's Best Science Fiction in 2006. He is a proud graduate of Clarion San Diego, 2007. He's written and coproduced five radio series for CBC, one of which was heard round the world on RCI. He was an editor of Tesseracts 18: Wrestling with Gods and is also coeditor of ChiZine's Imaginarium 4. He moved to Canada's Yukon Territory and lived for nearly 10 years, becoming a Canadian citizen, before moving south to be with a bear in Dayton, Ohio, which Advocate Magazine calls the 2015 Queerest City in America. Learn more about Jerome at his website: www.jeromestueart.com