Chuck Palahniuk is the bestselling author of fifteen fictional works, including Fight Club, Invisible Monsters, Survivor, Choke, Lullaby, Diary, Haunted, Rant, Pygmy, Tell-All, Damned, Doomed, Beautiful You, and, most recently, Make Something Up. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.

Victor LaValle is the author of six previous works of fiction. He has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Book Award, the Shirley Jackson Award and the Key to Southeast Queens.

He lives in New York with his wife and children and teaches at Columbia University.

Josh Malerman is a New York Times bestselling author and one of two singer/ songwriters for rock band The High Strung. His debut novel, Bird Box, is the inspiration for the hit Netflix film of the same name. His other novels include Unbury Carol and Inspection. Malerman lives in Michigan with his fiancee, the artist/musician Allison Laakko.

Zoje Stage has a deep and eclectic background in the arts - as writer, filmmaker, thespian, and all-around dabbler. She was a 2008 Fellow in Playwriting/Screenwriting from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and a 2012 Emerging Narrative Fellow from the Independent Filmmaker Project. She lives in Pittsburgh, PA. Baby Teeth is her first novel.

Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki is an African speculative fiction writer and editor from Nigeria.

He won the Nommo Award for best short story by an African in 2019, the 2020 Otherwise Award, and the HWA diversity grant.