Eric Rosenfield's fiction has been published in Kaleidotrope, LORE, Lakeside Circus and 365 Tomorrows. His non-fiction has been anthologized in The Modern Library Anthology of New York Diaries and published in io9, The New Haven Review, The Comics Journal, and LitKicks.com among other venues. He currently works as the CTO of the serialized fiction service Serial Box.

Paul Karle is an actor living and working in New York City. He loves cats and Star Trek. Find him at www.paulkarle.com

​Shannon/S. A. Chakraborty is a NY-based speculative fiction writer and history buff. Her debut, The City of Brass, is out now with Harper Voyager. Short-listed for the Locus, British Fantasy, and World Fantasy Awards, The City of Brass is the first book in THE DAEVABAD TRILOGY, an epic fantasy set in the 18th century Middle East. She is an organizer with the Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers’ Group, about which more information - including membership - can be found here.
 
Originally (and proudly!) from New Jersey, S. A. currently resides in Queens with her husband and daughter. When not buried in books about Mughal miniatures and Abbasid political intrigue, she enjoys hiking, knitting, and recreating unnecessarily complicated, medieval meals for her family. You can find her online most frequently at Twitter (@SAChakrabooks) where she likes to ramble about history, politics, and Islamic art.

She is represented by Jennifer Azantian at Azantian Literary Agency.

Lanna Joffrey is an actor, spoken word performer & writer who has worked throughout the US & UK. SELECT THEATRE: I Call My Brothers (The Gate), Muse of Fire (The Globe), The Profane (Playwrights Horizons), Timon of Athens (The Factory), Sonnet Walks (The Globe), Ironmistress (The Albany), Measure for Measure (The Factory), That Day (The Roundhouse), Rebecca Lenkiewicz's The Commune (CSSD), The Two Noble Kinsmen (Instant Classic Company). SELECT FILM: Druid Peak, Mad to Be Normal, Fishing Naked. AWARDS: IRNE Award, Ovation Award, New York Fringe Performance Award. TRAINING: Masters in Acting(Distinction), Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, BFA in Acting, Syracuse University, Company member of The Factory and Barefoot Theatre Company, lannajoffrey.com 

​D. T. Friedman lives in Brooklyn with her cat, Kimble.

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Marcy Arlin's spec fiction has appeared in Daily Science Fiction, perihelionsf.com, Kaleidocast Season 1 & 2, Diabolical Plots, Broad Universe Sampler, Man.In.Fest Journal of Experimental Theatre. She writes about international and American theatre, theatre for social change and immigrant artists at tcgcircle.org and is Editor of Czech Plays: 7 New Works. She has posts at Clarion: Writer’s Craft. In another life she is Artistic Director of the OBIE-winning Immigrants’ Theatre Project and has taught theatre at CUNY, Yale, Brown, University of Chicago, Pace. In another other life she was a Fulbrighter to the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Romania. Her new favorite job is creative theatre workshops and coaching sessions for speculative fiction writers (BSFW, Lunacon). Marcy volunteers for PAWSnyc.org. She’d like to have a new website (now it’s immigrantstheatre.org) but does have an underused Twitter account @marcyarlin. Marcy lives in Brooklyn with a ghost and two cats.

  Essowe Tchalim is a writer of speculative fiction short stories and novels. He graduated from Brooklyn College, where he studied concepts of the soul and rituals of power from the Ancient Mediterranean. He currently works at Droga5, where he assists in producing TV commercials. When he is not writing or working, he is reading manga or trying to convince his friends to watch his favorite television shows. This is his first publication.  You can find him on Twitter at @Etchalim, or his blog inkbuccaneer.wordpress.com where he talks abouts politics, ancient history, and random nerdy shenanigans. "

Lauren Harris is an author, narrator, and podcaster from Raleigh, North Carolina. She's also an assistant editor at Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show. To find out more about Lauren, visit www.laurenbharris.com.
 

Phenderson Djéli Clark is an occasional speculative fiction writer. His short SFF stories have appeared in online venues such as Daily Science Fiction, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, Fantasy-Magazine, Fireside Fiction, Tor.com and several print anthologies including Griots and Hidden Youth. His debut novella The Black God's Drums will be published by Tor in August 2018. You can read his ramblings on SFF, diversity and more at his blog The Disgruntled Haradrim (www.pdjeliclark.com). He also tweets stuff: @pdjeliclark.

Michael Taylor is undeniably the greatest man in the world. He enjoys games, puzzles, and experiencing interactive theatre to improve upon the subtle, intricate, yet uniquely brilliant greatness of Michael Taylor's mind. ​​

Mercurio D. Rivera’s short fiction has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award and has appeared in numerous venues such as Analog Science Fiction and Fact (forthcoming), Asimov's Science Fiction, Lightspeed, Interzone, i09, Nature, Black Static, Abyss & Apex, Space and Time, and elsewhere.  His work has been anthologized in Year’s Best SF 34, ed. Gardner Dozois Other Worlds Than These, ed. John Joseph Adams, Year's Best SF 17, ed. Hartwell & Cramer, Unplugged: The Web's Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy, ed. Rich Horton, Paradox: Stories Inspired by the Fermi Paradox, and Solaris Rising 2, ed. Ian Whates.  His stories have been podcast at Escape Pod, StarshipSofa, and Beam Me Up and translated and republished in China, the Czech Republic, Poland and Spain. Tor.com called his short story collection Across the Event Horizon (NewCon Press), “weird and wonderful,” with “dizzying switchbacks.” Find him online at mercuriorivera.com.

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Tatiana Grey  is a critically acclaimed actress of stage, screen, and the audio booth.  She has been nominated for dozens of fancy awards but hasn’t won a single damned thing.  She does, however have a feature film hitting the festival circuit called Serious Laundry.  She lives in Brooklyn, New York.  See more about Tatiana at www.tatianagrey.com   tatianagomberg@gmail.com
 

N. K. Jemisin’s work has been multiply nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award; shortlisted for the Crawford, the Gemmell Morningstar, and the Tiptree. She has won a Locus Award for Best First Novel and Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice Awards. In 2016, she became the first black person to win the Best Novel Hugo for The Fifth Season. Her short fiction has been published in pro-markets Clarkesworld, Postscripts, Strange Horizons, and Baen’s Universe; semipro markets Ideomancer and Abyss & Apex; and podcast markets (mostly Escape Artists) and print anthologies.
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Nora is a member of the Altered Fluid writing group. Nora has been a counseling psychologist and educator, hiker and biker, and a political/feminist/anti-racist blogger. She currently writes the New York Times book review column Otherworldly, in which she covers the latest in Science Fiction and Fantasy.  Find her at http://nkjemisin.com/    and on Twitter @nkjemisin

Tatiana Grey is a critically acclaimed actress of stage, screen, and the audio booth. She has been nominated for dozens of fancy awards but hasn’t won a single damned thing. She does, however have a feature film hitting the festival circuit called Serious Laundry. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. See more about Tatiana at www.tatianagrey.com 
tatianagomberg@gmail.com

Marcy Arlin teaches Theater for Social Change at Pace University and is artistic director of the OBIE-winning Immigrants' Theatre Project and is a Fulbright scholar to Romania and the Czech Republic. She is a long-time member of BSFW, Theater Without Borders, Broad Universe, and her work has been published inDaily Science Fiction, Perihelionsf.com, Broad Universe Sampler, and Man.In.Fest theater journal. Marcy has several more short stories out there and is working on a sci fi murder mystery.

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Richard Bowes has published six novels, four story collections and over eighty short stories. He has won two World Fantasy Awards, a Lambda Award, a story South Million Writers Award, and an International Horror Guild Award. His most recent novel,Dust Devil On a Quiet Street, was on the 2014 World Fantasy and Lambda short lists.
A new edition of his 2005 novel, From The Files of the Time Rangers, a Nebula finalist, will appear later this year from Lethe Press.

Last year, his 9/11 story, "There’s A Hole In The City," got a very nice review in The New Yorker.
                                                      Recent and forthcoming appearances include: Fantasy Magazine's Queers Destroy Fantasy special issue,                                                                        Interfictions, Nightmare, Grendel Song, and the anthologies The Doll Collection and Black Feathers.
                                                      He is currently writing stories that will be chapters in a novel about life as a gay kid in 1950’s Boston.

Bradley Robert Parks lives, writes, and performs in and around Brooklyn, NY, where he founded the Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers. His passion for writing blossomed while growing up in a family of genre readers. While he's been pursuing writing for a while, the crazy energy of NYC and BSFW have given him the focus and motivation to finally get published. His stories have appeared on BuzzyMag.com and here on the Kaleidocast. He also sings and narrates stories when time permits. Along with these achievements, he's obtained one husband, Michael, and Insanity Anne Magoo (best cat ever). Keep up with his exploits on             Facebook or at BradleyRobertParks.com.