Lauren Connell Johnson attributes her upbringing in Florida, America’s weirdest state to her interest in the ecological and surreal. Her writing has appeared in the Swamp Ape Review, the Racket Journal, The Critical Flame, Pacifica Literary Review, Museum of Science Fiction, Oracle Fine Arts Review, and others. She earned her MFA in creative writing at American University and lives in San Francisco, where she is a co-host of Babylon Salon, a quarterly Bay Area reading series. @laurencjohnson
Matt Scott Carney is a Latinx writer and musician living in San Francisco. He holds an MA and MFA from San Francisco State University. His fiction and poetry have appeared in A cappella Zoo, Red Light Lit, sPARKLE & bLINK, Entropy, Anti-Heroin Chic, Tilted House, The Racket Journal and in readings at seedy bars across California. His short story “On Becoming” was a finalist in the 2017 Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction Contest, and another science fiction story, “In Fresno, One Last Bath in Dust,” was published in the Baobab Press anthology This Side of the Divide: New Lore of the American West. Listen to his art rock project N! on Bandcamp and Spotify. @ruddagerrustin