Our MECHANISTS

Lucas Enne is an author of fiction and poetry. His influences include Jeff Vandermeer and Cormac McCarthy. "neon hutch" is Enne's first publication. See ennewritings.com

M. Lopes da Silva (he/they/she) is a non-binary and bisexual author from Los Angeles. They write pulp and poetry, and sometimes the two get mixed up together. Their queer California horror fiction has been published or is forthcoming from In Somnio: A Collection of Modern Gothic Horror Fiction, Antifa Splatterpunk, and Stories of the Eye. Dread Stone Press will be publishing their first novelette, What Ate the Angels—a queer vore sludgefest that travels beneath the streets of Los Angeles—as part of their new Split series.

M Shedric Simpson is the familiar of a small black cat. They studied art in Baltimore, MD, before moving to Seattle to live between the mountains and the sea. They spend their free time crafting stories and other small things. Their work can be found in The Dread Machine and Underland Arcana.

They can be found on twitter @inkspiral or on the web at shedric.com

M. Shaw is graduate of the Clarion Writers' Workshop (class of 2019) and an organizer of the Denver Mercury Poetry Slam. Despite the best efforts of some, they STILL live in Arvada, Colorado, where they run the micropress Trouble Department. Their website is mshawesome.com. Their Twitter handle is @shawwillsuffice. Their favorite horror movies are GET OUT, THE SHINING, and CATS.

Bio: Ellen is a freelance writer living in the Rocky Mountains with her husband and three demonic cats who wreak havoc and hell (the cats, not the husband). Her writing has been published in over a hundred magazines and anthologies. She as well has had an exciting life working as a rodeo rider, a nuclear physicist, and an exotic dancer in the crew lounge of the starship Enterprise. She was also the first person to scale Mount Everest to its summit. (Writer’s note: The one-hundred-plus publication credits are true, but some or all of the other stuff may be fictional.)

Marguerite Sheffer is a writer and educator who lives in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her work has also appeared or is forthcoming in Asimov's Science Fiction, Cast of Wonders, The Pinch, and The Adroit Journal, where she is a 2023 Anthony Veasna So Scholar in Fiction. Maggie is a founding member of Third Lantern Lit, a community writing collective, and volunteers at 826 New Orleans. She is a member of the Nautilus and Wildcat Writing Groups. She received her MFA from Randolph College. You can find her online @mlensheffer and www.margueritesheffer.com.

Marisca Pichette is an author of speculative fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Her work has appeared and is forthcoming in Strange Horizons, Fireside, Uncharted, PseudoPod, Daily Science Fiction, Fusion Fragment, and PodCastle, among others. She lives in Western Massachusetts.