Embodied Exegesis

Ann LeBlanc

Ann LeBlanc is a writer, editor, and woodworker. Her short stories can be found in Clarkesworld, Escape Pod, Apparition Lit, and Baffling Magazine (among others). Her cyber-mermaid time-loop story, “20,000 Last Meals on an Exploding Station” was chosen for WE’RE...

A.G.A. Wilmot

AGA Wilmot (BFA, MPub) is a writer, editor, and artist based out of Toronto, Ontario. They have won awards for fiction, short fiction, and screenwriting, including the Friends of Merril Short Story Contest and ECW Press's Best New Speculative Novel...

Adeline Wong

Adeline Wong (she/her) is a trans, aroace author who hides stories in places they have no business being found. Her short fiction is forthcoming in Neon Hemlock’s anthology Embodied Exegesis: Transfeminine Cyberpunk Futures, and she holds an MFA in speculative...

Anya Johanna DeNiro

Anya Johanna DeNiro is a trans woman and writer living in Saint Paul, Minnesota. She grew up in Erie, Pennsylvania, and received a BA in English from the College of Wooster and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University...

Catherine Kim

Catherine Kim is a Korean Canadian writer studying in the United States. Her work can be found in Black Warrior Review, Fairy Tale Review, Nat. Brut, the Transcendent series, the Nameless Woman anthology, and elsewhere. Her writing has been awarded...

Coyote Dembicki

Elly Bangs

Elly Bangs is a queer trans woman who was raised in a new-age cult, had six wisdom teeth, and once rode her bicycle alone from Seattle to the Panama Canal. Her debut apocalyptic cyberpunk novel, Unity, came out in Spring...

Hailey Piper

Hailey Piper is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Queen of Teeth, A Light Most Hateful, The Worm and His Kings series, and other books of dark fiction. She is also the author of over 100 short stories appearing in...

Izzy Wasserstein

Izzy Wasserstein is a queer and trans woman who was born and raised in Kansas and currently lives in California. She teaches writing and literature, writes poetry and fiction, and shares a house with a variety of animal companions and...

Jess Levine

Jess Levine is an author, TTRPG designer, kindergarten teacher, and communist organizer. Her diverse creative interests are united by one theme: lesbians. She resides in Philadelphia, on the occupied land of the Lenni Lenape people. website: https://jessfrom.online/

Joshua Jennifer Espinoza

Lillian Boyd

Lillian Boyd is an editor, writer, and musician. Website: https://lillian-boyd.com/

Max Firehammer

Maya Deane

A graduate of the University of Maryland and the Rutgers-Camden MFA, Maya lives with her fiancée of many years, their dear friend, and two cats named after gods. She is a trans woman, bisexual, and fond of spears, books, and...

Meghan Hyland

website: https://meghanhyland.com/

Petra Skelton

Website: https://petraskelton.carrd.co/

Riley Tao

Ryka Aoki

Ryka Aoki is a poet, composer, teacher, and novelist. Her latest novel, Light From Uncommon Stars (Tor Books 2021) was an Alex, SCKA, and Otherwise Award winner, and was also a finalist for the Hugo, Locus, and Ignyte Awards. Ryka...

TT Madden