Anaea Lay lives in Chicago, Illinois where she writes, cooks, plays board games, reads too much, and questions the benevolence of the universe. Her work has appeared in many places including Apex, Penumbra, Lightspeed, Daily Science Fiction, and Nightmare. She lives online at anaealay.com.

Kelly Rose Pflug-Back's fiction, poetry and essays have recently appeared in journals such as This Magazine, Counterpunch, Ideomancer Speculative Fiction and Goblin Fruit, as well as anthologies such as The Moment of Change, The Monster Book For Girls and Imaginarium 2012. Her first book, These Burning Streets, is forthcoming from Strangers In a Tangled Wilderness. She is an undergrad student in the Human Rights and Human Diversity program at Wilfrid Laurier university and a contributing editor for Fifth Estate Magazine, America's longest-running anti-authoritarian publication.