Meet Our Authors
CJ Aralore (he/him) is a speculative fiction and romantasy author. His debut fairytale can be found in the magazine Orion’s Beau, and his supernatural flash fiction story will appear in the upcoming Queer Sci Fi anthology “Rise.”
Additionally, he enjoys making crafts, dollhouse miniatures, drawing, music, and spending time with his longtime partner and their animal children.
E.M. Anderson (she/they) is a queer, neurodivergent writer and the author of The Remarkable Retirement of Edna Fisher. Their work has appeared in SJ Whitby’s Awakenings, WyldBlood Press’s From the Depths, and Dark Horses: The Magazine of Weird Fiction, Issue 4. It is E’s doom to one day vanish into a forest despite the warnings of the locals, but until that fateful day, you can find her on Instagram, Facebook, and BlueSky at @ elizmanderson.
Elizabeth Jeannel (she/they) is a saphhic author of queer stories she wishes she’d had in her yesteryears. She is the founder and ringmaster of Hansen House, an artist, a photographer, and a gamer when she can squeeze in the time. When not writing, she can usually be found hyperfixating on the wrong thing, or consuming just shy of too much caffeine.
Honey B. LoCoco is a queer AuDHD author whos chronic illness has led them to spend plenty of time with their dog. Which neither of them is mad about, though the chronic illness part could get bent. Their debut novel comes 2025 with Midnight Meadow, and was born from their dog’s innate ability to heal the bloodiest of emotional wounds. When their body allows, they like to garden, befriend crows, and take nature walks.
Jo Morgan Sloan (he/they), a Colorado native and a California transplant, has been actively writing fiction and nonfiction since late 2013. He is a certified copy editor and is passionate about writing in multiple genres. Jo’s creative nonfiction work has appeared in Drunk Monkeys and his novel, Scars & Honey, won first place for literary fiction as an unpublished manuscript with Chanticleer Reviews. The Key is his fiction novel debut.
Ever since laying his first Lego brick, Jonathan has been fascinated by world-building. This passion grew during his younger years in the Midwest, leading him to study English in college. The Etherea Cycle represents many things to him, but it is first and foremost a testament to the power of friendship and the beauty of life in all its forms.
Since childhood, writing stories on her mother’s typewriter or trying to catalog her own books like a library, Kristina has been in love with storytelling. She loves going on new adventures in the great wide somewhere (sometimes just by picking up a new book). Her pronouns are she/her.
From a very early age, Mary’s been obsessed with words. She knew she wanted to be a writer when her first poem was published in the Detroit Children’s Museum newsletter in fifth grade. Her true love was fantasy, though, and she began to focus on fiction at twelve. She loves Disney, D&D, nearly any critter, and chai lattes. Oh, she’s also an eclectic witch. Her pronouns are she/her.
Melissa (she/her) is a sapphic storyteller, iced cafecito lover, presently ignoring her book buying ban while her tower of to-be-read books continues to grow. When not writing, you can find her nose in a book, sometimes a textbook, but usually it’s women with swords.
Michelle J (she/her) is a queer, fantasy author in upstate New York working in Human Resources. Michelle is currently working to get her certificate in game writing/narrative design. When Michelle isn’t lost in a labyrinth of words and games, she’s either spamming her husband’s inbox with Instagram reels, drinking tea, kickboxing, learning Japanese, or
forgetting to drink water.
A queer fiction author and engineer, RD Pires has been penning literary adventures since age 9. He currently lives in California with his husband.
R. Lee Fryar (she/her) is a writer from the Arkansas River Valley. When she isn’t writing, she can generally be found up a mountain, out on a river, or in the woods somewhere. She writes adult fantasy and paranormal romance.
Rebecca Grubb
Renee Lake (she/her) is a bisexul, Puerto Rican mother of four from Utah. She loves bats and is passionate about women’s reproductive rights. She is the author of Forgotten Hills, Blood Born, and The Infested,
Shawna Barnett is the author of the Legends of Vioria pirate fantasy series. Her stories are based on her experiences as a mother, a late bloomer lesbian, and a worker in victim advocacy and mental health. She lives in Southern California with her daughter where she continues to write tales of bold, brave sapphic heroines.
Sheila Jenné was raised on Star Trek and classic novels of the Age of Sail. But instead of joining the Navy like her dad wanted, she ended up a Latin teacher, content writer, and mother of four. When she isn’t writing, she enjoys historical costuming, fiber crafts, and hiking.
Sophie Tanen
Sophie Tanen started writing books when she was 10, and never stopped. She grew up in Vermont, loving books for as long as she can remember. It wasn’t until high school that she read her first sapphic book and decided that she wanted more for people like her, even if she had to write them herself.
