Sibelan Forrester is a professor of Russian Language and Literature at Swarthmore College, a Quaker-founded institution located outside Philadelphia, PA. Her scholarly interests include folklore, historical linguistics, poetry and poetics, theory and practice of translation, and speculative fiction; she teaches a regular course on Russian and East European Science Fiction in translation and has translated SF stories by Olga Larionova and Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (from Russian) and Davor Slamnig (from Croatian).
Fabrice Guerrier is a Haitian-American science fiction and fantasy writer and founder of syllble, a pioneering sci-fi and fantasy production house and publisher that creates fictional worlds by connecting diverse creative writers, visual artists and inspired creators from different countries, backgrounds, and cultures through artist collectives. His vision is to bring a new era of storytelling in Hollywood and the publishing world by building vibrant collectives of underrepresented creators producing together within unique fictional universes, publishing the best original work that emerges and growing these worlds through creative collaborations, content creation, and transmedia. He was selected as a 2022 PEN Emerging Voices fellow finalist and a PEN Haiti fellow by PEN America. He was inducted into Forbes "30 Under 30" list and named to Root magazine’s 100 most influential African-Americans.
Martha Kenney (Assistant Professor, Women & Gender Studies, San Francisco State University) is a feminist science studies scholar whose research examines the poetics and politics of biological storytelling. Her latest project on environmental epigenetics uses speculative fiction to interrupt dominant biological narratives and imagine more radical ecological futures. She has articles in Social Studies of Science, Science as Culture, BioSocieties, and Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience. Prof. Kenney teaches classes on the politics of science, technology, medicine and the environment.
Cheryl S. Ntumy is a Ghanaian writer of short fiction and novels of speculative fiction, young adult fiction and romance. Her work has appeared in FIYAH Literary Magazine; Apex Magazine; Will This be a Problem and Botswana Women Write, among others. She is part of the SauútiverseCollective and a member of Petlo Literary Arts, an organisation that develops and promotes creative writing in Botswana.
Ikechukwu "Eye Kay" Nwaogu is a writer and editor from Nigeria whose work typically interrogates the self as a product of experiences, and tries to unravel the causes of bias and discrimination in the lives of his characters. Born to parents who fought and survived the Nigerian Civil War, he believes we are all capable of greatness, if only we are willing to not let our biases and prejudices hold us back. His writing has been published in a number of places, and when he is not writing, he is reading, or thinking of what to write next.
Dr. Sang-Keun Yoo is an assistant professor at New York Marist College’s English department. He earned his Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Riverside, with a designated emphasis on Speculative Fiction and Cultures of Science. Dr. Yoo also holds positions as the Submissions Editor for Asia and its Diaspora for The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts and the Korea Representative for the Science Fiction Research Association. Dr. Yoo has published several articles on Science Fiction Film and Television, the International Journal of Korean History, and other notable publications. His achievements include several awards and grants, including the Walter James Miller Award and a Fulbright scholarship.