Crystal Anderson is a writer originally from the United States, mainly Texas, who moved to Manchester in 2011 and finished a Ph.D. in 2016. Previous publications include Real Women, short listed 2017 Carcanet Poetry Prize in 2017), Abridged, Lighthouse and Picaroon. She writes the blog Poet:Parent and is slowly working on a fantasy novel. Her day job is one of the best in the world: a library assistant.
Red Ogre Review Books and Liquid Raven Media just released Ken Anderson's The Goose Liver Anthology (Mother Goose meets Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology). His first poetry book was The Intense Lover. Coffin Bell Journal nominated his poem "Blood Quartet" for 2024 Best of the Net anthology. He was a finalist in the 2021 Saints and Sinners poetry contest. Some British and Irish publications include Impossible Archetype, Impostor, The Lake, London Grip, Orbis, Sideways Poetry Magazine, Skylight 47, and SurVision.
Allen Ashley is pleased to be noted as a regular contributor to "Sein" over the years, including a few fantastic spells as guest editor. His novelette "Journey to the Centre of the Onion" (2023) is still available from Eibonvale Press (UK) and his work has recently featured in "BFS Horizons", "Focus" and "The World of myth". His is the founder of the advanced SFF group Clockhouse London Writers.
Julie Blankenship's photo-based work was recently published in Photo Trouvee, Brazenhead Review, Cut Me Up, and Vastarien magazines. It was included in Surrealism Centennial, at FOG Gallery; In Flux: Calibrating the Unknown, at the Museum of Northern California Art; and Time Space Existence at the European Cultural Center in Venice, Italy. She gave a talk at Photo Alliance in San Francisco this month, and is interviewed each year about her studio practice for Twirl, a decade-long project.
B. Drew Collier would love to take Moondog, Pythagoras, and Carl Sagan to Hamburg for a gin.
E-T Cresswell is a writer and poet based in Oxford, UK. Ey particularly enjoys writing magic realism, horror, and works that explore strong human emotions. Eir work has been published in 'Folklore: A Dark Anthology' by Crystal Peake Publishing, and featured in Tigershark magazine, Other Voices, and Catweazle magazine. Ey also writes microfiction at Echo Tango Fiction. In eir day job, ey works as a chef.
Mary Cresswell is from Los Angeles and lives on New Zealand's Kapiti Coast. A recent book is 'Body Politic: Nature poems for nature in crisis' (The Cuba Press, Wellington).
Carlisle Croidan is a student living in London with three cats and a need to be sedated. He studies history and classical history, and hopes that his short poems will inspire your curiosity for antiquity.
Salvatore Difalco is a Sicilian-Canadian satirist and writer of short stories.
Poet, writer, performer Phil Doran has been since time when now much less coherent music life central bloody bad dad hip hop and left field lockdown shenanigans instead of a bio proper so to speak. Kludge is available on the spaghettifaction.blogspot.
David Dumouriez is a social historian whose pictorial study of the water closet, Between Two Stools, won't be published in January 2026.
Daniel Galef's first book, Imaginary Sonnets, is a collection of seventy persona poems each from the point of view of a different historical figure, mythological character, animal, or inanimate object-including a man who went mad on a solo round-the-world sailing race, a woman who went viral for painting over a mural of Jesus's face, Lucrezia Borgia, Wernher von Braun, Saint Athanasius of Alexandria, a Roman monument, the Beaufort wind scale, and a revolutionary new Taco Bell breakfast menu item. Order it at https://www.danielgalef.com/book/
Boris Glikman is a writer, poet and philosopher from Melbourne, Australia. He says: "Writing for me is a spiritual activity of the highest degree. Writing gives me the conduit to a world that is unreachable by any other means, a world that is populated by Eternal Truths, Ineffable Questions and Infinite Beauty. It is my hope that these stories of mine will allow the reader to also catch a glimpse of this universe."
Mark Hastings lives in North Manchester, by day he is a mild-mannered librarian. By night he is a mild-mannered librarian.
Nicholas Alexander Hayes is the author of the collections Lexicartographies (poetry), No Wish Unfulfilled (short fiction), and the forthcoming In Green Carnation (short fiction).
What is there to say about Martin Heavisides that hasn't been said already? Volumes, but is there time for that here? Coffee hasn't arrived yet. That may very well be a cockroach or an earwig crawling along the wainscoting of this cafe past its prime. Lists of his many publications, especially in Sein und Werden, seem superfluous, and some, like Mad Hatter's Review, give every impression of no longer existing. Which is the state of most things that have and the eventual state of those that do. Ask me another day, I may have more to tell you.
Andy Hoaen is an old archaeologist with back issues.
Paul Hostovsky makes his living in Boston as a sign language interpreter and braille instructor. His poems and essays appear widely. His latest book is Pitching for the Apostates (Kelsay, 2023).
Paul Kavanagh was born in 1971
Rachel Kendall is, was, and always will be easily confused.
Bob Kotyk co-wrote the screenplay for The Forbidden Room, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2015, won the Rogers Prize and the Bildrausch Ring of Film Art, and was nominated for Best Picture at the Canadian Screen Awards. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in the Dalhousie Review, the Sugar House Review, and Reverie. He lives in Toronto.
Rich Murphy's latest collections, Storage Shed and Inside Stories by Resource Publications and Mind of Europe: A Genealogy to The Fat Man and Susan Constant by Cyberwit were published in 2024 / 2025, following First Aid and Footholds (2023). His poetry won The Poetry Prize at Press Americana twice for Americana (2013), The Left Behind (2021), and Gival Press Poetry Prize for Voyeur (2008).
Antoni Ooto is a poet whose work is widely published globally in print, online, and in anthologies. He has co-authored two books, The Posture of Trees and A Collection of Incidents with his wife Judy DeCroce.Antoni is also a well-known abstract expressionist artist living in rural upstate New York.
antoni@ooto.org
Stephen Oram usually writes social science fiction, often set in the near-future, to explore the intersection of messy humans and imperfect technology. He also works with scientists to explore possible outcomes of their research through short stories. His latest novel is, We Are Not Anonymous (Nudge the Future Fiction, 2025).
Andrew Pidoux was born in Buckinghamshire in 1974. He won an Eric Gregory Award in 1999, and his book of poems, Year of the Lion, was published in 2010 by Salt. In addition to Sein und Werden, he's had poems in such magazines as Anthropocene, London Magazine Poetry Review, The Rialto, Stand and Wasafiri. Since 2016, he has been living in Guangzhou, China, where he teaches English at Guangdong University of Finance and Economics.
Marion Pitman is a Londoner. She has been writing all her life. Her hobbies are folk music,
watching cricket, and theological argument. She cannot drive and currently has no cats.
I.B. Rad lives and writes in Dallas, Texas, and prior to that, in New York city, His work is widely published on the internet. He uses a variety of styles depending on subject and desired effect. Given his background in composing civic poetry, he strives for clarity of expression.
Of Indian origin, Sultana Raza's poems/fiction/CNF have appeared in 200+ journals. SFF
work in: Abyss & Apex, Entropy, Columbia Journal, Star*line, Focus & Vector (BSFA), BlazeVox, Penumbric etc. Her short fiction received an Honorable Mention in Glimmer Train Review, and was published in the Achilles Anthology (Flame Tree Press). An awarded artist, she has exhibited in Europe, the USA. and S. Korea. https://www.facebook.com/sultana.raza.7
Rachel Rodman's work has appeared in Strange Horizons, The Cafe Irreal, Brilliant Flash Fiction, and many other publications. Her latest collection, Mutants and Hybrids, was published by Underland Press. You can find her online at www.rachelrodman.com/
Shloka Shankar is a poet, editor, and visual artist from Bangalore, India. A Best of the Net nominee and award-winning haiku poet, Shloka is the Founding Editor of Sonic Boom and its imprint Yavanika Press. She is the author of the haiku collection The Field of Why (Yavanika Press, 2022) and co-author of the haiga anthology, living in the pause (Yavanika Press, 2024). Website www.shlokashankar.com/ and Instagram: @shloks23
Stephen Silvester has lived and worked in Cambridge, the Czech Republic, Morocco, Mexico, London and Montreal, where he is now, and where he seems to have stopped. His first published story appeared in The Frogmore Papers last year.
David Turnbull is a member of the Clockhouse London group of genre writers. He writes mainly short fiction and has had numerous short stories published in magazines and anthologies. His stories have previously been featured at Liars League London events and read at other live events such as Solstice Shorts and Virtual Futures. His near fiction novella HUSks is currently on release. His haunted house novel Maggie's House is available from the Gravestone Press imprint of Fiction4All.
