South American born, immigrant to the United States without a clue about the language. I learned to speak English, worked my way through university, and received my degree. Printer’s ink courses through my veins, as my mother and father both were journalists for a time. In my twenties, I wrote a novella and put it aside. In my forties, I started publishing erotica online. Honing my plots, characters, and pacing. Early stories were, um, awful in my opinion. But still scored in the 4’s. I’ve been writing for twenty years and now I’m ready to plunge into novels.

Lauren Jane K. is a designer, photographer, and writer from Toronto where they live with their little black cat. They like books, cameras, black sweaters, and 24 hour anything. They put oat milk and sugar in their coffee and create erotic stories & images at eveunleashed.com

Christina Bagni is the chief editor at Wandering Words Media and a writer on the Captain Bitcoin comic book series. She loves mythology, rock climbing, buying far too many books to ever actually read, and writing the kind of queer-led stories she wished she had as a teenager. My Only Real Friend is the Easter Bunny at the Mall is her first novel. She lives in Massachusetts.

Find more about her at linktr.ee/christinabagni

Jenn Storey, née Treado, (she/they) is a storyteller who uses genre as a framework for exploration. She has studied under faculty from Alverno College, Northwestern University, Texas State University, and holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing & Poetics from the University of Washington Bothell. Her poetry, essays, and creative nonfiction/experimental writing have been published in various digital and physical journals. Tilting Gravity is her first novel-length work. Learn more at www.jennstoreybooks.com.