This site is an open-access, AI-free repository of wildlife and non-domestic animal image references. Artists (creating *without* AI) have blanket permission for transformative and derivative use.
www.animal-photo-references.com
Film critic; NSFC, NYFCC. Bylines at Criterion, Sight & Sound, Noir City, my own Substack, and wherever fine film geeks are found.
https://selfstyledsiren.substack.com/
Listen to the station live here: http://vintageobscura.net
All tracks are:
- More than 25 years old
- Have fewer than 30,000 views on YouTube
- Curated by community reddit.com/r/vintageobscura
VOIDCON is a dark covenant, a consortium of shadowy artists and creators across all media. Watch this space.
www.voidcon.wordpress.com
Tiny writer. I wrote 'Easter Pinkerton and the Case of the Heretic Blood' and some other stuff. Can*Con bridge crew, still. Avatar art by Jay Odjick. Only a fool would complain. He/Him.
Diggs /// Hutson /// Snipes
DEAD CHANNEL SKY /// 03-14-2025 on @subpop.bsky.social
Librarian. Voracious reader and knitter. Oxford comma. Awkward panda. Deadpool stan. Daria-esque.
Writer of oddities, biomedical AI scientist, maybe human
🖊️ Apex, Uncharted, Heartlines, Strange Horizons, ergot., Flame Tree, Plott Hound, Cosmic Horror Monthly and elsewhere
akislinardos.com
he/him
reader, critic, fan, he/him
Writes, variously. Reviews Editor, Strange Horizons. Columns at Ancillary Review. Songs over at Bandcamp. Also see @savinglives.bsky.social.
Appalachian in the big city. Editor at Ancillary Review, host of A Meal of Thorns, bookseller, coffee pro, SF reviewer & scholar. He/him.
https://linktr.ee/jakecasellabrookins
Award-winning voice actor and journalist. Narrative designer. Pop culture consigliere. Podcaster. Writes The Full Lid. ‘Fantastic Frontal Everything'-Matt Wallace. On the board of the Cool Wives Club. Joy and spite.
https://carrd.alasdairstuart.com
Hugo & Nebula winning SFFH writer, singer/songwriter, dog person, horse person, queer, Baltimorean by choice, mediocre but enthusiastic gardener and artist. She/her. Repped by Kate McKean, HMLA.
Award-winning author. Artist. Drinker of boba. Fighter of otters. 🔞 Do not tag me in KidLit stuff. This is an 18+ account.
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mishiiarts
Artist with a science background fascinated with the Universe. Illustrative art and satirical pieces, mostly with sci-fi or fantasy themes.
36 . drawing and coding 🏳️🌈
www.richardorc.com
#art | #gamedev
The podcast for all things lesbian horror hosted by @andreareads.bsky.social
sapphicscarespod@gmail.com
She/her. Writer. Chinese Singaporean immigrant to the UK. Bi. This is my writing account
Books:
- 1st book. Shortlisted for Hachette Children’s Novel Awards 2025
- Epic fantasy duology
- Westmarch. Fantasy & gay romance
- Heist. Fantasy. M/M & M/F romance
Do me a solid and go read horrorpress.com
A volunteer organization to support and promote the Merril Collection of SciFi, Speculation, and Fantasy, a public access collection in Toronto.
https://friendsofmerril.org/
Author of Revenge Arc, and avid reader of upsetting fiction. Proud mother to all the rescue cats.
Life is for joy
Writer & director & reader, fan of animals, democracy forever, let's dance and keep each other safe! She/her
Writer of books and comics. Story architect for STAR WARS: THE HIGH REPUBLIC ✨ he/him https://www.danieljoseolder.net/
Your friendly neighborhood horromance evangelist. Out now: THE HACIENDA & VAMPIRES OF EL NORTE & THE POSSESSION OF ALBA DÍAZ. Up next: THE HOUSE OF GARDENIAS (Dutton Fall ‘26). | Bram Stoker Award Nominee | UChicago PhD
https://www.isabelcanas.com/
East Los writer living in El Tuce aka Tucson.
Author of the short story collection Chola Salvation and the novel Huizache Women. Both published by Arte Público Press.
www.eastloswriter.com
(she/her) Tejana writer, teaching artist, editor and mentor. Author of Offerings to a Tumbled Temple with @purpleinkpress.bsky.social & The Remedy is the Disease, forthcoming in 2026 @undertakerbooks.bsky.social
Find my work at: http://linktr.ee/lurieta16
award-winning novelist. transgender mixed-race rabble rouser. astrology student. into: working class solidarity. folklore and myth. sobriety. dungeon mastering, etc. (he/they)
Spsfc volunteer judge Team Space Girls, Mexican-American dark fantasy author. Posteo fotos de tacos y garnachas. 🤭
nancyfosterauthor.carrd.co
Queer, disabled Latina spec-fic poet/author/editor. Work in LeVar Burton Reads, Fantasy, Lightspeed, Uncanny, & F&SF. Poetry Editor for Strange Horizons. www.lisambradley.com
author of NYT bestsellers “Cemetery Boys”, “Lost in the Never Woods”, “The Sunbearer Trials” and “Celestial Monsters”.
currently writing: “Cemetery Boys 2: Espíritu”
just Some Guy.
https://linktr.ee/aidenschmaiden
Debut novel TRUST ME from Arte Público Press; ed. A NIGHT OF SCREAMS LATINO HORROR STORIES; Freelance Editor (reach out!)
Lots of essays, reviews, etc in Texas Monthly and others. Recovering politico. Seeking representation, for 2nd and 3rd novels.
I write books for adults with monsters, mythos, and all things supernatural. Let me take you on a ride through the dark. 🖤🖤🖤
https://authormillieprice.com
The Father of Chicano Science Fiction
Mara can't spell.
🏳️⚧️ 🇲🇽 Xicane futurist and horror writer, author of Sundown in San Ojuela. Ignyte finalist, longlister for Stokers. Clarion 22.
Stories at: olivasthewriter.wtf
Sundown available at: https://lanternfishpress.com/shop/sundown-in-san-ojuela
Author of THE GHOST TRACKS and THE DEVIL'S PROMISE (10/3). International Latino Book Award Winner. Active HWA Member. San Antonian.
Horror Writer in Los Angeles
Agent: Helen Lane at Ki Agency
🇲🇽🇺🇸🏳️🌈
www.apthayer.com/links
Internationally published author of award-winning phantasmagorical & magical tales of the southwest. Wife, mother, former educator, cat nurturer.
Writer. Professional Gothic Swooner
Host of the She Wore Black Podcast
Rep: Jill Marr at Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency
Active HWA member
Psychological Counselor, Writer
HWA Active Member
Author of The Lost Dreamer
& worker who likes to watch the sun rise.
Award-winning author. Bronx born, L.A. living. Latest: TINY THREADS (Del Rey Books), available where books are sold.
https://www.lilliamrivera.com
Doing what I dreamed of since I was a kid.
Books: Lone Women, The Changeling, The Ballad of Black Tom, The Devil in Silver.
TV: The Changeling (EP), The Terror: Devil in Silver (Creator, Showrunner)
Comics: Destroyer, Eve, Sabretooth, Black Panther
poet but don’t hold it against me • dreaming of you, candelaria @astrahouse
rep: arod@wmeagency.com
Poeta y cuentista. || Poet and short story writer.
Read my latest poem Voyeur in English and Spanish here:
http://strangehorizons.com/poetry/voyeur-voyeur/
More at: https://linktr.ee/endiaaz
Latino writer of sci-fi, horror, and fantasy across mediums. Maker of music. Happy dad.
📚⚔️Prodigium: out now!
📚⚔️Twelve Tomes Book 2: in progress
📐⚫️Silver & Black anthology: coming soon!
🎲📕Twelve Tomes TTRPG: 2026
✨🪡 Kanushin and Zematura: in progress
Mexican SFF writer / painter / data analyst. Stories in Clarkesworld, Flash Fiction Online, and The Deadlands. EN/ES. Editor: @revistasofon.bsky.social / Website: damianneri.com
Writer
Photographer
Investigator
Latin@ Literatures is an online source for new Latinx writing and contemporary discussion on Latinx literature, art, and culture. Visit us at www.latinoliteratures.org.
I am a poet and my favorite flowers are dandelions. Horde @quillandcrowpublishinghouse
Writer, abortion storyteller, mom of four in Colorful Colorado.
Mostly writing posts, politics, and Muppet gifs.
🖖🏼🌹🇲🇽 🏔️
https://www.instagram.com/c.j.perez.writes
She/her/ella. Native Angeleno and Chicana writer who occasionally gets around to writing stories. Bibliophile, stationary fiend, dog person, baker, foodie, and scholar.
Taínofuturist nerd 🐚🪶🛖🤖; Award Winning Author of SORDIDEZ; ✍🏼 Science Fiction, CliFi, Fantasy, Horror 📚; SFWA; Cloud Anthropologist; RPG Connossieur 🎮; Cuir Boricua migrant in Europe | He/Him/Él 🏳️🌈🇵🇷👊🏼
www.egconde.com
🇵🇷(she/her)
YA horror and fantasy writer and editor
Website: gabrielataboas.com
Insta: gabit_writes
#Latinx Comic Book Writer: Amazon / ComiXology Originals, Mad Cave. Creator of Major Thomás graphic novel: https://a.co/d/d1SvuCa
NO comix gate, NO A.I.! #MakingComics #Metroid #GoBlue - Same handle everywhere!
Spec Fic Author | Winner-Apex Reader's Choice Award | SFWA & Codex Member | Bibliophilic ghost haunting libraries | she/her
Work forth/in Apex, The Dark, Heartlines, Nature Futures, Flash Point SF & more
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/catherinetavares
Paraguayan Poet 🇵🇾 Refugee Educator 🚸 SEVEN LEGENDARY MONSTERS 2025 • Revolutionaries Press 📕 JUEGO DE PALABRAS 2023 • Valparaíso Ediciones 📗
www.claraelenawrites.com
Award-winning middle grade author. What Fell From the Sky and Rancho Espanto paperback out now! she/her 🇨🇺 Runs on pastelitos and BTS.
https://linktr.ee/adriannacuevas
Blanco Cuban Writer of SFF. To Root Somewhere Beautiful: An Anthology of Reclamation and The Vanisher on Chain Letter Substack, both are OUT NOW! ¡Palestina Libre! No AI.
Unagented. Seeking representation.
Horror author. Active HWA. MBA. Air Force officer. Publisher. Co-owner of Sobelo Books. Metalhead. Robust. Enchanting. Read me in Cemetery Gates, Dark Matter, a truck stop between Lubbock and Amarillo. Client of Becky LeJeune. Punch Nazis. I love you.
Author and cat lady 🐈 / Mexican / ESL / aro-ace / she|her / BSFA awards nominee and finalist / First reader at Diabolical Plots and The Skull & Laurel / Short stories and poems here: beacons.ai/abigailguerrero
Author of the novel THE LOST BOOK OF ADANA MOREAU. Faculty at StoryStudio Chicago & Northwestern University. Descended from Andean farmers, poets, and union organizers.
michaelzapata.com
Ignyte-winning, Hugo-winning reviewer at Nerds of a Feather.
Also member of Strange Horizons and Galactic Journey.
Judge at the British Fantasy Awards.
Black […]
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South American arachnid with a human form 🕸 CABARET IN FLAMES (Tor/Titan, 2026) 🕸 BUT NOT TOO BOLD (Tor, 2025) 🕸 PT/EN/ES 🕸 Rep. Lee O'Brien
https://linktr.ee/hachepueyo
🌸 Queer Comics and Book Writing. Currently writing about haunted tar pits. More active on Insta and TT. They/them. link.tree/ofeliawrites, Rep by @chamomeriam 🌸
Talk like Sam Spade, live like Miss Marple. Real life: Buenos Aires. Fiction: debut novel THE SHAMSHINE BLIND (scifi noir alternate history!) from Atria Books: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-shamshine-blind-a-novel-paz-pardo/80bf4e7d932a98a6
Award-winning Latina journo, SFF writer & author. Editor on the Opinion desk at The Philadelphia Inquirer Opinions my own. She/her/ella. www.sabrinavourvoulias.com. 🚨 Grok was the last straw — I deactivated my X account 1/8/26.
Writer, space explorer. Sazón with a little Opa! Sci-fi, sensual & literary.
Janus Point Press #WatchOutForWormholes
To Love Like Venus (March 2026)
stephanieninapitsirilos.com
🇵🇷 author of TILL THE LAST BEAT OF MY HEART (Harper) queer writer of queer YA stories. rep’d by Saritza Hernandez.
National Book Award-winning author of unrealisms—mostly for young readers. SUNWARD, my first novel for grownups, is out now from Saga Press. He/him.
www.willalex.net
she/her/ella
🇵🇷 Bilingual fantasy writer
Short stories in Speculative Fiction for Dreamers, Gordon Square Review, and the inaugural Tightwires Anthology.
Cleveland against the World
🖤🩶🤍💜 + free 🍉
#1 NYT Bestselling Author of YA and MG | Rep'd by @dongwon | Latinx | They/Them | Profile image by @dariusvoncel
Argentina 🇦🇷 ➡️ Miami ☀️🥵🏖 Bestselling Author 📚 #Lobizona 🌟🌟 #Cazadora 🌟🌟 #ZodiacBooks ♍️⛎ #CastleoftheCursed 🇪🇸🩸#TheLastVampire out 12/2! rominagarber.com
florida writer still playing pretend 🐊
YA: Don't Date Rosa Santos & Our Way Back to Always | MG: Maggie Diaz series
afro-🇵🇷. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ bard class brawler. writer. work @ Abrams, Black Mask, DC comics, Dynamite, IDW, Image, Macmillan, Marvel comics, Realm, Valiant, Vault. Repped by @grahamophones.bsky.social. Pro-Danny. Free Palestine ✊🏾🍉
https://linktr.ee/definitelyvita
NYT Best-selling raccoon enthusiast 🦝
Witchlings 4: Scepter of Memories out 9.16.25
I wrote Ghost Squad, the Witchlings series & the Eisner & Pura Belpré winning graphic novel Frizzy 🐓
https://linktr.ee/claribelortega
Sup Bozos. Drawing comics in NYC with my dog. ✌🏼🇵🇷 Illustrator | Cartoonist | DC | MARVEL | TKO | BOOM! | IMAGE | ⚡️ rlopezortiz.com |
👑 Author 📚 THE SUMMER I ATE THE RICH (2025 Fierce Reads) / ONE OF THE GOOD ONES / DEAR HAITI, LOVE ALAINE ⚡️Rep: New Leaf Literary 👩🏾🎓 PhD Howard University ✊🏾🇭🇹
Writer, tattooed Gringa-Rican punk.
🇨🇴🇺🇸 Children's Author. Educator. Next in '24: Our Wold: Colombia, Lupita's Hurricane Palomitas, & Grow Up, Luchy Zapata. Rep: Deborah Warren @ East West Literary Agency.
Writer, theater lover, makeup artist, and sometimes a person who can draw
IC ‘25
(They/them) 🇵🇷🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Sofia_creates_things on Insta
My Buisness Card: https://shllopez.carrd.co/
Filmmaker, author, illustrator | SFWA | Tin House 2022 & 2025 | BendFilm: Basecamp Fellow 2025 | Stowe Story Labs 2023 | Town Hall Seattle Writer-in-Residence 2022
Film/prose/art: https://sarah-salcedo.com
Website design: @tallfirsproductions.com
Antólogo y Escritor 🇲🇽, Ciencia Ficción y Fantasía. Amante de la Historia y las Mitologías. Narrador de juegos de rol, fan de los cómics. Me gusta el rap
(he/him) Brazilian writer. Author of Bloodmaster.
(ele) Escritor cearense. Autor de Mestra do Sangue.
Links: https://linktr.ee/ayrtonmsilva
Site: https://ayrtonsilva.com/
scribbler and storyteller. Los Angeles. he/him. 🌈
turn-ons: enlightenment, wandering, empathy.
turn-offs: closed circuits, bigotry, apathy.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0736155/
Author of Something Happened a psychological thriller with Horror elements and a dash of slash !!!
YA SFF author writing multiracial autistic girls who do gay crime. 🇵🇸 🇨🇴 🏳️🌈 #ActuallyAutistic ∞ Palestine will be free 🍉 she/her
Rep: Becca Podos, Neighborhood Literary
Short story in THYME TRAVELLERS (Fernwood)
https://www.sarasolara.com/
A Dallas-based writer from Queens who has a serious obsession with cats, sports, films and books. One proud Boricua 🇵🇷🇵🇷
Current predicament: thinking about the next book.
https://thejonathantorres.carrd.co/
NB queer Mexican immigrant. Writer, bilingüe, occasional voice actor, compassion advocate, cooks ok. Curiose. I will officiate your queer unions.
https://linktr.ee/abuelitehector
Hey there! I’m the comic book writer behind SCARLET WITCH #9 (BACKUP STORY: CRASH COURSE), VOICES: AMERICA CHAVEZ, THIRTY-THREE, MARVEL’S VOICES COMMUNIDADES (NINA THE CONJUROR) and more!
Site: www.poncecomics.com
📧: poncecomics@gmail.com
Maestro de Primaria y pedagogo.
Escribo reseñas de literatura de género en:
https://elquequierelee.blogspot.com
🇵🇷 SpecFic writer.
Words in Flame Tree Press’ Achilles, Heartlines Spec #8, The Skull & Laurel #4, Hexagon MYRIAD Lawless, The Scythian Wolf’s This World of Vile Wonder, and elsewhere.
Find all my work here: https://cheyrivera.carrd.co
Writer, pulp fiction ninja, cat dad
SFF & horror writer (https://ricardovictoria.carrd.co)
SFWA member. I like TTRPG & Theme Parks. Toy collector. Ph.D. Sustainable Design. 🇲🇽 He/Him
No Gen A.I.🚫
Tempest Blades series: https://mybook.to/TempestBlades
Bilingual profile
Tirelessly/tiredly writing SFF 🇵🇷🌈
🧿AN AMATEUR WITCH'S GUIDE TO MURDER available now!
Rep: Cameron McClure at DMLA
Links: https://linktr.ee/kvalentinwrites
✍🏽 contemporary and spec author | 🫶🏽 friendly neighborhood chaos goblin | 📚 probably reading fanfic | rep: Weaver Literary Agency
https://linktr.ee/alexwritesstuff?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=57c094c5-5723-4802-9b0a-de9d056f02ad
Writer/actress/horror fan
She/her 🩷💙💜
Author of Visions & Nightmares of a GothicRican available on amazon. AfroBoricua, Gothic 🪦 & Horror/Bruja 🧹 fiction Author, poet, MFA, fan of spooky scary stuff, dog momma, lover of foggy days and ☔️ and an absolute Horror Movie wench.
Queer Black & Mexican Writer & Editor 🌈
Founder @abodepress / MFA @txstmfa
Lambda Literary, Tin House, Hedgebrook 25’
www.diamondgizellebraxton.com
Intl. award-winning graphic novelist & Xicana scholar | CEO of DUKEScomics | Writer of multilingual, culturally rooted stories | Intl. Latino Book Award winner | Featured at Tokyo Comic Con & FIL Guadalajara | Mentorship + workshops for youth & communities
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