Leow Hui Min Annabeth (“Surrender (to) Dorothy”) is a writer and student from a particularly soggy island in the sea, studying, shockingly enough, English literature, among other subjects. Her fiction has appeared in Quarterly Literary Review Singapore and Coast, and she has also been published in the journal Transformative Works and Cultures. Of late she has worked as a research assistant for the anthology Troublesome Women in Asia. She has an interest in postcolonialism, gender theory, and intersectionality, especially as they pertain to media studies and literary analysis, and she dreams of being part of the present wave of Southeast Asian literature and speculative fiction.
 
J. Victoria Sanders (“Rewriting the Rules”) is one of those dreaded single black ladies who actually quite loves being independent and finds dating, online and off, mostly tedious. When she’s not updating her GoodReads account or blogging at jvictoriasanders.com, she teaches University of Texas students how to be journalists. She has written for newspapers, magazines, encyclopedias, and anthologies for 11 years. She is also the only Bronx girl she knows learning how to shoot in Austin, Texas, where she still writes longhand in a paper journal most mornings before taking long runs with her favorite partner in crime, the lovely mastiff/shepherd Cleopatra.

Alyx Vesey (“She’s Got the Beat”) is the founder and editor of the blog Feminist Music Geek, which launched in April 2009. She is a frequent contributor to Bitch, and has also written for Persephone Magazine, Elevate Difference, Scratched Vinyl.com, Tom Tom, Flow, and Antenna. She also volunteers with Girls Rock Camp Madison and worked with the Austin and Houston chapters in Texas. She is currently in her first year as a PhD student at University of Wisconsin-Madison in the Media and Cultural Studies program and plans on becoming a feminist media studies professor when she grows up.

Saba Igbe (“Dystropia”) was born in Paris, France, raised in Nigeria, and now works as a freelance writer in Kingston, Jamaica. She is a lifelong film fanatic, history buff, and animal lover. She has traveled to countries in Europe, Africa, and the Americas. She writes about an array of topics including pop culture, history, travel, and Jamaica.  Her work has appeared in Ghostlight, Rue Morgue, and the Jamaica Observer. She has collaborated with her sister, a freelance photographer, on writing projects. She is currently working on her first manuscript.

Luke Ramsey (illustration, “Dystropia”) is the cofounder of Islands Fold, an artist’s residency located on Pender Island, British Columbia. To date, he has collaborated with more than 100 different artists, exhibits internationally, and performs in a project called Radical Trust. He is currently working on an illustrated science-fiction story. Find him at lukeramseystudio.com.