Contributor announcement: STASIS
Stasis is coming soon! An anthology of retrofuturisms featuring short stories from these thirteen talented contributors.
Angela Acosta (she/her) is a bilingual Mexican American writer who holds a Ph.D. in Iberian Studies from The Ohio State University. She is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of South Carolina. She is a 2022 Dream Foundry Contest for Emerging Writers Finalist, 2022 Somos en Escrito Extra-Fiction Contest Honorable Mention, and Rhysling finalist. Her writing has appeared in Copihue Poetry, Shoreline of Infinity, Apparition Lit, Radon Journal, and Space & Time. She is author of Summoning Space Travelers (Hiraeth Publishing, 2022) and A Belief in Cosmic Dailiness: Poems of a Fabled Universe (Red Ogre Review, 2023).
Pauline Barmby (she/her) is an astrophysicist who reads, writes, runs, knits, and believes that you can’t have too many favorite galaxies. Her fiction has appeared in Nature: Futures, Utopia Science Fiction, and OnSpec and in multiple anthologies. She lives in London, Canada and hopes to someday visit her namesake main belt asteroid, minor planet 281067. Find out more at her website, www.galacticwords.com.
Originally from the Rouen area, France, Anthony Boulanger now lives in the Norman countryside, in the company of his muse and their three children. He works on short stories as well as novels and scripts for role-playing games and comics. His favourite subjects are birds, golems, and world mythologies.
Charles Chin was born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Raised by scientist parents to be a scientist himself, he needed a creative outlet to offset the rigid worldview of doctoral degrees and data science. He still writes about science, but on his own terms. Should you come across Charles in the wild, know that he prefers rum over whiskey.
Marc Fleury is a writer living near Kingston, Ontario. In a previous century, he wrote comic books. More recently, his short stories have appeared in ZNB Presents and Seize the Press. Marc can sometimes be found sitting on a park bench staring into the middle distance. He doesn’t play hockey.
Gregory Lawrence is an autistic translator and writer. Before he was confirmed as autistic, he was known only as proudly weird, and that sense of weirdness has also seeped into his writing. Apart from horror, speculative and weird fiction, he is interested in heavy metal, linguistics, constructed languages, disability advocacy and history. Originally from Germany, he now resides near Edinburgh, while his socials and words can be found here: https://linktr.ee/gregory.lawrence
French-Canadian and a lover of languages and linguistics, Mélodie Langevin uses her mastery of words and languages to transport us into incredible fictional universes. After a career in administration, she quickly turned to writing and linguistics, unable to contain her explosive creativity. Passionate about philosophy, personal development, and protecting the environment, she includes these themes in her stories, making us think while entertaining us.
Roxane Llanque is a German-Bolivian writer, artist, and filmmaker. Her award-winning short film Aberration was selected for The Madrid Human Rights Festival and her micro The Tell-Tale Present won the 2023 Outstanding Miniature of World Pride Australia. Her writing was featured in the queer horror anthology Demons & Death Drops, the scifi anthology We Are All Thieves of Somebody’s Future, and is forthcoming in the Latinx Archive’s Not Your Papi’s Utopia: Latinx Visions of Radical Hope. She is currently working on her first novel. You can find her on social media @roxanellanque .
Stephanie Osuji is a student pursuing her B.S. in Kinesiology at Delaware State University. Her hometown is a small business area called Lanham, in a diverse district of Maryland. Growing up she was deeply invested in sports and general athleticism. She’s a former collegiate athlete who has maintained an interest in training, reading, and writing. Her parents are immigrants from the Aboh Mbaise Community in Nigeria, Africa, making Stephanie a first generation African American.
Mahaila Smith (any pronouns) is a young femme writer, living and working on the traditional territory of the Algonquin Anishinabeg in Ottawa, Ontario. They are one of the co-editors for The Sprawl Mag. They like learning theory and writing speculative poetry. Their debut chapbook, Claw Machine, was published by Anstruther Press in 2020. Their second chapbook, Water-Kin was published by Metatron Press in 2024. Their novelette in verse, Seed Beetle, is forthcoming with Stelliform Press in spring 2025. You can find more of their work on their website: mahailasmith.ca
Adrienne Stevenson, a retired forensic toxicologist, lives in Ottawa, Canada. Her poetry and prose have appeared in over sixty print and online journals and anthologies worldwide. Adrienne is an avid gardener, voracious reader, amateur genealogist and sometime folk musician. Her historical novel Mirrors & Smoke was published in 2023.
Antoinette Rydyr is an artist/writer working in the genres of science-fiction, fantasy and horror usually bent into a surrealist and satirical angle. Using the acronym SCAR, she works with fellow creator Steve Carter and together have produced graphic novels, award-winning screenplays and esoteric electronic music. In 2023 they were awarded the Ledger of Honour by the Comics Arts Awards of Australia. Antoinette’s stories include: “Mother Dandelion”, an Aurealis Award finalist published in Spawn: Weird Horror Tales About Pregnancy, Birth and Babies; “Every Part of Her”, published in Killer Creatures Down Under: Horror Stories with Bite; and her collaborative steampunk western novels, Weird Wild West, were published by Bizarro Pulp Press, USA. SCAR have also published several graphic novels which can be found on their website along with other surrealist art: https://www.weirdwildart.com/
Harper Walton is the editor of the short story anthology Carnival at the End of the World (Buoy Press). They’ve received Highly Commended in the Manchester Cathedral poetry prize and Creative Future writers’ awards, achieved Third Place in the Brick Lane Bookshop short story prize, and won two Young Poets Network challenges.
