Caren Hahn is an award-winning fantasy and suspense author best known for the Hatched dragon adventure series, and Owl Creek, a small town suspense series. She discovered at a young age that the only thing more thrilling than reading fictional adventures was writing them herself. Caren lives with her family in the Pacific Northwest.

Kay Hanifen's work has appeared in over one hundred anthologies and magazines. Her first anthology as an editor, Till the Yule Log Burns Out, was published in 2024. Her first novel, The Last Ballard, debuted the same year.

Liv Strom is a Swedish-Swiss writer with stories in Apex Magazine, Hexagon, and Mystery Magazine, among others, and been included on Tor.com's Must-Read Speculative Fiction and reviewed on Locus. She's currently working on the next novel in her Tales of Bones & Roses twisted fairytales series.