Eugen Bacon is an African Australian author of several novels and fiction collections. She's a finalist in the 2022 World Fantasy Award. Her recent books Ivory's Story, Danged Black Thing, and Saving Shadows are finalists in the British Science Fiction Association. Eugen was announced in the honor list of the 2022 Otherwise Fellowships for 'doing exciting work in gender and speculative fiction'. She lives in South Melbourne, Australia.

Andrew Hook has had over a hundred and sixty short stories published, with several novels, novellas and collections also in print. Stories have appeared in magazines ranging from Ambit to Interzone. Recent books are a collection of mostly SF stories, Frequencies of Existence (NewCon Press), and a series of crime novels through Head Shot Press. He lives in Norwich, UK.