Katherine Inskip – Editor (she/her)
Katherine teaches astrophysics for a living and spends her (infrequent) spare time populating the universe with worlds of her own. She is a mother to two boys, and enjoys chaos, water-fights, tree-climbing, and thwarting plans for world domination. Katherine is addicted to chocolate and Japanese logic puzzles, narrates for a variety of podcasts, and wishes she’d started slush reading decades ago. You can read her stories here at Cast of Wonders, and also at the Dunesteef and Luna Station Quarterly (though you might need a functional time machine for some). Follow her on Twitter.
Alicia Caporaso – Assistant Editor (she/her)
Alicia is a marine archaeologist in New Orleans. Though she does not get to leave her desk too often, her technical specialty is using robots to investigate and study shipwrecks and other mysterious things in the deep sea. Most of her published writing is nonfiction, about North American archaeology and history, though her number of speculative fiction stories is slowly increasing. She lives with two little monsters who regularly take dog form and usually can be found, like most monsters, under her bed.
Amy Brennan- Co-Assistant Editor (she/her)
Amy is a huge fan of all manner of fiction and non fiction writing, music, art, basically anything even mildly creative. A geologist by training, holding a masters in Geoscience from Keele Unversity she used to make mud pies for a living. It is a job that is both enjoyably challenging and at times mind-numbingly repetitive. She devoured audiobooks at a rate of knots to get her through the day – until she discovered podcasts and hasn’t looked back since. She lives in Cambridgeshire with her partner, and 2 floofs of the rabbit type. She has 2 professionally published credits: ‘Bunny’ at Cast of Wonders and ‘The Binary Stream’ at Utopia Science Fiction and has recently started dipping her toes into narrating. She occasionally blogs, and you can follow her on Blue Sky at @ScribbleJotterAmy
Jeremy Carter – Audio Producer (he/him)
Jeremy has produced audio for the Dunesteef Audio Fiction magazine, Far Fetched Fables, the Journey Into podcast and StarshipSofa in addition to Cast of Wonders. By day, he teaches physics and maths in the beautiful Peak District. He is a husband, father, photographer, cook and very occasional runner. Follow him on Twitter.
Denise Sudell – Community Manager & Associate Editor (she/her)
Denise Sudell is a queer lawyer and recovering journalist who has been genre-adjacent since approximately age six, when she started reading DC Comics. She has written and edited for such publications as the Philadelphia Gay News, Gay Community News, and Sequential Tart, among others. She earns a paycheck as a senior policy advisor for a US government civil rights agency. She lives in the Washington, DC, area with one housemate and the requisite two cats.
Rebecca Ahn – Associate Editor (she/her)
Rebecca Ahn is a Korean American writer from Seattle and Seoul who loves wandering the city. She writes everything from terrible fanfiction to marginally better poetry. At any given moment, she’s probably thinking about how to survive in a zombie apocalypse, her teddy bear Rainbow, and whatever TV show she’s fixated on. Bring up anything Marvel-related around her and you will never hear the end of it.
Tanya Aydelott – Associate Editor (she/her)
Tanya Aydelott is a Pakistani American writer who grew up in the Middle East, as that was the easiest geographic compromise her parents could find. She earned an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults, and recently moved to Texas with too many books and too few bookshelves. Her stories have been published in FORESHADOW: Stories to Celebrate the Magic of Reading and Writing YA and Dark Moon Digest. You can find her online at tanya-aydelott.com
Cup Jacob – Associate Editor (he/they)
Joel Donato Ching Jacob is called Cup by most people. Cup was a 2021 Clarion West Cohort, 2021 Ani ng Dangal (Harvest of Honors) awardee, 2019 Editor’s Choice for Best Asian Short Stories, and the 2018 Scholastic Asian Book Award Winner for the YA Historical Fantasy novel Wing of the Locust. He lives in Bay, Laguna in the Philippines with two dogs and an allergy to flowers and seafood.
Becca Miles – Associate Editor (they/she)
Becca used to write to procrastinate from a Biology degree and accidentally procrastinated their way into a career. They’ve had poems published in various magazines and anthologies and contributed twelve to the joint collection ‘Steel-Tipped Snowflakes’. They have an obscene number of other writing projects on the go, an improbable number of which involve golems. Because one creative hobby isn’t excessive enough, they also LARP, sew costumes, draw fantasy maps, and play klezmer fiddle. You can follow their writing here: https://beccacpmiles.wixsite.
Rey O – Associate Editor (she/her)
Rey works as an English teacher. She is recovering from gaslighting and C-PTSD, and is basically trying to learn how to be nice to herself full time. Her favorite indulgences are squeeing over cars and comics, collecting toys and second hand books, writing, learning languages, doing puzzles, and enjoying stand-up comedy. SFF and fairy tales are her favorite flavors. Follow her on Twitter.
Samuel Poots – Associate Editor (he/him)
Samuel Poots is a writer from Northern Ireland who communicates primarily through Pratchett quotes. He has been a dead Wildling, a teacher in Japan, a tabletop games journalist, and spent a lot of time assuring tourists at the Causeway that he was the new 5ft 4″ giant due to budget cuts. He writes both fiction and tabletop games and loves making stuff up with friends. If found, please give him a cup of tea and send him home via the nearest post office. Follow him on Twitter at @pootsidoodle
Emma Smailes – Associate Editor (she/her)
Emma hails from the banks of the not so coaley Tyne, which she loves as only a native Geordie Lass can. She enjoys fiction of almost all types, plotting, though never acting, to take over the world, and having sparkly fingernails. She does not have a cat, but does have a tiny cuddly toy hedgehog called Optic, who goes everywhere with her.
Ryn Yee – Associate Editor (they/them)
Ryn is a former ELL teacher from Minnesota who now lives (and edits) in New Zealand. They love seahorses, capybaras, dragonflies, and elephants, and particularly the naughty penguins (re: Mo the Penguin of the Year), who live at the National Aquarium of New Zealand. Someday, when they can have a hoard of pets again, the animals will probably be given the names of Jeffrey Combs’ and Suzie Plakson’s characters.
Ángie Zazueta (she/her)
I’m Ángie, the new slush reader on the team, and I’m so excited to be here. I’m an engineer by day and a passionate reader by night (and weekends, let’s be honest). I live in Mexico with my corgi, Kira, who fully runs the household. I read mostly fiction—especially romantic fantasy—and I have a big soft spot for books that feel adventurous and transport me somewhere completely different (bonus points if there are dragons). I love getting emotionally invested in stories that explore love, identity, and transformation, whether they’re set in magical worlds or something closer to our own. When I’m not working or reading, I love swimming, being near the ocean, and watching the kind of TV shows that become my entire personality for a while. I’m really enjoying what I’ve been reading so far and I’m thrilled to keep discovering new voices and stories!