Editorial Team

Justine Norton-Kertson (they/their) is an author, game maker, publisher, and musician. Their work has been featured in numerous magazines like Utopian Science Fiction, Rulerless, and Jupiter Review. Justine is the editor of Bioluminescent: A Lunarpunk Anthology, and author of Fighting for the Future RPG. Their debut nonfiction book, Utopian Witch, is forthcoming from Microcosm Publishing in 2024. Justine is one of the 2023 Grist 50 Climate Leaders.

Abriana Tuller (she/her) is a Vegas native who has just acquired her dream job of becoming an editor for a literary magazine. Abriana has participated in education reform and has taught in her local school district. Along with having an education background, Abriana is a former journalist. Abriana, when not spending time with her two children, can be seen dancing in the store, singing at karaoke, reading a fiction novel, or writing about fictional words. 

J.D. Harlock (he/him) is a Lebanese writer based in Beirut. His short stories have been featured in The Deadlands, Sciencefictionary, Defenestration, Wyldblood Press, and the Decoded Pride Anthology, his poetry has been featured in Penumbric, Mobius and Black Cat Magazine, and his articles/reviews have been featured in NewMyths.com, Mermaids Monthly, Interstellar Flight Press, and on the SFWA Blog. 

Brianna Castagnozzi (she/her) is a writer, artist, musician, and composition instructor. She enjoys writing and reading interstitial fiction that explores the connections between ethnic, spiritual, and environmental narratives. Her work has been published in Stonesthrow Review, Shawangunk Review, and Entropy. She has a story forthcoming in Clarkesworld. She is a licensed falconer, and lives with her red-tailed hawk in the Hudson River Valley.

Moshe Siegel (he/him/his) has clocked hours as a slush reader, proofreader, copyeditor, editor, writer, and interviewer for independent publishers, research institutions, and Lightspeed Magazine.

Moshe lives in New York’s Hudson Valley with his husband Keith, by leave of their cat, Jareth.

Hal Hefner (he/him) is a Creative Director and Strategist who uses award winning illustration, design, writing and strategy to create digital and physical experiences. He’s illustrated books, games, video games, magazines, comic books, & more.  He’s most recognized for his pop art series, CONSUME, with millions of shares and shown in galleries around the world. Hal is also an accomplished marketing executive for major entertainment properties such as movies, TV/streaming, Games, toys and more. Most recently he worked on The Wheel of Time for Amazon, Titans for HBOMax, and Loki for Disney+. Hal is dedicated to the advancement of new narratives for humanity that don’t end with a cyberpunk dystopia or an apocalypse. He is currently in production on the Serpentseed, a multimedia episodic solarpunk epic set in the near future. #DemandABetterFuture