Celeste Bronfman is an award winning, Los Angeles-based writer whose recent credits include the Emmy-award winning series Degrassi and Discovery Kids’ Big Top Academy. In addition to her television work, Celeste is a comic book writer who has written for titles such as Star Trek, My Little Pony, and The Rivers of London.
Danny Lore (they/them) is a queer black writer/editor who's worked in comic and gaming shops since the beginning of time. Most of their writing is contemporary speculative fiction, with the occasional foray into SF. They’ve had their short fiction published by FIYAH, Podcastle, Fireside, Nightlight, EFNIKS.com and more. Their comics work includes Queen of Bad Dreams, Quarter Killer, Marvel's Champions and James Bond for Dynamite. They've had short comics in Dead Beats and The Good Fight anthology. Their story "Tender-Headed" was part of the 2020 YA prose anthology A Phoenix First Must Burn, from Viking Books.
Marieke Nijkamp was born and raised in the Netherlands. A lifelong student of stories, language, and ideas, she spends as much time in fictional worlds as she does the real world. She loves to travel, roll dice, and daydream. Marieke's YA novels include: This Is Where It Ends, which follows four teens during the fifty-four minutes of a school shooting, and Before I Let Go, a haunting young adult murder mystery set during a cruel Alaskan winter. Additionally, Marieke is the editor of Unbroken, an anthology of 13 stories starring disabled teens, written by disabled authors. She's the writer of The Oracle Code, a graphic novel from DC Books for Young Readers, with art by Manuel Preitano.
