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Tina S. Zhu
Tina S. Zhu is an Assistant Fiction Editor at Split Lip Magazine who also co-edits WYRMHOLE the terminally online speculative fiction newsletter. Places her work has appeared include Lightspeed, The Cincinnati Review, Best Small Fictions, and The Crawling Moon: Queer Tales of Inescapable Dread (Neon Hemlock Press, 2024), a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award. Her work has received support from Lambda Literary and the Clarion Writers’ Workshop, and you can find her at tinaszhu.com.
Dannie Niu
Dannie Niu is an award-winning illustrator based in Atlanta. Dannie loves to create anything beautiful and gorgeous. She likes to work with gold colors and is specialized in using lines to trace the details. Dannie wants to bring more beautiful and positive feelings to the world with her work because she knows the world already has too much harshness.
