Lauren Ferebee loves witty but thematically deep genre stories that center kickass women outsmarting the systems bent on keeping them down. Her plays have been produced in Chicago and New York, garnering her praise for the best kind of science fiction” (Chicago Onstage). She got her MFA in playwriting at the University of Arkansas, which is a beautiful and interesting state that you should visit.

Goldie Jones is a nonbinary (she/they) Wyoming born writer/director, aerialist, and artist, with an award winning career in commercial production (and a side quest to run a circus school) under their belt. Their gritty genre stories center characters across the gender spectrum reclaiming their power to define themselves, their lives, and the worlds they live in.

Jaime Kawamoto is a proud Japanese-Canadian, currently working on several features in the genre space. Roadmap Writers Career Program and Second City Toronto helped her put her BFA in screenwriting to good use, spinning trauma and anger into feminist genre (with a dark comedy underbelly!) gold.