Nate Ragolia, Co-Founder – Nate is a lifelong lover of science fiction and its power to imagine worlds more hopeful and inclusive than the real one. His first book, There You Feel Free, was published by 1888’s Black Hill Press in 2015. Spaceboy Books reissued it in 2021. He’s also the author of The Retroactivist (2017). His most recent book, One Person Can’t Make a Difference (2022), was featured on Tor.com’s Can’t Miss Indie Press Speculative Fiction list, and was translated into Italian for Ringworld Sci-Fi in 2023. He founded and edited BONED, a literary magazine, and also created two webcomics. Nate is also a husband and a dog dad.

Shaunn Grulkowski, Co-Founder – Shaunn has been compared to Warren Ellis and Phillip K. Dick and was once described as what a baby conceived by Kurt Vonnegut and Margaret Atwood would turn out to be. He’s at least the fifth best Slavic-Latino-American sci-fi writer in the Baltimore metro area.  He’s the author of Retcontinuum, and the editor of A Stalled Ox and The Goldfish, all for 1888/Black Hill Press.

TJ Stambaugh, Art Director – After receiving several commendations for his bravery as a battalion commander in the Meme Wars, TJ retired to Catonsville, MD, where he paints and enjoys movies you have to read. He’s the founder and El Presidente of MoleHole Radio.

 

Antoine Valot, Graphics Bot – Antoine is a 2015 Nexus™ series Replicant from the Tyrell Corporation, communications/design model. He enjoys designing book covers, nitpicking about words, functioning within his operating margins, and making the most of the two years he has left to live.