The Apparition Lit Team
Marie Baca Villa
Flash Fiction Editor, Assistant Editor, Marketing, Blogger, & Submissions Reader
Marie Baca Villa is a chicana writer and artist in California. She has a master's degree in psychology and used her education to build a long career in crime victim advocacy. As a fan of speculative fiction, she loves anything involving strange worlds, complex characters, and unexplained phenomenon. She's a bonified cat lady, covered in tattoos, and she loves cussing, beer, and flaming hot cheetos. You can find Marie on Twitter @okay_its_marie
Maria Schrater
Poetry Editor & Assistant Fiction Editor, Submissions Reader
Maria Schrater is a writer & poet based in Chicago. Her work has appeared in Sycorax Journal and in Air & Nothingness Press’s Wild Hunt and Future Perfect in Past Tense anthologies. She is also an associate editor for Apparition Literary Magazine. She especially loves folklore and mythology and often works with retellings. When not writing, she can be found imitating bird calls in the woods. You can find her on Twitter @MariaSchrater.
A.J. Van Belle
Submissions Reader
A.J. Van Belle is a writer and biologist whose short stories have appeared in journals and anthologies from 2004 to the present. They draw on their science background to inform the world-building details in their fiction, and they also bring writing into their science life, serenading their fungal cultures by dictating fiction when no one else is in the lab. You can find them on Twitter @ajvanbelle.
Evelyn Teng
Submissions Reader
Evelyn is a second-generation Chinese-American, with a double major in English and Psychology from Texas A&M University. Since graduating, she has worked as a writing tutor, a legal/technical writer, and a contract writer for an aerospace company. She has published two stories in anthologies, and contributes to the lore of Magic the Gathering through short fiction pieces and creative text.
Léon Othenin-Girard
Submissions Reader
Léon Othenin-Girard (he/they) loves writing queer speculative fiction filled with hope, playing video games with confusing stories, and petting his cat. Currently, they're studying Computer Science, and have figured out how to use the daily commute for writing, inspiration, and homework.
Monique Cuillerier
Submissions Reader
Monique Cuillerier writes about lesbians in space from Ottawa (Canada), where she lives with her cat Janeway. Her work has most recently appeared in *Bicycles & Broomsticks: Fantastical Feminist Stories About Witches on Bikes*. If not reading or writing, she is probably running or gardening. She spends too much time on Twitter @MoniqueAC and not enough on her website notwhereilive.ca.
Moriam E. Kuye
Submissions Reader
Moriam is a speculative fiction writer and editorial assistant in London, UK. When she’s not delving into fiction or crafting stories of her own, she loves astronomy documentaries and roller-skating on sunny days. You can find her lurking somewhere on Twitter @moriam_emi
Edith Silva
2023 Cover Artist-In-Residence
Erion Makuo
2021 Cover Artist-In-Residence
Erion has graduated as a linguist to (naturally) become a freelance illustrator. When she’s not busy searching for a very specific reference or feeding the neighbor’s cat, she haunts her own Twitter at @erionmakuo