Niki Smith is an author, artist and lover of fine comics (and some pretty trashy ones too). Her work is joyously queer, and she is the author of the Lambda Literary Award-nominated graphic novels The Deep & Dark Blue and Crossplay. Her latest work, The Golden Hour, was a Kirkus, SLJ, and NYPL Best Book of 2021. Niki now lives in Munich, Germany with her wife and two bilingual cats.

Sarah Winifred Searle originally hails from spooky New England but currently lives in sunny Perth, Australia with their beloved spouse and cat. They’re known for vulnerable memoir and compassionate fiction in comic and graphic novel form, including SINCERELY, HARRIET (Graphic Universe, 2019), PATIENCE & ESTHER (Iron Circus Comics, 2021), WHO WAS THE GIRL WARRIOR OF FRANCE: JOAN OF ARC (Penguin Workshop WhoHQ, 2022), and THE GREATEST THING (First Second, 2022). Keep up with their work on social media (@swinsea) and website (swinsea.com)!

Erika Moen is a freelance cartoonist born June 25, 1983 and graduated with an Illustrated Storytelling self-designed degree from Pitzer College in 2006. She lives in the Pacific North West. Having created comics for well over a decade, her work has been published by Dark Horse, Image, Villard and Scholastic, among many others. In addition to creating comics, she also regularly teaches classes and guest lectures on the subject in high schools and colleges around the country. She has been happily married to Matthew Nolan since October 2008.

2013, Anything That Loves, Northwest Press

2012, Smut Peddler, Anthology, Iron Circus

2012, No Straight Lines, Anthology, Fantagraphics Books

2012, Bucko, written by Jeff Parker, Dark Horse Comics

2012, The Letter Q: Queer Writers’ Notes to Their Younger Selves, Anthology, Scholastic

2010, DAR! Volume Two, Self-Published

2010, Drawn to You, Co-created with Lucy Knisley, Self-Published

2010, Monsters and Dames, Anthology, Emerald City Comic Con

2009, DAR! Volume One, Self-Published

2009, Pip!, Written by George Shannon, Museum of Glass

2009, Best Erotic Comics, Anthology, Last Gasp

2009, The Bridge Project, Anthology, Scraped Knee

2008, Best Erotic Comics, Anthology, Last Gasp

2005, True Porn: Volume Two, Anthology, Alternative Comics

2004, Flight: Volume One, Anthology, Villard

Matthew Nolan is a British ex-pat living in the states with his wife, Erika. After many years of working in the games industry as a visual developer, he now runs a comics business, writing, designing, editing, and coloring sex-positive comics.