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Drema Deòraich

March 30, 2026 / ravenchair

Drema Deòraich is an award-winning author of speculative fiction that sometimes asks big questions. Her flash fiction, short stories, and novelettes have been published in numerous online journals, as well as a few semi-professional zines. Her novels include Entheóphage (medical mystery/climate fiction) and The Founder’s Seed trilogy (science fiction/science fantasy). Drema’s collection of short works, Murder of Crows, and Other Consequential Tales, and her two novelettes—“Deer in Headlights” (dark fantasy) and “Jane Doe #7” (medical science fiction)— are all available on Kindle Unlimited. Nexus, the science fantasy trilogy follow-up to The Founder’s Seed, is currently in the works.

Drema currently lives in Southeast Virginia with her husband, his two cats, and all her other characters. When time and mosquitoes permit, Drema works on transforming their yard into more welcoming habitat for small wildlife. She also occasionally blogs about writing, ideas from Life that inspire her, environmental issues, ways to live more sustainably, and whatever else captures her fancy.

Jett Dixon

March 30, 2026 / ravenchair

Jett has been attending and assisting at conventions for over a decade. 

Apple of Your Eye Cosplay is Jett’s Facebook page for all things cosplay, showing off her thrift-and-scrounge style of work. She modifies pieces she’s found in stores to fit her cosplay goals. Her favorite styles of cosplay are from Star Trek, Marvel, cartoons, and musicals.

Raised on a steady diet of 80s + 90s sci-fi, Jett adores all things Star Trek, enjoys Star Wars, X-Files, and Firefly, and watches way too much anime.

She has family ties to NASA and the Goddard Space Flight Center. A solid gamer girl, she’s spent hours in World of Warcraft, Final Fantasy XIV, Pokémon Go, and multiple Animal Crossing games.

Tavair Dominque

March 30, 2026 / ravenchair

Tavair Dominque is a Baltimore-based multidisciplinary artist whose work spans music, visual art, and literature.

In music, he blends alternative folk with speculative themes. His projects include Phoenix Rising the Space Cowboy, a tribute to Doctor Who, along with tracks dedicated to our universe such as “Nebula Dragon (SH2-114)” and “Black Hole Revelation.” His earlier Sagacious Traveler series imagines conversations with himself across his timelines.

In visual art, his “Star Card” series uses pen and marker to merge cosmic imagery with inner exploration.

In literature, his anthology Meanderings gathers nearly twenty years of poetry that mixes speculative elements with personal reflection. His work has also appeared in the Maryland Bards Poetry Review.

Across these forms, Tavair invites audiences to explore speculative storytelling alongside lived experience.

John Dondero

March 30, 2026 / ravenchair

John Dondero is a certified Jack of all trades. He started out as a filmmaker and special effects editor building both digital and practical effects. He has won many awards for both filmmaking and editing. When COVID hit he switched gears and became an affiliated Twitch streamer and podcaster. He did several podcasts, including the podcast Dinks Wit Kinks, that discuss the psychology of kink. Being ever the neurodivergent he switched gears once again to become a makerspace librarian, teaching kids and adults how to code, 3d print and just, well, be a geek by building movie props and cosplays.

Meri Elena

March 30, 2026 / ravenchair

Meri Elena is a North Carolina speculative fiction author, cat mom, and friendly neighborhood witch. Meri is the author of the Brunswick Prophecies YA urban fantasy series. The third book is coming out this year. She has also published several short stories in anthologies. Her “real” job is communications for the NC Department of Public Safety, so ask her how to build an emergency kit for anything from a hurricane to a zombie apocalypse.

L. Ana Ellis

March 30, 2026 / ravenchair

L. Ana Ellis, a sleep-deprived government worker by day, lets her imagination roam free while writing science fiction late into the night. After spending her days toiling over spreadsheets in a windowless cubicle with fluorescent lighting, she spends her coffee-fueled late-night writing sessions creating worlds that are more of a commentary on the present than an accurate prediction of the future. Speculating about how societies will change in the future fascinates her; she is undeterred that so far she has been wrong 100% of the time.

Ellis has written four novels, including a cyberpunk sci-fi trilogy and a book about spy cats that’s targeted to preteens but fun for cat lovers of all ages. Her debut novel, Panacea Genesis, was a semifinalist in the 2023 Self Published Science Fiction Competition.

She lives in Alexandria, VA with her husband and two cats. When procrastinating, she occasionally posts on Instagram as lanaellisbooks. She publishes under the indie press Fire-Forged Books.

Jaq Evans

March 30, 2026 / ravenchair

Jaq Evans is a speculative fiction and horror author based out of Richmond, VA. She grew up running feral in the Blue Ridge foothills, then spent over a decade in a state that’s famously bleak and spooky—and frankly, it shows. Jaq earned an MFA in Popular Fiction from Stonecoast (University of Southern Maine). You can find their short fiction in Fusion Fragment, Three-Lobed Burning Eye, and elsewhere, and her debut novel, What Grows in the Dark (MIRA/HarperCollins) at your favorite local bookstore.

Nurse Feratu

March 29, 2026 / ravenchair

Nurse Feratu has been the assistant of Dr. Bob Tesla for many years and is in charge of Resources for Humans or as she prefers to call it Human Resources. You will likely see her identical duplicant walking around with her badge and her 7-year-old daughter.

Beth Ford

March 29, 2026 / ravenchair

Beth Ford is an author living in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. She writes time travel romance and historical fiction. Her time travel novels include Love Between Times and its sequel, Love Across Time. Her work has also appeared in a variety of literary journals.

Fox and Field

March 29, 2026 / ravenchair

Fox and Field is a local crafter, creating hand-made goodness with a cottage nerdy twist! Including plushies, needle felting, accessories, and more.