Nina Lykke is Professor Emerita, Gender Studies, Linköping University, Sweden, and Aarhus University, Denmark, and a poet and writer. Her research focuses on queer death studies, intersectionality, feminist posthumanism, and queer ecologies. Her monographs include Cosmodolphins (2000), Feminist Studies (2010), and Vibrant Death (2022).

Katja Aglert is a Stockholm-based artist and 2020-2022 Professor of Art, Linköping University, Sweden. For 20 years, she has explored transdisciplinary, often collaborative processes situated in feminist and more-than-human imaginaries. Her exhibitions include FLORA ars + natura, Bogotá; Marabouparken, Stockholm; Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago de Chile.

Line Henriksen is Senior Lecturer in Literature and Creative Writing at Malmö University, Sweden. She is the author of the monograph In the Company of Ghosts: Hauntology, Ethics, Digital Monsters (2016), and her research interests include monster theory, hauntology, and creative writing as method.

Prologue: Experimental Writing with Spectral Communities and Triquetras; Chapter 1: Reconfiguring Alien Encounters: Introduction; Intertext I Alien Arrivals: Slugs; Chapter 2: Encountering Vulgar Slugs: What Can a Bite Tell About More-than-Human Becomings?; Intertext II Alien Arrivals: Diatoms; Chapter 3: Becoming a Compassionate Diatom Companion; Intertext III Alien Arrivals: Familiars; Chapter 4: Writings from the Pit: On Creative Blocks and the Internal Editor as Familiar Spirit; Chapter 5: More-than-Human Ethics and Poetics; Chapter 6: Conversations on Alien Methods and Writing; Epilogue: Endless End