Victor LaValle is the author of the short story collection Slapboxing with Jesus, four novels, The Ecstatic, Big Machine, The Devil in Silver, and The Changeling and two novellas, Lucretia and the Kroons and The Ballad of Black Tom. He is also the creator and writer of a comic book Victor LaValle's DESTROYER. He has been the recipient of numerous awards including a Whiting Writers' Award, a United States Artists Ford Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Shirley Jackson Award, an American Book Award, and the key to Southeast Queens. He was raised in Queens, New York. He now lives in Washington Heights with his wife and kids. He teaches at Columbia University. He can be kind of hard to reach, but he still loves you.

Mark Alan Miller has carved a niche for himself working alongside some of the top horror icon makers of all time. He worked as editor to Clive Barker for over a decade, adapted stories by Joe R. Lansdale, and created original archival content with Tom Holland. In 2009, Miller began shepherding the release of the director's cut of Barker's classic film Nightbreed. After 6 years of Miller's campaigning, tracking down the footage, and assembling the film, Barker's long-thought-lost vision was released on Blu-Ray by Scream Factory and the film won best vintage release at the 41st annual Saturn Awards. Miller was there to accept the award in person. The project has garnered worldwide interest, and been featured in publications such as Entertainment Weekly, Fangoria,and Empire magazine, and was named Total Film's 14th best extended cut of all time. Mark's work is not limited to the printed word, however. He has produced a series of animated shorts with the comedy troupe Superego for Nerdist Channel, directed an animated original by the name of The Great Corben, for Hulu's Fun Size Horror Volume 2, and was a staff writer for Stan Lee's Lucky man the animated series. Most recently, his short film The Coming Dawn Ministry can be seen on the Twisted Twins' Blood Drive anthology. His other works include, Clive Barker's Hellraiser, Hellraiser Bestiary, Next Testament, Next Testament the Novel, and Joe R. Lansdale's The Steam Man of the Prairie and the Dark Rider Get Down.