Melissa Carroll is a writer and poet living on a cattle ranch. She's the editor of the anthology Going OM: Real-Life Stories on and off the Yoga Mat (Viva Editions 2014), which features candid essays by NYT bestsellers Dani Shapiro, Suzanne Morrison, Neal Pollack, Claire Dederer, and many more, with a foreword by Cheryl Strayed (author of Wild). Melissa's nonfiction and poetry have appeared on MindBodyGreen.com and in Mantra Yoga + Health Magazine, Creative Loafing, Poetry Quarterly, New South Review, The Literary Bohemian, and many other literary journals. Her poetry collection Body of Starlight was published in 2019 by Sweet Aperitifs Press. Her poetry chapbook, The Karma Machine (YellowJacket Press 2011) received the Peter Meinke Award, and her collection The Pretty Machine was published by ELJ Publications in 2016. Melissa received her MFA from University of South Florida in 2012 and taught college creative writing courses for a decade. Now she teaches yoga, mindfulness, and creative writing on Zoom and travels to lead workshops. Learn more at www.TheYogaWriter.com

Lesley C. Weston loves character driven stories, loves words more than food. Her stories have or will appear in Smokelong Quarterly, Gator Springs Gazette, Flashfiction.net, Alien Skin, UR Paranormal, Ars Medica, and Pisgah Review, among others.

Scott Christian Carr has been a radio talk show host, editor of a flying saucer magazine, fishmonger, spelunker, psychonaut, journalist, medical/pharmaceutical writer, TV producer, and author. He is a Bram Stoker Award nominee, Scriptapalooza 1st Place Winner for Best Original TV Pilot, and in 1999, he was awarded The Hunter S. Thompson Award for Outstanding Journalism. Scott is a contributing editor and columnist for Shroud Magazine, and a 2010 Choate Road “Spotlight Scribe” - But his most satisfying and rewarding job is that of “Dad.” He lives in a home once owned by George Hansburg (inventor of the pogo stick) on a secluded mountaintop in New York’s Hudson Valley with his two children. Scott Christian Carr’s latest novel Hiram Grange & the Twelve Little Hitlers is currently available from Shroud Publishing, Amazon.com, and at Barnes & Noble near you. Lloyd Kaufman (President of Troma Entertainment and Creator of the Toxic Avenger) calls it, “More fun than a barrel full of Hitlers... The best novel since Don Quixote!” His upcoming novels Hiram Grange & the Twelve Steps and Matthew's Memories (illustrated by Danny Evarts) are scheduled to be released in 2013. His other publications include the anthologies Sick: An Anthology of Illness (which features an excerpt from his novel Believer), Death Be Not Proud, Desolate Places, Beneath the Surface, Demonology: Grammaticus Demonium, Scary! Holiday Tales to Make You Scream, and the upcoming Terror at Miskatonic Falls. Scott’s fiction has appeared in dozens of magazines and publications, including Shroud Magazine, The Dream People, GUD, Pulp Eternity, Horror Quarterly, The MUFON Journal, Weird N.J. and Withersin. His novella A Helmet Full of Hair was recently translated and reprinted in the prestigious French quarterly, Galaxies: La Revue de Référence de la Science Fiction. He writes every day. Visit me at: www.scottchristiancarr.com

R.B. Lemberg is a queer, bigender immigrant from Eastern Europe to the US. R.B.'s Birdverse novella The Four Profound Weaves (Tachyon, 2020) is a finalist for the Nebula, Ignyte, Locus, and World Fantasy awards, as well as an Otherwise Award honoree. R.B.'s poetry memoir Everything Thaws will be published by Ben Yehuda Press in 2022. Their stories and poems have appeared in Lightspeed Magazine’s Queers Destroy Science Fiction!, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, We Are Here: Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2020, Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology, and many other venues. You can find R.B. on Twitter at @rb_lemberg, on Patreon at http://patreon.com/rblemberg, and at their websites rblemberg.net and birdverse.net.

Mithran Somasundrum was born in Colombo, grew up in London and currently lives in Bangkok, where he works in an electrochemistry lab. His short stories have been published in The Sun, Inkwell, Natural Bridge, The Minnesota Review, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, and The Best Asian Short Stories 2017, among others. One of his stories was shortlisted for the Bridport 2021 Short Story Prize. His next novel, "Bangkok Phantoms" is forthcoming from Joffe Books.

Erik Williams is a former naval officer and current defense contractor (but he's not allowed to talk about it). He is also the author of Demon and numerous small press works and short stories. He currently lives in San Diego with his wife and three daughters. When he's not at his day job, he can usually be found changing diapers or coveting carbohydrates. "Demon is like a hellacious cross between 24, The Exorcist and a video game. Fast-paced and wicked fun." (Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author) "Set amid the turmoil and terror of the present war, a much more ancient battle—the ultimate battle of GOOD versus EVIL - is resurrected...and God help us all." (P.D. Cacek, author of The Wind Caller) "Demon is a swiftly-paced novel that kicks ass all over the place." (Ray Garton, author of Serpent Girl) "Some books are like grenades with the pin pulled. ... That's how I feel when I crack covers on an Erik Williams book. Handle this one with care... and watch out for flying shrapnel." (Norman Partridge, author of Dark Harvest) “Erik Williams. Underline that name, put it on the fridge. Erik Williams is the genuine article.” (Gene O’Neill, author of RUSTING CHICKENS) "When there's no more room in Hell, let the worst sinners burn in the mind of Erik Williams."(Cody Goodfellow, author of RADIANT DAWN and PERFECT UNION)

Hugh Bernard Fox Jr. (February 12, 1932 – September 4, 2011) was a writer, novelist, poet and anthropologist and one of the founders (with Ralph Ellison, Anais Nin, Paul Bowles, Joyce Carol Oates, Buckminster Fuller and others) of the Pushcart Prize for literature. He has been published in numerous literary magazines and was the first writer to publish a critical study of Charles Bukowski. Fox was born and raised in Chicago as a devout Catholic, but converted to Judaism in later life. He received a Ph.D. in American Literature from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and was a professor at Michigan State University in the Department of American Thought and Language from 1968 until his retirement in 1999.[5] Hugh Fox died on September 4, 2011 in East Lansing, MI. Fox was the author of over sixty-two books, including six books on anthropology. He wrote over fifty-four books on poetry and many volumes on short fiction, and published many novels. Fox also wrote a number of books on pre-Columbian American cultures and catastrophism. Some of these works were labeled in the pseudoarchaeological category, such as his book Gods of the Cataclysm: A Revolutionary Investigation of Man and his Gods Before and After the Great Cataclysm (1976). Some of his books with these themes have been compared to the work of Ignatius Donnelly. His book Gods of the Cataclysm received a number of positive reviews. Editor Curt Johnson praised the book claiming “Hugh Fox’s Gods of the Cataclysm...ought to be required reading for cultural historians of all disciplines.”[7] The Ibbetson Street Press of Somerville, MA published Way, Way Off the Road: The Memoirs of an Invisible Man by Hugh Fox with an introduction by Doug Holder in 2006. This book recounts Fox's life and the people he knew from his extensive associations with the "Small Press" marketplace over the years, including Charles Bukowski, A.D. Winans, Sam Cornish, Len Fulton, and numerous other people. Fox's final works were: The Dream of the Black Topaze Chamber (Skylight Press, 2011) Reunion (Luminist Press, 2011) Who, Me? A Memoir (Sunbury Press, 2011) Immortal Jaguar (Skylight Press, 2011) The Lord Said Unto Satan (Post Mortem Press, 2011) Depths & Dragons (Skylight Press, 2010) Peace/La Paix: Ballades et contes en quete verite (Higganum Hill, 2008) The Complete Poetry of Hugh Fox 1966-2007 (World Audience, 2008) Defiancé (Higganum Hill, 2007) Opening the Door to French Film (World Audience, 2007)

His first novel was plucked from a slush pile and went on to be #6 on Amazon.com's Year's Best SF/F of 2008, shortlisted for a Crawford Prize, and on Locus Magazine's Recommended Reading List for Debuts. His short fiction has appeared in Weird Tales Magazine, Fantasy Magazine, Apex Magazine, and Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, among other places. He has a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Houston, and an MFA in Popular Fiction from the Stonecoast program of the University of Southern Maine. By night, he wanders a maze of bookshelves and empty coffee cups, and by day he wanders the streets of San Antonio, where he lives and works. He tries to write in between.

Kenneth Schneyer was nominated for both the Nebula Award and the Sturgeon Memorial Award for his story, "Selected Program Notes from the Retrospective Exhibition of Theresa Rosenberg Latimer". His fiction has appeared in Lightspeed, Uncanny, Strange Horizons, Analog, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Clockwork Phoenix 3 & 4, Escape Pod, Podcastle, Pseudopod, and elsewhere. This first collection, The Law & the Heart, appeared in 2014, and his second collection, Anthems Outside Time and Other Strange Voices, appeared in 2020. He is a 2009 graduate of the Clarion Writers Workshop, and a member of both the Cambridge Science Fiction Workshop and Codex Writers. He studied theater at Wesleyan and law at Michigan, and is now Professor of Humanities and Legal Studies at Johnson & Wales University. Born in Detroit, he now lives in Rhode Island with one singer, one dancer, one actor, and things with fangs. He blogs, sort of, at http://ken-schneyer.livejournal.com.

Isabel Cooper Kunkle was educated in Rhode Island and currently lives in Cambridge, MA. In her spare time, she reads a lot, especially since she takes the subway everywhere; she also enjoys martial arts, video games, and watching trashy TV accompanied by a fair amount of alcohol. Other short stories of hers include "Higher Education," which appeared in the Winter 2008 issue of Spacesuits and Sixguns Magazine, and "Stone and Fire," which appeared in the January 2009 issue of Allegory.

I've published five poetry collections: Magpies and Crows (Ravenna Press, 2021), Borrowed Trouble, Dust and Stars: Miniatures (Cholla Needles Press, 2019 and 2018), Brazil, Indiana: A Folk Poem (Kelsay Books, 2017) and Coyotes I Couldn't See (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2016). Hobo Radio, a spoken-word album of my poems featuring original music by Charlie Parr, was released by Corrector Records in early 2021. My jokes, poems, reviews and short stories have appeared in numerous print and digital publications, including Alba, The American Journal of Poetry, Anti-Heroin Chic, The Bark, Black Bough Poetry (Wales), Conduit, Cowboy Jamboree, CutBank, Daily Drunk Magazine, Dark Mountain (England), 8 Poems, elimae, The Evergreen Review, Floyd County Moonshine, Forklift Ohio, The Freshwater Review, Glasgow Review of Books (Scotland), Gulf Coast, Hobart, Hoosier Noir, Hoot, Hummingbird, Kentucky Review, McSweeney's (online and print), Midwestern Gothic, The Missouri Review, The Moth (Ireland), museum of americana, Noir Nation, NOON, Not Deer Magazine, Phoebe, Poetry City USA, Prose Poem: An International Journal, Publishers Weekly, Quail Bell, The Quarterly, Rain Taxi, Rattle, The Raw Art Review, Sequestrum, Seventeen, Shotgun Honey, The Southern Review, Switchblade, Sycamore Review and Two Hawks Quarterly, among others. My writing has also been featured in public art projects and on public radio. I live in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Nicole Kornher-Stace lives in New Paltz, NY, with her family. Her two most recent books are the adult SF cyberpunk dystopian thriller FIREBREAK (Simon & Schuster/Gallery/Saga, 2021) and her middle-grade debut JILLIAN VS. PARASITE PLANET (Tachyon, 2021). Her other books include the Andre Norton Award finalist ARCHIVIST WASP (Small Beer Press/Big Mouth House, 2015) and its sequel LATCHKEY (Mythic Delirium, 2018), which are about a far-future postapocalyptic ghosthunter, the ghost of a near-future supersoldier, and their adventures in the underworld. You can find her on Twitter @wirewalking, where she is probably semicoherently yelling about board games, video games, hiking, aromantic representation, good books she's read recently, or her cat. For tons of book extras, deleted scenes, and subscriber exclusives, check out her Patreon, which is single-tier pay-what-you-want for all access to everything.

SHORT STORY E-BOOK FREE FOR NEWSLETTER SUBSCRIBERS https://bit.ly/daughtershorts Anne Goodwin’s drive to understand what makes people tick led to a career in clinical psychology. That same curiosity now powers her fiction. Anne writes about the darkness that haunts her and is wary of artificial light. She makes stuff up to tell the truth about adversity, creating characters to care about and stories to make you think. She explores identity, mental health and social justice with compassion, humour and hope. A prize-winning short-story writer, she has published three novels and a short story collection with small independent press, Inspired Quill. Her debut novel, Sugar and Snails, was shortlisted for the 2016 Polari First Book Prize. Away from her desk, Anne guides book-loving walkers through the Derbyshire landscape that inspired Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. Subscribers to her newsletter can download a free e-book of award-winning short stories. Website: annegoodwin.weebly.com

Tara Deal is a New York writer of fiction, free verse, and urban fragments. Her forthcoming novella, Life / Insurance, won the 2022 Fugere Book Prize from Regal House. She is also the author of the award-winning novellas That Night Alive (Miami University Press) and Palms Are Not Trees After All (Texas Review Press). Find her online at www.taradeal.com.

Abigail Hilton writes fantasy books, including The Cowry Catchers/ Refugees saga, The Prophet of Panamindorah, Hunters Unlucky, and the Eve and Malachi Series. She also publishes under A. H. Lee, including The Incubus Series and The Knight and the Necromancer.

An 10-time Pushcart Prize nominee, Jéanpaul Ferro’s work has appeared on National Public Radio, Contemporary American Voices, Columbia Review, Emerson Review, Connecticut Review, Portland Monthly, Arts & Understanding Magazine, The Providence Journal, Saltsburg Review, Hawaii Review, and others. He is the author of All The Good Promises (Plowman Press, 1994), Becoming X (BlazeVox Books, 2008), You Know Too Much About Flying Saucers (Thumbscrew Press, 2009), Hemispheres (Maverick Duck Press, 2009) Essendo Morti – Being Dead (Goldfish Press, 2009), nominated for the 2010 Griffin Prize in Poetry; and Jazz (Honest Publishing, 2011), nominated for both the 2012 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Prize and the 2012 Griffin Prize in Poetry. He was born and raised in Scituate, Rhode Island. THE DEVIL AND THE BLACKSMITH: https://www.amazon.com/Devil-Blacksmi... THE DEVIL AND THE BLACKSMITH, Official Trailer: https://youtu.be/MEGwnZ_oD3o?si=fgC1i...

Vanessa Gebbie is a novelist, short storyist, editor, writing tutor and occasional poet. Her novel The Coward’s Tale (Bloomsbury) was selected as a Financial Times Book of the Year and Guardian readers’ book of the year. She is author of two collections: Words from a Glass Bubble - a collection of mainly prize-winning stories - and Storm Warning (Salt Modern Fiction). She is contributing editor of Short Circuit - Guide to the Art of the Short Story (Salt). Her fifth book in as many years is forthcoming later in 2012. Vanessa's stories have been commissioned by literary journals, the British Council, for BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio 4, and are widely anthologised. Married with two grown sons, she lives in Sussex. www.vanessagebbie.com

There is more than one author with this name Sue Williams is a British writer who lives in the USA. Her fiction has appeared in Narrative, Night Train, Salamander, Redivider, Dream Catcher, and numerous other books and magazines. Sue works as an Assistant Editor at Narrative Magazine and teaches writing seminars at Grub Street, Boston. She is working on the final draft of a novel, along with a story collection entitled, Touch Me, I'm a Monster. You can find her online at: www.suewilliams.co.uk.

Lindsey Duncan is a lifelong writer, chef / pastry chef (CPC CSW), and professional Celtic harp performer, with short fiction and poetry in several speculative fiction publications. Her soft science fiction novel, Scylla and Charybdis, is available from Grimbold books. She feels that music and language are inextricably linked. She lives, performs, and teaches harp in Cincinnati, Ohio. She can be found on the web at www.LindseyDuncan.com/writing.htm Some of my favorite SF/F authors include Jasper Fforde, Lois McMaster Bujold, Jane Linkskold, Laura Resnick, Terry Pratchett and Jana Oliver. Esther Friesner is my favorite short story author, hands down, no contest, end of story. Dave Duncan (no relation) has the Dodec duology, which is (to me) is the best ilustration of, "Story is a force of nature," that I've ever seen. I also enjoy mysteries - historical and (in the modern era) humorous cozy-styles. As far as historicals, my heart belongs to Cadfael (Ellis Peters). In the other arena, I am inordinately fond of Alina Adams' skating mysteries. I am an avid reader of anthologies - anthologies are awesome! Support any anthology you can find! - and I have to single out "Murder By Magic" edited by Rosemary Edghill.

Number One Bestselling Author, Timothy Gager has published 18 books of fiction and poetry, which includes his third novel, Joe the Salamander. He hosted the successful Dire Literary Series in Cambridge, MA from 2001 to 2018, and started a weekly virtual series in 2020. He has had over 1000 works of fiction and poetry published, 17 nominated for the Pushcart Prize. His work also has been nominated for a Massachusetts Book Award, The Best of the Web, The Best Small Fictions Anthology and has been read on National Public Radio. In 2023, Big Table Publishing published an anthology of twenty years of his selected work, with 175 pages of new material: The Best of Timothy Gager. Timothy is the former Fiction Editor of The Wilderness House Literary Review, and the founding co-editor of The Heat City Literary Review. A graduate of the University of Delaware, Timothy lives in Dedham, Massachusetts,and is employed as a social worker.

Christopher Buecheler has written ten novels and published five. He is also a web developer, a musician, an illustrator, a mixologist, and a fan of video games and the NBA. He lives a semi-nomadic existence with his wonderful wife Charlotte and their two cats, Carbomb and Baron Salvatore H. Lynx II. Currently they reside in Providence, RI. You can visit him at http://www.cwbwriting.com

Rafael Frumkin's first novel, THE COMEDOWN, was published by Henry Holt in 2018. His second novel, CONFIDENCE, is forthcoming from Simon and Schuster in February 2023. His collection of short stories, BUGSY, is slated to hit shelves in early 2024. He has written for the Washington Post, the Paris Review, Granta, Guernica, Hazlitt, the Virginia Quarterly Review, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency, among other places. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and Medill School of Journalism, he lives in Carbondale, IL, where he teaches fiction and nonfiction writing at Southern Illinois University.

Lavie Tidhar was raised on a kibbutz in Israel. He has travelled extensively since he was a teenager, living in South Africa, the UK, Laos, and the small island nation of Vanuatu. Tidhar began publishing with a poetry collection in Hebrew in 1998, but soon moved to fiction, becoming a prolific author of short stories early in the 21st century. Temporal Spiders, Spatial Webs won the 2003 Clarke-Bradbury competition, sponsored by the European Space Agency, while The Night Train (2010) was a Sturgeon Award finalist. Linked story collection HebrewPunk (2007) contains stories of Jewish pulp fantasy. He co-wrote dark fantasy novel The Tel Aviv Dossier (2009) with Nir Yaniv. The Bookman Histories series, combining literary and historical characters with steampunk elements, includes The Bookman (2010), Camera Obscura (2011), and The Great Game (2012). Standalone novel Osama (2011) combines pulp adventure with a sophisticated look at the impact of terrorism. It won the 2012 World Fantasy Award, and was a finalist for the Campbell Memorial Award, British Science Fiction Award, and a Kitschie. His latest novels are Martian Sands and The Violent Century. Much of Tidhar’s best work is done at novella length, including An Occupation of Angels (2005), Cloud Permutations (2010), British Fantasy Award winner Gorel and the Pot-Bellied God (2011), and Jesus & the Eightfold Path (2011). Tidhar advocates bringing international SF to a wider audience, and has edited The Apex Book of World SF (2009) and The Apex Book of World SF 2 (2012). He is also editor-in-chief of the World SF Blog, and in 2011 was a finalist for a World Fantasy Award for his work there. He also edited A Dick and Jane Primer for Adults (2008); wrote Michael Marshall Smith: The Annotated Bibliography (2004); wrote weird picture book Going to The Moon (2012, with artist Paul McCaffery); and scripted one-shot comic Adolf Hitler’s I Dream of Ants! (2012, with artist Neil Struthers). Tidhar lives with his wife in London.

Christian A. Dumais is an American writer and stand up comedian based out of Wroclaw, Poland. He has written sketch comedy, journalism, comic strips, comic books, short stories, books, academic articles, and more. He is best known for creating Twitter’s @DrunkHulk, an internet and pop culture sensation which accumulated nearly 200,000 followers. Drunk Hulk has been featured in various publications like Time, Rolling Stone, Huffington Post, and mentioned on NPR, Comedy Central, and MTV. A collection of Drunk Hulk’s tweet, as well as exclusive behind-the-scenes material, was published as SMASHED: The Life and Tweets of Drunk Hulk.

Jeremy C. Shipp is the Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author of The Atrocities, Bedfellow, and Cursed. Their shorter tales have appeared in over 60 publications, including Cemetery Dance, Dark Moon Digest and Apex Magazine. Jeremy lives in Southern California in a moderately haunted Farmhouse. Their online home is jeremycshipp.com. “Jeremy C. Shipp’s boldness, daring, originality, and sheer smarts make them one of the most vital younger writers who have colonized horror literature in the past decade. Shipp’s modernist clarity, plus their willingness to risk damn near everything, put them up at the head of the pack with the very best.” ―Peter Straub “Shipp’s clear, insistent voice pulls you down into the rabbit hole and doesn’t let go.” ―Jack Ketchum “I’m convinced Jeremy Shipp is a little bit crazy, in the best possible way. This is one of those books that alters your brain in a way similar to Philip K. Dick.” —Jeff VanderMeer

Jordan E. Rosenfeld is an author, editor, and freelance writer. She is the author of WOMEN IN RED, NIGHT ORACLE, FORGED IN GRACE, as well as the writing guides: How to Write a Page Turner, Writing the Intimate Character, Writing Deep Scenes, A Writer's Guide to Persistence, Make A Scene: Crafting a Powerful Story One Scene at a Time, which is now in its second edition, and "Write Free: Attracting the Creative Life" with Rebecca Lawton. Her essays & articles have appeared in: The Atlantic, GOOD, DAME Magazine, Mental Floss, Modern Loss, New York Times, New York Magazine, The Rumpus, Salon, San Francisco Chronicle, Scientific American, Writer's Digest, The Writer and more. She holds an MFA in Fiction and Literature from the Bennington Writing Seminars, and a BA from the Hutchins School at Sonoma State University. Her essays and stories have appeared in literary journals such as the Blue Moon Review, Night Train, the Pedastal Magazine, Pindeldyboz, Opium, LitPot, Smokelong Quarterly, Spoiled Ink, the Summerset Review, Void Magazine, Zaum and in literary anthologies. Her fiction has also been performed by actors as part of the Page on Stage project in Santa Rosa. For three years, Jordan hosted the literary radio program Word by Word: Conversations with Writers, which received an NEA Chairman’s grant for literary projects in 2005, on NPR-affiliate KRCB radio. She interviewed authors such as T.C. Boyle, Aimee Bender, Louise Erdrich, and Mary Gaitskill.

Since the age of seven, Leslie Claire Walker has wanted to be Princess Leia—wise and brave and never afraid of a fight, no matter the odds. Leslie hails from the concrete and steel canyons and lush bayous of southeast Texas—a long way from Alderaan. Now, she lives in the rain-drenched Pacific Northwest with a cast of spectacular characters, including cats, harps, fantastic pieces of art that may or may not be doorways to other realms, and too many fantasy novels to count. She is the author of the Awakened Magic Saga, a collected series of urban fantasy novels, novellas, and stories filled with magical assassins, fallen angels, faeries, demons, and complex, heroic humans. The primary series in the saga are the Soul Forge, set in Portland, Oregon, and the Faery Chronicles, set in Houston Texas. She also authors stories for The Uncollected Anthology on a mission to redefine the boundaries of contemporary and urban fantasy. Leslie takes her inspiration from the dark beauty of the city, the power of myth, strong coffee, whisky, and music ranging from Celtic harp to jazz to heavy metal. Rock on!