Gwendolyn Kiste is the three-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Rust Maidens, Reluctant Immortals, Boneset & Feathers, and Pretty Marys All in a Row, among others. Her short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in outlets including Lit Hub, Nightmare, Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, Vastarien, Tor Nightfire, Titan Books, and The Dark. She's a Lambda Literary Award winner, and her fiction has also received the This Is Horror award for Novel of the Year as well as nominations for the Premios Kelvin and Ignotus awards. Originally from Ohio, she now resides on an abandoned horse farm outside of Pittsburgh with her husband, their excitable calico cat, and not nearly enough ghosts. Find her online at gwendolynkiste.com

Nick Nafpliotis is a music teacher and writer from Charleston, South Carolina. During the day, he instructs students from the ages of 11-14 on how to play band instruments. At night, he writes about weird crime, bizarre history, pop culture, and humorous classroom experiences on his blog, RamblingBeachCat.com. He moonlights as a television, novel, and comic book reviewer for AdventuresinPoorTaste.com. You can also follow Nick on Twitter, where he brings shame to his family on a daily basis.

Dusty Wallace lives in Elliston, Virginia with his wife and two sons. He enjoys writing weird fiction including horror, sci-fi, and fantasy. He's also been known to play around in the western and crime genres. Currently his only published work is short fiction. Within the next two years he hopes to have a novel and short story collection for purchase. For more, here's an interview with Martinus Publishing: http://martiningham.blogspot.com/2014...

Horror and fantasy writer. Brenda's short stories can be found in: Daily Science Fiction.com; Tell Me a Fable; Silverthought Online; AlienSkin Magazine; Inclinations; OG's Speculative Fiction; Down in the Cellar; Thema; Emerald Tales; Loving the Undead (From the Asylum Pub.); Zombidays: Festivities of the Flesheaters; Penumbra eZine; SNM Horror Magazine; A High Shrill Thump (Third Flatiron Publishing); Bonded by Blood V: Doomsday Descends; 69 Flavors of Paranoia. Her nonfiction can be found in: Cup of Comfort for Writers; Cup of Comfort for Dog Lovers; Wild with Child; Chicken Soup for the Soul: Inspiration for Writers.

David Elliott is a freelance writer, born in Liverpool in 1981. After discovering that exposure to real life was bringing him out in a rash, he started to apply the soothing cream of fiction, silly fiction, seven times a day, both internally and externally. This led to a worrying addiction, and another rash, for which he is now seeking help. His life is an open book (although not a very good one), and his work has been published by a wide variety of people, places, and things ...

Simon Kewin is a fantasy and sci/fi writer, author of the Cloven Land fantasy trilogy, cyberpunk thriller The Genehunter , steampunk Gormenghast saga Engn , the Triple Stars sci/fi trilogy and the Office of the Witchfinder General books, published by Elsewhen Press. He's the author of several short story collections, with his shorter fiction appearing in Analog, Nature and over a hundred other magazines. He is currently doing an MA in creative writing while writing at least three novels simultaneously.

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Gerri Leen was born in Ohio, lived most of her younger life in and around Seattle and Belfair, Washington, and has spent the last twenty odd years in Northern Virginia. She dabbled with writing when younger, but started writing steadily in her forties, and her first publications came in the Star Trek Strange New World books (volumes seven, nine, and ten)—her story “The Smell of Dead Roses” took the grand prize in the tenth and final volume. She has since had stories appear in a diverse range of publications, both anthologies and magazines (print and web). She primarily focuses on science fiction and fantasy themes, but has occasionally moved over to literary and poetry. She points to Connie Willis, Kevin Smith, Doug Coupland, Ron Moore, and Quentin Tarantino as professional idols. Her favorite places in the world are Port Townsend, Washington; Vail, Colorado; Palm Desert, California; Venice, Italy; and just about anywhere in Guatemala. She is a horseracing fanatic and can often be found blogging about the weekend races at her LiveJournal. Keep up with Gerri at www.gerrileen.com or find her on Facebook at @GerriLeenAuthor.

Dan Stout lives in Columbus, Ohio, where he writes noir with a twist of magic and a disco chaser. His tales of murder, mystery, and speculative fiction draw on travels around the world as well as an employment history spanning everything from subpoena server to assistant well driller. Dan's work has appeared in publications such as The Saturday Evening Post, Nature, and the Stonecoast Review. He is the author of The Carter Archives, a series of noir fantasy thrillers from DAW Books. Say hello at DanStout.com.

Father of two wonderful daughters, Kelly and Erin, Garry McNulty is author of the soon-to-be-released How Genius Girl Saved My Ass, a humorous college-campus, time-travel story. His other works include Eric and Derik: Two Clones Searching for Love and Mom and Dad Aren't Getting Along (Now That Mom's a Zombie). Mr. McNulty also has a short story published by Untied Shoelaces of the Mind and two screenplays that placed as finalists in national scriptwriting contests. He currently lives along the Chesapeake Bay in Hampton, Virginia.

For someone with an English degree, Mike Reeves-McMillan has spent a surprising amount of time wearing a hard hat. He lives in Auckland, New Zealand, the setting of his Auckland Allies contemporary urban fantasy series; and also in his head, where the weather is more reliable, and there are a lot more wizards.

Jason Bougger lives in Omaha, Nebraska with his wife and kids. His YA novel, Holy Fudgesicles, was released by Wings ePress in 2015 and he has published over twenty short stories in various print and online markets. He is the owner and editor of http://www.themeofabsence.com, an online magazine of speculative flash fiction and also maintains http://www.writegoodbooks.com, a blog dedicated to helping new writers improve their craft and learn about the industry. For a full publication list, visit his main author site at http://www.jasonbougger.com.