Adrien Aster is a writer, wanderer and an advocate for peace. She lives with her wife and rescued greyhound in California. Connect with her via her website or on Twitter.
Justin Chasteen was born and raised in Ohio. At the age of 31, he started writing fiction, and now at 33 has a Bachelor’s Degree in Creative Writing. Aside from “The Huntress of Bur,” he has both an Honorable and a Silver Honorable mention from the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest, a flash fiction story titled “The Shattered Galaxy” (River & South Review), a best-selling short story titled “The Old Man Next Door” (Write Out Publishing), and four completed manuscripts of various novels (which he now regrettably needs to edit for future publication).
Justin also covers high-school baseball and football for the Daily Advocate newspaper. Justin enjoys being a music snob, reading fantasy, NFL football, training boxing, and going on quests through the wilderness with his four-year-old son, Owen—a retired toddler model.
Stuart Conover is a father, husband, rescue dog owner, horror author, blogger, journalist, horror enthusiast, comic book geek, science fiction junkie, and IT professional. With all of that to cram in on a daily basis, it is highly debatable that he ever is able to sleep and rumors have him attached to an IV drip of caffeine to get through most days.
A resident of the suburbs of Chicago (and once upon a time of the city), most of Stuart’s fiction takes place in the Midwest, if not the Windy City itself. From downtown, to the suburbs, to the cornfields—the area is ripe for urban horror of all facets.
David J. Gibbs is a Cincinnati native whose work has appeared in dozens of publications, including Sanitarium Magazine, After the Happily Ever After, The Sirens Call, Under the Bed, New Realm, Massacre Magazine, Dark Monsters, Tales From The Grave, Hidden in Plain Sight, and Shadows of Salem. Later this year, his work will appear in: Broken Bones, Those Who Walk, The Monsters Within, and Depraved Desires, among others.
His piece “Mr. Garret’s Interview” won the 2015 Story of the Year Award from FictionMagazines.com.
Links to all published works, free stories, blog, news, and updates are available at his website: www.davidjgibbs.com.
Gerry Griffiths lives in San Jose, California with his family and their four rescue dogs, plus a cat that thinks their house is a bed-and-breakfast. He is a Horror Writers Association member. He has over thirty published short stories in various anthologies and magazines, as well as a twenty-two short story collection entitled Creatures. He is the author of Silurid, The Beasts on Stoneclad Mountain, Down from Beast Mountain, Terror Mountain, Cryptid Zoo, Cryptid Island, Cryptid Country, Death Crawlers, Deep in the Jungle, The Next World, and Battleground Earth.
Pamela Jeffs is an award-winning speculative fiction author living in Queensland, Australia with her husband and two daughters. Her short fiction has been published in various magazines and anthologies including the “The Outback” by Boolarong Press, “The Lost Door” and “Nocturnal Natures” by Zimbell House Publishing, and the forthcoming “Lawless Lands: Tales from the Weird Frontier” by Falstaff Books.
When she isn’t being a writer, Pamela has a background in Interior and Exhibition Design where she has had the good fortune to work with a multitude of talented artists. This exposure has given her an appreciation for art in all its forms, including graphic and sculptural, as well as the literary.
For further details about Pamela, visit her at www.pamelajeffs.wixsite.com or drop her a line via Twitter @Pamela_Jeffs.
Erin J. Kahn lives in New York City, where she works as a copywriter for a news and entertainment site. Her short horror story “Haunted” is forthcoming in Fantasia Divinity. She also co-authors a literary and arts reviews blog at woodbtwntheworlds.blogspot.com.
Q Parker is a transgender novelist and screenwriter from a forgotten corner of New Jersey. Parker’s fiction has been published in many venues under many names, though most recently The Horror Tree, Transmundane Press, and Helios Quarterly. Any time not working or writing is usually spent laughing at the worst scary movies Netflix can offer.
Robert Perret is a writer and librarian living on the Palouse in north Idaho. He prefers classic horror and retro slasher stories, and thinks the Pacific Northwest has more to offer than vampires and Twin Peaks, although both of those things have their moments. He reads and writes primarily pulp genre stories and Sherlock Holmes pastiches. His fiction has been featured in Two-Fisted Librarians, Spicy Library Stories, An Improbable Truth: The Paranormal Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Curious Incidents: More Improbable Adventures, The Science of Deduction and in many other collections. More information can be found at robertperret.com.
A.M. Rycroft is the award-winning author of multiple dark fantasy books and horror short stories. She was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA, so she naturally bleeds black and gold whenever she gets a paper cut. Her hobbies include binge watching hockey and football, ignoring her inbox as much as possible, and adding to her superhero bobblehead collection.
Her third book, The Joy Thief, won back-to-back fantasy awards in 2017, and Corruption of Honor, Pt. II: The Crow and The Butterfly took the second place award for 2018’s Best F/F Title in Wild Indie Publishing’s First Annual Indie Awards.
Meredith Schindehette has a BA in English from UC Berkeley and a MSc in Media and Communications from the London School of Economics. After more than two decades working for companies around the world, she now escapes her responsibilities to author horror and speculative fiction stories while locked in her basement. After her kids go to bed, she regularly eats cake and watches horror movies with her husband in their Colorado home. Occasionally, you can find her tweeting @meredithwho.
Nancy Uliano has been a lifelong fantasy fan. During her childhood in Connecticut, she devoured any fantasy she could get her hands on, from books and comics, to video games and mythology. Today, she lives in Texas with her family. When she’s not working at her day job, she passes the time by writing, struggling through video games, and playing with her cats and chickens. Find out more about Nancy Uliano on her website or follow her on Twitter.
KT Wagner loves reading and writing speculative fiction. Occasionally she ventures out of her writer’s cave to spend an hour or two blinking against the daylight, or reacquainting herself with family and friends. Several of her short stories are published, and she is working on a sci-fi horror novel. She puts pen to paper in Maple Ridge, B.C., organizes Golden Ears Writers, and attended SFU’s Southbank program in 2013 and The Writers’ Studio (TWS) in 2015. KT can be found online at http://www.northernlightsgothic.com and @KT_Wagner on Twitter.
Zoey Xolton dreams darkly and often. Over the years these dreams have come to shape her waking reality, and so it has eventuated that she lives out her days on this earth as a Storyteller. Her tales are often filled with the paranormal and fantastical, tempered with lashings of forbidden romance and always driven home with a strong element of tragedy! When she’s not writing, Zoey can be found chasing after her precocious children and swooning over her own dark prince—the man she is lucky enough to call her husband and best friend. You can find out more about Zoey and her works at her website: www.zoeyxolton.com.
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