Jarret Keene is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he teaches American literature and the graphic novel. He has written books—travel guide, rock-band biography, poetry collections—and edited short-fiction anthologies such as Las Vegas Noir and Dead Neon: Tales of Near-Future Las Vegas. His Pushcart-nominated stories, essays, and verse have appeared in literary journals, spec-fic anthologies, academic textbooks, and university presses. He is the series editor of Las Vegas Writes, an annual anthology sponsored by Nevada Humanities and published by Huntington Press.

Tom Howard is a fantasy and science fiction short story writer who lives in Little Rock, Arkansas. His muses (or amuses) are his children, his friends, and the Central Arkansas Speculative Fiction Writers' Group.

Serena Jayne received her MFA in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University. She’s worked as a research scientist, a fish stick slinger, a chat wrangler, and a race horse narc. When she isn’t trolling art museums for works that move her, she enjoys writing in multiple fiction genres. While her first love is all things paranormal, the mundane world provides plenty of story ideas.

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Patrick Winters is a graduate of Illinois College in Jacksonville, IL, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature and Creative Writing. As a student, he was a two-time co-editor in chief of the college's literary and art magazine, Forte, and is a member of the international English honors society, Sigma Tau Delta.

Winters is now a proud member of the Horror Writers Association. His works have been published in numerous anthologies and magazines and have been featured on various web-based offerings, including the Horror Tree, the Sirens Call, Deadman's Tome, Fantasia Divinity Magazine, Sanitarium Magazine, and many more. While appreciating an array of genres, his favorite to both read and write in is Horror, because he's just plain weird like that!

Winters is an avid listener of all things hard-rock and heavy-metal, a compendium of comic-book knowledge, can (and will) do a perplexing array of voice impersonations, and can bend his thumbs further back than any person should have the right/capability of doing. It is all quite odd . . .

A full list of his publications can be found at: http://wintersauthor.azurewebsites.net/Publications/List

Hailey Piper is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Queen of Teeth, A Game in Yellow, A Light Most Hateful, Teenage Girls Can Be Demons, and other books of dark fiction. She is also the author of over 120 short stories appearing in Weird Tales, Pseudopod, NYT-Bestselling anthology The End of the World As We Know It, and many more publications. Her non-fiction appears in Writer's Digest, Library Journal, CrimeReads, and elsewhere. Find Hailey at haileypiper . com.

"Bringer of Nightmares and Storms"

Horror writer Willow Croft is usually found lurking deep in the shadows of their writer cave, surrounded by formerly feral (but still fierce!) cats for company.

Willow Croft is a regular contributor to The Horror Tree, a great resource for readers and writers of speculative fiction.

R. J. Howell is a writer, an artist, and a library nerd. A Chicago native, she earned her BA in Fiction Writing at Columbia College Chicago and her MFA in Creative Writing: Popular Fiction from the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast program.

Her short fiction has appeared in magazines such as GigaNotoSaurus and Translunar Travelers Lounge and in anthologies such as Beyond the Stars: Infinite Expanse, Wicked West, Neon Hemlock’s Luminescent Machinations, Flame Tree Publishing’s Shadows on the Water, and Space Cat Press’ Bark & Bone.

In addition to being a writer and a digital painter, she is also a librarian, a volunteer video game writer, and a hobbyist baker. She’s a firm believer in living a life well-read, in all its various permutations.

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Alexandra Brandt spent most of her childhood dressing up in fairy wings and parading in front of the mirror telling stories to herself. Not much has changed: she still loves a good costume, and tells herself stories every day.

Her short fiction appears in Fiction River and other anthologies, and has made it onto Tangent Magazine's 2017 and 2018 Recommended Reading lists. “We, the Ocean,” her story in Fiction River Vol. 22: No Humans Allowed, was described as “inventive, heartbreaking, and wholly original” by Hugo award-winning writer and editor Kristine Kathryn Rusch.

When not spinning tales, reading, or debating worldbuilding details with her writer husband, Alex writes marketing copy for a medical practice and does graphic design work, including freelance book cover design. She occasionally sings in a choir, and always welcomes any excuse to sit down and play tabletop games—from D&D to board games to cards.

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I. E. Kneverday is the creator of IrishMyths.com, where he writes about Irish and Celtic mythology.

An occasional fiction author and short story anthologist, he published Neon Druid: An Anthology of Urban Celtic Fantasy in 2018.

Kneverday graduated from McGill University with a degree in Humanistic Studies/World Religions.

His latest project: Celtic Pocket Guides. Check out book 1 of the series, Irish Myths in Your Pocket, available now.

Jennifer Lee Rossman (they/them) is a queer, disabled, and autistic author and editor from the land of carousels and Rod Serling. Their work has been featured in dozens of anthologies, and they have been nominated for Pushcart and Utopia Awards. Find more of their work on their website http://jenniferleerossman.blogspot.com and follow them on Twitter @JenLRossman

E.K. Singer writes historical fiction, contemporary romance and everything betwixt and between. She has several published short stories, including a contemporary romance in the FRIENDS TO LOVERS Vol 2 anthology from Violet Gaze Press (London), and pieces in Two Sisters Writing & Publishing, the fantasy anthology NEON DRUID (Mt. Misery Press 2018) and the literary journal NITROGEN HOUSE. She is a member of the Women’s Fiction Writers Association, the Minnesota Historical Society, and The Authors Guild. See more about her at www.eksinger.com or on Twitter @authoreksinger