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I am a Michigan-based author, an ecologist by training and a writer by choice. I write primarily fantasy, mystery, and horror. I have a particular soft spot for lighthearted fantasy and really well-constructed mysteries that just barely give you enough information to put it all together yourself.

They say to write what you know. When I'm not writing, I spend a lot of time scowling at clipboards while ankle-deep in the marshes of Southeast Michigan. So I’ve written of forest-bound terrors, desperate races through wetlands, and at least two different types of mischievous woodland spirits. There’s a lot of time to think about these things when you’re walking alone through unknown woods.

The bird in the picture is named Autumn. She’s a wonderful old great-horned owl I used to work with. She’s in her mid-twenties, she’s paralyzed in one wing, and she had some very choice words for me about that particular presentation at Belvedere Castle, New York City.

I hope you enjoy my stories.

Tim Boiteau is an award-winning writer of dark, mind-bending fiction. His short stories can be found in Daily Science Fiction, Deep Magic, and The Colored Lens, among other places. He lives in Michigan with his wife and son.

Emma Burnett is a researcher and writer. She has had stories in Nature:Futures, Mythaxis, Northern Gravy, Radon, Flash Fiction Online, Apex, Utopia, MetaStellar, Milk Candy Review, Roi Fainéant, JAKE, and more.

Edward Barnfield is a writer and researcher living in the Middle East. His stories have appeared in Triangulation, Roi Fainéant Press, Ellipsis Zine, The Molotov Cocktail, Galley Beggar Press, Third Flatiron, Strands, Janus Literary, Leicester Writes, Shooter Literary, Cranked Anvil, and Reflex Press, among others. He’s on Twitter at @edbarnfield.

Vincent Baverso holds a degree from the University of Pittsburgh in English writing. By day, he drafts architectural plans, by night he immerses himself in mead making, philosophy, art, fashion, cobbling, horology, and many other forms of tinkering. His creative versatility spans from carpentry to canvas, but his true love lies in the written word, with works published in several anthologies and journals for both poetry and fiction, including two poetry collections: The 49 Stalks and High-tech Lowlife, as well as his debut novel Fifteen Men on a Dead Man's Chest.

Herb Kauderer is an associate professor of English at Hilbert College near Buffalo, NY. He holds a PhD in Popular Literature from the University at Buffalo (2018), an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College (2007), and five other college degrees. He is the author of four books and fifteen chapbooks of poetry. He was the main screenwriter for the super low-budget indie film ‘BEYOND THE MAINSTREAM’ (2013), and has also written drama and short fiction.

Herb’s poem "Frozen Hurricanes" received third place in the Dwarf Stars Award in 2021, and “After” won the 2016 ASIMOV’S Readers’ Award. His collaborative poem “Soft Collision” was a finalist for the ANALOG AnLab Readers’ Award. His 2014 chapbook ‘THE BOOK OF ANSWERS’ was a two time nominee for the Elgin Award, and his 2019 chapbook 'FRAGMENTS FROM THE BOOK OF THE AFTER-DEAD' received third place in the 2020 Elgins. In 2021 Herb's non-fiction essay "Names: SF's Influence on Name Freedom" won the Critters Readers Award. His poem “A Twisted Certainty” won the Ewaipanoma Sonnet contest (2008), and other poems have been finalists or nominees for the Pushcart Prize, The Rhysling Award, The Dwarf Star Award, and the Dragon Soup contest.

As the featured poet in SCIFAIKUEST #55 for February 2017 Herb had 28 poems and an interview in the issue. That is longer than many chapbooks. He was featured again in SCIFAIKUEST #87 for February 2021 and contributed 29 poems, an interview, and an essay. Herb’s book THE SNOWSTORM OF ’14: POEMS FROM THE FRONT LINES (2016) recounts the experience of living at the epicenter of two of the worst snowstorms in the lower 48 states.

More information is available at HerbKauderer.com.

Jamie Lackey lives in Pittsburgh with her husband and their cats. She enjoys reading, writing, tabletop role playing games, video games, watching anime, baking, hiking, and mushroom hunting.

She has over 160 short fiction credits, and her short stories have appeared in places like Daily Science Fiction, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Apex Magazine, Escape Pod, and Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show. Her fiction has appeared on the Best Horror of the Year Honorable Mention and Tangent Online Recommended Reading Lists, and she's a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.

Her longer works include two novellas, Moving Forward: A Novella of Life After Zombies and The Forest God, as well as her debut novel, Left Hand Gods. She also has four short story collections available: One Revolution: A Year of Flash Fiction; Second Revolution: Another Year of Flash Fiction; The Blood of Four Gods and Other Stories; and A Metal Box Floating Between Stars and Other Stories.

She graduated from the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford in 2006 with a degree in Creative Writing. She studied under James Gunn at the Center for the Study of Science Fiction's Writer's Workshop in 2010 and has taken various workshops with Cat Rambo.

She read submissions for the Hugo-winning Clarkesworld Magazine for five years and was an assistant editor for the Hugo-winning Electric Velocipede from 2012-2013. She served as editor for Triangulation: Lost Voices in 2015 and Triangulation: Beneath the Surface in 2016.

Learn more about her at her website, www.jamielackey.com

R.J.K. Lee is a native Oregonian who has resided in Japan for nearly two decades, playing games with his kids and juggling jobs as a teacher, proofreader, and voice actor. Publications range through SF, fantasy, and horror, plus a taste for weird, literary, aliens, and animals.

- The Healing Moment Assigned by HR Central Stacks, universe-traveling librarian craves a long vacay with her wife but first violent baggage from the past and alien patrons, DreamForge Anvil Issue 14, Dec 2023

- Choose a Star to Mend the Heart, space narwhal and friendship, Tales and Feathers Magazine, Nov 2023

- Memo from the Jolly Overlords, reprint, dark fantasy horror, flash fiction, overworked elves, in Cursed & Creepy, Nov 2023

- Puff a Golem Up for Drudgery, fantasy, golems take over the work of royalty’s lasses and lads, Triangulation: Seven-Day Weekend, Jul 2023

- Build Another Nest for Phantom Feathers, near future SF/avian fantasy, follow-up to Stoneshaper Tanukis Estranged, Clamour and Mischief anthology, Nov 2022

- Don't Trust Molters, SF short story, dangerous aliens and colonists, in DreamForge Magazine, 2022, Print Issue 10 and Anvil Issue 8

- Stoneshaper Tanukis Estranged, near future furry fantasy, tanukis and foxes, parent-child estrangement, in Dark Cheer: Cryptids Emerging Volume Blue, Improbable Press, Dec 2021

- Memo from the Jolly Overlords, dark fantasy horror, flash fiction, overworked elves, the Weird Christmas Podcast 2020 Flash Fiction Contest, Dec 2020

Find out more at his website.

Gerri Leen spent her childhood and early adult years in the Seattle area but moved to Northern Virginia in the late eighties and has stayed there ever since. She began writing in her forties and credits fanfic over the public school system for teaching her how to punctuate and plot. She prefers writing speculative prose and poetry. She also writes romance under the pen name Kim Strattford. She is a full member of SFWA and HWA.

Gerri follows horse racing avidly, is big into single-origin tea, and collects art, focusing on encaustic (especially mixed media) and raku pottery.

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Aster Marsh is a former software designer from Sweden who loves fantasy and writes stories in the speculative fiction genre.

Cory Swanson lives in Northern Colorado with his wife, two daughters, and his old blind dog named Kirby. When he’s not working teaching tweens how to play band and orchestra instruments, he can be seen camping with his family in his tiny trailer or traveling to strange worlds in his head in order to write about them. If the weather is decent, you might catch him riding his bike or running because he is afraid of death, and he’s heard exercise helps with that.

Cory has a Bachelors in Music Education from the University of Northern Colorado and a Masters in Music with an Emphasis in Conducting from Colorado State University. Neither of these degrees is helpful with his writing, but they do allow him to earn a living teaching music to middle schoolers, which he has done since 2004.

He began writing in 2016 after the Denver Broncos won the Super Bowl. The absence of American Football in his life after that point left a gaping hole in his soul. He then proceeded to fill said hole with speculative fiction. It’s worked out okay so far, with his story, “The Musicologists,” being published in the anthology, Triangulation: Harmony and Dissonance, published by Parsec Ink. He also has a novella, Geminus, published by Castrum Press.

If you would like to witness a nearly middle aged man attempt to navigate the perils of social media, you can find Cory on Facebook under the handle @speculativemeculative, or at his website, coryswansonauthor.wordpress.com

Hazel Zorn is an American SFF and Horror author.

David Lee Zweifler lives with his wife, three children, two cats, and a dog in one of the shire-like towns of the Hudson River Valley. He has recent work in The Saturday Evening Post, Analog, and Nature Futures.

Blake Jessop is a Canadian author of speculative fiction with a master's degree in creative writing from the University of Adelaide. You can follow him on Twitter @everydayjisei

With a first class degree in Physics from Oxford, Liam is an award-winning speculative short story writer, appearing in over 200 anthologies including Best of British Science Fiction and Best of British Fantasy (Newcon Press).

His retro sci-fi collection, "A Short History of the Future", is published by Northodox Press (2025).

His twisted fantasy collection, "Happy Ending NOT Guaranteed", is published by Arachne Press (2017).

Marshall J. Moore is the award-winning author of the Rites of Resurrection trilogy of high fantasy novels (Shadow Alley Press 2022-2023), the pirate cozy fantasy novel Son of a Sailor and its sequel Prisoners of a Pirate Queen (Atoll Press, both 2023). He has also written over thirty short stories appearing in publications such as CatsCast, Mysterion, Flame Tree, and many others. His short story “Red Lanterns” won Second Place in the 2022 Baen Fantasy Adventure Award Short Story Contest.

Marshall posts daily book-related videos on his TikTok under the handle @MarshallJMooreAuthor for his 53,000+ followers, and has spoken as a guest on panels for conventions including DragonCon, Multiverse Convention, Nerdi Gras, and ProWritingAid. He is scheduled to be a guest at JordanCon 2024 and Apollycon 2024. He has also been interviewed on the podcasts Baen Free Radio Hour, Blasters and Blades, and The Casual Author, and The BookTok Book Club.

When not writing or talking about writing, you can find Marshall teaching Muay Thai at his gym or reading at his home in Atlanta with his wife Megan and their two cats, Delilah and Furiosa.

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Told by a high school teacher that he had writing talent, Steve Carr’s career as a writer began right after graduation. He spent three years in the Army as a military journalist, writing articles for newspapers all over Florida, and followed that up with four years in the Navy where he taught in the Psychiatric Technician Program at Portsmouth Naval Hospital, training Hospital Corpsmen how to provide care and support in an inpatient setting for young men with psychiatric disorders. He then finished college, majoring in English/Theater and then spent the next 13 years working in non-profit health care development and management, mostly in rural communities, during which time several of his plays that he wrote in his spare time were produced in several states. He gave up the steady income to pursue his dream of writing/producing/directing his own plays and began a theatrical production company in Arizona. He retired early and in June 2016 began writing short stories. Since then he has had over 550 short stories published internationally in over 280 different print and online magazines, literary journals and anthologies. Collections of his short stories, Sand, Rain, The Tales of Talker Knocks, and the hardback edition The Very Best of Steve Carr: 52 stories, was published by Clarendon House Publications. His collection of short stories, Heat, was published by Czykmate Productions. His self-published debut novel, Redbird, was released in November, 2019. He independently published LGBTQ: 33 Stories, which was released in January, 2020. In May of 2020 his short story collection The Theory of Existence: 50 short stories, was released. His guidebook Getting Your Short Stories Published was also published by Clarendon House. He has over 130 publications and books that contain his short stories listed on his Amazon bibliography. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize twice. In 2019, he was on the cover of the Inner Circle Writers’ Magazine inaugural issue and dubbed “The King of Short Stories.” He’s a native of Cincinnati but has traveled extensively in the United States and abroad. He currently lives in Richmond, Virginia where when he’s not writing he frets about his writing peers not getting the attention they deserve. He is the founder of Sweetycat Press, a Facebook Group, that produces publications as promotion tools for emerging writers

Carina Bissett is a writer, poet, and educator working primarily in the fields of dark fiction and fabulism. Her short fiction and poetry have been published in multiple journals and anthologies including What Remains, Upon a Twice Time, Bitter Distillations: An Anthology of Poisonous Tales, Arterial Bloom, Gorgon: Stories of Emergence, Weird Dream Society, Hath No Fury, and the HWA Poetry Showcase Vol. V, VI, and VIII. She has also written stories set in shared worlds for RPGs at Green Ronin Publishing and Onyx Path Publishing. In addition to writing, she has edited several projects; the most recent is in the role as co-editor for the award-winning anthology Shadow Atlas: Dark Landscapes of the Americas.

As an educator, Carina has taught at Pikes Peak Community College, Glendale Community College, and Arizona State University. She also participated in the Colorado Writing Project and works with educators to develop writing instruction in college and secondary school classrooms. She currently offers workshops focused on story generation at The Storied Imaginarium. Her fiction has been nominated for the Sundress Publications Best of the Net Award and was a finalist for the Ron L. Hubbard Writers of the Future Awards. Her poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Sundress Publications Best of the Net Award. In her editorial capacity, she’s received recognition as a Winner at the Colorado Book Awards 2022 (Anthology) and as a Finalist in the Fiction: Anthologies category of the 2022 International Book Awards.

Diane Turnshek teaches college astronomy classes in Pittsburgh and has been named a Dark Sky Defender by the International Dark-sky Association. She has been on the Board of Directors for both SFWA and Parsec, Pittsburgh’s premier science fiction charitable organization. For nine years, she mentored graduate students at Seton Hill's MFA Writing Popular Fiction program. In the last three years, she has set up book signing events for over 300 authors and curated three space art galleries. She is the founder of Write or Die, a critique group running since 1996, Alpha, a teen writing workshop since 2002 and the CMU Speculative Fiction Lecture Series that began in 2014.

She created the Triangulation series of themed anthologies to be a training ground for local writers who wanted to take turns editing. She edited the first one in 2003 and the 2019 issue, Triangulation: Dark Skies. Her love of both astronomy and science fiction led her to crew the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah, earn second place in the international Mars City Design competition and win the 2017 NASA Intel/HP competition to make life better for astronauts. Her latest project is to make a high resolution, nighttime, light pollution map of Pittsburgh for researchers.

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Mike Brotherton is a professor of astronomy at the University of Wyoming where he investigates the most luminous active galactic nuclei, the quasars. Powered by supermassive black holes, quasars outshine the galaxies within which they exist and shape the course of their evolution. He uses the Hubble Space Telescope, the Very Large Array in New Mexico, the Chandra X-ray Observatory, and any other telescope that will grant him observing time. He is also the author of the science fiction novels Star Dragon (2003) and Spider Star (2008), both from Tor books, as well as a number of short stories in various markets. He is the editor or co-editor of the anthologies Diamonds in the Sky (2009), Launch Pad (2014), and Science Fiction by Scientists (2016). He is the founder of the NASA and National Science Foundation funded Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop for Writers, which brings professional writers to Wyoming every summer in order to better educate and inspire their audiences.

Andrew Leon Hudson is a technical writer by day, and is technically a writer by night as well. He's an English-born genre author currently resident in Barcelona, Spain, where he's waiting for the world to end. You can find links to his writing and other things at AndrewLeonHudson.wordpress.com. Anything else you've heard is speculation at best.

R. Jean Mathieu is the fiction writer of all trades. From award-winning stories of the Peace Corps and meditators on Mars (“Gods of War”) to time-traveling mysteries of a Mexican detective solving his own murder (No Time: The First Hour), Mathieu revels in different genres, different voices, and cultural chop suey. Under other noms de plume, he writes romances, thrillers, pulp adventures, Westerns, and mysteries.

Mathieu grew up in Morro Bay, California. He enrolled in college at fifteen, where he would spend the next ten years. With an Associate’s degree in International Studies and $100 in his pocket, Mathieu traveled to China, alternately working as a teahouse server, organic farmhand, Hong Kong movie extra, and English teacher. Despite being deported thrice, he won his degree in Sociology (minoring in Business) over his five years in China, refining his craft along the way. From the streets of Shenzhen to the Thousand-Handed Bodhisattva to the color of industrial sunlight in a mountain town, he continues to draw on the experiences and life lessons he learned there.

He lives in Morro Bay with his wife Melissa and daughter Lyra, where they keep a good table when not writing side-by-side or chasing trains to the next adventure. A convinced Quaker, he attends Central Coast Friends Meeting in between writing and publishing his fiction, learning new languages, and practicing Uechi-ryu karate. Besides anthologies and magazines, you can find all his stories at Amazon.com and his commentary at RJeanMathieu.com.

I began writing while living in San Francisco. Odd info-bits, like historical footnotes, often become stories. A museum exhibit sparked "Mud," in Terra! Tara! Terror. WWI was mechanized slaughter, a "modern" war with tanks and planes, but also cavalry charges! Imperial War Museum photos show soldiers with dogs and cats, which boosted the men's morale. Dogs were trained to carry messages, lay communications wire, and haul machine guns. Animals were decorated. Another story occurred while I researched ancestors who emigrated from London in 1886. I recommend: The Briar Club, A Minor Mage, Nettle and Bone, and The Wager. I enjoyed A Woman of No Importance, Code Girls, and Valiant Women, all about women in WWII.

"I just wrote down what the voices told me," Frank said as the police led him away. By all accounts he was a quiet man who kept to himself.

Bram Stoker Award nominated author Douglas Gwilym has been known to compose a weird-fiction rock opera or two. His story "Poppy's Poppy" was a Stoker finalist in 2023. “Year Six” was on Ellen Datlow’s recommended reading list for Best Horror 14. He edited the themed annual Triangulation for four years and now co-edits The Midnight Zone—first edition, Novus Monstrum, a collection of never-before-seen monsters, featuring original stories by great voices and new talent in strange, dark fiction. He reads classics of the proto-Weird on YouTube and has been guest staff at Alpha Young Writers workshop. His short fiction appears in LampLight, Lucent Dreaming, Novel Noctule, Shelter of Daylight, Tales from the Moonlit Path, Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine, tiny frights, Tall Tale TV, Bloody Disgusting's CREEPY podcast, and Tales to Terrify.

Katherine Quevedo was born and raised near Portland, Oregon, where she lives with her husband and two sons. Her writing has appeared in Triangulation: Habitats, Best Indie Speculative Fiction Vol. III, Factor Four Magazine, Apparition Literary Magazine, Myriad Lands Vol. 2, and elsewhere. Find her at www.katherinequevedo.com.

K.G. Anderson writes and edits short-form speculative fiction focusing on families, secrets, and transformations. A graduate of the Viable Paradise writers workshop and Taos Toolbox, she's worked as a journalist, a book reviewer, and a writer/editor with Apple's iTunes Music Store.

Her short fiction appears in the anthologies including Second Contacts, Triangulation: Beneath the Surface, The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper Stories, Triangulation: Appetites, Welcome to Dystopia, Reading 5 x 5, Space Opera Libretti, Pioneers and Pathfinders, Two Hour Transport, Terra! Tara! Terror!, and Infinite Lives; and in magazines such as Galaxy's Edge, Weirdbook, Allegory, The Colored Lens, and Space and Time.

She's a proud member of the B Cubed Press writers group with stories in Alternative Truths, More Alternative Truths, After the Orange, Alternative Truths: Endgame, and Alternative Deathiness, The Protest Diaries, Post Roe Alternatives: Fighting Back, and Alternative Liberties. She edited the B Cubed Press anthology Southern Truths.

You can find her work online at Metaphorosis, The Drabble, Every Day Fiction, Factor Four Magazine, and Luna Station Quarterly; and on podcasts such as Far Fetched Fables, Luna Station Quarterly, and The Overcast.

Jack Lothian is a screenwriter for film and television who currently works as the showrunner on the HBO / Cinemax series ‘Strike Back’.

His short fiction has appeared in a number of publications, including Weirdbook, Hinnom Magazine, the Necronomicon Memorial Book, and ‘The New Flesh: A Literary Tribute to David Cronenberg’. His graphic novel ‘Tomorrow,’ illustrated by Garry Mac, was nominated for a 2018 British Fantasy Award.

Jason J. McCuiston was born in the wilds of southeast Tennessee, where he was raised on a carnivorous diet of old monster movies, westerns, comic books, horror magazines, sci-fi and fantasy novels, and, of course, Dungeons & Dragons. He attended the finest state school that would have him with the intention of becoming a comic-book artist. Following his matriculation and a whirlwind tour of spectacularly underpaid and uninspired career paths, he finally realized he was meant to be a professional storyteller.

He lives in South Carolina, USA with his college-professor wife and their four-legged girls. You can follow him on Twitter @JasonJMcCuiston.

Holly Schofield's stories have appeared in Analog, Lightspeed, and Tesseracts and many publications throughout the world. For more of her work, see hollyschofield.wordpress.com .

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Michael McGlade grew up in an Irish farmhouse where the leaky roof didn't bother him as much as the fear of electrocution from the nightly scramble for prime position beneath the chicken lamp, the only source of heating in the house - a large infrared heat lamp more commonly used for poultry. His seminal influences were Darwin's Survival Of The Fattest and a morbid belief that "undying love" meant you had a soft-spot for zombies.

His 100+ short stories have been published in Gray's Sporting Journal, Shimmer, the Saturday Evening Post, the Irish Times, Confrontation, Ares Magazine, and Grain. With works narrated for Far Fetched Fables, and Plan B.

Finalist of the Hennessy Literary Award 2017.

He holds a master's degree in English from the Seamus Heaney Centre, Queen's University, Ireland. You can find out the latest news and views from him on McGladeWriting.com.

Ken MacGregor writes stuff.

He has four story collections: AN ABERRANT MIND (out of print), SEX, GORE & MILLIPEDES, and LIONS & TIGERS & WERES, and SOME PEOPLE I HAVE KILLED, a young adult novella: DEVIL’S BANE, and a co-written (with Kerry Lipp), novel: HEADCASE. His work has also appeared in dozens of other publications. He is an Active Member of the Horror Writer's Association (HWA) and is a member of the Great Lakes Association of Horror Writers (GLAHW). He has also written TV commercials, sketch comedy, a music video, a smattering of poetry, and a zombie movie. He has curated three anthologies: BURNT FUR for Blood Bound Books, the Shirley Jackson award-nominated STITCHED LIPS for Dragon's Roost Press, and NOVUS MONSTRUM, co-edited with Douglas Gwilym (Dragon's Roost Press). This last is an anthology of original monsters featuring some of the best Horror and Weird Fiction writers working today. It is the first installment of the Midnight Zone series that Douglas and Ken will be working on as a team.

When not writing, Ken drives the bookmobile for his local library. He lives with his kids, a total doofus of a cat, and hundreds of books.

Nathan has been many things in his life: a pole vaulter, a Mississippi paddlewheel steamboat deckhand, a molecular biology researcher. He is currently a medical writer and editor living with his family near Hanover, Germany. You can find his fiction in markets such as Escape Pod, PodCastle, Cast of Wonders, and Shoreline of Infinity.

Follow him on Twitter: @NathanSusnik

Or visit his website: www.nathansusnik.wordpress.com

Eric Leif Davin, Ph.D., teaches labor history and popular culture at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the winner of the Eugene V. Debs Foundation Literature Prize for his essay, "The Very Last Hurrah: The Defeat of the Labor Party Idea, 1934-1936." He is the author of "Crucible of Freedom: Workers' Democracy in the Industrial Heartland", "Radicals in Power: The New Left Experience in Office", and "Partners in Wonder: Women and the Birth of Science Fiction." He is a contributor to many history books. ---- He is also a fiction writer. His story, "Icarus at Noon," in the May, 2014 issue of Galaxy's Edge magazine, was reprinted in a 2014 anthology, "The Best of Galaxy's Edge," and the 2015 Baen Books "Year's Best Military SF and Space Opera". Story, "Twilight on Olympus," in Galaxy's Edge, Mar.-Apr., 2015, reprinted in Baen Books anthology, "Year's Best Military and Adventure Science Fiction," 2016, as well as "The Best of Galaxy's Edge, 2015-2017." Story, "Ghost Dance" also in the latter anthology. ---- His debut novel, "The Desperate and the Dead," appeared in 2014. It can be found on Lulu.com by title. The sequel, "The Scarlet Queen," appeared in 2016. Novel: "The Great Strike of 1877" appeared in 2018. He can be reached at ericdavin@hotmail.com or eric.leif.davin@gmail.com. Visit his web site at: http://ericleifdavin.vpweb.com/ or follow him on Twitter @Eric_Leif_Davin.

Cameron Suey lives in California with his wife and two children. He works as a writer in the games industry, most recently on "Rise of the Tomb Raider." His work has appeared on the Pseudopod Podcast, anthologies including Shadows over Main Street, and was featured in the first issues of Jamais Vu and Flapperhouse. He can be found on the web at cameronsuey.com, at his blog thejosefkstories.com, and on twitter as @josefkstories.

Oren Hammerquist was born in Everett, Washington in 1982 (in the same hospital as his father). Looking to see the world, he joined the Army in 2006 (only to be sent to a base 20 miles from his home). In ten years, he has served in Afghanistan, Qatar, Germany, and several other locations. Take the good with the bad; he has worked in a variety of fascinating jobs within the military.

After earning a BA in Criminal Justice, he decided to focus on his first passion: English. He earned an MA in English and Creative Writing in 2017. In addition to writing his 4th novel, he is working as an intern with the Army's Future Warfare Writing Project. He is actively seeking ideas to help guide authors to improve their writing and express themselves (not to mention find a use for his MA.) Two such ideas are available on his website for those interested in helping.

He is happily married and is a father of 4 children (3 girls and 1 boy) and a father of twins.

John Linwood Grant lives in Yorkshire with a pack of lurchers and a beard. He may also have a family. When he's not chronicling the adventures of Mr Bubbles, the slightly psychotic pony, he writes a range of supernatural, horror and speculative tales, some of which are actually published. You can find him every week on greydogtales.com, often with his dogs.

Victoria Dalpe is a writer and artist. She has published over fifty short stories and the collection Les Femmes Grotesques. She is also the author of gothic horror novel Parasite Life and the dark fantasy series Selene Shade: Resurrectionist for Hire with CLASH Books. Her short story "The Cleaner" was selected for Night Shade Books The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Seventeen edited by Ellen Datlow. She lives in Rhode Island. Follow her on instagram: victorialdalpe

H.L. Fullerton writes fiction—mostly speculative, occasionally about other universes; tends towards the apocalyptic; likes semi-colons and the occasional interrobang; verbs nouns; occasionally indulges in run-on sentences; might be in trouble with prepositions; uses words instead of emoticons; believes apostrophes are commas gone wild; can't remember what goes here; saves dangling participles (sometimes); and binge reads while watching television.

Karen Marie Menzel (née Bovenmyer) earned an MFA in Creative Writing: Popular Fiction from the University of Southern Maine. She teaches and mentors students at Iowa State University. She has served as the Assistant Editor of the Pseudopod Horror Podcast Magazine and Mothership Zeta Science Fiction Magazine. She is the 2016 recipient of the Horror Writers Association Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Scholarship. Her poems, short stories and novellas appear in more than 40 publications and her first novel, SWIFT FOR THE SUN, debuted from Dreamspinner Press in 2017. http://karenbovenmyer.com/

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Follow Michael (Mikey) Nayak on X @mikeynayak and LinkedIn @michael-nayak. Mikey was born in Los Angeles and now lives in Washington D.C.; he has worked as a planetary scientist, pilot and skydiving instructor, and most recently as a Program Manager with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). He has logged 1,000+ hours of flight time in 30+ aircraft including the F-16, T-38 and BE-76, is a US Air Force Test Pilot School graduate, and former NASA Space Shuttle engineer.

J. J. Roth lives in the San Francisco Bay Area where she writes science fiction and fantasy stories when not schlepping her two young sons and working at technology company. Her stories have appeared in Nature, Urban Fantasy Magazine, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, and a number of small press venues.

Kathryn Yelinek works as a librarian and writer in Pennsylvania. She has authored numerous short stories and works of nonfiction, including two histories of the South Mountain Restoration Center. She has a fondness for retold fairy tales and happily ever after. When her nose isn't buried in a book, she's often found talking to birds or gazing at the stars. Visit her online at kathrynyelinek.com.

Jon Michael Kelley has been writing speculative fiction for many years. He lives in a gold mining town in the mountains of Colorado.

Leigh Harlen is a speculative fiction writer whose work often has a dark bent. They live in Seattle with their partner and an adopted family of rats and rabbits. When not writing, they can typically be found petting strangers’ dogs and enthusing about how awesome bats are. You can find them on Twitter @leighharlen for updates on future publications and bat pictures or check out their website https://leighharlen.com/

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