Stephanie Bedwell-Grime is the author of more than twenty novels and novellas and over fifty short stories. She has been nominated for the Aurora Award five times and has also been an EPIC eBook Award finalist.

Dean H. Wild grew up in the small Wisconsin town of Lamartine and has lived in the area all his life. He wrote his first short horror story at the tender age of seven and continued to write dark fiction while he pursued careers in the newspaper industry, real estate and retail pharmacy. His short stories have seen publication in various magazines and anthologies including Bell, Book & Beyond, Night Terrors III, Murder Mayhem Short Stories and Crash Code. His debut novel The Crymost, winner of the 2020 Imadjinn award for best horror novel, is available in Kindle format and trade paperback. When not writing, editing or proofreading for one project or another, he is busy working his next novel. He and his wife, Julie, currently reside in the village of Brownsville.

Raymond Little is a writer of dark fiction, with short stories published in several well received anthologies. His debut novel, Eyes of Doom, will be published by Blood Bound Books in May 2017.

Kathryn E. McGee is co-author of DTLA/37: Downtown Los Angeles in Thirty-seven Stories, a non-fiction coffee table book about Downtown Los Angeles. She also writes horror fiction. Her short stories have appeared in Gamut Magazine and anthologies including Horror Library Vol. 6, Winter Horror Days, and Cemetery Riots. She has an MFA in creative writing from UC Riverside Palm Desert and is a member of the Horror Writers Association. Additionally, she holds a Master’s of Urban Planning from UC Irvine and works as an architectural historian in Los Angeles. Visit www.kathrynemcgee.com for more information.

Edward M. Erdelac is the author of the acclaimed Judeocentic/Lovecraftian weird western series Merkabah Rider, Conquer, Rainbringer: Zora Neale Hurston Against The Lovecraftian Mythos, Andersonville, Monstrumfuhrer, The Knight With Two Swords, and the compiler of Abraham Van Helsing's papers (in Terovolas).

In addition to short story appearances in dozens of anthologies and periodicals, he is an independent filmmaker, an award winning screenwriter, and sometime Star Wars contributor.

Born in Indiana, educated in Chicago, he now lives in the Los Angeles area with his family.

David Tallerman is the author of the historical science-fiction novel To End All Wars, thrillers A Savage Generation and The Bad Neighbor, fantasy series The Black River Chronicles and The Tales of Easie Damasco, and the Tor.com novella Patchwerk, among other works.

David's short fiction has appeared in over a hundred magazines and anthologies, including Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, Nightmare, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and fourteen of his horror and dark fantasy stories were brought together in the collection The Sign in the Moonlight and Other Stories.

Further details can be found at his website www.davidtallerman.co.uk.

Jay Caselberg was born in a country town in Australia and then traveled extensively while growing up and later for his dayjob. He writes across many genres, both at short story and novel length, crossing the boundaries of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery, and the Literary, generally with a dark edge. He is currently based in Germany. You can find him at http://www.caselberg.net and on Facebook

Eric J. Guignard has twice won the Bram Stoker Award, been a finalist for the International Thriller Writers Award, and is a multi-nominee of the Pushcart Prize for his works of dark and speculative fiction. He has over 100 stories and non-fiction author credits appearing in publications around the world; has edited multiple anthologies (including the current series, The Horror Writers Association’s HAUNTED LIBRARY OF HORROR CLASSICS, through SourceBooks, with co-editor Leslie S. Klinger); and has created an ongoing series of author primers championing modern masters of the dark and macabre, EXPLORING DARK SHORT FICTION through his press, Dark Moon Books. He is also publisher and acquisitions editor for the renowned +HORROR LIBRARY+ anthology series. His latest books are LAST CASE AT A BAGGAGE AUCTION; DOORWAYS TO THE DEADEYE; and short story collection THAT WHICH GROWS WILD: 16 TALES OF DARK FICTION (Cemetery Dance). Visit Eric at: www.ericjguignard.com, his blog: ericjguignard.blogspot.com, or Twitter: @ericjguignard.

Thomas P. Balázs lives, writes, and teaches, not necessarily in that order, in Chattanooga, Tennessee. A transplant to the South from New York by way of Chicago, his short stories have appeared in The North American Review, the Southern Humanities Review, and many other journals, not all of which contain the word "Review" in their title. He has won a couple of awards, gotten a bunch of nominations, and been granted a few fellowships. He earned an MFA in Fiction Writing from Vermont College and a PhD in Literature from the University of Chicago. He will rave about the former and rant about the latter, if given the opportunity. He teaches Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga. His collection of short stories, Omicron Ceti III, was realeased by Aqueous Books in 2012.

Vitor Abdala was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1981. For more than 10 years he's been working as a reporter for the brazilian public news agency, Agencia Brasil. The short story collection Tânatos - Contos sobre a Morte e o Oculto, originally published in paperback in april, 2016, was his first book. He's also author of Macabra Mente, another short story collection, originally published in paperback in november, 2016. Both books were published only in Brazil.

Vitor Abdala nasceu no Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, em 1981. Trabalha há mais de dez anos como repórter na agência pública de notícias brasileira, a Agência Brasil. A coletânea Tânatos - Contos sobre a Morte e o Oculto, seu livro de estreia, foi publicado originalmente em abril de 2016. Ele também é autor de Macabra Mente, outra coletânea de contos, publicada originalmente em novembro de 2016. Ambos livros foram publicados apenas no Brasil

Lucas Pederson is an American novelist and short story writer of horror, dark fantasy, young adult and science fiction. He lives in a small Iowa town with his family and they're all pretty sure their cat is an alien. He can be reached at lucaspederson@yahoo.com, Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.