Anthony Ferguson is an author and editor living in Perth, Australia. He has published over forty short stories and non-fiction articles in a range of magazines and anthologies in Australia, Britain and the United States. He wrote the novel Protégé, the non-fiction book, The Sex Doll: A History, edited the short-story collection Devil Dolls and Duplicates in Australian Horror and coedited the award-nominated Midnight Echo #12. He is a committee member of the Australasian Horror Writers Association (AHWA), a submissions editor for Andromeda Spaceways Magazine (ASM) and has been a judge for the Australian Shadows Awards. His works have been shortlisted for both the Aurealis and Shadows Awards. His latest book, Murder Down Under: Australian Serial Killers, will be published by Exposit Books in 2020.

Andrea L. Staum is the author of the Dragonchild Lore series and contributed to several best selling anthologies. She's a trained motorcycle technician with an Associates in Supervisory Management, is an amateur home renovator, and somehow manages to find time to write. She lives in south central Wisconsin with her husband, two 'unique' cats.

Paula Hammond has worked as a publisher, copy-writer, ghost-writer, author, and journalist. She has written over 50 fiction and non-fiction books as well as sponsored resources, comics, poetry, and scripts for DVDs and CD-ROMS. Clients include Harper Collins, Marshall Cavendish, Scholastic, World Book, Disney, Betty Crocker, and the BBC. She also contributes to a wide variety of news-stand magazines and journals. A selection of her publications can be viewed on Amazon and Pinterest (WriterPaula).

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Hailing from the Ozarks, Richard Beauchamp dips his proverbial pen in all manner of horror genres, from folk horror to scifi horror to weird, to everything in between. His debut collection "Black Tongue & Other Anomalies" is a nominee for the 2022 Splatterpunk Awards for Best Fiction Collection, and his short story "The Sons of Luna" was a 2018 Push Cart Prize finalist.

AE Stueve teaches at Bellevue West High and the University of Nebraska. His novels, short stories, poems, and essays can be found online and in print. To learn more about him, check out his website: aestueve.com and follow him on twitter or Instagram @aestueve.

Clay F. Johnson is a writer, poet, essayist, amateur pianist, devoted animal lover, and incorrigible reader of Gothic literature & Romantic-era poetry. His writing has been published widely, nominated for both the Pushcart Prize and Rhysling Award, and received Honorable Mention in The Best Horror of the Year. Clay is the author of A Ride Through Faerie & Other Poems (2021), an illustrated collection of poetry published by Gothic Keats Press in honor of John Keats on the bicentennial year of his tragic death in 1821. His collection’s eponymous poem, “A Ride Through Faerie”, was recently presented at a university conference in England that discussed the darker side of faeries in literature.

You can find out more by visiting his website at https://www.clayfjohnson.com/ and by following him on Twitter @ClayFJohnson.

Who is Cy BORG-N?

Like all GMOs, Cy defies classification.

Neither man nor beast nor machine…

But something in between!

Not a designer or an illustrator or a writer…

But a desiglustriter!

Peter Huston is the author of six books. His writing has been translated into six languages and appeared in a variety of forums including the Loompanics Unlimited Catalog, Skeptic, the Skeptical Inquirer, Icon Thoughtstyle, and Hustler magazine.

He has worked as a reporter with The Altamont Enterprise, The Recorder in Amsterdam, New York, been a frequent contributor to the Op-Ed page of the Daily Gazette in Schenectady, and hosted a regular show on WRPI non-commercial radio.

Aside from journalism, he has worked as an EMT, large event security, and taught in schools and colleges in the US, Taiwan, and China. He has participated in the Empire State games for Skeleton twice, and earned an MA in East Asian Studies from Cornell, an MS in TESOL education from U Albany and studied EMS at Hudson Valley Community College

I am a chemist by day and an author by night who lives in the cold wintry regions of New York. I dabble in many a subject when writing. Actually I dabble in life. I’ve tried archery with a long bow. Medieval reenactment with the SCA. Creating cosplay for Anime North. Watching anime. Reading manga. Writing fanfiction (I do not plan to post that here). Grew up in a comic book shop. Attending many a local, and not so local, convention on science fiction, anime, comics, or fantasy.

I do lots of things. I write lots of things. I hope you enjoy many of these things.

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.

Women-owned indie publishing company dedicated to advancing the professional interests of career-focused writers in and around the 518 area code region through networking, advocacy, and publication.

Pub518, or 518 Publishing Company LLC, started in 2016 with four women who gathered frequently to write, edit, plot, and kill (maim, or morph) characters; as well as to talk about writing, editing, plotting, and the most dramatic ways to kill off characters.

Since then, we've published short stories and poetry in multiple anthologies, which have provided a venue for our authors to be recognized with nominations and awards including; The 2020 Dwarf Stars Anthology and Award, Pushcart Prize Nominations, Rhysling Nomination, and Critter Awards for Best Anthology, Best Editors, Best Publishers, and more!