Ariana Ferrante is an #actuallyautistic college student, playwright, and speculative fiction author. Her main interests include reading and writing fantasy and horror of all kinds, featuring heroes big and small getting into all sorts of trouble. She has been published in Enchanted Conversation Magazine, Soteira Press, and Nocturnal Sirens, among others. On the playwriting side, her works have been featured in the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, and nominated for national awards. She currently lives in Florida, but travels often, both for college and leisure. You may find her on Twitter at @ariana_ferrante 

I live in the UK near the Bronte moors where I walk my rescue dog, Roxy. I write dark fiction, and ghost stories. I was obsessed with historic haunted houses growing up and old movies especially film noirs of the 1940's. I blend the two genres in my fiction. I teach creative writing, edit and mentor writers. Away from my writing I swim, craft, sing, eat chocolate and laugh a lot with friends.

Kathleen Halecki possesses a B.A. and M.A. in history and a doctoral degree in interdisciplinary studies. She currently resides in a seventeenth century home in New England.

SJ Townend writes contemporary romance, horror, sci-fi, speculative and dark fiction. She is currently querying her first contemporary romance novel and pulling together her first collection of short stories.

SJ has fiction published with Ghost Orchid Press, Madhouse books, Timber Ghost Press, Black Hare Press, Gravestone Press, Gravely Unusual Magazine, Black Petals, Ellipsis E-zine, Bandit Fiction, Hash e-zine, Holy Flea e-zine, Sledgehammer e-zine, Horla Horror, Bristol Noir, and Punk Noir Magazine.

She won the Secret Attic short story contest (2020) for her story, 'We Still Don't Use the Garage' and the Tortive Literature story contest (2021) for her short story, 'Joy'.

She was long-listed for a non-fiction contest run by Women On Writing in 2020 for a piece about losing her mother to cancer, entitled 'Blood Moon'.

SJ was also shortlisted for the HG Wells Story Contest (2021) for her short piece of post-apocalyptic eco-horror, 'The Beauty Parlour'.

Twitter: @SJTownend

KC Grifant is a New England-to-SoCal transplant who writes internationally published horror, fantasy, science fiction and weird western stories for collectible card games, podcasts, anthologies and magazines. Her writings have appeared in Andromeda Spaceways Magazine, Aurealis Magazine, Unnerving Magazine, Frozen Wavelets, Tales to Terrify, The Macabre Museum and Colp Magazine. Her short stories have haunted dozens of collections, including We Shall Be Monsters, Beyond the Infinite: Tales from the Outer Reaches, Shadowy Natures, Six Guns Straight From Hell, and the Stoker-nominated Fright Mare: Women Write Horror.

In addition, she is the co-founder of the Horror Writers Association (HWA) San Diego chapter, an organization that helps to connect writers and fans of horror literature.

MM Schreier is a classically trained vocalist who took up writing as therapy for a mid-life crisis. Whether contemporary or speculative fiction, favorite stories are rich in sensory details and weird twists. A firm believer that people are not always exclusively right- or left-brained, in addition to creative pursuits Schreier manages a robotics company and tutors maths and science to at-risk youth.

Web: https://mmschreier.com

Twitter: @NoD1v1ng

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nod1v1ng/

Gordon Grice has written about the dark corners of biology for The New Yorker (where he tackled the history of post-mortem dissections), Harper’s (black widow spiders), and Discover (leprosy). He also writes horror stories, including the Best of the ‘Net winner “The White Cat” and the Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror runner-up “Hide.”

He has taught the literature of horror at California Institute of Arts, the University of Minnesota, and the University of St. Thomas. He has also taught interdisciplinary courses on the science and literature of homicide and of man-eating animals.

KRISTIN CLEAVELAND writes horror and dark fiction. She is particularly interested in the terrifying and macabre aspects of the female experience. Her recent publications include the story “Daughter of Salt and Sea” in Ravens & Roses: A Women’s Gothic Anthology. She has also appeared in several anthologies published by Ghost Orchid Press, as well as the Winter 2021 issue of Black Telephone Magazine. Kristin has a master's degree in English and has worked as a writer, editor, proofreader, and educator. Find her on Twitter as @KristinCleaves.

Marsheila (Marcy) Rockwell was born an indeterminate number of years ago in America’s Last, Best Place. A descendant of kings, pilgrims, Ojibwe hunters and Red River Métis, and possibly a witch or two, she spent the first few years of her life frolicking gleefully in a large backyard that is now part of one of the nation’s largest Superfund sites. Perhaps that explains her early penchant for fantasy and horror – the first book she ever read (at the tender age of three) was Frank L. Baum’s Ozma of Oz.

Marcy sold her first short story in 1994 and her first novel in 2005, and she has been writing and publishing professionally ever since. She now lives in the desert in a home dubbed "Redwall" where she writes dark fiction and poetry, often with her writing partner and husband, Jeffrey J. Mariotte. In odd moments stolen from her family, her rescues, and her writing, she can be found browsing Etsy for unusual Wonder Woman/Donna Troy collectibles or tracing her Métis/Chippewa roots to reconnect herself and her children with their Native culture and traditions.

Find out more about Marcy and her work here: www.marsheilarockwell.com or follow her on Twitter: @MarcyRockwell.

Melody lives in Ontario and has loved reading and writing her entire life. Her favourite genres to write are horror and mystery. She has published several short pieces in a variety of anthologies as well as online publications. She studied Ancient Greek and Roman Studies in University and remains obsessed with the ancient world to this day. Mythology is a common theme in a lot of her writing. Her other hobbies include reading, embroidery/cross-stitch, and martial arts.

Ruschelle Dillon is a freelance writer whose efforts focus on the dark humor and the horror genres. Ms. Dillon’s brand of humor has been incorporated in a wide variety of projects, including the novelette "Bone-sai", published through Black Bed Sheet Books as well as the live-action video shorts “Don’t Punch the Corpse” and “Mothman”.

She also interviews talented authors for the Horror Tree website.

Her short stories have appeared in various anthologies and online zines such as Strangely Funny III, Story Shack, Siren’s Call, Weird Ales- Another Round, Women in Horror Anthology Vol 2, Dark Voices, Sanitarium Magazine Vol.1, DeadCades: The Infernal Decimation and Fear and Fables, Flashes of Hope, Were Tales: A Shapeshifter Anthology and K is for Kidnap. Her collection of short stories, Arithmophobia was published on Dec of 2017 by Mystery and Horror LLC is available through Amazon & Barnes and Noble. Her newest novella, The Stain has made its debut in May 2020, published by Black Bed Sheet Books. She appears in Daughters of Darkness book one.

Ruschelle lives in Johnstown with her husband Ed and the numerous critters they share their home with. She's also a musician, playing guitar and singing in the band, The Dillon's

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@RuschelleDillon

Ben Thomas is a novelist, short story writer, and publication editor. His stories have appeared in Weird Tales, Pyre Magazine, and Hinnom Magazine, in the anthologies Bound for Evil and Cthulhu Unbound, and on the PseudoPod podcast.

As founder of horror press HouseBlackwood.net, Ben produced The Willows Anthology and Tales From OmniPark — which included original stories from Brian Evenson, Gemma Files, Orrin Grey, and many other weird fiction luminaries.

His historical fiction novel, The Cradle and the Sword, transports readers 5,000 years back to ancient Mesopotamia, to experience the clashes and triumphs of the Fertile Crescent's first great civilizations.

His Twitter is @WritingBen, and his Insta is @House3lackwood.