Short-fiction author, and poet, Nerisha Kemraj, hails from Durban, South Africa. She is the mother of procrastination, and two beautiful girls.

J.W. Garrett is a multi–award winning author and has been writing in one form or another since she was a teenager. Her love of the Fantasy genre goes all the way back to elementary school when she read The Hobbit for the first time - she's been hooked ever since. Her works include novels and poetry as well as short stories.

When she's not hanging out with her characters, her favorite activities are reading, running and spending time with family.

Check out Remeon's Quest, the latest book in her fantasy scifi series, Realms of Chaos.

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I write fantasy and horror. I have five short stories published in anthologies, a fantasy trilogy and a horror novel in progress, and too little time to write.

Many things take my fancy: movies, fantasy, animals, faith, languages, nature, ideas, vegan food, unanswerable questions, sci-fi, indie rock, ancient tales, pyramids, myths, possibilities, aliens, words - and human beings. They're pretty interesting.

G. Allen Wilbanks, an internationally best-selling author on Amazon, is a retired police officer living in Northern California. For twenty-five years he wrote collision and crime reports to pay the bills while writing short fiction at nights to keep himself sane. In 2016, he retired from real life to focus on fantasy full time.

He is a member of the Horror Writers Association (HWA) and has had over 200 short stories published in Deep Magic, Daily Science Fiction, Mythic, The Colored Lens, as well as many other magazines, e-zines and anthologies from all over the world.

He has published two short story collections of his own as well as multiple novels.

His novels include, When Darkness Comes, published in 2017, and A Life of Adventure which debuted as one of Amazon's Hot New Releases in July, 2020.

For more information about the author and his current writing projects, please visit www.gallenwilbanks.com.

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AR Johnston is just a small-town girl from Nova Scotia, Canada, looking to share her tales with others. She is known to write mostly urban fantasy, though she goes where the muses lead her and you never know where that may be. She is a lover of coffee, good tv shows, horror flicks, and a reader of good books. She pretends to be a writer when real life doesn’t get in the way. Pesky full-time job and adulting!

Jo Seysener is a mum of three crazy kids, and a rambunctious (if affectionate) GSD living near Brisbane, Australia. When she's not exposing her kids to cult story books from her childhood she can be found tending a dying range of kitchen herbs. She adores alpacas and is building her own alpaca park. She writes romance as USA Today bestselling author Sofia Aves.

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Dawn DeBraal lives in rural Wisconsin with her husband, Red, a rescued dorky dog, and a stray cat. Dawn also writes under the pen name of Garrison McKnight. Along with the books on these pages, Dawn has been published in many online magazines, was runner-up in the 2022 Short Story Horror Contest, Author of the Month Spillwords x2, Member of the Month in The World of Myth x2, Your Daily Poem contest winner, 2000. She was nominated by the Falling Star Magazine for the 2019 Pushcart Award, a song published in the House of Harmony, International Habitat for Humanity Song Book, and, was a finalist in the "Great American Song Writing Contest." 2016.

Sue Marie St. Lee writes tales that challenge your imagination and poems that touch your heart — one way or another. She has featured in several international horror anthologies including Black Hare Press releases. Her poems and prose can be found on Spillwords Press. A short fantasy tale, Unseen Magic, appears on The Paper Djinn. Her most recent work, Rhapsodie de Claire, appears in an anthology inspired by Edgar Allan Poe and is available on Amazon.

Maxine lives in Essex UK with Steve her husband of over 35 years. She has recently started writing poetry and short stories some of which have been included in anthologies by Stormy Island Publishing, Clarendon House Publishing and Black Hare Press. Her interests include reading, walking, teaching yoga and playing with her grand children.

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Rhiannon Bird has a passion for words and storytelling. She has her own quotes blog; Thoughts of a Writer. She has had multiple works published online and in anthologies which vary between short stories and poetry. Her favorite genres tend to be fantasy or young adult, but she has a complicated relationship with genres and will often jump around to whatever she feels like at the time.

J. M. Meyer ( Jacqueline Moran Meyer )is a writer, artist and small business owner living in New York, where she received her master’s degree from Teachers College, Columbia University. Jacqueline loves to read short stories, especially by O. Henry, Alice Munro, and Ray Bradbury. She also enjoys time with her family, hiking with her dog, and watching scary movies.

Nicola Currie is a writer and poet from Cambridge, UK. Her poetry and short stories have been published in various magazines and anthologies. She has also been longlisted for the Bath Children's Novel Award and nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Her first speculative fiction novel, Those of the Light, is publishing on September 24th 2021 and is available for digital pre-order.

Greetings, from one who lives where feline eyes glitter in dark places between monstrous red trees, where occult apes lurk with unseen tread and unclean purpose, where sacrifices to forgotten devils lie drowned, profaned, forgotten in Stygian waters.

Do you like me pine for steaming jungles within the island kingdom of the imagination, where beats the heart of savage drums, and there live philosophic yet murderous crustaceans, shattered robots, buried sacrifices to forgotten devils, and dark countries yet unfounded?

If so then hail and well met, fellow traveler!

Jodi Jensen, author of time travel romances and speculative fiction short stories, grew up moving from California, to Massachusetts, and a few other places in between, before finally settling in Utah at the ripe old age of nine. The nomadic life fed her sense of adventure as a child and the wanderlust continues to this day. With a passion for old cemeteries, historical buildings and sweeping sagas of days gone by, it was only natural she’d dream of time traveling to all the places that sparked her imagination.

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Sandy Butchers is an author and an artist, known for her elaborate dystopian sci-fi worlds and creature designs. After living in Scandinavia for a year and traveling throughout the world, she now settled in the countryside along with a variety of pets and maps on which 'X' marks the spot.

With the launch of The Singularian Grimoire Anthologies as monthly, illustrated novellas in 2021, she's set a new bar for illustrated science fiction, breaking the boundaries of self-publishing through crowdsourced media. Today she gives lectures on how to start your own creative franchise and using indie platforms to become successful, along with conference panels and podcasts.

For more information on her stories, go to www.TheSingularian.net

M. Sydnor Jr. is a self-published author of novels and short stories. He began his career in writing in 2005 after trading in his basketball sneakers for a pen and pad, and the desire to create worlds took off. Early in his writing journey, he learned there was more than just putting an idea to paper, you had to read. Now, he lives in the pages, occasionally taking breaks for Netflix or Game of Thrones.

He lives in Northern California collecting an unhealthy amount of movies and graphic novels. The characters of his fantasy series, The Legends of the World, take most of his time when he's not coaching high school basketball.