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Daniel Arthur Smith is a USA Today bestselling author. His titles include Spectral Shift, Hugh Howey Lives, The Cathari Treasure, The Somali Deception, and a few other novels and short stories. He also curates the phenomenal short fiction series Tales from the Canyons of the Damned and Frontiers of Speculative Fiction.

He was raised in Michigan and graduated from Western Michigan University where he studied philosophy, with focus on cognitive science, meta-physics, and comparative religion.  He began his career as a bartender, barista, poetry house proprietor, teacher, and then became a technologist and futurist for the Fortune 100 across the Americas and Europe.

Daniel has traveled to over 300 cities in 22 countries, residing in Los Angeles, Kalamazoo, Prague, Crete, and now writes between Manhattan and Connecticut where he lives with his wife and young sons.

For more information, visit danielarthursmith.com

Lorna Wood was raised in Oberlin, Ohio, by a composer and an art historian. She received degrees in violin performance and English from Oberlin College and a Ph.D. in English from Yale University. After graduate school, she was an instructor for six years at Auburn University.

In addition to The Jesus Wars and Family Values, Lorna has writing appearing or forthcoming from Bureau of Complaint, Green Splotches, Half Hour to Kill, 100subtexts, t'ART, Door Is A Jar, Dumping Grounds (features of the month), erbacce (featured writer, 202 erbacce-prize, 2022), Personal Bests Journal 5, Coalition Works, The Pine Cone Review, Mslexia, Grand Little Things, The Poetry Bar, 2% Milk, WhimsicalPoet, Hotazel, Otherwise Engaged, ubu,, Mollyhouse, FEED, Litterateur, Fevers of the Mind (Wolfpack Contributor), Mulberry Literary, Poetic Sun, Angel Rust (Best of the Net nominee), Kindle Vella, Right Hand Pointing, Quaranzine, Schlock!, Nevermore, MacQueen's Quinterly, The Bookends Review, After the Pause, cc&d, 34 Orchard, Lucky Jefferson (365), North of Oxford, Coffin Bell, DASH, Doubleback Review (Pushcart nominee), Poems for the Thoughtful Young (B Cubed Press), Daikaijuzine, Online Writing Tips (co-winner, third prize, 2019 fiction contest), Litro (USA) Lab, Courtship of Winds, Brave New Word, M58, Scarlet Leaf Review, NoSleep Podcast, Canyons of the Damned, Poetry South (2018 Pushcart Prize nominee), Five:2:One (#thesideshow), Poetry WTF?!, Jerry Jazz Musician (finalist, 2017 fiction contest), Unstitched States, Mysterical-E, Wild Violet, Cacti Fur, Every Writer, and the following anthologies: New Generation Beats, 2022, Bullshit Lit 01, Love (Pure Slush), A Monster Told Me Bedtime Stories (Soteira Press), Escape Wheel (Great Weather for MEDIA), Horror USA: California (Soteira Press), What We Talk About When We Talk About It (Darkhouse), Leaves of Loquat V (second prize, 2018 Loquat Literary Festival contest), Luminous Echoes (poems shortlisted for Into the Void's 2016 contest), and Dark Magic (Owl Hollow Press), among others. She was long-listed for the erbacce-prize in 2019, and has been a finalist in the rinky dink chapbook contest (2022), the Neoverse Short Story Competition (2016) and the Valus' Sigil contest at Sharkpack Poetry Review. Her poetry has been favorably reviewed on New Pages (15 Dec. 2016), and she has published scholarly essays on the American Renaissance, children's literature, and Lolita.

Lorna's son, William Wehrs, wrote Five Scary Adventures in Playtime (illustrated by Lorna and now on Kindle) for his art class when he was eight. William is a social studies teacher with a master's degree in education from Lehigh University. In 2022 he was nominated by USD 345 for Kansas's Horizon Awards, which recognize outstanding first-year k-12 teachers. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude with a B.A. from Ursinus College, where he majored in history and minored in film studies. His essay on film music appears in the Palgrave Handbook of Affect Studies and Textual Criticism, and his honors thesis, "Rape Culture: Tools of Oppression," and Summer Fellows paper, "The Rise of Political Factions in the United States: 1789-1785," are available at https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu.

David Alan Jones is a veteran of the United States Air Force, where he served as an Arabic linguist. A 2016 Writers of the Future silver honorable mention recipient, David’s writing spans the science fiction, military sci-fi, fantasy, and urban fantasy genres. He is a martial artist, a husband, and a father of three. David’s day job involves programming computers for Uncle Sam.

You can find out more about David’s writing, including his current projects, at his website: https://davidalanjones.net.