Kim Antieau is the author of many novels, including most recently The Fish Wife, Blue Tail, and Deathmark. She and her husband Mario Milosevic live in the Pacific Northwest and Desert Southwest.
Lawrence Block has been writing award-winning mystery and suspense fiction for half a century. His most recent novels are A Drop of the Hard Stuff, featuring Matthew Scudder, and Getting Off, starring a very naughty young woman. Several of his books have been filmed, although not terribly well. He’s well known for his books for writers, including the classic Telling Lies for Fun & Profit and The Liar’s Bible. In addition to prose works, he has written episodic television (Tilt!) and the Wong Kar-wai film, My Blueberry Nights.
Michael Blumlein is the author of numerous novels, including The Movement of Mountains, The Healer, and The Domino Master. He is also the author of the award-winning story collection, The Brains of Rats. His second collection—What The Doctor Ordered: Tales of the Bizarre and the Magnificent—will be released later this year. In addition to writing, Dr. Blumlein is a practicing physician. You can visit him online at www.michaelblumlein.com.
Pat Cadigan is the author of numerous acclaimed short stories and five novels. Her first novel, Mindplayers, was nominated for the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award, and her second and third novels—Synners and Fools—both won the Arthur C. Clarke Award. Her collection, Patterns, was honored with the Locus Award. Cadigan’s work has also been nominated for both the Hugo and Nebula awards. The author lived in Kansas City for many years, but has resided in London, England since 1996.
Elizabeth Hand (www.elizabethhand.com) is the multiple-award-winning author of twelve novels and three collections of short fiction. Her most recent novel, Available Dark, was named as one of the Top Ten Best Mystery/Thrillers of the year by Publishers Weekly. A New York Times and Washington Post Notable Author, Hand is also a longtime book critic and essayist who frequently contributes to the Washington Post, Salon, Village Voice, and DownEast Magazine, among many others. She has two children and divides her time between Maine and North London.
Four-time Bram Stoker Award-winner Nancy Holder has published seventy-five books and more than two hundred short stories and essays. She has written or co-written dozens of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Smallville, Saving Grace, and Angel projects. Novels from her series, Wicked, appeared on the New York Times bestseller list. Her two new dark young adult dark fantasy series (with Debbie Viguié) are Crusade and Wolf Springs Chronicles. She teaches in the Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing Program, offered through the University of Southern Maine. She lives in San Diego with her daughter, Belle, and their growing assortment of pets. Visit her at nancyholder.com.
Joe R. Lansdale is the author of over thirty novels and numerous short stories. His novella, Bubba Hotep, was made into an award-winning film of the same name, as was Incident On and Off a Mountain Road. Both were directed by Don Coscarelli. His works have received numerous recognitions, including the Edgar, eight Bram Stoker awards, the Grinizani Prize for Literature, American Mystery Award, the International Horror Award, British Fantasy Award, and many others. His most recent novel is Devil Red, the eighth featuring Hap and Leonard. All the Earth, Thrown to the Sky, his first novel for young adults was recently published.
Tanith Lee was born in 1947, in London, England. She worked at various jobs until in 1974-75 DAW Books began to publish her sf and fantasy, beginning with The Birthgrave. Since then she has published over ninety books and over three hundred short stories, written for TV and BBC Radio. Her latest novels are available from the Immanion Press and reprints—such as Flat Earth sequence and The Birthgrave Trilogy—via Norilana Books. Much of her work will soon be available in ebook form via Orion, and other houses. She lives on the Sussex Weald with her husband writer/artist/photographer/model maker John Kaiine.
Although his Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories brought Fritz Leiber (1910-1992) regard as one of the fathers of sword and sorcery, he excelled in all fields of speculative fiction, writing award-winning work in horror, fantasy, and science fiction. His work continues to influence and inspire writers today. In addition to multiple Hugo, Nebula, Derleth, Lovecraft, and World Fantasy Awards, Fritz Leiber received the Grand Master of Fantasy (Gandalf) Award in 1975, the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1976, the Bram Stoker Lifetime Achievement Award in 1987, and the Grand Master Nebula Award in 1981.
Charles de Lint is a full-time writer and musician who presently makes his home in Ottawa, Canada, with his wife MaryAnn Harris. His most recent books are Under My Skin and Eyes Like Leaves. His first album, Old Blue Truck, came out in early 2011. For more information about his work, visit his website at www.charlesdelint.com. He’s also on Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace.
Catherine Lundoff is the award-winning author of Crave: Tales of Lust, Love and Longing, Night’s Kiss, A Day at the Inn, A Night at the Palace and Other Stories, and Silver Moon: A Werewolf Novel. She is also the editor of Haunted Hearths and Sapphic Shades: Lesbian Ghost Stories and co-editor, with JoSelle Vanderhooft, of Hellebore and Rue: Tales of Queer Women and Magic. In her other lives, she’s a professional computer geek who sometimes teaches writing classes at The Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis.
Stewart O’Nan was born and raised and lives with his family in Pittsburgh. His thirteen novels include Snow Angels, A Prayer for the Dying, Last Night at the Lobster, and Emily, Alone. In January, Viking published his latest, The Odds.
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) was an author, poet, editor, and literary critic. Poe, one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story, is considered the inventor of the genre of detective fiction and credited with contributing to the then-emerging genre of science fiction. A master of the macabre, his influence on horror and dark fantasy is incalculable.
Laura Resnick is the author of the popular Esther Diamond urban fantasy series, whose recent releases include Vamparazzi, Unsympathetic Magic, and Doppelgangster. She has also written traditional fantasy novels such as In Legend Born, The Destroyer Goddess, and The White Dragon, which made the “Year’s Best” lists of Publishers Weekly and Voya. An opinion columnist, frequent public speaker, and the Campbell Award-winning author of many short stories, she is on the Web at www.LauraResnick.com.
John Shirley (john-shirley.com) is the award-winning author of more than forty novels including Everything Is Broken, published earlier this year. Many of his multitude of short stories have been compiled in eight story collections, the most recent of which is In Extremis: The Most Extreme Stories of John Shirley. He has been called the “post-modern Poe” and is considered seminal to sf’s cyberpunk subgenre. (An omnibus edition of his classic A Song Called Youth cyberpunk trilogy has just been released.) As a screenwriter he is best known as co-writer of The Crow; as a musician he fronted several bands and written lyrics for Blue Oyster Cult.
Steve Rasnic Tem’s latest novel is Deadfall Hotel from Solaris. Crossroads recently released the ebook version of In Concert, collecting all his collaborations with wife Melanie Tem. Fall 2012 will see publication of Ugly Behavior, collecting the best of his noir fiction, from New Pulp Press. And in 2013, ChiZine will publish Celestial Inventories, collecting the best of his recent contemporary fantasy and slipstream fiction.
Lee Thomas is the Bram Stoker Award- and the Lambda Literary Award-winning author of the books Stained, Parish Damned, The Dust of Wonderland, and In the Closet, Under the Bed. His latest novel, The German, was released to critical acclaim in March 2011. Forthcoming titles include Torn from Cemetery Dance and the short story collection Like Light for Flies.
Conrad Williams is the author of the novels Head Injuries, London Revenant, The Unblemished (winner of the International Horror Guild Award), One (winner of the British Fantasy Award), Decay Inevitable, Blonde on a Stick, and Loss of Separation. He ghost wrote Princess Spider: True Experiences of a Dominatrix and is the editor of the anthology Gutshot. His short stories are collected in Use Once Then Destroy and Open Heart Surgery. He lives in Manchester, UK, with his wife and three sons. Recent or forthcoming story appearances include Haunts: Reliquaries of the Dead, Subterranean, Weird Tales, and The Mammoth Book of Body Horror.