Mae Murray (she/they) is a writer and editor hailing from Arkansas, now living in eerie New England with her spouse and a little gray cat. She contributes essays and criticism to horror-centric websites, including Dread Central, Fangoria, and Ghouls Magazine. She is the founder of the Horror Writers Support Group, a therapeutic group grounded in the principles of peer support, and writes its accompanying newsletter. The Book of Queer Saints is her editing debut. Her first horror novella is set to be released in 2023. Find her on Twitter and Instagram at @maemurrayxo or visit her website maemurray.net for news and updates.
Sam Richard is the author of Sabbath of the Fox-Devils and the Wonderland Award-Winning Collection To Wallow in Ash & Other Sorrows . The owner of Weirdpunk Books, he has edited/co-edited several anthologies, including the Splatterpunk Award-Nominated The New Flesh: A Literary Tribute to David Cronenberg, Zombie Punks Fuck Off, and Cinema Viscera . Widowed in 2017, he slowly rots in Minneapolis. You can stalk him @SammyTotep on Twitter and Instagram or weirdpunkbooks.com .
Hailey Piper is the author of The Worm and His Kings, Queen of Teeth, Unfortunate Elements of My Anatomy , and Benny Rose the Cannibal King . She is an active member of the HWA, with over seventy short stories appearing in publications such as Year's Best Hardcore Horror, Vastarien, PseudoPod, Flash Fiction Online , and elsewhere. A trans woman hailing from the haunted woods of New York, she now lives with her wife in Maryland. Find her at www.haileypiper.com or on Twitter via @HaileyPiperSays.
Eric LaRocca (he/they) is the author of several works of horror and dark fiction, including the viral sensation Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke . He is an active member of the Horror Writers Association and currently resides in Boston, MA with his partner. For more information, please follow @hystericteeth on Twitter/Instagram or visit ericlarocca.com .
James Bennett is a British writer raised in Sussex and South Africa. His travels have furnished him with an abiding love of different cultures, history, and mythology. His short fiction has appeared internationally and his debut novel Chasing Embers was shortlisted for Best Newcomer at the British Fantasy Awards 2017. James is currently at work on a new fantasy novel. You can find him on Twitter at @benjurigan
Perry Ruhland is an award-winning writer and filmmaker based in Chicago, Illinois. His work focuses on grotesque terrors, gay masculinities, and cosmic despair.
Nikki R. Leigh
is a queer, forever-90s-kid wallowing in all things horror. When not writing horror fiction and poetry, she can be found creating custom horror-inspired toys, making comics, and hunting vintage paperbacks. She reads her stories to her partner and her cat, one of which gets scared very easily. Instagram: @spinetinglers Twitter: @fivexxfive Email: spinetinglersmedia@
Joe Koch (he/they) writes literary horror and surrealist trash. Joe is a Shirley Jackson Award finalist and the author of The Wingspan of Severed Hands , The Couvade , and Convulsive . They've had over fifty short stories published in books and journals like Year's Best Hardcore Horror, The Big Book of Blasphemy, and Not All Monsters. Find Joe online at horrorsong.blog and on Twitter @horrorsong.
Joshua R. Pangborn
is an award-winning horror actor, writer, and creator, and founder of SideKick Productions, a company focused on telling queer, fat and sex-positive stories on film and television. Joshua created the award-winning queer soap opera Skeleton Cre
w, now in its fifth season, and the horror comedy Demon Doctor,
now entering its second season. Watch these series, along with the award-winning horror shorts Wasted on the Young
and Scratched
, at youtube.
K.S.Walker is a speculative fiction writer from the Midwest. They like their sci-fi with some horror and their horror with some romance. They are the sole and founding member of the COE (Cryptids Over Everything) crew. When they're not obsessing over a current WIP or their TBR pile you can find them outside with their family or starting a craft project but not finishing it. K.S. Walker has previously been published at FIYAH . You can find them online at www.kswalker.net or come talk to them about The X-Files, your current craft obsession or weird natural phenomena on Twitter @kswalkerwrites and Instagram @kswalker_writes.
George Daniel Lea is an unfixed oddity that has a tendency to float around the UK Midlands (his precise location and plain of operation is somewhat difficult to determine beyond that, though certain institutions are working on various ways of defining his movements). Following the publication of his first short story collection, Strange Playgrounds, he is currently working in collusion with the entity known as "Nick Hardy" on the project Born in Blood, which spans two short story collections and several volumes of visual media. Twitter: @EnigmaticElegy Web: strangeplaygrounds.com YouTube: ExaggeratedElegy
LC von Hessen is a writer of horror, weird fiction, and general unpleasantness. They have previously appeared in such publications as Vastarien, Nightscript, Planet Scumm, Hymns of Abomination, and Beyond the Book of Eibon . An ex-Midwesterner, von Hessen lives in Brooklyn with a talkative orange cat. Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram: @LCvonHessen
Briar Ripley Page is the author of Corrupted Vessels , a novella published by swallow::tale press, and other gender and genre-bending fiction. Find them online at briarripleypage.xyz .
Eric Raglin (he/him) is a Nebraskan speculative fiction writer, horror literature teacher, and podcaster for Cursed Morsels. He frequently writes about queer issues, the terrors of capitalism, and body horror. His debut short story collection is Nightmare Yearnings. He is the editor of Antifa Splatterpunk . Find him at ericraglin.com or on Twitter @ericraglin1992.
Belle Tolls Belle Tolls (was/were) is a New York City death hag, tape deck DJ, and writer of queer speculative fiction. She is currently working on a volume called Headless but Haloed , collecting stories about the cephalophores. The Book of Queer Saints is her first publication.