Contributors

D Thea Baldrick

As a professional career changer, D. Thea Baldrick's experiences are kaleidoscopic. She has two Bachelor's degrees: a B.A. in Comparative Literature and a B.S. in Biology with a Concentration in Molecular and Cellular Biology. She attended George Washington Law School and spent twenty years homeschooling her children.

Usually residing in Ohio, she lived briefly in Madrid, traveled solo through Europe and occasionally inhabits imaginary landscapes with her grandchildren. She has worked in education, libraries, bookstores, and industries; most recently, as a microbiology technician in a soap company testing for microbial growth. Currently, she writes nonfiction about diseases and poets, and fiction about witches. Sometimes the topics overlap.

Portals to D.Thea's publications are at dthea.com

Ben Curl

Ben Curl writes speculative fiction when he's not writing damning letters to employers on behalf of union members.

His short stories have appeared as podcasts on Horror Hill and Night Shift Radio. "The Glass Folio," a tale about a nineteenth-century thief's obsession with a grotesque book that promises immortality, will appear in Dark Horses: The Magazine of Weird Fiction in the summer of 2022.

Many of his stories are inspired by self-guided and never-successful ghost hunts amid abandoned mineshafts and karsts in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

He resides in Lansing, Michigan. You can follow him at ben-curl.com or on Twitter @BenjaminCurl

Scott Edelman

Scott Edelman has published more than 100 short stories in magazines such as Analog, PostScripts, The Twilight Zone, and Dark Discoveries, and in anthologies such as Why New Yorkers Smoke, MetaHorror, Crossroads: Southern Tales of the Fantastic, Once Upon a Galaxy, Moon Shots, Mars Probes, and the Harlan Ellison tribute anthology The Unquiet Dreamer.

His collection of zombie fiction, What Will Come After, was published in 2010, and was a finalist for both the Stoker Award and the Shirley Jackson Memorial Award. His most recent collection, Things That Never Happened, was published in 2020. He has been a Bram Stoker Award finalist eight times, in the categories of Short Story and Long Fiction.

Additionally, Edelman worked for the Syfy Channel for more than thirteen years as editor of Science Fiction Weekly, SCI FI Wire, and Blastr. He was the founding editor of Science Fiction Age, which he edited during its entire eight-year run. He also edited SCI FI magazine, previously known as Sci-Fi Entertainment, as well as two other SF media magazines, Sci-Fi Universe and Sci-Fi Flix. He has also been a four-time Hugo Award finalist for Best Editor.

A. P. Howell

A. P. Howell lives with her spouse and their two kids, sometimes near a lake and always near trees. She has a master's degree in history and her jobs have spanned the alphabet from archivist to webmaster.

Her short fiction has appeared in a variety of places, including Daily Science Fiction, Little Blue Marble, Martian: The Magazine of Science Fiction Drabbles, Translunar Travelers Lounge, In Somnio: A Collection of Modern Gothic Horror (Tenebrous Press), and Los Suelos, CA (Surface Dweller Studios). She can be found online at aphowell.com or tweeting @APHowell.

W. T. Paterson

W. T. Paterson is a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee, holds an MFA in Fiction Writing from the University of New Hampshire, and is a graduate of Second City Chicago. His work has appeared in over 90 publications worldwide including The Saturday Evening Post, The Forge Literary Magazine, The Delhousie Review, Brilliant Flash Fiction, and Fresh Ink. A semi-finalist in the Aura Estra short story contest, his work has also received notable accolades from Lycan Valley, North 2 South Press, and Lumberloft. He spends most nights yelling for his cat to "Get down from there!"

Visit his website at www.wtpaterson.com.

Mattia Ravasi

Mattia Ravasi is from Monza, Italy, and lives and works in Oxford. He has written for The Millions, Modern Fiction Studies, and The Submarine. His stories have appeared in independent magazines, most recently in the Wilderness House Literary Review, Flash Fiction Magazine, and Planet Scumm. He talks about books on his YouTube channel, The Bookchemist.

Mike Robinson

A writer since age six, Mike Robinson is the award-winning author of ten books, including the dark fantasy trilogy Enigma of Twilight Falls and the short story collection Too Much Dark Matter, Too Little Gray. His short fiction has appeared in over twenty outlets. A lifelong resident of Los Angeles, he is a charter member of GLAWS (Greater Los Angeles Writers Society) as well as a screenwriter and producer. In between, he is a freelance literary editor, hiker, doodler, tries to play baseball again and keeps his two dogs smiling.

Eric Witchey

Eric Witchey has sold stories under several names and in 12 genres. His tales have been translated into multiple languages, and his credits include over 160 stories, including 5 novels and two collections. He has penned dozens of writing-related articles and essays, has taught over 200 conference seminars, at 2 universities, and at a community college. His work has received recognition from New Century Writers, Writers of the Future, Writer's Digest, Independent Publisher Book Awards, International Book Awards, The Eric Hoffer Prose Award Program, Short Story America, the Irish Aeon Awards, and other organizations. His How-to articles have appeared in The Writer Magazine, Writer's Digest Magazine, and other print and online magazines.