DEANNA K. DEAVERS is a freelance writer and elementary school substitute teacher living in Beckley, WV. A member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators, she primarily writes middle grade and young adult adventure, horror and paranormal fiction. Her short story “Not a Usual Day” was featured in Clubhouse Magazine.
DELILAH DEVLIN writes erotic romance with edgy stories and complex characters. She has published over 120 stories in multiple subgenres with Atria/Strebor, Avon, Berkley, Black Lace, Cleis Press, Ellora’s Cave, Kensington, Kindle, Running Press, Samhain Publishing and Montlake Romance, publishers of her Shattered Souls and Lost Souls. She lives in central Arkansas.
JANICE EIDUS is a novelist, short-story writer, and essayist. Her books include The Last Jewish Virgin and The War of the Rosens. Her work has appeared in Mitzi Szereto’s Wicked: Sexy Tales of Legendary Lovers. She is a writing coach and has won two O. Henry Prizes. She lives in New York City.
A. M. HARTNETT has been writing erotica since 2006 and her work has appeared in more than a dozen anthologies, including Cleis Press’s Sudden Sex, Irresistible and Best Erotic Romance 2013. She graduated from Mount Saint Vincent University with a degree in English. She currently resides in Nova Scotia, Canada.
LAURA HUNTLEY is an author from Sheffield, England. Her work has appeared in several anthologies and has won five competitions. Laura’s first novel, Black Eyed Boy, has been published by Crooked Cat Publishing. She is now working on the sequel and the final book of the trilogy series.
AUGUST KERT resides in Ohio with her husband and four pets. Her first publication Bring Me to Life comes out in summer 2015 from Samhain Publishing.
ASHLEY LISTER is a creative writing lecturer and the author of How to Write Erotic Fiction. He is also the author of the Sweet Temptations trilogy from HarperCollins. His many short stories include “Here There Be Dragons” in Mitzi Szereto’s Thrones of Desire. He lives in the northwest of England.
E. C. MYERS is the author of numerous science fiction and fantasy short stories and three young-adult novels: the Andre Norton Award-winning Fair Coin, Quantam Coin and The Silence of Six. He currently lives in Philadelphia with his wife, son and two cats.
THANA NIVEAU is the author of the British Fantasy Award-nominated From Hell to Eternity. Her stories appear in Mammoth Best New Horror and many publications including Zombie Apocalypse: Endgame; Interzone; Whispers in the Dark; Steampunk Cthulhu; Terror Tales of Wales and Best British Horror. She lives in Bristol, England.
CHANTAL NOORDELOOS was born and raised in the Netherlands and lives in The Hague with her beautiful daughter and wacky husband. She writes mostly in English and her work has been featured in several magazines and anthologies. In 2013 she published her first Steampunk novel and a horror collection.
MARK ONSPAUGH‘s sequel to his first novel The Faceless One (Hydra, Random House) will appear this fall. His novels The Thetis Plague and Kua’Mau: Kaiju Mother of Wrath are available from Severed Press. He has had over fifty short stories published and writes for film and television. He lives in California.
ERIN O’RIORDAN, (erinoriordan.blogspot.com) based in the Great Lakes region of the United States, writes in many subgenres of erotic romance. Her short stories have been published in webzines including Clean Sheets and The Erotic Woman. Her erotic romance novel series begins with Beltane.
SHANE VAUGHAN has been published in Cellar Door, The Useless Degree and Roadside Fiction. He runs the event Stanzas in his hometown of Limerick, Ireland; the theater group Cannibals Not Canadians; the music podcast #KantKopeOrchestra and works for the Munster Literature Centre, where he tweets about words.
ZANDER VYNE‘s (zandervyne.com) literary erotica has appeared in several anthologies, including Mitzi Szereto’s Red Velvet and Absinthe; Thrones of Desire and Darker Edge of Desire. She lives and writes in Chicago with her family and an adopted basenji mutt.