Writers
Colleen Anderson has published nearly 200 pieces of fiction and poetry in such places as Chilling Tales, Evolve, Horror Library and Cemetery Dance. She has been poetry editor for the Chizine, host of the Vancouver ChiSeries, co-editor for Tessearcts Seventeen and The Playground of Lost Toys, as well as a freelance copyeditor. She has been twice nominated for the Aurora Award, received honorable mentions in the Year’s Best anthologies and been reprinted in Imaginarium and Best of Horror Library. New works for 2015 are in Nameless, Second Contact, Our World of Horror, OnSpec and Exile Book of New Canadian Noir.
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Kelley Armstrong is the author of the Cainsville modern gothic series and the Age of Legends YA fantasy trilogy. Past works include Otherworld urban fantasy series, the Darkest Powers & Darkness Rising teen paranormal trilogies and the Nadia Stafford crime trilogy. She also co-writes the Blackwell Pages middle-grade fantasy trilogy as K. L. Armstrong with M. A. Marr. Armstrong lives in southwestern Ontario with her family.
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Margaret Atwood is the author of more than forty books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays. Her latest book of short stories is Stone Mattress: Nine Tales (2014). Her MaddAddam trilogy — the Giller and Booker prize-nominated Oryx and Crake (2003), The Year of the Flood (2009), and MaddAddam (2013) — is currently being adapted for HBO. The Door is her latest volume of poetry (2007). Her most recent non-fiction books are Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth (2008) and In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination (2011). Her novels include The Blind Assassin, winner of the Booker Prize; Alias Grace, which won the Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy; and The Robber Bride, Cat’s Eye, The Handmaid’s Tale, and The Penelopiad. Her new novel, The Heart Goes Last, will be published in September 2015. Margaret Atwood lives in Toronto with writer Graeme Gibson.
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Robert Bose grew up on a farm in southern Alberta reading the Hardy Boys and making up stories that only entertained his mother, himself, and maybe his dog. He still loves spinning yarns and can clear any room by starting a conversation with ‘Remember the time…’ Robert is working on a novel about the modern world after an all too real Ragnarök while annoying his wife, raising three troublesome children, and working as the Director of Innovation for a small Calgary software company.
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Double Bram Stoker Award-nominee Jason V. Brock is a writer, editor, filmmaker, composer, and artist, widely-published online, in comic books, magazines, and anthologies, including Qualia Nous, Disorders of Magnitude (nonfiction collection), Simulacrum and Other Possible Realities (fiction/poetry collection), Fungi, Weird Fiction Review, Fangoria, S. T. Joshi’s Black Wings series, and others. He was Art Director/Managing Editor for Dark Discoveries magazine for four years, and publishes a pro journal called [NameL3ss]. He and his wife, Sunni, run Cycatrix Press (publishing the anthologies A Darke Phantastique, The Bleeding Edge, and others), and run a technology consulting business. As a filmmaker, his work includes the critically-acclaimed documentaries Charles Beaumont: The Life of Twilight Zone’s Magic Man; The AckerMonster Chronicles! (winner of the 2014 Rondo Hatton Award for Best Documentary); Image, Reflection, Shadow: Artists of the Fantastic. He is the primary composer and instrumentalist/singer for his band, ChiaroscurO.
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Sunni K. Brock has been involved in digital creations since the late 1980s. She has consulted for Microsoft, Adobe, and Sonic Solutions. In spite of her strong background in Computer Science, she’s not just a geek: Sunni is also a published poet, writer, and talented vegetarian cook. She enjoys spending her days working alongside her husband, author/filmmaker Jason V Brock, tending to their pet reptiles, and aggravating friends on Facebook.
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Jane Petersen Burfield still lives in her hometown of Toronto. She has explored widely in career, education, and travel throughout her life. Three careers, in journalism, teaching and business, led her to writing crime stories. With her first short story, Jane won the Bony Pete Prize at Bloody Words 2001. She has stories in these anthologies: Bloody Words, The Anthology, Baskerville Books, 2003; Blood on the Holly, Baskerville Books, 2007; Thirteen, The Mesdames of Mayhem, Carrick Publishing, 2013; and World Enough and Crime, Carrick Publishing, 2014.
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Rick Chiantaretto is the author of the Crossing Death series, Façade of Shadows, and Tailored for the King (included in Twice Upon a Time). His novels have appeared on ReadFree.ly’s Top 50 List of 2013 and 2014.
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J. Madison Davis is the former president of the International Association of Crime Writers and Professor Emeritus at the University of Oklahoma, where he taught fiction writing and screen writing. His first novel, The Murder of Frau Schütz, was nominated for the ‘Best First’ Edgar. Seven other novels followed, including The Vertigo Murders; Law and Order: Deadline; and The Van Gogh Conspiracy. He has also published many non-fiction books, including The Novelist’s Essential Guide to Creating Plot; Stanislaw Lem; The Shakespeare Name Dictionary (with A. Daniel Frankforter); and the anthologies Murderous Schemes (with Donald Westlake); and Conversations with Robertson Davies. His short stories have appeared in publications from Mississippi Review to Zürich, Ausfahrt Mord. He is currently working on a novel— he is always working on a novel.
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Barbara Fradkin is a retired psychologist with a fascination for why we turn bad. She is best known for her easy-read novellas and her gritty, psychological detective novels featuring the exasperating, quixotic Ottawa Police Inspector Michael Green, two of which have won the Arthur Ellis Best Novel Award. However, she has also written more than two dozen dark, compelling short stories that haunt numerous magazines and anthologies. She loves the short story format for allowing her to explore the extremes of storytelling, even to the edges of the supernatural.
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Nancy Holder is the New York Times bestselling author of over 80 novels and 200 short stories, essays, and articles. She has received five Bram Stoker Awards, among others, and is the current vice president of the Horror Writers Association. She has written material for Buffy the Vampire Slayer; Beauty and the Beast; Teen Wolf; Smallville; Kolchak the Night Stalker; Sherlock Holmes; the Domino Lady, and others, and edits comic books and graphic novels for Moonstone Books. She teaches in the Stonecoast MFA Creative Writing Program through the University of Southern Maine. She lives in San Diego, California.
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Michael Jecks is the author of thirty-five novels published by Headline, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster; he has been writing for twenty years. A past chairman of the Crime Writer’s Association, he was also a founder of the Historical Writers’ Association and created Medieval Murderers— a performance group of historical crime writers. In quieter moments he has written short stories and novellas for anthologies, and a modern spy ebook, Act of Vengeance. His books are translated and published all over the world.
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Michael Kelly is the Series Editor for the Year’s Best Weird Fiction. He has been a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award and the British Fantasy Society Award. His fiction has appeared in Black Static, The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Supernatural Tales, Postscripts, Weird Fiction Review, and has been collected in Scratching the Surface, and Undertow & Other Laments.
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Tanith Lee was born in London, England in 1947 and began to write at age 9. After a variety of occupations, in 1975 she was liberated when DAW Books USA published her 3 Fantasy/SF novels The Birthgrave, Don’t Bite the Sun and The Storm Lord, followed by many more. She has written by now almost 100 novels and collections (including Fantasy, SF, Horror, Childrens, Young Adult, Steam Punk, Historical, Detective, Dark Contemporary), almost 350 short stories, 4 BBC radio plays and 2 TV scripts (Blake’s 7). She has also been honoured with several awards, including the August Derleth for Death’s Master. In 2008 she was made a Grand Master of Horror, and in 2013 given the Life Achievement Award. She is married to the writer/artist John Kaiine.
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Robert Lopresti is the author of two novels, including Greenfellas (Oak Tree Press, 2015). His short stories have appeared in most of the mystery magazines and won the Derringer (twice) and Black Orchid Novella Awards. He blogs regularly at SleuthSayers, Little Big Crimes, and Today in Mystery History (where Poe comes up pretty regularly). He is a librarian in the Pacific Northwest.
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Richard Christian Matheson is an acclaimed bestselling author and screenwriter/executive producer for television and film. He has worked with Steven Spielberg, Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Bryan Singer and many others on Emmy winning miniseries, feature films and hit series. His critically-hailed, dark psychological fiction has appeared in 125 major anthologies including many Years’ Best volumes. 60 stories are collected in Scars and Other Distinguishing Marks and the #1 Bestseller Dystopia. Matheson’s terror novel Created By is a scathing glimpse of network television and his mystery novella The Ritual of Illusion is a sinister love letter to the movies. His latest story collection, Zoopraxis, will be published in 2015. A professional drummer, he studied with legendary Cream drummer Ginger Baker. He is president of Matheson Entertainment.
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David McDonald is a mild mannered reporter and editor by day, and a wild-eyed writer by night. Based in Melbourne, Australia, he is the editor of a fortnightly magazine for an international welfare organization. In 2013 he won the Ditmar Award for Best New Talent, and in 2014 won the William J. Atheling Jr. Award for Criticism or Review and was shortlisted for the WSFA Small Press Award. David is a member of the Horror Writers Association, the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers, and of the Melbourne, Australia based writers group, SuperNOVA.
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Lisa Morton is a screenwriter, author of non-fiction books, award-winning prose writer, and Halloween expert whose work was described by the American Library Association’s Readers’ Advisory Guide to Horror as “consistently dark, unsettling, and frightening”. Her most recent releases include the novella The Devil’s Birthday and the novel Zombie Apocalypse: Washington Deceased, and coming this fall (from Reaktion Books) is Ghosts: A Cultural History. She lives in the San Fernando Valley.
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William F. Nolan writes mostly in the science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres. Though best known for coauthoring the acclaimed dystopian science fiction novel Logan’s Run with George Clayton Johnson, he is the author of more than 2000 pieces of fiction and nonfiction, over 80 books, and has edited twenty-six anthologies in his fifty-plus year career. Of his numerous awards, there are a few of which he is most proud: being voted a Living Legend in Dark Fantasy by the International Horror Guild in 2002; twice winning the Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America; being awarded the honorary title of Author Emeritus by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. in 2006; receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Horror Writers Association in 2010; and recipient of the 2013 World Fantasy Convention Award along with Brian W. Aldiss, and being named World Horror Society Grand Master in 2015. A vegetarian, Nolan resides in Vancouver, WA.
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Loren Rhoads discovered Tales of Mystery and Imagination as a child, thanks to the Alan Parsons Project album of the same name. She’s visited Poe’s dorm room at the University of Virginia and the Poe Museum in Richmond, but regrets that she hasn’t been to his grave. She is the author of The Dangerous Type, Kill By Numbers, and No More Heroes, to be published by Night Shade Books in 2015.
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Christopher Rice published four New York Times bestselling suspense novels before the age of thirty. His supernatural thrillers, The Heavens Rise and The Vines, were both finalists for the Bram Stoker Award. He has also published several works of erotic romance in his series, The Desire Exchange. He is the co-host and executive producer of the irreverent Internet radio program, The Dinner Party Show with Christopher Rice and Eric Shaw Quinn.
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Thomas S. Roche’s first novel, the paramilitary zombie crime thriller The Panama Laugh, was a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award. He has published more than 300 stories, mostly in the horror and erotica genres, with occasional forays into crime fiction, fantasy, and science fiction. Among Roche’s editing projects are the crime-erotica series Noirotica, vampire anthologies Sons of Darkness and Brothers of the Night, and two volumes of dark fantasy co-edited with Nancy Kilpatrick: In the Shadow of the Gargoyle and Graven Images. Roche’s early stories are gathered in the e-book collection Dark Matter.
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Uwe Sommerlad has over the years published many reviews, articles and essays in many periodicals, and a few books in Germany, but his work also appears in English language magazines. He has also worked as an actor on stage and on television in Germany. He was once invited by the University of Siegen to portray Edgar Allan Poe, reading some of Poe’s stories and, in character, answering questions from the audience. His afterword to the German edition of Basil Copper’s The Vampire in Legend and Fact, covering the thirty years since the book’s original publication, was nominated for a Nyctalus Award. He lives in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
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Carol Weekes has been writing and publishing fiction, mainly in the horror field, since 1995. Short stories have appeared in myriad magazines and anthologies, including Don Hutchison’s Northern Frights series, Space & Time, The Dalhousie Review; novels include Walter’s Crossing, Ouroboros (co-written with Michael Kelly), Terribilis, and the short story collections Dead Reflections and The Color of Bone. Carol continues in the dark fiction and screenplays genres, writing amid her muses: one dog, four cats and two rats, who watch over every word.
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Chelsea Quinn Yarbro has been an award-winning professional writer for forty-seven years, has sold more than ninety books in a variety of genres and more than ninety works of short fiction, essays, and reviews; she also composes serious music. Her novel Hotel Transylvania was among six nominated for the Horror Writers Association one-time Bram Stoker award for the Most Significant Vampire Novel of the (20th) Century. She lives in the San Francisco East Bay Area.
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Editors
Nancy Kilpatrick is a writer and editor with 18 novels and over 225 short stories in print. In her editorial capacity, nEvermore! is her 15th anthology. She enjoys wearing two hats and exploring both hemispheres of her brain. She won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Mystery Story, and several awards for her dark fantasy writing and editing, including the Paris Book Festival’s Best Anthology of the Year for Danse Macabre.
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Caro Soles is the founder of Bloody Words, Canada’s biggest annual mystery convention, which finally closed its doors in 2014 after a long and successful run. Her work includes mysteries, erotica, gay lit and science fiction. She has been published in many anthologies and has edited quite a few herself. She received the Derrick Murdoch Award from the Crime Writers of Canada for her work in the mystery field and was short listed for the Lambda Literary Award. She is looking for time to work on an historical novel.
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