ABOUT THE AUTHORS

G. V. ANDERSON‘s short stories have won a World Fantasy Award and a British Fantasy Award, and been nominated for a Nebula. Her work can be found in Strange Horizons, Lightspeed, and Tor.com, as well as other venues. She lives and works in Dorset, UK, and is currently writing her first novel.

SEÁN PADRAIC BIRNIE is a writer and photographer from Brighton, England. He holds a B.A. from Manchester Metropolitan University in English Literature and Creative Writing, and an M.A. in Photography from the University of Brighton, where he works as a technical demonstrator on the photography courses. His short fiction has appeared in venues such as Black Static, BFS Horizons, Litro, and Shadows & Tall Trees, and his writing on photography has appeared in scholarly journals and artists’ books. His debut collection of short stories, I Would Haunt You If I Could, was published in 2021.

J. S. BREUKELAAR is the author of the novels American Monster, Aletheia, and Collision: Stories, a 2019 Shirley Jackson Award nominee, and winner of the 2019 Aurealis and Ditmar Awards. Her third novel, The Bridge, was published in 2021. She has short fiction in Tiny Nightmares, Black Static, Gamut, Unnerving, Lightspeed, and elsewhere. Born in California, raised in New York, educated in New Zealand and Australia, Breukelaar lives in Sydney, Australia, with her family.

REBECCA CAMPBELL is a Canadian writer and academic whose first novel, The Paradise Engine, was published in 2013. Her short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Interzone, Shadows & Tall Trees, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Lackington’s, and elsewhere. Campbell’s story “The Fourth Trimester Is the Strangest,” which was reprinted in The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror: Volume One, was honored with the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic.

TANANARIVE DUE is an American Book Award-and NAACP Image Award-winning author who was an executive producer on Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror for Shudder. She is also a screenwriter. She and her husband, science fiction author Steven Barnes, co-wrote a 2020 episode for The Twilight Zone. Due is the author of several novels and a short story collection, Ghost Summer: Stories. She is also co-author of a civil rights memoir, Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights (with her late mother, Patricia Stephens Due). She is the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award in the Fine Arts from the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation. She teaches Afrofuturism and Black Horror at UCLA.

BRIAN EVENSON is the author of over a dozen books of fiction, most recently the story collection The Glassy Burning Floor of Hell. His work has won the World Fantasy and Shirley Jackson Awards, and he has been a finalist for the Edgar Award and the Ray Bradbury Award. He is the recipient of three O. Henry Prizes as well as an NEA fellowship. Evenson’s work has been translated into Czech, French, Italian, Greek, Hungarian, Japanese, Persian, Russia, Spanish, Slovenian, and Turkish. He lives in Los Angeles and teaches in the Critical Studies Program at CalArts.

CHRISTOPHER GOLDEN is the New York Times-bestselling, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of such novels as Road of Bones, Ararat, Snowblind, and Red Hands. With Mike Mignola, he is the co-creator of the Outerverse comic book universe, including such series as Baltimore, Joe Golem: Occult Detective, and Lady Baltimore. As an editor, Golden has worked on anthologies Seize the Night, Dark Cities, and The New Dead, among others, and he has also written and co-written comic books, video games, screenplays, and a network television pilot. He was born and raised in Massachusetts, where he still lives with his family.

ELIZABETH HAND is the bestselling author of eighteen genre-spanning novels and five collections of short fiction and essays. Her work has received multiple Shirley Jackson, World Fantasy, and Nebula Awards, among other honors, and several of her books have been New York Times and Washington Post Notable Books. She is a longtime reviewer, critic, and essayist for the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times, among many others, and for twenty years has written a book review column for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Hand is on the faculty of the Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing, and divides her time between the coast of Maine and North London.

A former academic and adjunct, ALIX E. HARROW is a New York Times-bestselling and Hugo Award-winning writer living in Virginia with her husband and their two semi-feral kids. She is the author of The Ten Thousand Doors of January, The Once and Future Witches, and various short fiction.

MARIA DAHVANA HEADLEY is the New York Times-bestselling, Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning author of eight books, most recently Beowulf: A New Translation, named a book of the year by The Atlantic, NPR, Vox, the Irish Times, the Guardian, the New Statesman, and more. It won the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award and the Hugo Award for Best Related Work. The Mere Wife, a contemporary adaptation of Beowulf, was named by the Washington Post as one of its Notable Works of Fiction. Headley’s short fiction has been shortlisted for the Nebula and Shirley Jackson Awards and the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. She teaches writing in the master’s program at Sarah Lawrence and has delivered master classes at numerous universities. She grew up in the high desert of Idaho on a survivalist sled dog ranch, where she spent summers plucking the winter coat from her father’s wolf.

Three-time International Horror Guild Award Winner GLEN HIRSHBERG‘s novels include The Snowman’s Children, The Book of Bunk, Motherless Child, Good Girls, and Nothing to Devour. Hirshberg is also the author of four widely praised story collections: The Two Sams(a Publishers’ Weekly Best Book), American Morons, The Janus Tree, The Ones Who Are Waving, and Infinity Dreams. Hirshberg is a fivetime World Fantasy Award finalist, and won the Shirley Jackson Award for the novelette “The Janus Tree.” He is the singer, songwriter, and keyboardist with Momzer and lives in Washington State with his family and cats.

STEPHEN GRAHAM JONES is the New York Times-bestselling author of nearly thirty novels and collections. He’s written some novellas and comic books as well. Most recent are The Only Good Indians, My Heart Is a Chainsaw, and, most recently, Don’t Fear the Reaper. Jones has been an NEA recipient, has won the Texas Institute of Letters Award for Fiction, the Ray Bradbury Prize, the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award, the Independent Publishers Award for Multicultural Fiction, WLA’s Distinguished Achievement Award, ALA’s RUSA Award and Alex Award, three Bram Stoker Awards, and two Shirley Jackson Awards, and has been a finalist for the World Fantasy and British Fantasy Awards. Jones lives and teaches in Boulder, Colorado.

RICHARD KADREY is the New York Times-bestselling author of fifteen novels, including the Sandman Slim supernatural noir series. Sandman Slim was included in Amazon’s “100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books to Read in a Lifetime.” The book is in development as a feature film. Some of Kadrey’s other books include The Grand Dark, Hollywood Dead, The Everything Box, and Butcher Bird. In comics, he’s written for Heavy Metal, Lucifer, and Hellblazer. Kadrey’s also been immortalized as an action figure.

ALISON LITTLEWOOD’s latest novel is Mistletoe. Her first book, A Cold Season, was selected for the Richard and Judy Book Club. Other titles include A Cold Silence, Path of Needles, The Unquiet House, Zombie Apocalypse! Acapulcalypse Now, The Hidden People, and The Crow Garden. Her short stories have been gathered together in her collection Quieter Paths and in Five Feathered Tales, a collaboration with award-winning illustrator Daniele Serra. She won the 2014 Shirley Jackson Award for Short Fiction. Littlewood lives with her partner, Fergus, in deepest Yorkshire, England, in a house of creaking doors and crooked walls. She loves exploring the hills and dales with her two hugely enthusiastic Dalmatians and has a penchant for books on folklore and weird history, Earl Grey tea, and semicolons.

CHIMEDUM OHAEGBU (CHIM-ay-doom aw-HAY-boo) lives in Vancouver on the territories of the x^ʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Sel’il’witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. She’s an editorial assistant at McClelland & Stewart, as well as Uncanny’s managing and poetry editor. Her fiction debut was longlisted for the Nommo Award for African Science Fiction and Fantasy, and she holds a Pushcart Prize nomination for poetry. She’s a 2021 graduate of UBC’s Creative Writing Program and, as a playwright, the 2021 Black Arts Development Program, and is a member of The Capilano Review’s editorial board. Ohaegbu loves insect facts but not insects, birds and magpies especially, and orchestral videogame music. Her work can be found in Strange Horizons, Arc Poetry, The /tεmz/ Review, and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, among others.

Originally from Trinidad and Tobago, SUZAN PALUMBO currently lives in Ontario. A member of the Hugo-nominated FIYAHCON team, Palumbo is also a former associate editor of Shimmer. Her work has been published in The Deadlands, The Dark, PseudoPod, Fireside Fiction Quarterly, PodCastle, Anathema, and other venues. When she isn’t writing, she can be found sketching, listening to new wave, or wandering her local misty forests.

SARAH PINSKER is the author of over fifty works of short fiction, two novels, and one collection. Her work has won four Nebula Awards, a Hugo Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, and the Theodore Sturgeon Award, and been nominated for numerous Nebula, Hugo, Locus, and World Fantasy Awards. Her fiction has been published in magazines, including Asimov’s, Strange Horizons, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Uncanny, as well as numerous anthologies and year’s bests. Her latest book is We Are Satellites. Pinsker is also a singer/ songwriter, with four albums on various independent labels (the third with her rock band, the Stalking Horses). She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

DAVID J. SCHOW is a multiple-award-winning writer. He has written ten novels, ten short story collections, comics (John Carpenter’s Tales of Science Fiction: “The Standoff” and “HELL”), movies (The Crow, Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III, The Hills Run Red), television (Masters of Horror, Mob City, Creepshow), nonfiction (The Outer Limits Companion, The Art of Drew Struzan), and can be seen on various DVDs as expert witness or documentarian on everything from Creature from the Black Lagoon to Psycho to I, Robot. Thanks to him, the word “splatterpunk” has been in the Oxford English Dictionary since 2002.

MOLLY TANZER is the author of the Diabolist’s Library trilogy: Creatures of Will and Temper, the Locus Award-nominated Creatures of Want and Ruin, and Creatures of Charm and Hunger. She is also the author of the weird western Vermilion, an io9 and NPR “Best Book” of 2015, and the British Fantasy Award-nominated collection A Pretty Mouth. Tanzer’s critically acclaimed short fiction has appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Lightspeed, Transcendent: The Year’s Best Trans and Nonbinary Speculative Fiction, and elsewhere. She lives outside of Boulder, Colorado, with her cat, Toad.

SHEREE RENÉE THOMAS is an award-winning fiction writer, poet, and editor. Her work is inspired by myth and folklore, natural science, and Mississippi Delta conjure. Nine Bar Blues: Stories from an Ancient Future is her first all-prose collection. She edited the World Fantasywinning groundbreaking Dark Matter black speculative fiction anthologies and was the first to introduce W.E.B. Du Bois’s science fiction short stories. Thomas is the associate editor of the historic Black arts literary journal Obsidian: Literature & the Arts in the African Diaspora and is the editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. She is a Marvel writer and contributor to the groundbreaking anthology Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda. She lives in her hometown, Memphis, Tennessee, near a mighty river and a pyramid.

STEVE TOASE was born in North Yorkshire, England, and now lives in Munich. His short fiction has appeared in Nightmare, Shadows & Tall Trees, Analog, Three-Lobed Burning Eye, Shimmer, and Lackington’s, among others. His debut short story collection To Drown in Dark Water was published in 2021. Toase recently worked with astrophysicist Dr. Chris Harrison on a script for a planetarium show designed for people with a vision impairment. He also likes old motorbikes and vintage cocktails.

JADE WILBURN is a UX designer by day and a writer by night. Born and raised in Rochester, New York, she spends her free time watching anime and binge-playing Sims. Her published short fiction work can be found in Enchanted Conversation Magazine, Fiyah, and Oceans: A Dark Microfiction Anthology.

A. C. WISE is the author of Hooked and the bestselling Wendy, Darling. Some of her short fiction has been compiled in three collections, the most recent of which is The Ghost Sequences. Her work has won the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, as well as being a finalist for the Nebula, Sunburst Award, the Lambda Literary Awards, and the Bram Stoker Award. In addition to her fiction, she contributes semi-regular review columns to The Book Smugglers and Apex Magazine. Originally from Canada, she now lives in Pennsylvania.