Suzan Palumbo is a Trinidadian-Canadian speculative fiction writer and editor. Her short fiction has been nominated for the Nebula, Aurora and World Fantasy Awards. She also cofounded the Ignyte Awards with L.D. Lewis and edited the Strange Horizons Caribbean issue with Marika Bailey. Her dark fantasy/horror collection, “Skin Thief: Stories” was published by Neon Hemlock in 2023 and her novella “Countess” will be published by ECW Press in 2024. Her work has been featured in The Dark Magazine, Lightspeed, Nightmare and PseudoPod. When she isn’t writing, she can be found listening to new wave, sketching or wandering her local misty forest. Find her on Instagram at gothicsyntax and on her website at suzanpalumbo.wordpress.com She is officially represented by Michael Curry of the Donald Maass Literary Agency.

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NORMAN PATRIDGE‘s Halloween novel, DARK HARVEST, was chosen by PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY as one of the 100 Best Books of 2006. Author of six short story collections, including LESSER DEMONS and JOHNNY HALLOWEEN, Partridge’s fiction ranges from dark suspense to horror to the fantastic. He can be found online at Norman Partridge.com and he also blogs at American Frankenstein. A new novella, “The Mummy’s Heart,” is coming soon in HALLOWEEN: MAGIC, MYSTERY, & THE MACABRE edited by Paula Guran.

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Den lives and works in London. His first three books for Gollancz, the War Fighting Manuals, were released in the autumn of 2013. Three novels, The Erebus Sequence, have been completed: The Boy with the Porcelain Blade, The Boy Who Wept Blood and The Girl on the Liar’s Throne.

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Alex exists in Stafford, and one day hopes to meet the Black Eyed Girl of Cannock Chase. His work has previously appeared in ChiZine magazine, and he is almost finished writing a set of horror sonnets about the seaside.

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K. A. (or Kay) Patterson lives in the outskirts of Pittsburgh. She is the creator and senior editor of AlienSkin Magazine. Her tales have appeared in numerous print and online magazines, with her most work appearing or upcoming in Murky Depths, From the Asylum, Apex Digest; and in the anthologies, Read By Dawn with Ramsey Campbell, Black Box, and FlashSpec II.

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Andrew Paul’s recent fiction work is included in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, as well as the anthologies, “Mississippi Noir,” published by Akashic Books, and “Thuglit: Last Writes.” His nonfiction has been featured in numerous online and print publications, including Virginia Quarterly Review, Oxford American, Hazlitt, VICE Media, The A.V. Club, and Tablet. He currently lives in New Orleans, Louisiana, and online at www.andrewpaulwrites.com and @anandypaul.

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Dagny Paul is a lapsed English teacher, failed artist, and sometimes writer who lives in New Orleans, Louisiana. She has an unhealthy (but entertaining) obsession with comic books and horror movies, which she consumes whenever her five-year-old son will let her (which isn’t often). Dagny was Assistant Editor of PseudoPod, and guest editor for Pseudopod’s Artemis Rising 3 event in 2017.

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Sarah Pauling spent several years sending other people to distant places for a living as a study abroad advisor in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She’s now in Seattle, graciously sharing her home with two cats and a husband. A graduate of the Viable Paradise workshop, her stories have appeared in places like Strange Horizons, Escape Pod, and Clarkesworld. If approached without sudden movement, she can be found at @_paulings on Twitter, where she natters on about writing, tabletop gaming, comics, and books

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