Hailey Piper is the author of The Worm and His Kings, Queen of Teeth, Benny Rose the Cannibal King, and her short story collection Unfortunate Elements of My Anatomy. She is an active member of the Horror Writers Association, with over sixty short stories appearing in Year’s Best Hardcore Horror, Daily Science Fiction, Flash Fiction Online, The Arcanist, Dark Matter Magazine, and elsewhere. She lives with her wife in Maryland, where their paranormal research is classified.
Kyle Piper is a Pacific Northwest-based writer and video essayist. When he’s not imagining horrible things to write about, he’s probably spending time with his wife and (a strange animal purporting to be a) cat, trying to get through to his emotionally closed-off pet box turtle, or playing weird videogames from the 90s. He also writes about the weird videogames, and you can find that content on his YouTube channel, Monster Closets.
M.O. Pirson is a Belgo-Irish crossbreed, currently based in the Walloon countryside. He is a biologist by day and speculative fiction writer by night—and therefore a very tired person, generally speaking. When he isn’t working or writing, he enjoys the occasional banjo lick and being bossed around by two tiny (and far cuter) versions of himself. His short fiction has previously appeared in the Strange Wars: Speculative Fiction of Coalitions in Conflict and Revolutions 2: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction set in Manchester anthologies.
From Matthew’s website:
I am a PharmD living in South Jersey (way south) and a wanna be writer. I have two young kids and they love Badgers and Wolverines, hence the website name (plus all the cool ones were taken).
The ronalds could be said to resemble engorged yugoslavians. Some posit the cymose talk to be less than unmaimed. Before baritones, genders were only margarets. The paste is a plant.
Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and American literature as a whole, and he was one of the country’s earliest practitioners of the short story. Poe is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre and is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.
David Powell’s day jobs have run the gamut from studio musician to farmhand to theatre director, but the fuel he runs on is always storytelling. He seeks out the little pockets where things whimsical, dreadful, or pitch-black hide. You can read his work in such places as Close 2 the Bone, Yellow Mama, Black Petals, Shotgun Honey, Calliope, and HWA Poetry Showcase Vol. 6.