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.
There are few entertainment fields that Rhianna Pratchett hasn’t written for. In her award-winning work for games, she’s crafted titles such as Heavenly Sword, Mirror’s Edge, the entire Overlord series, Tomb Raider, Rise of the Tomb Raider and Lost Words: Beyond the Page. In the world of comics, Rhianna has contributed stories for DC, Dark Horse, Dynamite, Marvel and Kodansha. Some of her favourite achievements in that field include creating an origin story for Red Sonja’s chainmail bikini and having Lara Croft fight bad guys on the London Underground whilst dressed as one of the Bennet sisters.
In film and TV, Rhianna has worked with Motive Pictures, Film4, New Regency, Complete Fiction, The Jim Henson Company and The Bureau. She is also co-director of Narrativia, the multi-media production company who control the rights to the works of Sir Terry Pratchett – her late father.
Most recently, Rhianna wrote the Fighting Fantasy novel Crystal of Storms. The first woman to do so in the history of the nostalgia-inducing franchise. She also co-authored the hilarious Campaigns & Companions: The Complete Roleplaying Guide for Pets.
Rhianna lives in London, likes hard liquor, soft cats, and makes a damn fine tiramisu.