Rasheedah Prioleau is an award winning southern writer with an eclectic range of screenwriting and ghostwriting credits. She graduated from Georgia College & State University with a BS in Art & Marketing and went on to earn her MFA in Creative Writing from Full Sail University. Her self-published novels include the southern dark fantasy series, American Specter and the Gullah horror novel, Everlasting: Da Eb’bulastin. They can be found in paperback on Amazon and downloaded on Kindle. She currently resides in Sumter County, South Carolina.

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John Purfield is a 28 year old Army veteran living in Denver, Colorado with his family and two dogs.

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Dorothy Gertrude Quick was the pan name for Dorothy Gertrude Quick Mayer, a prolific writer of horror, detective fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Born in Brooklyn to a wealthy family, Quick met Samuel Clemens (a.k.a. Mark Twain) in 1907 while on board the SS Minnetonka, and the two became close friends. Later, Quick gave credit to Twain for encouraging her to write, and she lectured extensively on their friendship. Her 1961 memoir of the great American author, Mark Twain and Me, was the basis for a 1991 Disney movie of the same name. Quick married John Adams Mayer in 1925 (a society event noteworthy enough to merit mention in Time magazine’s “Milestones” column) but published under her maiden name throughout her life. She made her first genre fiction sale to Farnsworth Wright, the editor of Oriental Stories, in 1932 and went on to contribute stories and poems to Wright’s more successful editing venture, Weird Tales, for more than twenty years.

This bio is an excerpt from the excellent anthology Sisters of Tomorrow edited by Lisa Yazsek and Patrick B. Sharp. Pick it up for more information on dozens of influential women during the pulp era breaking ground in fiction, poetry, nonfiction, editing, and art. Or just pick it up to read a pack of excellent stories and other writing. PseudoPod subscribers may remember “The Cracks of Time” which is another Dorothy Quick story we ran as part of our Century of Horror centered around celebration of our 500^th episode, and here we are again 250 episodes later. Keep subscribing, as we’ll have another Quick story coming at you soon.

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Narrator, writer and hypnotherapist Sofia Quintero is a Gen-X Afro-Latina “Ivy League homegirl” who was raised in the Bronx when it was burning. As a writer, she has published six novels across genres and with every major house including the critically acclaimed YA novels Efrain’s Secret and Show and Prove. When not developing her own projects, Sofia revels in supporting others in telling their stories. Most recently she co-authored MISS ME WITH THAT with Rachel Lindsay, the first Black lead of THE BACHELORETTE and the memoir GANGS OF ZION with Ron Stallworth, the NYT bestselling author of BLACK KLANSMAN.

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Horacio Quiroga (1878-1937) was a Uruguayan playwright, poet, and short story writer. He wrote stories which used the supernatural and the bizarre and excelled in portraying mental illness and hallucinatory states. He was an obsessive reader of Edgar Allan Poe and Guy de Maupassant, and was attracted to topics covering the most intriguing aspects of nature, often tinged with horror, disease, insanity and human suffering. Many of his stories belong to this movement, embodied in his work Tales of Love, Madness and Death. His influence can be seen in the Latin American magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez and the postmodern surrealism of Julio Cortázar. He committed suicide, due to the extreme pain of advanced prostate cancer, by drinking cyanide in 1937.

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R.J. Gerard is a sci-fi writer and journalist who was born in Virginia. He currently lives in Taiwan with his wife, two cats, and a very overworked coffee machine.

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Dan Rabarts is the author of the grimdark-steampunk-madcap fantasy novel Brothers of the Knife, first in the Children of Bane series, and co-authors the supernatural tech-noir crime thriller series The Path of Ra with Lee Murray. He narrates stories for Tales to Terrify and Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and hides on the web at dan.rabarts.com.

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Dom is an artist living in Silver Spring, Maryland. He is the creator of Dom’s Sketch Cast, a show that runs on YouTube. DSC features interviews with creative individuals, animations, and other experimental art videos: youtube.com/generaldom.

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