Lucy A. Snyder is a five-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author. She wrote the novels Spellbent, Shotgun Sorceress, and Switchblade Goddess, the nonfiction book Shooting Yourself in the Head for Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide, and the collections While the Black Stars Burn, Soft Apocalypses, Orchid Carousals, Sparks and Shadows, Chimeric Machines, and Installing Linux on a Dead Badger. Her writing has been translated into French, Russian, Italian, Czech, and Japanese editions and has appeared in publications such as Apex Magazine, Nightmare Magazine, Pseudopod, Strange Horizons, Weird Tales, Scary Out There, Seize the Night, and Best Horror of the Year. She lives in Columbus, Ohio and is faculty in Seton Hill University’s MFA program in Writing Popular Fiction.

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Fyodor Sologub was a Russian poet, novelist, translator, and playwright, a pessimist with a morbid sense of humour (characteristic elements of European fin de siècle literature and philosophy), and a significant figure of the Symbolist movement. Sologub became in Russia one of the four best-known writers in his time with Andreyev, Kuprin, and Gorky. His reputation as an “archetypal decadent” stemmed from his early prose works, which are characterized by the blending of reality and fantasies, quietly demonic spirit, world-weariness, and existential despair. “It’s life that’s the dream / I relinquish the old lies / And the torturing of time.” Sologub’s child characters are often haunted by abnormal psychic experiences and a longing for death. He died in Leningrad on December 5, 1927. He was said never to have been seen laughing during the whole of his life.

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V. Astor Solomon is a queer, nonbinary, disabled, mixed-race author residing in lower Kentucky. Their stories are anything from sweet and a little strange, to deep and treading water, lost in the night and gasping for breath. Their work has been featured in various venues and anthologies and their website is howsweetthewords.com where you can find social media and a bibliography.

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Madeline Ruth Somerville is a political messaging strategist, writer, musician, and lapsed cosmetologist  from North Carolina, and a podcast fiction super-fan.

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BENJAMIN SONNENBERG will be attending Towson University next fall, where he will be majoring in history, with the goal of becoming a history teacher and writer.

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Sean D. Sorrentino lives in the Raleigh, North Carolina area with his wife and his dogs.

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Originally born in Texas, Trendane Sparks eventually escaped and wound his way through a mystical series of jobs in the San Francisco Bay Area where he has worked as a software quality assurance tester for both graphics drivers and video games, a freelance mascot performer, and several jobs on a PBS kids’ show. For most of his life, people have told him that his voice is a pleasure to listen to. But since being a werewolf phone sex operator can get boring, he decided to use his powers to entertain a broader audience.

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Sophie Sparrow is the author of half a dozen pieces of short fiction which have appeared in venues such as Arsenika, Mad Scientist Journal, and (Dis)Ability: An Anthology. She has worked as a content writer, transcriptionist, and film & TV extra. She lives in London with her partner and not enough cats. Keep up to date with what she’s doing at www.writersophiesparrow.com or on Twitter @_sophiesparrow

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