James L. Sutter‘s short fiction has appeared in such venues as Escape Pod (“Overclocking”) and Podcastle (“Ties of Silver”) – woo, triple crown! – Apex Magazine, and the #1 Amazon bestseller MACHINE OF DEATH. His first novel, DEATH’S HERETIC (it’s a dimension-hopping Middle Eastern fantasy story about an atheist forced to work as a problem-solver for the goddess of death) was ranked #3 on Barnes & Noble’s Best Fantasy Releases of 2011, and is currently a finalist for the Compton Crook Award for Best First Novel. His anthology BEFORE THEY WERE GIANTS pairs the first published short stories of speculative fiction greats with new advice and instructional critiques by the authors themselves. He’s also a co-creator of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game and the Fiction Editor for Paizo Publishing, and has published dozens of roleplaying game products. He lives in Seattle with 4 roommates and a fully functional death ray.

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Rachel Swirsky was a founding editor of PodCastle, along with Ann Leckie.

Rachel’s short stories have appeared in Tor,Subterranean Magazine, and Clarkesworld, and been reprinted in year’s best anthologies edited by Strahan, Horton, Dozois, and the VanderMeers. She holds an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers Workshop, and graduated from Clarion West in 2005.

Her short  fiction has been nominated for the Hugo Award, the Locus Award, the World Fantasy Award, and the Sturgeon Award. She’s twice won the Nebula Award, in 2010 for her novella, The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen’s Window and in 2014 for her short story, If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love.

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Morgan Sylvia is an Aquarius, a metalhead, a coffee addict, a beer snob, and a work in progress. A former obituarist, she is now working as a full-time freelance writer. Her work has appeared in several anthologies, including Wicked Witches, Wicked Haunted, Northern Frights, Twice Upon An Apocalypse, Endless Apocalypse, The Final Summons, and Haunted House Short Stories. She is the author of a horror poetry collection, Whispers From The Apocalypse; a horror novel; Abode; and a fantasy novel, Dawn: Book 1 of The Aris Trilogy. Her most recent work is As The Seas Turn Red, an ocean-themed poetry collection. She lives in Maine with her boyfriend, two cats, and a chubby goldfish, and belongs to the New England Horror Writers, New England Speculative Writers, and Tuesday Mayhem Society. You can follow her online at morgansylvia.com.

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John F.D. Taff is a Bram Stoker Award®-Nominated author with more than 30 years experience, 90+ short stories and five novels in print.  His first fiction collection, Little Deaths, was named the best horror collection of 2012 by HorrorTalk.  Jack Ketchum called his novella collection, The End in All Beginnings, “one of the best novella collections I’ve read.”  His new fiction collection, Little Black Spots, will be available from Grey Matter Press in the Spring of 2018.  Look for more of his work in anthologies such as Cutting Block Book’s Single Slices, Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories, The Beauty of Death, Shadows Over Main Street 2 and Behold: Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders.  Taff lives in the wilds of Illinois with three pugs, two cats and one long-suffering wife.

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Alyson lives in Maryland, where she got married, had her daughter, and began her writing journey. She has appeared in (mac)ro(mic), Wrongdoing Magazine, Pyre Magazine, and HAD, among others. You can find her on Amazon, and Twitter @rudexvirus1

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W.B. Talman (1904-1986) was born in 1904 in Spring Valley, NY. He was a correspondent with Lovecraft, a late member of the Kalem Club, and wrote at least 3 other pieces of horror short fiction in the 1930s, as well as some poems. Late in life he wrote the memoir The Normal Lovecraft (1973).

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J.Y. Tan is a Malaysian-Chinese writer and freelance translator. An alumnus of the 2023 Futurescapes Writer’s Workshop, her short stories have appeared in 3 consecutive volumes of the NutMag zine series, as well as the “NutMag: Home Groan” anthology. She also co-curated a reprint anthology titled “The Best of Malaysian Writing in English 2010—2020” in 2022. Currently, she is trying to get her first novel published before she gets distracted by another shiny plot idea, with mixed results. She can be found on Twitter at https://twitter.com/jytan6

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