E. Catherine Tobler has sold more than 130 science fiction and fantasy short stories to markets such as Clarkesworld, Apex, Lightspeed, Fantasy, and Interzone. Her short fiction has been a finalist for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award and the Nebula Award. Her editorial work at Shimmer and The Deadlands has made her a finalist for the Hugo Award, the World Fantasy Award, and the Locus Award.
Tol has had a varied career, including as a hostage negotiator, car repairer and professional artist. He’s currently a lawyer (mostly in the video gaming, AI and social media fields). Technically, he’s been trained by ninjas and the SAS. In his own time he’s re-learning French and the piano, and taking up cage fighting. He summers on the Côte d’Azur and winters in London, England (and wonders if those are the right way round).
Brenda S. Tolian, MFA, is a writer in New Orleans and author of Blood Mountain, published by Raw Dog Screaming Press. Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies such as 101 Proof Horror, Consumed Tales Inspired by The Wendigo, The Jewish Book Of Horror, and Twisted Pulp Magazine issue 3. Her poetry has appeared in various publications, and she was a featured poet for the HWA publication Showcase Vol.8. The story “Ba’alat Ov” is one of many great stories contained in the Denver Horror Collectives, The Jewish Book of Horror. Find more information at brendatolian.com
Jolie Toomajan is a writer, editor, and all-around ghoul. Her work has appeared in Upon a Thrice Time, Death in the Mouth, Apex, Remains, and Black Static (among other places), and she is the Shirley Jackson Award-winning editor of Aseptic and Faintly Sadistic: An Anthology of Hysteria Fiction. She has a PhD in English, and her dissertation focused on the women who wrote for Weird Tales. Despite all of this, she thinks the tapping sound on the window is probably nothing. You can find her on BlueSky and Instagram.
Sarah has been published in numerous venues including Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2011 Edition.
Paul Tremblay has won the Bram Stoker, British Fantasy, Sheridan Le Fanu, and Massachusetts Book awards and is the New York Times bestselling author of Horror Movie: A Novel, Another, The Beast You Are, The Pallbearers Club, Survivor Song, Growing Things and Other Stories, Disappearance at Devil’s Rock, A Head Full of Ghosts, and the crime novels The Little Sleep and No Sleep Till Wonderland. His novel The Cabin at the End of the World was adapted into the Universal Pictures film “Knock at the Cabin.” His next novel, Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep, will be published in summer 2026.
His essays and short fiction have appeared in the New York Times, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, and numerous “year’s best” anthologies. He lives outside of Boston, Massachusetts and has a master’s degree in Mathematics.
Brian Trent’s science-fiction and dark fantasy has appeared in Escape Pod, ANALOG, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Nature, COSMOS, Daily Science Fiction, Galaxy’s Edge, and much more. He blogs at www.briantrent.com. His new dark fantasy series, “Rahotep,” is available for Kindle.