Shirley Jackson award-winner Kaaron Warren published her first short story in 1993 and has had fiction in print every year since. She was given the Peter McNamara Lifetime Achievement Award and was Guest of Honour at World Fantasy 2018, Stokercon 2019 and Geysercon 2019.  She has also been Guest of Honour at Conflux in Canberra and Genrecon in Brisbane. She has lived in Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra and Fiji, drawing inspiration from every place. 2023 has seen publication of two novellas. “The Deathplace Set” from Crystal Lake Publishing, and “Bitters” from Cemetery Dance.

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Richard “Rich” Warren is a freelance writer who has contributed to FASA and other RPGs.

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Douglas F. Warrick lives in Dayton, Ohio where he teaches creative writing to (and plays charades with) the brilliant students at Stivers School for the Arts. His fiction has appeared in Apex Magazine, Daily Science Fiction.com, The Drabblecast, and a variety of anthologies. His collection of short fiction, Plow the Bones, was published by Apex Publications in 2013. He has published essays in Killscreen and The Battle Royale Slam Book.

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Desmond Warzel lives in northwestern Pennsylvania, where he’d write a lot more if he didn’t have to work for a living. This is his first appearance on Pseudopod, though his stories have graced Escape Pod and Cast of Wonders, as well as the Drabblecast and the Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine. Upcoming or recent publications include a new tale at Abyss & Apex and a story in the anthology Forgotten Sidekicks from Kristell Ink.

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 John Waterfall is a writer living in Brooklyn and a graduate of the New School’s creative writing MFA program. A proud father of two cats and one baby girl. His work can be found in Jersey Devil Press, Unnerving Magazine, Underland Press and others.

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JULIA WATSON is a freelance writer and editor, and a graduate of UCR’s Palm Desert Low-Residency MFA program in Creative Writing, where she studied screenwriting and fiction. She lives near San Diego, CA and is currently at work on a TV pilot script and a YA fantasy novel. She also has an indie short film, FOREVER HOLLYWOOD (a 16-minute zombie movie she co-wrote and assistant produced). For more info and updates about the film, see its Facebook Page. And you can find her on Twitter at @wordnerditis.

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D.P. Watt lives between Scotland and England in an otherworldly, misty borderland. His stories have appeared with Eibonvale, Egaeus, Zagava, Sarob and Swan River Presses, amongst others. He has four short story collections. His third collection Almost Insentient, Almost Divine was published in 2016 by Undertow Publications and was nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award, as was his story ‘Blood and Smoke, Vinegar and Ashes’ in 2018. His most recent collection, Petals and Violins, is available from Tartarus Press.

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