Steve Vernon has had stories appear in The Horror Show, Cemetery Dance, Flesh and Blood, Chthulhu Sex, Karl Edward Wagner’s YEAR’S BEST HORROR, HOT BLOOD XIII and many other anthologies, magazines and the occasional men’s room wall. Keep up with Steve Vernon’s writing at his blog YOURS IN STORYTELLING.
Emily Ruth Verona is a Pinch Literary Award winner and a Bram Stoker Awards® nominee with work featured in magazines and anthologies that include Under Her Skin, Mystery Tribune, The Ghastling, Coffin Bell, Rust & Moth, The Jewish Book of Horror, Rust & Moth, and Nightmare Magazine. Her debut thriller, MIDNIGHT ON BEACON STREET, will be published by Harper Perennial January 2024. She lives in New Jersey with a small dog.
P.C. Verrone is an Afro-Native writer of Kiowa and Osage descent. His work has appeared in Nightmare, FIYAH, PodCastle, Strange Horizons, and numerous anthologies, including the sequel to the bestselling Never Whistle at Night. He has received the Otherwise Award, a Tin House Residency, and won WNDB’s Black Creatives Revisions Workshop. He graduated from Harvard College and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Rutgers University–Newark. His debut novel Rabbit, Fox, Tar is forthcoming in June 2026. He lives with his husband and their dog, Apollo. You can find him at pcverrone.com, Instagram: pat.the.carroll, and Bluesky: pcverrone.com
THOMAS VICINANZO works in Mount Vernon, NY and writes fantasy and horror when he gets the chance. Some day his fantasy novel will be done (not the bad one, the good one), and all his true friends will read it and say it’s nice.
As a fine art professional, Mar has wielded katanas and handled Lady Gaga’s shoes. As a veterinary assistant, she has cared for hairless cats, hedgehogs, and, one time, a coyote. As a writer, her short fiction can be found in Analog, Strange Horizons, Escape Pod, and many other publications. She is a reader for Interstellar Flight Press and Diabolical Plots and a graduate of the Wayward Wormhole. She resides in the Pacific Northwest or can be found on various social media @?MaroftheBooks.
Troy Volin is a fan of all science fiction. He lives in Chapel Hill, NC where he raises children, develops software, and develops other software developers.
Kevin Wabaunsee is a speculative fiction writer living in Chicago. He is a graduate of the Viable Paradise writer’s workshop, and his fiction has previously appeared in Escape Pod, where he is also an associate editor. He is a Prairie Band Potawatomi. Find him on Twitter @lethophobe and at kevinwabaunsee.com.
Seth Wade is a tech ethicist studying and teaching philosophy at Bowling Green State University. You can read his fiction and poetry in publications like Strange Horizons, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, Hunger Mountain Review, PsuedoPod, Apparition Literary Magazine, HAD, hex, The Cafe Irreal, Lost Balloon, X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, BAM Quarterly, Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, and The Gateway Review. He is also a Pushcart Prize nominee.