Eleanor R. Wood‘s stories have appeared in Bete Noire, Plasma Frequency, Bastion, and Crossed Genres, among others. She writes and eats licorice from the south coast of England, where she lives with her husband, two marvelous dogs, and enough tropical fish tanks to charge an entry fee.
L. Marie Wood is a dark fiction author, screenwriter, and poet with novels in the psychological horror, mystery, and dark romance genres. She won the Golden Stake Award for her novel The Promise Keeper. She is a recipient of the MICO Award and has won Best Horror, Best Action, Best Afrofuturism/Horror/Sci-Fi, and Best Short Screenplay awards in both national and international film festivals. Wood’s short fiction has been published in groundbreaking works, including the Bram Stoker Award Finalist anthology, Sycorax’s Daughters and Slay: Stories of the Vampire Noire. She is also part of the 2022 Bookfest Book Award winning poetry anthology, Under Her Skin. Her academic writing has been published by Nightmare Magazine and in the cross-curricular text, Conjuring Worlds: An Afrofuturist Textbook. Wood is the founder of the Speculative Fiction Academy, an English and Creative Writing professor, a horror scholar with a PhD in Creative Writing and an MFA in Speculative Fiction, and a frequent contributor to the conversation around the evolution of genre fiction. Learn more about L. Marie Wood at www.lmariewood.com.
Mjke’s short stories – horror, sci-fi and fantasy – have appeared in several magazines and anthologies, including Analog, Baen’s Universe and Intergalactic Medicine show. He’s a past winner of both Writers of the Future and the Jim Baen Memorial contest. Mjke’s longer fiction includes Deep Space Accountant, the first in his three-book Sphere of Influence series, and he’s currently putting the finishing touches to a stand-alone novel, Old Man in a Spacesuit, which he expects to be released later this year. Mjke lives on the Wirral, UK, with his wife, Sarah, a botanical artist.
Peter Wood was the audio producer for PodCastle from 2009-2018 and remains immensely proud of his work there. Currently he is an Instructional Assistant Professor at the University of Mississippi where he teaches a number of theatre classes. He has also been releasing music as These Liminal Days (https://theseliminaldays.com)
Before becoming a full time author, Simon designed equipment that stopped oil rigs from leaking and kept drinking water clean, raced single seater cars in the UK, tried to cure his fears of heights by becoming a licensed pilot, and along with his wife, Julie, made ends meet by becoming a private investigator and going undercover in casinos to catch gambling cheats.
Under her full name, Trisha J. Wooldridge writes short stories, novellas, novels, news articles, and poetry about bad-ass faeries, carnivorous horses, social justice witches, Tarot cards, vengeful spirits—and mundane stuff like food, hay-eating horses, social justice debates, Goth bands, writer advice, and alcoholic spirits. Her recent publications include stories and poems Gothic Fantasy Supernatural Horror, Dark Luminous Wings, Wicked Haunted, the upcoming food and poetry collection Darkling’s Beasts and Brews, and she’ll be included in the HWA Poetry Showcase Volume 5. She’s a freelance editor of over fifty novels and two anthologies. As child-friendly T.J. Wooldridge, she’s published poetry and three spooky children’s books. She spends rare moments of mystical “free time” with a very patient Husband-of-Awesome, a calico horse, and a bratty tabby cat. Join her adventures at www.anovelfriend.com.
Everil Worrell wrote no less than 19 stories for Weird Tales and made the cover three times: “The Bird of Space” (September 1926) with art by E.M Stevenson; “The Gray Killer” (November 1929) with art by C.C. Senf; and “Once There Was a Little Girl” (January 1953) with art by Frank Kelly Freas. Having published stories in Weird Tales between 1926 and the mid-1950s, when the publication first gave up the ghost, Worrell is considered the magazine’s most frequent contributor over such a long expanse of time. Worrell’s daughter recounted that her parents “had the walls of their apartment decorated with the artwork for her stories and the covers of issues of Weird Tales. When I was born, however, they thought they’d better take the pictures down because they didn’t want to frighten the baby!”
Cheyenne Wright is a freelance illustrator and concept artist. He is the color artist on the three-time Hugo Award winning steampunk graphic novel series Girl Genius, and co-creator of many other fine works; Including 50 Fathoms and the Ennie award winning Deadlands Noir for the Savage Worlds RPG. He has also produced graphics for Star Trek Online, the Champions MMO, and t-shirt designs for T.V.’s Alton Brown. He lives in Seattle with his wife, their daughter, and an ever growing stack of unpainted miniatures. In his spare time he is teaching himself animation, and narrates short stories for a variety of audio anthologies where he is known as Podcasting’s Mr. Buttery ManVoice ™