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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D.K. Wayrd lives in a kudzu-infested corner of North Carolina with one spouse, various animals, and an alter-ego who writes science fiction and fantasy. She enjoys long road trips on twisting backroads, reading until her eyeballs burn, and searching for inter-dimensional portals.

Her work has appeared in Shock Totem, Analog, Daily Science Fiction, and elsewhere. She wishes she had a forthcoming novel to mention but hey, maybe next time.

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Michael Wehunt is a semi-reclusive creature living in the trees of Atlanta with his partner and their dog. Together, they hold the horrors at bay. He is the author of the collections Greener Pastures and The Inconsolables, and his debut novel, The October Film Haunt, is forthcoming from St. Martin’s Press. His work has been a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award, shortlisted for the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts’ Crawford Award, and published in Spain, where it garnered nominations for the Premio Ignotus and Premio Amaltea, winning the latter. Find him in the digital woods at www.michaelwehunt.com.

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Joe Weintraub has published fiction, essays, translations, and poetry in all sorts of literary reviews, periodicals, and regional publications throughout the country. Many of his pieces have been anthologized, and he has received awards for fiction and creative nonfiction from, among others, the Illinois Arts Council, the Barrington Arts Council, and Holy Names University. He is currently a member of the Dramatists Guild, and he has had staged readings, radio dramas, and one-act plays produced throughout the USA and Australia. As a translator, he has introduced the Italian horror writer, Nicola Lombardi, to the English-speaking public. 

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Amanda Weiss is associate professor of Japanese at Georgia Institute of Technology, where she teaches courses on Japanese media and society. She is also editor of Hivemind: Global Speculative Fiction and a 2018 graduate of the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop.

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Scott Weisser lives in Goshen, Ind., and works in a local gem of a bookstore. He also writes. His work has been featured on the No Sleep and Creepy podcasts, in the online magazine Flash Bang Mysteries, and will appear in the upcoming Graveside Press anthology Howl. He has been a committed fan of short horror fiction since receiving a copy of Night Shift during the Reagan administration.

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Mat Weller is the servant to a lovely family in eastern Pennsylvania. After his wife and kids go to sleep at night, he sometimes re-watches old episodes of X-Files on Netflix and other times retires to his basement booth where he records noises that get played on the Internet. Rumor has it he also makes delightful chocolate chip cookies.

Oh, and in October 2014, he beat Metroid II for the first time since 1991.

Mat had the honor of producing for Escape Pod from 2010 to 2016. He is also a graphic designer, an amateur voice actor, an amateur father, and he narrates a growing catalog of books for ACX

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