Australian writer, Pauline Yates, likes to explore the dark side of humanity through her stories. Her fiction can be found with publications including Metaphorosis, Abyss & Apex, Redwood Press, Black Hare Press, plus others. She is the winner of the 2020 AHWA Short Story competition.
William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A pillar of the Irish literary establishment, he helped to found the Abbey Theatre, and in his later years served as a Senator of the Irish Free State for two terms. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival along with Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn and others.
William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, he helped to found the Abbey Theatre, and in his later years served as an Irish Senator for two terms, and was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival along with Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn and others.
He was born in Sandymount, Ireland and educated there and in London. He spent childhood holidays in County Sligo and studied poetry from an early age when he became fascinated by Irish legends and the occult. These topics feature in the first phase of his work, which lasted roughly until the turn of the 20th century. His earliest volume of verse was published in 1889, and its slow-paced and lyrical poems display Yeats’s debts to Edmund Spenser, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the poets of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. From 1900, his poetry grew more physical and realistic. He largely renounced the transcendental beliefs of his youth, though he remained preoccupied with physical and spiritual masks, as well as with cyclical theories of life. In 1923, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Caroline M. Yoachim is a photographer and writer currently living in Seattle, Washington. She has published more than two dozen fantasy and science fiction short stories, in markets that include Asimov’s, Lightspeed Magazine, Interzone, and Daily Science Fiction. She is also a favorite author featured on Drabblecast and Toasted Cake. In 2011 Caroline was nominated for a Nebula Award for her novelette “Stone Wall Truth,” which you can read online at her website.
Jessi Ann York’s debut novel, TALONS AND NIGHTSHADE, is forthcoming March 2027 from Wednesday Books, an imprint of Macmillan. You can also find her stories at several professional rate horror markets, including PseudoPod, Vastarien, Cemetery Gates Media, Love Letters to Poe, and more. Her first two stories, “Phases of the Shadow” and “Women of the Mere,” were mentioned as standouts in the Summation section of The Best Horror of the Year Vol. 13, and her last two published stories, “Dimorphism” and “Mother of the Wind,” were also mentioned in Best Horror of the Year Vol. 16. Her creative work is represented by Elizabeth Copps, the founding agent of Copps Literary Services.
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Eris Young is a queer, transgender author of speculative fiction. Their work has appeared in magazines such as Escape Pod, Fusion Fragment and Metastellar, as well as anthologies including Uncanny Bodies, from Luna Press Publishing, and their story All That Water won first prize in the 2021 British Fantasy Society short story competition. They are the fiction editor at Shoreline of Infinity sci fi magazine.
Kenneth Yu is a writer from the Philippines. His work has seen print in his country’s various publications, including the Philippine ezines Usok and Best Of Philippine Speculative Fiction 2009. One of his stories also placed 3rd in the Neil Gaiman-sponsored 3rd Philippine Graphic Fiction Awards in early 2010. Elsewhere, his stories have been accepted by Innsmouth Free Press, The Town Drunk and AlienSkin.
Tracey Yuen, who is involved in education and considers listening to podcasts a big factor in getting himself to “read” fiction and dabbles in photography, videography editing, page layout and narration.