Margaret Gabrielle Vere Long was born in the hour between All Saints Day and All Souls Day and grew up in a haunted house. Using the pseudonym Marjorie Bowen, she became one of the most prolific gothic authors of her time and whose influence is still felt. Find out more about her (and the other two ladies featured earlier this month) by picking up Monster She Wrote written by our friends Lisa Kroger and Melanie R. Anderson.
Hannah Wolf Bowen has had fiction appear in Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, Polyphony 6, Fantasy Magazine, Strange Horizons, Abyss & Apex, Ideomancer, The Fortean Bureau, and Alchemy. She also served as fiction editor of Chiaroscuro, a webzine devoted to dark fiction.
Jeff Bowles is a science fiction and horror writer from the mountains of Colorado. The best of his outrageous and imaginative short stories are collected in Godling and Other Paint Stories, Fear and Loathing in Las Cruces, and Brave New Multiverse. He has published work in magazines and anthologies like PodCastle, Black Static, the Threepenny Review, and Dark Moon Digest. Jeff earned his Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing at Western State Colorado University. He currently lives in the high-altitude Pikes Peak region, where he dreams strange dreams and spends far too much time under the stars.
Lillian Boyd (she/her) is an editor, writer, and slushie enthusiast who lives in Los Angeles. Her work has been published in The Hundreds, CLASH, Literary Orphans, Leveler, Blast Furnace, Rust+Moth, and a slew of other tiny-yet-gutsy presses. She once commandeered the blog on Ultimate Coupons to write too many articles about Tom Waits, and she also co-hosts the podcast Rank & Vile, which is honest-to-God ranking every horror movie ever made.
Give her trouble on Twitter @herelieslill, where she mostly tweets about slasher movies and Golden Girls. She never sleeps.
Russell Bradbury-Carlin is a part-time writer living in Western Massachusetts. His short stories have appeared in Midnight Screaming, Lark’s Fiction Magazine, Weird Year, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, amongst others. You can find out more at Russellbradburycarlin.com.
Melinda Brasher spends her time writing, traveling, and teaching English as a second language in places like Poland, Mexico, the Czech Republic, and Arizona. She loves the sound of glaciers calving and the smell of old books.
You can find her short fiction in Timeless Tales, Nous, Ellipsis Literature and Art, Intergalactic Medicine Show, and others, or in Leaving Home, an e-book collection of some of her favorite published stories and travel essays. For something a little more medieval, read her YA fantasy novel, Far-Knowing.
Visit her online at http://www.melindabrasher.com
Daniel Braum is the author of the short story collections Night Marchers and Other Strange Tales (Cemetery Dance 2016) and The Wish Mechanics: Stories of the Strange and Fantastic (Independent Legions Publishing 2017) His short stories have appeared in publications including several appearances in Cemetery Dance Magazine and anthologies including The Beauty of Death 2 and Nightscripts 3. He is the host of the Night Time Logic reading series in New York. Visit him at bloodandstardust.wordpress.com.
Rhoads has written stories across the entire spectrum of speculative fiction, from light fantasy to the most decrepit tales of horror to quirky sci-fi. His works can be found in Ellen Datlow’s “The Best Horror of the Year,” Apex Magazine, “Death’s Realm” by Grey Matter Press, “Gaia: Shadow and Breath” anthologies vols. 1 & 2, and many other collections. He has a soft spot in his heart for Lovecraft, the poetically ingenious, and tales which give us reasons to cherish our own sanity. His regency horror series, “The Ladies Bristol: The Devil’s Trill,” is now available from Grey Matter Press. Rhoads currently lives in Colorado with his wife and son.