Tad Callin is an Associate Editor at Pseudopod and the Wikia Wrangler for Escape Artists, Inc. He has had many adventures over the years, serving as a linguist in the U.S. Air Force, failing at truck driving, and raising his family. He published most of those stories in his 2016 memoir/novelTad’s Happy Funtime. Other previous published work includes an urban fantasy story, “Silver,” published on the Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine podcast. His current projects include finishing his family history, drafting a sci-fi novel, and completing his long-dormant music degree.

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STEVE CALVERT (usually) lives in the UK. He usually writes horror fiction, but occasionally writes in other genres. His fiction has been published in Arkham Tales, Hub, and Necrotic Tissue. Further slices of his fiction can be read in his horror anthology Written in Blood, which is available in the Amazon Kindle store.

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Madhu Campbell grew up in India and currently lives in California with three cats, two dogs, one baby and a very patient husband. She writes science-fiction, fantasy, and horror stories rooted in the histories, mythologies and experiences of South Asian communities. Her work has recently appeared in Bowery Gothic magazine and she graduated from Wayward Wormhole writing workshop in 2023. You can find more of her writing at www.mgcauthor.com.

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Ramsey Campbell is a British writer considered by a number of critics to be one of the great masters of horror fiction. T. E. D. Klein has written that “Campbell reigns supreme in the field today,” while S. T. Joshi has said that “future generations will regard him as the leading horror writer of our generation, every bit the equal of Lovecraft or Blackwood.”

Says Campbell: “It can be argued that my timidity or at least my restraint is why I remain. I’ve never gone for broke and tried to write the most horrifying tale I can concoct, because I don’t quite see the point. To quote the critic David Aylward, as I very often do: ‘writers [of horror fiction], who used to strive for awe and achieve fear, now strive for fear and achieve only disgust’ – and it seems to me that too much straining for terror is wont to produce nothing more than a disgusting dump. If I can’t approach awe, I’d rather try for the other quality I value most in dark fiction, not exclusively in generic horror – a lingering disquiet. I may have felt that way ever since I first encountered Herman Melville’s ‘Bartleby’ in the 1957 anthology Best Horror Stories and didn’t feel cheated out of any of the pocket money I’d saved up to buy the book. Soon I found the quality in work such as the novels of Thomas Hinde and Samuel Beckett, not to mention films such as Last Year in Marienbad and Los Olvidados. I see no reason why fiction packaged as horror can’t achieve these effects of disturbance and dislocation. One definition of good art is that it makes you look again at things you’ve taken for granted, and that can certainly be true of horror.” Ramsey blogs at Ramsey Campbell.com.

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Scott Campbell searches for challenges that will increase his skills for the battles to come. The slush pile underneath PseudoPod Towers is a worthy opponent. Scott started as an associate editor at PseudoPod in 2016, he become Web Wrangler in 2021, and ascended to Assistant Editor in 2022. He is an invaluable resource for not only his assistance with reviewing stories but also helping to build all the blog posts and ensuring our website and bios are up to date.  

He also writes, directs, and performs for the queer (in every sense of the word) cabaret The Mickee Faust Club. He also write far too infrequently at the official online home of the Sleep Deprivation Institute (and pop culture website) Needcoffee.com. He lives in Florida with absolutely no pets.

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Shannyn Campbell graduated from the University of Wollongong’s Creative Writing Program with Distinction (no, that’s not the one from the Monty Python sketch). She lives in Wollongong and spends her days as a Disability Support Worker. Her most recent work has been writing episodes for the web series Wolfgang, where a bunch of millennia werewolf’s battle boredom during their monthly quarantine.

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VG Campen lives in a kudzu-infested corner of North Carolina with one spouse and various animals.  After decades of reading, she began writing speculative fiction and horror.  It’s never too late to start!  Her work has published in venues including Pseudopod, Analog, Tales to Terrify, and Metaphorosis.  She is, of course, working on a novel.

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Isabel Cañas is a Mexican-American speculative fiction writer, a PhD candidate in late medieval Islamicate literature, and a 2018 graduate of Clarion West. Her recent work can be found in Lightspeed Magazine and Nightmare Magazine.

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