Shane Jiraiya Cummings has been acknowledged as “one of Australia’s leading voices in dark fantasy”. Shane is the author of Shards, The Abandonment of Grace and Everything After, the Apocrypha Sequence (Deviance, Divinity, Insanity, and Inferno), and the Ravenous Gods cycle (Requiem for the Burning Godand Dreams of Destruction).

He is the editor of the Amazon bestselling anthology Rage Against the Night,award-winning non-fiction publications HorrorScope and Black: Australian Dark Culture, as well as Shadowed Realms (creative director), Shadow Box, Black Box, Australian Dark Fantasy & Horror Volume One, Dead of Night: The Best of Midnight Echo, Midnight Echo #2, and Robots & Time. Shane is the current Executive Editor of Midnight Echo.

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Philip Everett Curtiss (1885 – 1964) was a politician, novelist, and newspaper reporter. He served in the Connecticut Legislature from 1941 to 1947 and was a trial justice in Norfolk for fifteen years beginning in 1940. His stories were published in various magazines, including Harper’s Magazine.

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Nicole Cushing is the Bram Stoker Award® winning author of Mr. Suicide and a two-time nominee for the Shirley Jackson Award.

Various reviewers have described her work as “brutal”, “cerebral”, “transgressive”, “taboo”, “groundbreaking” and “mind-bending”. This Is Horror has said that she is “quickly becoming a household name for horror fans”. She has also garnered praise from Jack Ketchum, Rue Morgue, Thomas Ligotti, John Skipp, S.T. Joshi, Poppy Z. Brite, Ray Garton, Famous Monsters of Filmland, and Ain’t It Cool News.

An Italian translation of Mr. Suicide (titled Mister Suicidio) was recently published by Independent Legions Publishing.

A native of Maryland, Nicole now lives with her husband in Indiana.

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Joseph Cusumano is a physician living in St. Louis. His major hobby, other than writing, is the design and construction of radio controlled airplanes. His piloting skills need a lot of work. His writing in 2016 has been accepted by Crimson Streets, Mystery Weekly, Disturbed Digest, Flash Fiction Press, Heater, and Litmag (University of Missouri).

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Dani Cutler has been part of the podcasting community since 2006, hosting and producing her own podcast through 2013. She currently works for KWSS independent radio in Phoenix as their midday announcer, and also organizes a technology conference each year for Phoenix residents to connect with others in the podcast, video, and online community.

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Elaine Cuyegkeng is a Chinese-Filipino writer. She grew up in Manila, where there are many, many creaky old houses with ghosts inside them. She writes about eldritch creatures, monsters with human faces and the old, old story of art and revolution. She now lives in Melbourne with her partner.

Elaine has been published in Strange Horizons, Lackington’s, The Dark, Rocket Kapre, and now, Pseudopod! You can find her on @layangabi on Twitter.

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Drew lives in Ottawa, Canada with his family, golden retriever and, depending on the season, about three feet of snow. He has previously been published in Pseudopod and can be found online at All of Algonquin where he writes non-fiction stories about paddling in Ontario’s Algonquin Provincial Park.

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Eric Czuleger is originally from Los Angeles, where he is a founding member of the Courage Theatre Company. He was a playwright for years before he joined the Peace Corps. He currently lives in the town of Bajram Curri, Albania, where he is a High School English teacher. “Immortal L.A.” is the first story in his forthcoming series of the same name, the book IMMORTAL L.A., a series of short weird fiction about a big weird city. You can also find some of Eric’s prievious work at Live Theatre Blog and on Facebook at “Live Theatre Blog”. Also if you’re in the L.A. Area, go and see a show at the Coeurage Theatre company, a great theatre that is always pay-what-you-want. Check us out at Coeurage Theatre Company.

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