SONYA DORMAN (1924- 2005) was the working name of Sonya Dorman Hess. She is perhaps best known outside of the world of science fiction as a poet, with some of her collections in this form being STRETCHING FENCE and A PAPER RAINCOAT. One of her poems, however, “Corruption of Metals”, received honors within science fiction circles by winning the Rhysling Award of the Science Fiction Poetry Association. Her best-known work of science fiction is the story “When I Was Miss Dow”, which has been reprinted numerous times and received a James Tiptree, Jr. retrospective award nomination. She also wrote four books in the YA series ROXY RIMIDON OF THE PLANET PATROL. She said of herself “I have been a cook, receptionist, riding instructor, flamenco dancer and married. I like speculative fiction because I believe art and science should be lovers, not enemies or adversaries.”.

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James Dorr’s AVOID SEEING A MOUSE AND OTHER TALES OF THE REAL AND SURREAL is a January 2024 release from Alien Buddha Press. Other books include his 2013 Bram Stoker Award® nominee for Fiction Collection, THE TEARS OF ISIS, and TOMBS: A CHRONICLE OF LATTER-DAY TIMES OF EARTH, a novel-in-stories from Elder Signs Press. A short fiction writer and poet specializing in dark fantasy/horror, with some forays into science fiction and mystery, Dorr currently harbors a Goth cat named Triana, and counts among his major influences Ray Bradbury, Edgar Allan Poe, Allen Ginsberg, and Bertolt Brecht.

For more information, Dorr invites readers to visit his blog at http://jamesdorrwriter.wordpress.com

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C.J. Dotson possesses the statistically average number of body parts for a human being to have. She and her husband, stepson, and children (all of whom also appear human) share a cabin in the woods with more bugs and spiders than she would ever like to see. In her limited spare time she enjoys reading, video games, painting, baking and decorating cakes (with…questionable success), and petting her puppy and five cats. Her debut horror novel, THE CUT, is now available wherever books are sold.

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CONDA V. DOUGLAS grew up in the ski resort of Sun Valley, Idaho, in her folk’s funky art gallery. She’s traveled the world and her own tiny office, writing all the while. Her first and always great love is writing horror short stories. The second in Conda’s Mall Fairies trilogy, THE MALL FAIRIES: WAR will be released spring/summer 2014. For more about Conda, visit Conda’s Creative Center, for hints, tips and secrets for creative people.

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James Douglas is quite happy to remain mysterious, although will confess to being ‘rather English’.

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Tiernan is a writer and comedian.  As a writer, he’s most recently scripted episodes of Hey Duggee on Cbeebies. In his stand-up for adults, he’s performed comedy all over the world, working with and writing for several well-known acts.

Tiernan also co-runs the Comedy Club 4 Kids, performing and writing comedy for children and their families.  And he writes and co-hosts childrens’ mystery podcast Bust or Trust, as well as his own Radio Nonsense podcast with over 18k listeners a month. He also likes crisps, finding good excuses to avoid socialising and singing all the wrong words to songs.

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Matt Dovey is very tall, very British, and most likely drinking a cup of tea right now. He has a scar on his arm from a cruel childhood lesson, though to be fair to his parents that lesson was self-taught and best summarised as “don’t be an idiot”. He lives in a quiet market town in rural England with his wife, children, and a sadly decreasing number of cats.

His surname rhymes with “Dopey” but any other similarities to the dwarf are purely coincidental. He’s the current host over at PodCastle, the best fantasy sibling a horror podcast could have, and he has fiction out and forthcoming all over the place, including all four Escape Artists podcasts.

You can keep up with everything else at mattdovey.com, or follow along on Twitter at @mattdoveywriter, Instagram @mattjdovey and Mastodon @mattdovey@wandering.shop

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TERRY DOWLING is one of Australia’s most respected and internationally acclaimed writers of science fiction, dark fantasy and horror, and author of the multi-award-winning Tom Rynosseros saga. He has been called “Australia’s finest writer of horror” by Locus magazine, its “premier writer of dark fantasy” by All Hallows and its “most acclaimed writer of the dark fantastic” by Cemetery Dance magazine. The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror series featured more horror stories by Terry in its 21 year run than by any other writer. Dowling’s award-winning horror collections are BASIC BLACK: TALES OF APPROPRIATE FEAR (International Horror Guild Award winner for Best Collection 2007), regarded as “one of the best recent collections of contemporary horror” by the American Library Association, AN INTIMATE KNOWLEDGE OF THE NIGHT (Aphelion 1995) and BLACKWATER DAYS (Eidolon 2000), while his most recent titles are AMBERJACK: TALES OF FEAR & WONDER (Subterranean 2010) and his debut novel, CLOWNS AT MIDNIGHT (PS Publishing 2010), which the Guardian called “an exceptional work that bears comparison to John Fowles’s THE MAGUS.” Dowling has written three computer adventures (Schizm: Mysterious Journey, Schizm II: Chameleon and Sentinel: Descendants in Time), and co-edited THE ESSENTIAL ELLISON and THE JACK VANCE TREASURY among many other titles. He lives in Hunters Hill, Sydney and his homepage can be found at the link under his names above. “The Four Darks” will be appearing this year in Ellen Datlow’s FEARFUL SYMMETRIES and Terry has a new computer game and a new horror collection in the works with such cool titles he dare not mention them.

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