Jamie is a writer, editor, document designer, occasional English professor, and full-time curmudgeon. He holds a MA in Professional Writing from Kennesaw State University, where he also wrangles cats and occasionally provides information systems support. He lives with his far superior wife, his indefatigable kid, and the platonic ideal of dog. You can see just how bad he is at social media on Twitter @Jamie_L_Grimes.
HAROLD GROSS has previously published in Fantasy & Science Fiction, Analog, other magazines, and several anthologies. Currently, “The Song Giveth…” is serialized in issues 9-12 of the online magazine, Aethernet, based in the UK but also available electronically in the US. While he appears most often as Harold Gross, his collaborative alter-ego, Gordon Gross, appears in several venues. In addition to writing, Harold has also been caught in live and recorded performances on stage and screen. His blog at The 5 a.m. Critic currently contains a wide range of non-spoiler movie reviews as well as links to available reprints and current publications.
Brittany Groves is an Occupational Health Registered Nurse and part-time aspiring writer, when the mood strikes. She lives in Texas with her two unruly children, a devastatingly handsome husband, and a dog that adores them all. Recently, her works have been published in Dark Matter Magazine and Lovecraftiana, both of which feature stories from her favorite genres, horror and science fiction.
Eric J. Guignard is a writer and editor of dark and speculative fiction, operating from the shadowy outskirts of Los Angeles, where he also runs the small press Dark Moon Books. He’s twice won the Bram Stoker Award (the highest literary award of horror fiction), been a finalist for the International Thriller Writers Award, and is a multi-nominee of the Pushcart Prize.
He has over 100 stories and non-fiction author credits appearing in publications around the world; has edited multiple anthologies (including the current series, The Horror Writers Association’s Haunted Library of Horror Classics with co-editor Leslie S. Klinger); and has created an ongoing series of author primers championing modern masters of the dark and macabre, Exploring Dark Short Fiction.
His latest books are Last Case at a Baggage Auction; Doorways to the Deadeye; and short story collection That Which Grows Wild: 16 Tales of Dark Fiction (Cemetery Dance).
Outside the glamorous and jet-setting world of indie fiction, Eric’s a technical writer and college professor, and he stumbles home each day to a wife, children, dogs, and a terrarium filled with mischievous beetles.
Elizabeth Guilt lives in London, UK, where history lurks alongside plate glass office buildings and stories spring out of the street names. Her fiction has appeared most recently in Escape Pod, Cosmic Horror Monthly, and The Arcanist. You can find her at https://www.elizabethguilt.
Lesley Hart Gunn is a writer and teacher who occasionally likes to play with martial arts weapons. She is a Canadian, currently living in Utah with her partner and 3 children. Her work has appeared in Phantom Drift journal and is upcoming in Asimov’s Science Fiction. She loves finding monsters in all aspects of life and can always be found putting her feet into random bodies of water, hoping something will be waiting underneath the surface.
Thomas Ha is a former attorney turned stay-at-home father who enjoys writing speculative fiction during the rare moments when all of his kids are napping at the same time. Thomas grew up in Honolulu and, after a decade plus of living in the northeast, now resides in Los Angeles.
Clayton Hackett admits that he is an attorney, and his fiction has appeared in Daily Science Fiction, the Alternative Apocalypse anthology, and the San Antonio Current. He can neither admit nor deny that he can be found on Twitter as @hackett. He otherwise denies all remaining allegations against him.