Riku Kanninen

Riku Kanninen is a Finnish professional translator and linguist, an amateur singer, a mediocre all-around musician and a dabbler in all things, interesting or otherwise.
Riku Kanninen is a Finnish professional translator and linguist, an amateur singer, a mediocre all-around musician and a dabbler in all things, interesting or otherwise.
Bitter Karella is the writer and horror aficionado behind the microfiction comedy account @Midnight_pals, which asks what if all your favorite horror writers gathered around the campfire to tell scary stories. When not writing twitter jokes, she also dabbles in cartooning and text game design. Her horror text games, available on itchio, include Night House, All Visitors Welcome, Toadstools, and Santa Carcossa Nights.
Mel Kassel writes dark speculative fiction and comedy in Chicago. She has a new horror review/writing blog, What Scared Me, as well as a humor-focused twitter account (@MelKassel). Her personal website can be found at www.melkassel.com.
Kate Kastelein lives in an old, slightly haunted house on the coast of Maine with her husband and two children. She writes a little bit of everything; speculative and dark fiction, non-fiction, and the occasional children’s book. Her work has appeared in Non-Binary Review, Medusa’s Laugh Press, the anthology Idol Talk: Women Writers on the Teenage Infatuations That Changed Their Lives, and numerous regional and online publications. She is an associate editor at Pseudopod, and has an MFA from the University of Maine Stonecoast Writer’s Program.
His blog, Scribbleninja, is you know where. Also, check out STEAMPUNK TALES for more of his work.
Kaz is actually three tentacles in a trench coat, able to mimic human speech through an obscure loophole in Eldritch Noise Ordinances. By day, Kaz pretends to be a member of the terrestrial band When Ukuleles Attack.
Thomas Kearnes holds an MA in Screenwriting from The University of Texas at Austin. Last year, he won Cardinal Sins’ inaugural fiction contest. His most recent work has appeared or will appear in Night Train, Word Riot, Existere, Gadfly, Johnny America, The Adroit Journal, Five Quarterly, Sundog Lit and elsewhere. This fall, he will begin his internship for a planned career in substance abuse counseling. He prides himself on how many “personal” rejections he’s received from editors over the years. To date, he has published roughly 125 stories, flashes and essays. He runs like a girl.