Amy Kelly is an award-winning screenwriter, ghostwriter, and editor with an MFA in Creative Writing. She self-published my first novel “American Specter: The Seven Sisters” under the pen-name Rasheedah Prioleau in 2014. She also published under the pen-name Julia Dove at FrightVisionBooks.com.
Michael Kelly is the former Series Editor for the Year’s Best Weird Fiction. He’s a Shirley Jackson Award and British Fantasy Award-winning editor, and a four-time World Fantasy Award nominee. His fiction has appeared in a number of journals and anthologies, including Black Static, Nightmare Magazine, The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, and has been previously collected in Scratching the Surface, Undertow & Other Laments, and All the Things We Never See. He is the owner and Editor-in-Chief of Undertow Publications, and editor of Weird Horror magazine.
Kelsea Yu is a Chinese American writer and mother living in the Pacific Northwest. She’s eternally enthusiastic about sharks and appreciates a good ghost story. Kelsea’s debut novella, Bound Feet, is published through Cemetery Gates Media. She also has stories forthcoming or published in various magazines and anthologies, including Reckoning, Classic Monsters Unleashed, and Dark Matter Presents: Human Monsters. Find her on Instagram or Twitter as @anovelescape or visit her website kelseayu.com.
B.C. Kelsey is a graduate from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he studied English and Creative Writing, for all the good it did him. He currently lives with a grumpy, elderly cat, and a less grumpy, less elderly girlfriend.
Marguerite Kenner is a dual-national American living in the UK. She’s the President and CEO of the Escape Artists Foundation, the US 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to bringing free and accessible audio short fiction to a global audience. She’s a multiple Hugo Award nominee alongside Alasdair Stuart for their weekly pop culture newsletter The Full Lid, and was the editor of Cast of Wonders from 2013 to 2019.
A practicing technology lawyer, Marguerite loves performing in audio dramas and playing video games, often where people can watch. When she’s not at genre industry events advocating for the power and value of audio short fiction, she’s mentoring and teaching legal and business skills to independent creatives.
You can follow her adventures and see photos of her cat on Bluesky.
Rick Kennett lives in Melbourne, Australia where his day job is in the transport industry. His stories have appeared in Andromeda Spaceways, Aurealis, Weird Tales, the Ghosts & Scholars Book of Shadows anthologies and several podcasts including Pseudopod and Dunesteef. His novel The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea was published by Cooperative Press in 2013 and is available on Amazon.
In addition to a slew of Australian publishing awards for his horror fiction, Rick has two Parsec Awards to his credit, including Cast of Wonders episode Now Cydonia which won in the short story category in 2014. And in a lovely coincidence, he’s recently become the podcast correspondent for the magazine Ghosts & Scholars, which specializes in the antiquarian ghost stories of author M. R. James.
Divya Kernan (she/her) is a biracial and neurodivergent speculative fiction writer, a French native and an alumna of the Short Story Incubator at GrubStreet, Boston. Her short story “Carmilla, or, the Making of a Girl” published in Baffling Magazine was featured on Reactor Must Read list. You can find her on Bluesky: @divyakernan.bsky.social.
Leeman Kessler is a Nigerian-born American actor who, since 2010, has been performing as HP Lovecraft on stage, film, and in his popular web-series advice show, Ask Lovecraft. In between being a dad and village mayor, he can be heard regularly on his pop culture podcast Geekually Yoked and on his scifi drama Moonbase Theta Out. To find out more, go to www.leemankessler.com