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Derek Kunsken
DEREK KUNSKEN has built genetically-engineered viruses, worked with street kids in Central America, served as a Canadian diplomat, and writes science fiction and fantasy in Ottawa, Canada. His work has previously appeared in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, On Spec, Podcastle and several times in Asimov’s Science Fiction. His work has been short-listed for the Aurora Award and has won the Asimov’s Reader’s Award. His website is Derek Kunsken and he blogs at Blackgate.
Jordan Kurella
Jordan Kurella is a queer and disabled author who has lived all over the world (including Cairo and Chicago). Their work can be found in Apex, Glitter + Ashes, and Strange Horizons.
Chris Kuriata
Chris Kuriata lives in St. Catharines, Ontario. His short fiction about home-invading bears, whale-hunting clowns, and singing fish have appeared in many fine publications. Her blog at www.chriskuriata.wordpress.com.
Nicole Givens Kurtz
Nicole Givens Kurtz is an author, editor, and educator. She’s the recipient of the Ladies of Horror Grant (2021), the Horror Writers Association’s Diversity Grant (2020) and the two-time Atomacon Palmetto Scribe Award Winner (2021 and 2022). She’s a Bram Stoker finalist for her contribution to Sycorax’s Daughters. She’s also the editor of the groundbreaking anthology, SLAY: Stories of the Vampire Noire. She’s written for White Wolf, The Realm’s The Vela: Salvation series, and Baen. Nicole has over 50 short stories published as well as numerous novels and three active speculative mystery series. She enjoys reading scary stories and watching true crime.
Henry Kuttner
Kuttner was known for his literary prose and worked in close collaboration with his wife, C. L. Moore. They met through their association with the “Lovecraft Circle”, a group of writers and fans who corresponded with H. P. Lovecraft. Their work together spanned the 1940s and 1950s and most of the work was credited to pseudonyms, mainly Lewis Padgett and Lawrence O’Donnell. Both freely admitted that they collaborated in part because his page rate was higher than hers. In fact, several people have written or said that she wrote three stories which were published under his name. “Clash by Night” and The Portal in the Picture (Beyond Earth’s Gates) are sometimes attributed to her. (more…)
Greye La Spina
From Goodreads: Greye La Spina was one of the few women to write regularly for the leading fantasy/horror pulps, and was a contributor to the very first issue of the first American pulp magazine devoted exclusively to tales of horror and the fantastic.
Born in Wakefield, Massachusetts, the daughter of a Methodist minister, she was a precocious child, publishing her own “small press” newspaper at the age of 10, with pages of poems and local gossip. As a teenager, she won a literary contest and had a story published in Connecticut Magazine. La Spina gave up writing to attend to her marriage and the raising of a daughter, but in her early thirties she was drawn back to it.
In the 1920s and 1930s, La Spina worked as a journalist, and she was said to have been the first female newspaper photographer. Following the death of her husband, La Spina married again, to a deposed Italian baron.
From Wikipedia:
Her first supernatural story, “The Wolf on the Steppes” was sold to Thrill Book in 1919. She won second place in Photoplay magazine’s 1921 short story contest gaining her a $2,500 prize.
Her first and only hardcover book, the novel, Invaders from the Dark, was published by Arkham House in 1960.