Joseph Edward “Jay” Lake, Jr. (June 6, 1964 – June 1, 2014) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer. In 2003 he was a quarterly first-place winner in the Writers of the Future contest. In 2004 he won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in Science Fiction. He lived in Portland, Oregon, and worked as a product manager for a voice services company.

Lake’s writings have appeared in numerous publications, including Postscripts, Realms of Fantasy, Interzone, Strange Horizons, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Nemonymous, and the Mammoth Book of Best New Horror. He was an editor for the “Polyphony” anthology series from Wheatland Press and was also a contributor to The Internet Review of Science Fiction.

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Kim Lakin-Smith is the author ofnbsp;Tourniquet; Tales from the Renegade City (Immanion Press: 2007), Cyber Circus (Newcon Press: 2011) and the YA novella Queen Rat (Murky Depths, 2012). Her dark fantasy and science fiction short stories have appeared in various magazines and anthologies including Black Static, Interzone, Celebration, Myth-Understandings, Further Conflicts, Pandemonium: Stories of the Apocalypse, Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories By Women, and others, with ‘Johnny and Emmie-Lou Get Married’ shortlisted for the BSFA short story award 2009. Kim has a background in performance and is a regular guest speaker at writing workshops and conventions.

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Laura, geek, author, Californian can be found on twitter and she blogs.

Laura Lam was born in the late eighties and raised near San Francisco, California, by two former Haight-Ashbury hippies. Both of them encouraged her to finger-paint to her heart’s desire, colour outside the lines, and consider the library a second home. This led to an overabundance of daydreams. (more…)

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Lisamarie Lamb has short stories included in over thirty five anthologies, and has a collection of short stories published by Dark Hall Press, entitled OVER THE BRIDGE. She just had a children’s novel published with J. Ellington Ashton called THE BOOK OF MANDRAGORE and a short story collection, FAIRY LIGHTS. She lives on the Isle of Sheppey, UK, with her husband, daughter, and two cats. She blogs at THE MOONLIT DOOR.

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Brent Lambert is a Black, queer man who heavily believes in the transformative power of speculative fiction across media formats. As a founding member of FIYAH Literary Magazine, he turned that belief into action and became part of a Hugo Award winning team. Currently, he has a novella A NECESSARY CHAOS out from Neon Hemlock and is part of the Black horror anthology ALL THESE SUNKEN SOULS. He also recently was in the exceptionally gay anthology, I WANT THAT TWINK OBLITERATED. Ask him his favorite members of the X-Men and you’ll get different answers every time.

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N.R. Lambert grew up in New York City and learned early to avoid the empty subway car. Her writing has been published by Metaphorosis, Tor.com, TIME, LIFE, and Entertainment Weekly. In addition to her work as a pop culture author and copywriter, she volunteers with Read Ahead NYC, a reading-based mentoring program for elementary school students. She currently lives in Queens with her family and two saucy cats. Look for very occasional updates at www.nrlambert.com.

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John Langan has been a finalist for International Horror Guild Award. He has been a Bram Stoker Award nominee for Best Collection, most recently for Sefira and Other Betrayals with its delightful cover art evoking Saturn eating his children. He won the Bram Stoker Award for his excellent novel The Fisherman. He is on the Board of Directors for the Shirley Jackson Awards.

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Maegan Langer is an author and screenwriter based in northern Utah. She has been a horror fan since she was seven years old, when her mom let her stay up late one night to watch Alien on TV. Her stories have appeared in anthologies from WordFire Press and Timber Ghost Press. She earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Western Colorado University and lives in the foothills with too many pets named after her favorite film and TV characters, along with an ever-growing to-be-read pile that she’ll never finish, but nevertheless, she persists. Read more about Maegan and her work at www.maeganwrites.com.

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