Kelly Link is the author of the collections Get in Trouble, Stranger Things Happen, Magic for Beginners, and Pretty Monsters. She and Gavin J. Grant have co-edited a number of anthologies, including Monstrous Affections and Steampunk!. Her short stories have been published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Tin House, A Public Space,McSweeney’s, One Story, The Best American Short Stories, and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. Link was born in Miami, Florida. She currently lives with her husband and daughter in Northampton, Massachusetts.

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Ken Liu is the author of The Grace of Kings, a silkpunk epic fantasy, and The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, a collection. He also wrote the Star Wars novel, The Legends of Luke Skywalker.

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Jesse’s work has been featured on Pseudopod and The Drabblecast. All of his music, as well as his first novel A THOUSAND LIFETIMES IN AN HOUR, can be found at Reconstructionrecords.com.

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Livia Llewellyn is a writer of dark fantasy, horror and erotica. Her fiction has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, including Subterranean, Nightmare Magazine, and Postscripts; and her short story collection Engines of Desire: Tales of Love & Other Horrors was nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Collection. Her second collection Furnace won the THIS IS HORROR Award the same year as PseudoPod picked up fiction podcast of the year. Her website is at www.liviallewellyn.com, where she lists all her current works-in-progress and upcoming publications.

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From her website:

I write short stories and the occasional novel. I’m always on the lookout for good stories from real life, as human beings do the most remarkable things and behave in the most peculiar ways. That is what inspires my work, not other writers – much as I might enjoy them.

I’m sometimes asked about the unique challenges involved in writing short stories. One of them is developing the ability to leave out anything which has no immediate bearing on the story; sometimes it’s tempting to add small touches or moments that ultimately don’t add anything to the whole. However, for a while now, I have been writing long short stories from 10 to 20 thousand words… I’d call some of them ‘novelettes’ but for the fact that the word itself sounds slightly feeble, like a woman’s especially fancy race-course hat, and the long short stories I write are not frivolous in the slightest, but are works within the New Dark or New Weird genre.

I find it difficult to pay a great deal of attention to my website and tend to write about writing and related issues on my facebook page, although I do write sometimes on a page here called ‘And another thing.’

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Sean Logan lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his lovely wife and a skinny dog that is part piranha. At night he writes unpleasant stories, and in his marketing day job he also writes about scary subjects—like banking software. His stories have appeared in about two dozen publications, including ONE BUCK HORROR, the anthologies VILE THINGS and SICK THINGS, and multiple visits to Pseudopod.

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Kirsty Logan is a writer of fiction and journalism. Her books are The Gracekeepers and The Rental Heart & Other Fairytales. She is a writer, book reviewer, and writing mentor for WoMentoring and the Scottish Book Trust. She also writes a column on the X-Files for The Female Gaze.

Her short fiction and poetry has been published in print and online, recorded for radio and podcasts, and exhibited in galleries. Her debut novel, The Gracekeepers, is out now! It’s about a circus boat in a flooded world.

She lives in Glasgow, where she mostly hangs out with her fiancée Annie and her rescue dog Rosie, reads ghost stories, drinks coffee, crochets things, listens to riot grrrl, & dreams of the sea.

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JACK LONDON (1876-1916) was an American writer best known for outdoor adventures like THE CALL OF THE WILD, many of them permeated with a sense of terror and the sublime. As a young man, London dropped out of the University of California to tramp the country, sail the seas, and brave the hardships of Alaska’s Klondike gold rush. Much of his fiction celebrates a brawny life force; his heroes triumph over the extremes of physical adversity through raw strength and will, or else they succumb, in the end, to the pitiless forces of nature. London eventually became a convert to socialism and, in THE IRON HEEL (1907), depicted a 1930s America ruled by a fascist dictatorship. Yet unquestionably his most fiendish villains are the shadowy revolutionary cult in THE MINIONS OF MIDAS (1901), who, preaching an extreme form of Social Darwinism, attempt to extort millions of dollars from the nation’s industrialists by the random murder of scores of ordinary citizens. Mankind, in London’s fiction, can be every bit as pitiless as nature..

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