THOMAS LIGOTTI is one of the foremost contemporary authors of supernatural horror literature. His works been honored with several awards, including the Horror Writers Association’s Bram Stoker award for the collection THE NIGHTMARE FACTORY (1996) and the novella MY WORK IS NOT YET DONE (2002). Revised, definitive editions of his first three story collections — SONGS OF A DEAD DREAMER, GRIMSCRIBE, and NOCTUARY — were published in 2010, 2011, and 2012, respectively. Revised editions of his collections THE AGONIZING RESURRECTION OF VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN AND OTHER GOTHIC TALES and DEATH POEMS were issued in 2013. Ligotti has also published THE CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE HUMAN RACE (2010), a nonfiction work that explores the intersection of the darker byways of literature, philosophy, and psychology. Forthcoming titles by Ligotti include a collection of interviews and a chapbook consisting of two newly written stories. The web site Thomas Ligotti Online was founded as a forum for discussions of and media related to Ligotti’s writings as well as those of wide range of authors, artists, and musicians whose work is associated with the horror genre, among other areas of interest to devotees of unconventional art and thought.

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Dave Liloia is a nerd who builds Gundam models, 3D printing as many dragons as his partner will allow, getting tattoos, and playing Dungeons and Dragons. He is a huge fan of spoken word science fiction and fantasy. He has narrated several pieces of fiction including Some Demon (Audible), Oh Give Me a Home (Glittership), and managed the audio engineering of the Pseudopod story Granite Requires.  He resides in Southern California with his family and two cats who should be paying rent.

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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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E Lynn Linton was the author of over 20 novels. She was born in Keswick, England, in 1822, the youngest of the twelve children, and was largely self-educated after the death of her mother when she was just five months old. In 1845, she left home to earn her living as a writer in London, promoted by Theodosia Monson, who was a champion of women’s rights. She finished her first novel, Azeth, the Egyptian, in 1846, and also began working as a journalist, joining the staff of the Morning Chronicle in 1849 – the first woman to be paid a salary as a journalist. She later moved to Paris where she became a correspondent for The Leader, and was a regular contributor to Charles Dickens’s Household Words, the Daily News, and other leading newspapers. She became one of the best-known women periodical contributors of her time.

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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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