Robbie Banfitch is an American filmmaker, writer, and musician. He graduated from School of Visual Arts in Manhattan and currently resides in Los Angeles.
His debut feature The Outwaters was released theatrically in 2023 and his new film, Tinsman Road is expected to premiere in 2025. His first published short story, “Summer Night” is available in Bury Your Gays: An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror.
Richard Farren Barber was born in Nottingham in July 1970. After studying in London he returned to the East Midlands. He lives with his wife and son and works as a manager for a local university. He has over 50 short stories in publications including: Alt-Dead, Alt-Zombie, DarkFuse, ePocalypse – Tales from the End, Fever Dreams, Horror D’Oeuvres, Murky Depths, Midnight Echo, Midnight Street, Morpheus Tales, Night Terrors II & III, Siblings, The House of Horror, Trembles, When Red Snow Melts, and broadcast on Tales to Terrify, Pseudopod (#390!), and The Wicked Library. His first novella “The Power of Nothing” was published in September 2013. His second novella “The Sleeping Dead” was published by DarkFuse in August 2014. His third novella “Odette” is due to be published early in 2016. His website is www.richardfarrenbarber.co.uk.
Laird Barron, an ex-pat Alaskan, is the author of several books, including The Imago Sequence and Other Stories; Swift to Chase; and Blood Standard. Currently, Barron lives in the Rondout Valley of New York State and is at work on tales about the evil that men do.
Yaroslav Barsukov is a writer of fantasy, science fiction, and everything in between. He’s best known for his science fantasy noir novella Tower of Mud and Straw, which became an Amazon bestseller, was shortlisted for the prestigious Nebula Award as well as the SCKA Award, and received a Kirkus Star, eventually landing on Kirkus Reviews’ “Best Books of 2021” list. He’s a full member of Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) and combines his writing duties with volunteer work, serving as chair of SFWA’s Information Systems Committee.
His new novel Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory is forthcoming from CAEZIK SF & Fantasy on October 15.
Matthew M. Bartlett is the author of Gateways to Abomination and other books of supernatural horror. His short stories have appeared in a variety of anthologies and journals, including Forbidden Futures, Vastarien, Year’s Best Weird Fiction Vol. 3, and Ashes & Entropy. He has recorded two albums for Cadabra Records, Mr. White Noise and Call Me Corey, both with backing music by Black Mountain Transmitter. Two of his stories, Ginny Greenteeth and The Mill River Revenant are also on Cadabra Records, read by actor Laurence Harvey and Anthony D.P. Mann, respectively. He lives in Western Massachusetts with his wife Katie Saulnier and their cats Peachpie and Larry.
BYRON BARTON received a PhD from the University of Vermont and currently lives and works in Aruba.
Lee Battersby is the author of three novels and over 80 stories in Australia, Europe, and the US. He is the winner of the Aurealis and Australian Shadows awards for horror fiction, as well as the Australian SF ‘Ditmar’ awards and a White Raven for children’s literature. His work has been praised for its consistent attention to voice and narrative muscle. He is sadly obsessed with Lego, Nottingham Forest football club, dinosaurs and Daleks.
Battie is the chronically sleepy bat ghoul of the Pacific Northwest. She is a mixed Korean-American genderqueer woman with invisible disabilities including narcolepsy and multiple chronic illnesses. They are a neurodivergent artist and musician who has also roleplayed for tabletop RPG actual play podcasts/streams and enjoys reading stories to children. Reach out to them about narration opportunities on Twitter or Instagram at batzpajamas and see their streams at twitch.tv/batzpajamas.