KEITH McCLEARY is an MFA student at UCSD, and received his BFA in Film at NYU. His work has or is due to appear in Heavy Metal magazine, Weave, Flash, Short Fast and Deadly, the San Diego Poetry Annual, and in comic books he has written and illustrated for Terminal Press. He has also served as a copyeditor for Kill Screen Magazine. Keith maintains a semi-regular presence at his flash fiction tumblr, Gchatus and his website, Weird Things I Have Done.

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Lucy lives on a horse farm in Ireland for some reason, with her girlfriend and their two dogs. When she was a child, she received a lightly damaged tape recorder as a gift. When it didn’t immediately explode in her hands, her journey into voice work began. A lifelong horror aficionado, Lucy spends much of her free time writing and listening to short horror stories.

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Writer Angel Leigh McCoy (SFWA & HWA member) creates horror and dark fantasy fiction. Her fiction has appeared in numerous media, and her novelette “Charlie Darwin, or the Trine of 1809” was published by Nevermet Press. She also had stories appear in Strange Aeons, Necrotic Tissue, Beast Within 2, Fear of the Dark, and Growing Dread: Biopunk Visions, among others.

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Nathan McCullough was afraid of everything as a child, but he faced and then embraced his fears, developing a love for all things dark and frightening. As a grownup, Nathan is an award-winning journalist, writer and editor. His work has appeared in various newspapers, magazines and digital outlets, and his novella/short story collection, Drag You Down, is available from Amazon. Connect with him on Twitter and Instagram @bulldawgnate or online at nathanmccullough.com.

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Edward McDermott, born in Toronto, has a professional day job but spends his spare time pursuing a writing career. Aside from taking writing courses and participating in writers’ groups, Edward takes time for sailing, fencing, and working as a movie extra.

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J.M. McDermott lives in Georgia, and holds an MFA in Popular Fiction from the University of Southern Maine and a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Houston. His first novel, Last Dragon, was #6 on Amazon.com’s Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2008, shortlisted for a Crawford Prize for First Fantasy, and on Locus Magazine‘s Recommended Reading List for Debuts in 2008. His second novel, Never Knew Another is the beginning of the Dogsland Trilogy, from Nightshade Books. It received strong critical praise including a review by noted genre critic, John Clute, in Strange Horizons. The second novel of the trilogy was reviewed in Publishers Weekly, praising the depiction of the anti-hero of the novel.

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Heather is a writer and lover of oddities. In 2007 she started the Cabinet of Wonders, a compendium of bizarre objects and interesting thoughts. A love of the Age of Reason makes her see science in the light of magic, and magic in the light of science. And over it all, wonder.

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