Shane Jiraiya Cummings has been acknowledged as “one of Australia’s leading voices in dark fantasy”. Shane is the author of Shards, The Abandonment of Grace and Everything After, the Apocrypha Sequence (Deviance, Divinity, Insanity, and Inferno), and the Ravenous Gods cycle (Requiem for the Burning Godand Dreams of Destruction).

He is the editor of the Amazon bestselling anthology Rage Against the Night,award-winning non-fiction publications HorrorScope and Black: Australian Dark Culture, as well as Shadowed Realms (creative director), Shadow Box, Black Box, Australian Dark Fantasy & Horror Volume One, Dead of Night: The Best of Midnight Echo, Midnight Echo #2, and Robots & Time. Shane is the current Executive Editor of Midnight Echo.