Laura Blackwell is a writer, editor and journalist. She was raised in North Dakota, where the snow and dirt mingle, and become “snirt.” Her publications include PC World, Strange Horizons, TechHive, and various speculative fiction anthologies. You can follow her on Twitter
@pronouncedlahra and visit her website at www.pronouncedlahra.com.
Nadia Bulkin writes scary stories about the scary world we live in. She is more a fan of Hole than 311. It took her two tries to leave Nebraska, but now she lives in Washington, DC, where she tends her garden of student debt sown by two political science degrees. You can read her other Lovecraftian work in the anthologies Sword and Mythos, Letters to Lovecraft, Lovecraft’s Monsters, and The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu — or visit nadiabulkin.wordpress.com.
Selena Chambers writes twenty miles south of the Black Lagoon. Her fiction has appeared in a variety of venues, including Mungbeing Magazine, New Myths, and Yankee Pot Roast, and in anthologies such as the World Fantasy-nominated Thackery T. Lambshead’s Cabinet Of Curiosities, The New Gothic, Steampunk World, and The Starry Wisdom Library. Her non-fiction has appeared at Tor.com, Bookslut, WeirdFictionReview.com, and Strange Horizons (where she was also the articles senior editor for two years). Her first book, the Hugo and World Fantasy-nominated The Steampunk Bible, was co-authored with the award-winning Jeff VanderMeer. She blogs irregularly at www.selenachambers.com.
Arinn Dembo is a prize-winning author of SF, fantasy and horror. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in The Magazine of F&SF, H.P. Lovecraft’s Magazine of Horror, Weird Tales, Lamp Light Quarterly, and various anthologies. Single-author books include a military science fiction novel, The Deacon’s Tale, and a collection called Monsoon and Other Stories. In addition to a long career as a writer in the entertainment industry, she holds degrees in anthropology and classical archaeology, fields which often provide grist for the mill of her horror stories. Follow her on social media or visit her website, www.arinndembo.com, for more information.
Jilly Dreadful completed her Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Southern California. She’s the founder of The Brainery: Online Speculative Fiction Workshops + Resources. She’s currently an associate editor of NonBinary Review and Unbound Octavo, and her major work includes Light & Power: A Tesla/Edison Story, a chamber opera with music composed by Isaac Schankler. Together with her writing partner, KT Ismael, she will be releasing a serialized fiction podcast that takes the feminist emphasis on friendship from Parks and Recreation, and mixes it with a Lovecraftian strangeness — stay tuned for it at blueprintandengine.com.
Former film critic and teacher-turned-award-winning horror author Gemma Files is probably best-known for her Weird Western Hexslinger series (A Book of Tongues, A Rope of Thorns, and A Tree of Bones, all from ChiZine Publications). She has also published two collections of short fiction, two chapbooks of speculative poetry, and a story cycle (We Will All Go Down Together: Stories of the Five-Family Coven, CZP). Her next book, Experimental Film — also from CZP — will be released in November 2015.
Nelly Geraldine García-Rosas is a Mexican writer who just moved to the UK. She lives in South Yorkshire with her husband. There, she misses her cats more than anything in the world. Her stories have appeared in anthologies like Future Lovecraft and The Apex Book of World SF 3. She can be found online at http://www.nellygeraldine.com or tweeting mostly in Spanish @kitsune_ng
Amelia Gorman is a computer science student living in Minnesota.
Lyndsey Holder enjoys long walks on the beach, eating too much chocolate, and writing paranoid fiction. She’s currently writing a novel that is part pulp noir, part eldritch horror, and part teen detective.
Pandora Hope has a BA in English and has worked as a copywriter, science writer, editor and runologist when not moonlighting as a volva (a Norse witch). She has recently begun to write fiction and her first short story, “The Ferry Man,” appeared in Interzone (January 2015). She is currently working on a novel set in the same world. Pandora credits Lovecraft’s “The Rats in the Walls” as responsible for her first experience of night terrors and, paradoxically, a lifelong affection for rats. She lives in Australia with her partner and what may well be Melbourne’s only rat-friendly Norwegian Forest Cat.
Inkeri Kontro is an award-winning Finnish short story writer who lives in Helsinki. Physicist by day, writer by night, she writes mostly science fiction and Finnish Weird with a touch of horror. She has published stories in magazines such as Kosmoskynä and Tähtivaeltaja, and her English debut was in Strange Horizons in 2014.
Penelope Love is an Australian who has written extensively for the tabletop role-playing game Call of Cthulhu, including contributing scenarios to the award-winning Horror on the Orient Express campaign. Her Cthulhu Mythos short stories have been published in Cthulhu’s Dark Cults, Madness on the Orient Express, and Tales of Cthulhu Invictus. Her work also appears in the award-winning anthologies, One Small Step and Belong. Her story “A Small Bad Thing” was first published in Bloodstones and reprinted in The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2013.
Sharon Mock’s short stories have appeared in publications including Fantasy Magazine, Clarkesworld and The Mammoth Book of Steampunk. She lives in California and can be found online at sharonmock.com.
Despite the warnings of her family that studying science would warp her tender mind and shrivel her womb, Premee Mohamed completed degrees in molecular genetics and environmental science, and has used those disciplines to pursue the improvement of mankind’s lot, somewhat ineffectually, for over a decade. When not performing mad science, she blogs regularly, tweets less regularly, paints, draws, writes, worries about the supernatural, and annotates her paperback copy of The Necronomicon.
Eugenie Mora is a writer of fanciful, occasionally creepy, sometimes sweet, stories. In her spare time, she makes a science of hating walks on the beach, bird and TV-watching. Considers herself a music ninja. Professional reader. Passionate troublemaker. Food aficionado. Wine practitioner.
Ann K. Schwader’s most recent collection of dark verse is Twisted in Dream. Her next collection, Dark Energies, is forthcoming from P’rea Press. Her fiction and poetry have recently appeared in Black Wings IV, Searchers After Horror, A Season in Carcosa, and elsewhere. She is a 2010 Bram Stoker Award finalist for her dark SF verse collection Wild Hunt of the Stars.
Rodopi Sisamis lives and writes out of Brooklyn, NY, where she raises Hellion triplets, and lives with a dog and a cat. When she isn’t devouring books, or running after children, she can be found spinning tales of romance and dark fantasy. “Cypress God” is her third contribution to an anthology.
Specializing in dark fantasy and horror, Angela Slatter has won five Aurealis Awards, been a finalist for the World Fantasy Award, and is the first Australian to win a British Fantasy Award. She’s the author of, among other things, The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales, Sourdough and Other Stories, and The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings. Forthcoming from Jo Fletcher Books is the novel, Vigil, and its sequel Corpselight.
Priya Sridhar has been writing since fifth grade, a year after her mother forbade her from watching television all day. This led to several published short stories, one of which made the Top Ten Amazon Kindle Download list, and Alban Lake publishing her novella Carousel. She invites readers to read her blog a Faceless Author at http://pseudonymousfictionwriter.blogspot.com.
Benjanun Sriduangkaew writes love letters to strange cities, beautiful bugs, and the future. Her work has appeared in Tor.com, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Phantasm Japan, The Dark, and year’s bests. She has been shortlisted for the Campbell Award for Best New Writer and her debut novella Scale-Bright has been nominated for the British SF Association Award.
Molly Tanzer is the author of the Weird Western, Vermilion, and the forthcoming historical novel, The Pleasure Merchant. Her debut collection, A Pretty Mouth, was nominated for a Sydney J. Bounds and a Wonderland Book Award. Her short fiction has appeared in other Innsmouth titles such as Historical Lovecraft and Fungi, as well as other venues such as The Book(s) of Cthulhu, The Book of the Dead, and Children of Old Leech. She lives in Boulder, Colorado with her husband and a very bad cat. When not writing, she enjoys mixing cocktails, hiking in the Rocky Mountains, and experimenting with Korean cooking. She tweets @molly_the_tanz, and blogs — infrequently — at http://mollytanzer.com.
E. Catherine Tobler’s short stories have appeared in Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Her first novel, Rings of Anubis, is now available. Follow her on Twitter @ECthetwit or her website, ecatherine.com.
Mary Turzillo’s 1999 Nebula-winner, “Mars Is no Place for Children,” and her Analog novel, An Old-Fashioned Martian Girl, are recommended reading on the International Space Station. Her poetry collection Lovers & Killers won the 2013 Elgin Award. She has been a finalist on the British Science Fiction Association, Pushcart, Stoker, Dwarf Stars, and Rhysling ballots. Sweet Poison, her Dark Renaissance collaboration with Marge Simon, was a Stoker finalist. Sweet Poison is on the 2015 Elgin ballot. She’s working on a novel, A Mars Cat and his Boy. She lives in Berea, Ohio, with her scientist-writer husband, Geoffrey A. Landis.
Valerie Valdes earned her BA in English at the University of Miami, with minors in creative writing and working too many jobs. She still lives in Miami with her husband and his miniature doppelganger. Valerie took the brakes off her roller blades because they only slowed her down.
Wendy N. Wagner is the author of Skinwalkers, a Pathfinder Tales novel inspired by Viking lore. Her short fiction has appeared in many successful anthologies, including Shattered Shields, Armored, and The Way of the Wizard, and magazines like Beneath Ceaseless Skies and The Lovecraft eZine. She is the non-fiction editor of Women Destroy Science Fiction!, which was named one of NPR’s Best Books of 2014. She lives in Oregon with her very understanding family.