Wendy N. Wagner is the author of the Stoker award-nominated horror novel Girl in the Creek as well as horror books The Deer Kings and The Secret Skin. Her short fiction has been nominated for the Theodore Sturgeon and Shirley Jackson awards, and her short stories, poetry, and essays have appeared in more than seventy venues. A World Fantasy award winner and two-time Locus award finalist for her editorial work at Nightmare, she has also previously served as the senior editor of Lightspeed Magazine. She lives in Oregon with her very understanding family and many, many plants.

John Joseph Adams is the series editor of Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy and the New York Times bestselling editor of more than fifty anthologies, such as Wastelands, A People’s Future of the United States, and Out There Screaming (with Jordan Peele). He is also editor (and publisher) of the Hugo Award-winning magazine Lightspeed and is publisher of its sibling-magazine Nightmare. Called “the reigning king of the anthology world” by Barnes & Noble, John is a two-time winner of the Hugo Award, a winner of the Stoker,  Locus, and ENNIE awards, and a ten-time World Fantasy Award finalist. In addition to his short fiction work, he’s the co-creator of The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast, and for five years he was the editor of the John Joseph Adams Books novel imprint for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Lately, he’s been working as an editor and game designer on various TTRPG projects for Kobold Press, Paizo, and Monte Cook Games. Learn more at johnjosephadams.com.

Born and raised in Honolulu, Lisa Nohealani Morton lives in Washington, DC. By day she is a mild-mannered database wrangler, computer programmer, and all-around data geek, and by night she writes science fiction, fantasy, and combinations of the two. Her short fiction has appeared in publications such as Lightspeed, Daily Science Fiction, and the anthology Hellebore and Rue. She can be found on Twitter as @lnmorton.

Alex Puncekar writes fantasy, science fiction, and horror. His fiction has appeared in Jenny Magazine. He is also the assistant editor for Nightmare Magazine, an interviewer for Lightspeed Magazine, and writes reviews at Grimdark Magazine. He won a cookie stacking contest when he was six or seven (he can’t remember the age but yeah it happened) and has been trying to ride that high ever since. You can find more alexpuncekar.com. He/Him.

Leighanna DeRouen is freelance writer and proofreader who lives with her husband and their dog GG somewhere in Ohio. When she’s not rewatching the 1990 hit film Rockula, she can be found lurking in the abyss that is Twitter at @fleurdleigh.

Devin Marcus is a writer and editor living in Olympia with his partner. He would love it if you sent him cool horror-related stuff on Twitter and BlueSky @DubbleOhDevin.

Adam-Troy Castro made his first non-fiction sale to Spy magazine in 1987. His books to date include four Spider-Man novels, three novels about his profoundly damaged far-future murder investigator Andrea Cort, and six middle-grade novels about the dimension-spanning adventures of young Gustav Gloom. Adam’s works have won the Philip K. Dick Award and the Seiun (Japan), and have been nominated for eight Nebulas, three Stokers, two Hugos, one World Fantasy Award, and, internationally, the Ignotus (Spain), the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire (France), and the Kurd-Laßwitz Preis (Germany). The audio collection My Wife Hates Time Travel And Other Stories (Skyboat Media) features thirteen hours of his fiction, including the new stories “The Hour In Between” and “Big Stupe and the Buried Big Glowing Booger.” In 2022 he came out with two collections, His The Author’s Wife Vs. The Giant Robot and his thirtieth book, A Touch of Strange. Adam lives in Florida with a pair of chaotic paladin cats.

Terence Taylor (terencetaylor.com) is an award-winning children’s television writer whose work has appeared on PBS, Nickelodeon, and Disney, among many others. After years of comforting tiny tots with TV, he turned to scaring their parents. His first published short story, “Plaything”, appeared in Dark Dreams, the first horror/suspense anthology of African-American authors. He was included in the next two volumes, and his short stories and non-fiction have appeared in Lightspeed and Fantastic Stories of the Imagination. Terence is also author of the first two novels of his Vampire Testaments trilogy, Bite Marks and Blood Pressure. He is currently writing the conclusion, Past Life. Follow him on Twitter @vamptestaments.

Stefan Rudnicki is an independent director, producer, narrator, and publisher of audiobooks. For his work, he has received more than a dozen Audie Awards from the Audio Publishers Association, a Ray Bradbury Award, a Bram Stoker Award, and GRAMMY Awards for the audiobooks The Children’s Shakespeare and Society’s Child. Outside of the audiobook industry, he’s probably best known for the dozen books he’s written or edited, from actor’s resource anthologies to a best-selling adaptation of Sun Tzu’s The Art of War. He is president of Skyboat Media, the most respected independent audio production team on the West Coast. He lives in Los Angeles, CA.

Christie Yant writes and edits science fiction and fantasy in the American mid-west. She is a Hugo and British Fantasy Award winner, a Locus and World Fantasy Award finalist, editor of Lightspeed’s Women Destroy Science Fiction! special issue, co-editor of Fantasy Magazine, consulting editor for Tordotcom’s acclaimed line of novellas, co-editor of four anthologies, and author of just enough published stories to need most of your fingers and toes to count them. She presently attempts to balance her full-time dayjob and her creative life with varying degrees of success.

Clockpunk Studios is a web design company based in Lawrence, Kansas. They specialize in websites for authors, publishers, and small businesses, and are experts in WordPress design and development. Clockpunk Studios is run by writer Jeremiah Tolbert.

Clay Vermulm is a Montana-born, Washington-based author of horror and contemporary dark fiction. He has been published in Sleyhouse Magazine, Grendel Press, Reader Beware, Redacted Tales, True Northwest, and numerous anthologies. Clay currently studies under Richard Thomas and is the co-chair for the Seattle HWA and the managing editor for the annual Crypticon Seattle Writing Contest Anthology. He also hosts and produces two other podcasts: Beneath the Rain Shadow and Fermented Fiction. When he’s not doing all that, he enjoys hiking, climbing, surfing, and gaming with his wife and cat.