Joan Tierney is a poet and author based in Virginia. She has published three collections of poetry and short stories and her upcoming thriller novella The Killing Grounds will be released in 2023.

Avi Burton (he/they) currently moonlights as a writer and daylights as a university student. He enjoys studying theater and history. His stories often feature queer characters, revenants, and– on occasion– laser swords. You can find more of their stories in Escape Pod, PodCastle, and Apparition Lit, or find the author themself on twitter under @avi_why.

Isha Karki is a writer based in London. Her short fiction has won the Dinesh Allirajah Prize, Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize, and Mslexia Short Story Competition. Her work appears in publications such as khōréō, Lightspeed Magazine, and Best British Short Stories 2021. She is a Clarion West alumni and a 2023 Hedgebrook Writer-in-Residence. […]

Jonathan H. Smith, M.D. (he/him) is a neurologist with over 50 peer-reviewed publications in medical and scientific journals. He is an avid horror fan, and resides with his family in Chicago, IL. Twitter: @JHSmithMD

Rae Knowles (she/her) is a queer woman with multiple works forthcoming from Brigids Gate Press. Her debut novel, The Stradivarius, is coming May ’23; her sapphic horror novella, Merciless Waters, is due out winter ’23, and her collaboration with April Yates, Lies That Bind, in early ’24. A number of her short stories have been […]

Aimee Picchi is a journalist by day and Nebula-nominated science fiction and fantasy writer by night. Her short fiction has been published in Apex, Podcastle, Fireside Magazine, and Flash Fiction Online, among other fine publications. She’s a former classical musician (viola) who graduated from Juilliard Pre-College and the Eastman School of Music. She lives in […]

Emily Ruth Verona received her Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing and Cinema Studies from the State University of New York at Purchase. In 2014 she won the Pinch Literary Award in Fiction. She is a Bram Stoker Award nominee, a Jane Austen Short Story Award Finalist, and a Luke Bitmead Bursary Finalist. Previous publication […]

Elena Sichrovsky is an Austrian-Tawainese writer and horror enthusiast. Through her work she hopes to show the beauty in the terrifying and the terror in the beautiful. She also has never managed to sit through a full viewing of The Exorcist. Her short stories have been published in SciPhi Journal, Planet Scumm, Sublunary Review, and Mud Season Review, among others. […]

Neal Auch is an artist and author with a keen interest in death, decay, and 17th-century Dutch still life. Neal’s prose has been published in various outlets, including Nightmare Magazine, The Deadlands, and the Cinnabar Moth e-zine. His photography has been exhibited in galleries and featured in a number of fine art books, magazines, and […]