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Maria Zoccola

Maria Zoccola is a queer Southern writer with deep roots in the Mississippi Delta. She has writing degrees from Emory University and Falmouth University. Her speculative poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Fantasy Magazine, Strange Horizons, Abyss & Apex, and elsewhere. Her literary poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, 32 Poems, The Massachusetts Review, […]

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Alex Woodroe

Alex Woodroe is a Romanian writer and editor of dark speculative fiction. She’s a member of SFWA and HWA, an acquiring editor for Tenebrous Press, and a staff writer for the videogame Decarnation. Among her latest publications, her Weird SF “Midnight Sun” appeared in Dark Matter Magazine, and her Folk Horror “Abandon” in Horror Library […]

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Neil McRobert

Neil McRobert is a writer, researcher and the host of Talking Scared podcast. After completing a PhD on Gothic and horror he fled the halls of academia to live in an old, haunted village in the north of England. There, he interviews luminaries from the world of horror and writes about things the polite folk […]

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Shaoni C. White

Shaoni C. White writes and researches speculative fiction. Their short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Uncanny Magazine, PodCastle and Fireside. Their poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Fantasy Magazine, Augur Magazine, Apparition Lit and elsewhere. Raised in Southern California, they hold BA in English Literature and Linguistics from Swarthmore College. When not […]

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Victor T. Cypert

Victor T. Cypert is a writer of short stories, essays, and poetry. He holds a Master of Fine Arts in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University. His work has appeared on toolband.com and in Lamplight Magazine, Wild Musette Journal, and Illumen. He is the second place winner of the 2017 Parsec Ink short story […]

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Shannon Scott

Shannon Scott is an adjunct Professor of English at several universities in the Twin Cities. She has contributed essays on wolves and werewolves to collections published by Manchester UP and Routledge. She is co-editor of Terrifying Transformations: An Anthology of Victorian Werewolf Fiction, 1838-1896. Shannon has also published short fiction in Nightscript, Coppice and Brake, Dark Hearts […]

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R.L. Meza

R.L. Meza is an author of horror fiction. She lives in a century-old Victorian house on the coast of northern California with her husband and the collection of strange animals they call family.

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Pedro Iniguez

Pedro Iniguez is a Mexican-American Bram Stoker Award-winning science fiction and horror writer from Los Angeles, California. He is the author of Mexicans on the Moon: Speculative Poetry from a Possible Future, Fever Dreams of a Parasite, Echoes and Embers: Speculative Stories, and The Fib, his debut picture book, among others. Apart from leading writing workshops and […]

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Sarah Blake

Sarah Blake’s novel Naamah won the National Jewish Book Award for Debut Fiction. Blake is also the author of the poetry collections Mr. West and Let’s Not Live on Earth. In 2013, she was awarded a literature fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She currently lives in the UK.

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Jonathan L. Howard

Jonathan L. Howard is the author of the Johannes Cabal, Russalka Chronicles, and Carter & Lovecraft novels. He currently derives most of his income from writing dialogue for games, with the forthcoming Sniper Elite 5 being the next one to bear his work, so blame any unreasonably sarcastic Wehrmacht chitchat on him. He lives in […]

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