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Laur A. Freymiller

Laur A. Freymiller is a non-binary writer originally from small-town Indiana. Their work is informed by an adoration of the eerie, a fascination with folk and fairy tales, and a penchant for anything weird. Laur received their undergraduate degree in biology from Carleton College and has been published in the New Zealand Journal of Ecology […]

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Julianna Baggott

Julianna Baggott is the author of over a dozen novels, including Pure and The Seventh Book of Wonders, both New York Times Notable Books of the Year. There are over one hundred foreign editions of her novels overseas. Her stories have appeared or are forthcoming in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Tor.com, Terraform, Conjunctions, and Strange Horizons. She teaches screenwriting […]

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Tiffany Morris

Tiffany Morris is an L’nu’skw (Mi’kmaw) writer from Mi’kma’ki (Nova Scotia). She is the author of the swampcore ecohorror novella Green Fuse Burning (Stelliform Books, 2023) and the Elgin Award-nominated horror poetry collection Elegies of Rotting Stars (Nictitating Books, 2022). Her work has recently appeared in the Indigenous horror anthology Never Whistle At Night (Vintage […]

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Jason Marc Harris

Jason Marc Harris graduated with a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Washington, and an MFA in fiction from Bowling Green State University, where he served as Fiction Editor of Mid-American Review. Exposed to Edward Gorey’s work (The Insect God, The Gashlycrumb Tinies, The Wuggly Ump) by kindergarten, Jason has been on an […]

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Sonya Taaffe

Sonya Taaffe reads dead languages and tells living stories. Her short fiction and Rhysling Award-winning poetry have been collected most recently in the Lambda-nominated Forget the Sleepless Shores and previously in Singing Innocence and Experience, Postcards from the Province of Hyphens, A Mayse-Bikhl, and Ghost Signs. She lives with her husband and two cats in […]

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WC Dunlap

WC Dunlap draws her inspiration from the rigidity of a Black Baptist upbringing, and all that entails for a brown skin girl growing up in America. Equally enthralled by the divine and the demonic with a professional background in data & tech, she seeks to bend genres with a unique lens on fantasy, fear, and […]

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Jon Padgett

Jon Padgett is a professional–though lapsed–ventriloquist who lives in New Orleans. He is the Editor-In-Chief of Grimscribe Press, which publishes Vastarien: A Literary Journal, a source of critical study and creative response to the work of Thomas Ligotti. Padgett’s debut collection, The Secret of Ventriloquism, was named The Best Fiction Book of the Year by Rue Morgue Magazine.

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Cynthia Pelayo

Cynthia “Cina” Pelayo is a two-time Bram Stoker Awards nominated poet and author. She is the author of Loteria, Santa Muerte, The Missing, and Poems of My Night, all of which have been nominated for International Latino Book Awards. Poems of My Night was also nominated for an Elgin Award. Her recent collection of poetry, […]

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Christa Carmen

Christa Carmen’s debut collection, Something Borrowed, Something Blood-Soaked, was published in 2018 by Unnerving, and additional work has been featured in Fireside Magazine, Year’s Best Hardcore Horror, as well as the Bram Stoker-nominated Not All Monsters: A Strangehouse Anthology by Women of Horror and The Streaming of Hill House: Essays on the Haunting Netflix Adaption. […]

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Nelly Geraldine García-Rosas

Nelly Geraldine García-Rosas is a Mexican immigrant and a graduate of the Clarion West class of 2019. Her short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld, and anthologies like The Apex Book of World SF 3 and She Walks in Shadows. You can find her at nellygeraldine.com and on Twitter as @kitsune_ng.

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