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.

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, […]

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. […]

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.

Gillian Daniels writes, works, and haunts the streets in Boston, MA. Since attending the 2011 Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Workshop, her poetry and short fiction have appeared in The Dark Magazine, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies, among others. She writes reviews for The New England Theatre Geek Blog. Follow her on […]

Franklin Ard is a graduate of Clarion West Writers Workshop and holds an MFA from Stonecoast at the University of Southern Maine. He is currently lead editor at Headless Hydra Press, a publisher of tabletop role-playing game supplements, and formerly served as editor-in-chief of Oracle Fine Arts Review and managing editor of Stonecoast Review. For over a decade, he has taught […]

P. L. Watts survived the Florida foster care system where she climbed Banyan trees and played with pythons and baby alligators. She worked her way through college and graduate school by slinging fabric, cheese, and drinks. She earned an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and a Lambda Literary Emerging LGBTQ Fellowship. Now she […]

B. Narr is a queer horror writer from Oklahoma. Their latest book, Hollow Bones–a novella about three women trying to save a dying Texas swamp, and the eldritch creature determined to stop them–is out now. You can also find them waxing poetic about monsters and horror in their nonfiction articles for Interstellar Flight Press and […]

Ally Wilkes is a British author of supernatural, cosmic, and weird horror. Her debut novel, All the White Spaces, was a Bram Stoker Award finalist, and her critically-acclaimed second novel, Where the Dead Wait, was released in late 2023. Ally’s short fiction has been published in numerous magazines and anthologies including Nightmare, Three Crows, FOUND: […]

Osahon Ize-Iyamu is a Nigerian writer of speculative fiction. He is a graduate of the Alpha Writers Workshop and has had stories published (or forthcoming) from magazines such as Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, and The Dark. You can find him ranting on Twitter @osahon4545.