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John Wiswell

John (@Wiswell) is a disabled writer who lives where New York keeps all its trees. His fiction has appeared in Uncanny Magazine, Fireside Magazine, and Pseudopod. Horror has scared the will to live into him on many nights, so he writes to pay back the debt.

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Steph Kwiatkowski

Steph Kwiatkowski is an Illinois-born writer whose natural habitat is the strip mall parking lot. A member of the postponed Clarion West class of ’20, she has worked as a preschool teacher, nonprofit administrator, and server of sugar in many forms. She now lives in a strange land with no winter, and can make you […]

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Eugie Foster

Eugie Foster was an American short fiction writer, columnist, and editor. Her stories were published in magazines and anthologies including Fantasy Magazine, Realms of Fantasy, Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show, and Interzone. She won the 2009 Nebula Award for her story “Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast” and was nominated […]

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P H Lee

P H Lee lives on top of an old walnut tree, past a thicket of roses, down a dead end street at the edge of town. Their work has appeared in many venues including Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, and Uncanny Magazine. From time to time, they microwave and eat a frozen burrito at two in the morning, […]

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Richard Fairgray

Richard Fairgray is a writer, artist, and colorist, best known for his work in comic books such as Blastosaurus and Ghost Ghost, and picture books such as Gorillas in Our Midst, My Grandpa Is a Dinosaur, and If I Had an Elephant. As a child he firmly believed he would grow up and eat all […]

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Maria Dong

Maria Dong’s short fiction has been published in or is forthcoming from Augur, Apparition Lit, Decoded Pride, and Fusion Fragment, among others. Her Korean mythology inspired fantasy novel, Bad Moon Child, was featured in the 2018 Pitch Wars showcase. She can be reached via twitter @mariadongwrites or on the web at www.mariadong.com, and she is […]

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Jose Cruz

Jose Cruz is a children’s librarian and author of dark fiction. His work has appeared in print and digital venues including Rue Morgue, Diabolique, The Terror Trap, Classic-Horror.com, Nightscript, and Year’s Best Hardcore Horror. “The Shepherd,” his third published story, was long-listed for Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year. Find out more at hauntedcruz.com.

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Eileen Gunnell Lee

Eileen Gunnell Lee is a Canadian writer, educator, a PhD in English literature, and a child of the South Asian diaspora. She has stories published in or forthcoming from Escape Pod, Reckoning, Selene Quarterly, Fusion Fragment, and others. As Selena Middleton, she publishes academic research on speculative fiction and ecocriticism and is Publisher and Editor-in-Chief […]

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Paul Crenshaw

Paul Crenshaw is the author of the essay collections This One Will Hurt You, published by The Ohio State University Press, and This We’ll Defend, from the University of North Carolina Press. Other work has appeared in Best American Essays, Best American Nonrequired Reading, The Pushcart Prize, Oxford American, Glimmer Train, and Tin House. Follow […]

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A.T. Greenblatt

A.T. Greenblatt is a mechanical engineer by day and a writer by night. She lives in Philadelphia where she’s known to frequently subject her friends to various cooking and home brewing experiments. She is a graduate of Viable Paradise XVI and Clarion West 2017. Her work has won a Nebula Award, has been in multiple […]

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