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.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Ellie Murray lives in New York, furiously filling notebook after notebook. She is a student at Purchase College SUNY and is President of their Literature Society. She loves Dungeons & Dragons, building stories with her friends, and spreadsheets. She is perpetually editing two novels and striving to move through the world with honor and grace. […]

Ed Grabianowski is a writer of fantasy and horror from Buffalo, NY. His fiction has appeared in Black Static, as well as the anthologies Chilling Horror Short Stories, Geek Love, and Scourge of the Seas of Time (and Space), and he’s written non-fiction for Apex, Clarkesworld, and io9. He’s also the singer in a band […]

Donald McCarthy is a writer and teacher from New York. He’s had essays appear with Salon, The Huffington Post, Paste Magazine, and more. His fiction has appeared in The Grey Rooms Podcast, Raconteur Literary Magazine, The Manhattanville Review, New Myths Magazine, and a host of other places. His website is donaldmccarthy.com.

Michael Kelly is the former Series Editor for the Year’s Best Weird Fiction. He’s a Shirley Jackson Award and British Fantasy Award-winning editor, and a two-time World Fantasy Award nominee. His fiction has appeared in a number of journals and anthologies, including Black Static, Nightscript, The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 21 & 24, […]

Woody Dismukes is a Brazilian-American poet, author, and social advocate living in Jackson Heights, Queens. He is a 2018 Clarion West graduate and has taught at University Settlement’s Creative Center. He is the author of The Way the Cowries Fall, a poetry chapbook from the American Poetry Journal, and has had work featured in Lightspeed, […]

Erica Ruppert lives in northern New Jersey with her husband and several spoiled cats. Her work has appeared in magazines including Unnerving and Weirdbook, on PodCastle, and in multiple anthologies. Her novella, Sisters in Arms, will be published by Trepidatio Publishing in 2021. She is currently working on an unplanned yet persistent novel. When not […]