G. V. Anderson is a World and British Fantasy Award-winning writer from Dorset, UK. Her short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Lightspeed, and has also been selected for such anthologies as The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror.

Terry Dowling has been called “Australia’s finest writer of horror” by Locus magazine, its “premier writer of dark fantasy” by All Hallows and its “most acclaimed writer of the dark fantastic” by Cemetery Dance magazine. The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror series featured more horror stories by Terry in its 21-year run than by any […]

Gordon B. White is a Seattle-based author of horror and/or weird fiction. He is a Shirley Jackson Award finalist, a Clarion West alum, and the author of As Summer’s Mask Slips and Other Disruptions; Rookfield; and And In Her Smile, The World (with Rebecca J. Allred). Gordon’s stories, reviews, and interviews have appeared in dozens […]

Kelley Armstrong is the author of the Cainsville modern gothic series and the Rockton crime thrillers. Past works include the Otherworld urban fantasy series, the Darkest Powers & Darkness Rising teen paranormal trilogies, the Age of Legends fantasy YA series and the Nadia Stafford crime trilogy. Armstrong lives in Ontario, Canada with her family.

Ray Cluley’s work has appeared in a various magazines and anthologies and has been reprinted in Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year series, Steve Berman’s Wilde Stories 2013: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction, and in Benoît Domis’s Ténèbres series. He has been translated into French, Polish, Hungarian, and Chinese. He won a British […]

Seth Fried is the author of the novel The Municipalists (forthcoming from Penguin Books) and the short story collection The Great Frustration (Soft Skull Press). His stories have appeared in Lightspeed Magazine, Tin House, One Story, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Vice, and many others.

Merc Fenn Wolfmoor is a queer non-binary writer who lives in Minnesota and is a Nebula Awards finalist. Their stories have appeared in Lightspeed, Fireside, Apex, Uncanny, Nightmare,  and several Year’s Best anthologies. You can find Merc on Twitter @Merc_Rustad or their website: mercfennwolfmoor.com. Their debut short story collection, So You Want To Be A […]

Trent Hergenrader is an English professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology, where he spends much of this time using role-playing games to teach aspects of fiction writing and worldbuilding. He also teaches courses on fantasy and science fiction in popular culture, such as Game of Thrones in Media, Tolkien in Print and on Screen […]