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Nathan Carson

Nathan Carson is a musician and writer from Portland, OR. He is widely known as co-founder and drummer of the internationally touring doom metal band Witch Mountain, host of the XRAY FM radio show The Heavy Metal Sewïng Cïrcle, and owner of the boutique music booking agency Nanotear. He has published articles in Rue Morgue, The Oregonian, […]

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Robert Jackson Bennett

Robert Jackson Bennett is a two-time award winner of the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel, an Edgar Award winner for Best Paperback Original, and is also the 2010 recipient of the Sydney J Bounds Award for Best Newcomer, and a Philip K Dick Award Citation of Excellence. City of Stairs was shortlisted for the […]

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David Liss

David Liss is the author of ten novels, most recently Rebels, the second book in the Randoms trilogy – his first books for younger readers. His previous bestselling books include The Coffee Trader and The Ethical Assassin, both of which are being developed as films, and A Conspiracy of Paper, which is now being developed […]

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Giovanni De Feo

Giovanni De Feo is a fabulist writer in the tradition of Italo Calvino and Dino Buzzati. His Italian fantasy novels have been described like “a baroque cross over from Terry Gilliam and Miyazaki”. He works as a literature teacher in Genoa where he founded a storytelling association which deals with the conservation of Italian folktales.

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David Bowles

David Bowles is a Mexican-American author from south Texas, where he teaches at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Recipient of awards from the American Library Association, Texas Institute of Letters and Texas Associated Press, he has written several titles, among them the Pura Belpré Honor Book The Smoking Mirror (a juvenile fantasy), Lords […]

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James Rabb

James Rabb is a Los Angeles-based screenwriter and short-story writer with short and feature films in pre- and post-production. His scripts ONE and The Volunteer have reached The Academy Nicholl Fellowship quarterfinals. His work is influenced by his travels and inspired by his dreams.

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Nino Cipri

Nino Cipri is a queer and nonbinary/trans writer, currently at work on an MFA at the University of Kansas. A multidisciplinary artist, Nino has also written plays, screenplays, and radio features; performed as a dancer, actor, and puppeteer; and worked as a stagehand, bookseller, bike mechanic, and labor organizer. Their writing has been published by […]

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Lori Selke

Lori Selke lives in Oakland, California. She has been previously published in Asimov’s, Strange Horizons, and The Big Click. She is also the co-editor of the anthology Outlaw Bodies from Future Fire Press. Her stand-alone novella “The XY Conspiracy” is available from Aqueduct Press.

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Will Ludwigsen

Will Ludwigsen’s stories of weird mystery have appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, and many other places including his Shirley Jackson Award-nominated collection In Search Of and Others. He lives in Jacksonville, Florida with his partner, writer Aimee Payne, as well as three cats and a dog who might also be writers […]

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Joanna Parypinski

Joanna Parypinski is a writer of dark speculative fiction by night and a college English instructor by day. Her work has appeared in The Burning Maiden Vol. 2, Dark Moon Digest, NewMyths.com, and Haunted Nights, an anthology edited by Ellen Datlow and Lisa Morton. When she isn’t writing or lecturing on the virtues of good grammar, she […]

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