Cassandra Khaw is the USA Today bestselling author of Nothing But Blackened Teeth and the Bram Stoker Award-winner Breakable Things. Other notable works of theirs are The Salt Grows Heavy and British Fantasy Award and Locus Award finalist, Hammers on Bone. Khaw’s work can be found in places like The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, and Reactor. Khaw […]

S.P. Miskowski is a multiple Shirley Jackson Award nominee whose stories appear in numerous magazines and anthologies including Supernatural Tales, Black Static, Strange Aeons, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Looming Low, Haunted Nights, Tales from a Talking Board, and Darker Companions: Celebrating 50 Years of Ramsey Campbell. Her four-book series, the Skillute Cycle, is published […]

Summer Fletcher is a member of Codex and SFWA. They have written and/or recorded audio narration for venues like PodCastle, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Magic: The Gathering. Check out summerfletcher.com for more

Nalo Hopkinson lives in a home filled with books, art supplies, tools, art projects at various stages of unfinished, more books, and brown-skinned mermaids. She has aches, pains, chronic fatigue, and a quirky brain. She has far too much to do, and nowhere near enough time to marathon watch annoying but addictive science fiction TV. […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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.