Valerie Valdes copy edits, moonlights as a muse and occasionally plays video games if her son and husband are distracted by Transformers. Once upon a time, she attended the University of Miami, where she majored in English literature with minors in creative writing and motion pictures. She currently teaches for The Brainery, which offers online […]

Joe Hill is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Heart-Shaped Box, Horns, and NOS4A2, and the award-winning short story collection 20th Century Ghosts. He is also the writer of the critically-acclaimed comic book series Locke & Key. His latest novel is The Fireman (May 2016, William Morrow), and he served as the […]

Lisa Goldstein has written fourteen novels, among them The Uncertain Places, which won the Mythopoeic Award, and The Red Magician, which won the American Book Award for Best Paperback. She has also won the Sidewise Award for her short story “Paradise Is a Walled Garden.” Her stories have appeared in Ms., Asimov’s Science Fiction, The […]

Naomi Kanakia is the author of two contemporary young adult novels, Enter Title Here, Disney ’16 and We Are Totally Normal (HarperTeen, ’20), both published under the name Rahul Kanakia. Additionally, her stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Asimov’s, Clarkesworld, F&SF, Lightspeed, The Indiana Review, and Nature. She lives in San Francisco with her […]

Rena Mason was born in Nakhon Sawan, Thailand. She is a first-generation American horror and dark speculative fiction author of Thai Chinese descent and a three-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award. Her co-written screenplay RIPPERS was a 2014 Stage 32/The Blood ListPresents®: The Search for New Blood Screenwriting Contest Quarterfinalist. She is a member […]

Evan J. Peterson is an essayist, journalist, fiction author, poet, professor, and editor living in Seattle. He’s the author of Skin Job and The Midnight Channel and editor of Lambda Award finalist Ghosts in Gaslight, Monsters in Steam: Gay City 5. His writing can also be found in The Myriad Carnival, Nightmare Magazine’s “Queers Destroy […]

Orrin Grey is a writer, editor, amateur film scholar, and monster expert who was born on the night before Halloween. His stories of ghosts, monsters, and sometimes the ghosts of monsters have appeared in dozens of anthologies, including The Best Horror of the Year, and been collected in Never Bet the Devil & Other Warnings […]

Richard Bowes has published six novels, four story collections, and over seventy short stories. He has won two World Fantasy, a Lambda, Million Writer, and International Horror Guild Awards. His novel Dust Devil On a Quiet Street was on the 2014 World Fantasy and Lambda short lists. His novelette Sleep Walking Now and Then was on the 2015 Nebula […]