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Traci Castleberry

Traci Castleberry lives in the Arizona desert. By night, she works the graveyard shift at a hotel and enjoys catching creepy-crawlies like snakes, scorpions, tarantulas and Gila monsters. By day, she’s the willing servant of two cats and a Lipizzan mare who has a habit of arranging the universe. She’s attended Clarion, Taos Toolbox and […]

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Shweta Narayan

Shweta Narayan was born in India, and has lived in the liminal spaces of Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, the Netherlands, Scotland, and California. Their poetry has appeared in places like Strange Horizons, Goblin Fruit, and Tor.com, and their short fiction in places like Strange Horizons, the 2012 Nebula Showcase anthology, and We See A Different Frontier. […]

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Nisi Shawl

Nisi Shawl’s story collection Filter House co-won the 2009 James Tiptree, Jr. Award.  With Cynthia Ward, they coauthored Writing the Other: A Practical Approach, recipient of a Tiptree Honorable Mention. They edited WisCon Chronicles 5: Writing and Racial Identity and Bloodchildren: Stories by the Octavia E. Butler Scholars, and they currently edit reviews for the literary […]

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Steve Rasnic Tem

Steve Rasnic Tem’s last novel, Blood Kin (Solaris)–a Southern Gothic/Horror blend of snake handling, ghosts, granny women, kudzu, and Melungeons–won the Bram Stoker Award for 2014. PS Publishing recently released his novella In the Lovecraft Museum, and Centipede Press has scheduled Out of the Dark: A Storybook of Horrors, 225,000 words of the best of his uncollected horror tales, for […]

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Alyssa Wong

Alyssa Wong studies fiction in Raleigh, NC, is a John W. Campbell Award finalist, and really, really likes crows. Her story, “Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers,” won the 2015 Nebula Award for Best Short Story, and her short fiction has been shortlisted for the Pushcart Prize, the Bram Stoker Award, the Locus Award, and the […]

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Chet Williamson

Chet Williamson has written in the field of horror, science fiction, and suspense since 1981. Among his many novels are Second Chance, Hunters, Defenders of the Faith, Ash Wednesday, Reign, and Dreamthorp. Upcoming in 2015 are The Night Listener and Others (a story collection from PS Publishing), A Little Blue Book of Bibliomancy (Borderlands Press), […]

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Matthew Bright

Matthew Bright is a writer, editor and designer. His short fiction has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Queen Mob’s Teahouse, Cairo by Gaslight, The Biggest Lover, and Glitterwolf: Halloween. He is the editor of the forthcoming anthologies Threesome (Lethe Press) and The Myriad Carnival, and alongside the poet Christopher Black, he is the co-author of the experimental novella Between the […]

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Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Silvia Moreno-Garcia is the critically-acclaimed author of Signal to Noise—winner of a Copper Cylinder Award, finalist of the British Fantasy, Locus, Sunburst and Aurora awards—and Certain Dark Things (Mexican vampire on the run meets street kid), selected as one of NPR’s best books of 2016. She won a World Fantasy Award for her work as […]

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Matthew Kressel

Matthew Kressel is a multiple Nebula Award and World Fantasy Award finalist. His first novel, King of Shards, was hailed as, “Majestic, resonant, reality-twisting madness,” by NPR Books. His short fiction has or will soon appear in Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, Tor.com, Nightmare, Apex Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Interzone, Electric Velocipede, and the anthologies Mad Hatters and […]

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Christopher Golden

Christopher Golden is the New York Times bestselling, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of such novels as Ararat, Snowblind, Wildwood Road, and The Pandora Room. With Mike Mignola, he is the co-creator of two cult favorite comic book series, Baltimore and Joe Golem: Occult Detective. As an editor, he has worked on the short story anthologies […]

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