Karin Tidbeck works as a freelance writer, teacher and translator in Malmö, Sweden. She has published a short story collection and a novel in Swedish, and debuted in English in 2012 with the acclaimed collection Jagannath.  Her short fiction has appeared in Weird Tales, Tor.com, Lightspeed Magazine and Strange Horizons and numerous anthologies. Her work has received the Campbell Award and […]

Catherine MacLeod lives and writes in Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia, where she also spends too much time watching “One Step Beyond” on YouTube. Her publications include short work on Tor.com, and in On Spec, Black Static, and several anthologies, including Fearful Symmetries, The Living Dead 2, and Tesseracts 17. She’s waiting patiently for Joss Whedon’s “Drive” […]

Katherine Crighton lives in Massachusetts. Her work has previously appeared in Strange Horizons, Flash Fiction Online, and other venues; she also coauthors urban fantasy under the name Anna Katherine. Connect with her on directly via Facebook at crightonkatherine or Twitter at @c_katherine.

Agata Napiórska is editor-in-chief of the lifestyle magazine Zwykłe Życie (Ordinary Life), and regularly writes for the children’s magazine Kikimora. She lives in Warsaw, Poland.

Tom Piccirilli is the author of more than twenty-five novels including A Choir of Ill Children, The Cold Spot, and The Last Kind Words.  He’s a four-time winner of the Stoker Award, two-time winner of the International Thriller Award, and has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award, and twice for the Edgar Award.  Marilyn […]

Daniel José Older is the author of the upcoming young adult novel Shadowshaper (Arthur A. Levine Books, 2015) and the Bone Street Rumba urban fantasy series, which begins in January 2015 with Half Resurrection Blues from Penguin’s Roc imprint. Publishers Weekly hailed him as a “rising star of the genre” after the publication of his debut ghost noir collection, Salsa […]