Lane Robins was born in Miami, Florida, the daughter of two scientists, and grew up as the first human member of their menagerie. She attended the Odyssey workshop, the Center for the Study of Science Fiction novel and short story workshops, and has a BA in Creative Writing from Beloit College. She writes urban fantasy […]

Joe McKinney has been a patrol officer for the San Antonio Police Department, a homicide detective, a disaster mitigation specialist, a patrol commander, and a successful novelist. His books include the four part Dead World series, Quarantined, Inheritance, Lost Girl of the Lake, The Savage Dead, Crooked House and Dodging Bullets. His short fiction has […]

Łukasz Orbitowski is the author of twelve books, such as the critically acclaimed I’m Losing Warmth (pol. Tracę ciepło); Saint Wrocław (pol. Święty Wrocław); a collection of short stories, Here It Comes (pol. Nadchodzi); and the widely acclaimed novel Spectres (pol. Widma). In 2012 Orbitowski was granted a Young Poland scholarship funded by the Polish […]

Lucy A. Snyder is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of the novels Spellbent, Shotgun Sorceress, Switchblade Goddess, and the collections Orchid Carousals, Sparks and Shadows, Chimeric Machines, and Installing Linux on a Dead Badger. Her story collection Soft Apocalypses will be released by Raw Dog Screaming Press in July 2014. Her writing has been translated into French, Russian, and Japanese editions and has appeared in publications such […]

Glen Hirshberg’s novels include The Snowman’s Children (2002), The Book of Bunk 2010), and Motherless Child (2012), which will be republished in a new, revised edition by Tor this May. He is also the author of three story collections: The Two Sams (a Publishers’ Weekly Best Book of 2003), American Morons (2006), and The Janus Tree (2011). In 2008, he won the Shirley Jackson Award for the novelette, “The […]

Gary A. Braunbeck is the author of the acclaimed Cedar Hill Cycle of novels and stories, including the novels In Silent Graves, Coffin County, and the forthcoming A Cracked and Broken Path.  His non-fiction work includes the Bram Stoker Award-winning To Each There Darkness.  He has professionally published over 250 short stories, a dozen novels, and 14 short-story collections, including the […]

Miranda Siemienowicz is a writer living in Melbourne, Australia. She has published stories in literary journals such as Overland and Island and in speculative fiction magazines including Aurealis and Black: Australian Dark Culture. Her work has been reprinted in Best Horror of the Year (Vol. 1, ed. Ellen Datlow) and Australian Dark Fantasy and Horror […]