Melanie Tem’s work has received the Bram Stoker, International Horror Guild, British Fantasy, and World Fantasy Awards and a nomination for the Shirley Jackson Award.  She has published numerous short stories, eleven solo novels, two collaborative novels with Nancy Holder, and two with her husband Steve Rasnic Tem.  She is also a published poet, an […]

Alaya Dawn Johnson’s most recent novel is The Summer Prince, which has received starred reviews from Kirkus, Booklist, and Publishers Weekly. It is a Junior Library Guild selection for Spring 2013 and has been longlisted for the 2013 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. Her short stories have appeared in the anthologies Zombies vs. Unicorns, Welcome to […]

Britt Gettys currently attends Pratt Institute where she is pursuing a BFA in Creative Writing.  She is the editor of Pratt Success, a student run blog, sponsored by Pratt’s Center for Career and Professional Development, which reviews the work of current Pratt students and alumni.  Additionally, she illustrates graphic novels and her work has been featured in […]

Peter Straub is the author of seventeen novels, which have been translated into more than twenty languages. They include Ghost Story, Koko, Mr. X, In the Night Room, and two collaborations with Stephen King, The Talisman and Black House. He has written two volumes of poetry and two collections of short fiction, and he edited […]

Robert Kirkman is a New York Times bestselling author known for being the cultural zeitgeist of the comic book industry. He maintains one prerogative in every undertaking: quality. It is Kirkman’s belief that good people who produce good writing and good ideas make comics people love. Kirkman was recently made partner at Image Comics, and […]

Linda Nagata grew up in a rented beach house on the north shore of Oahu. She graduated from the University of Hawaii with a degree in zoology and worked for a time at Haleakala National Park on the island of Maui. She has been a writer, a mom, a programmer of database-driven websites, and lately […]

Robert McCammon is a New York Times bestselling author and World Fantasy award winner. He is the author of twenty-one books, among them the novels Boy’s Life, Swan Song, and The Five. He has won numerous awards, including the French Grand Prize of the Imagination Award for Best Foreign Novel for The Wolf’s Hour. His […]

Matthew Cheney‘s work has been published by Weird Tales, One Story, Strange Horizons, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, Failbetter, Interfictions, Rain Taxi, Locus, and SF Site, among other places. He is the former series editor for the Best American Fantasy anthologies, and co-editor of the occasional online magazine The Revelator (revelatormagazine.com). He currently lives in New […]

Clive Barker is probably best known as the writer and director of the Hellraiser saga, which was based on his novella “The Hellbound Heart.” He has written and directed other films as well, such as Lord of Illusions and Nightbreed. Other works of his have been adapted to film by others, such as his short […]