Douglas J. Ogurek is the pseudonymous and sophomoric founder of the unsplatterpunk subgenre, which uses splatterpunk conventions (i.e., transgressive/gory/gross/violent subject matter) to deliver a positive message. His short story collection I Will Change the World . . . One Intestine at a Time (Plumfukt Press), a juvenile stew of horror and bizarro, aims to make readers lose their lunch while learning a lesson. His novella Stone Ovaries and Bowling Balls Trapped in Beautiful Prodigy World (Planet Bizarro) offers a minefield of immaturity filled with bodily expulsions, princesses, deranged mothers, malapropisms, and guacamole.

Ogurek also guest-edits the wildly unpopular UNSPLATTERPUNK! “smearies,” published by Theaker’s Quarterly Fiction. These anthologies are unavailable at your library and despised by your mother. Ogurek reviews films and fiction for that same magazine.

Publications have rejected Ogurek’s work nearly 2,000 times. However, some of the world’s leading literary journals thanked him for submitting manuscripts in (form) letters. One highly respected publication even said, “We want to thank you for your kindness in letting us see your work.” Thus, Ogurek is a kind author.

Rose Strickman (b. 1988) is a fantasy, science fiction and horror writer living in Seattle, Washington. Her work has appeared in anthologies such as Sword and Sorceress 32, That Hoodoo, Voodoo That You Do and Robotica. She's also been published in e-zines such as Aurora Wolf and Luna Station Quarterly. Check out her self-published stuff on Amazon as well!

As well as writing fiction, Arlen Feldman is a software engineer, entrepreneur (co-founder of Cherwell Software), maker, and computer book author—useful if you are in the market for some industrial-strength door stops. Some recent stories of his appear in Metaphorosis, Ink Stains, The Literary Hatchet, and the anthologies Transcendent and The Chorochronos Archives. His website is cowthulu.com.

Jennifer Lee Rossman (they/them) is a queer, disabled, and autistic author and editor from the land of carousels and Rod Serling. Their work has been featured in dozens of anthologies, and they have been nominated for Pushcart and Utopia Awards. Find more of their work on their website http://jenniferleerossman.blogspot.com and follow them on Twitter @JenLRossman

Tim Kane grew up in Southern California watching Toho movies and reading H.G. Wells. He has not lost faith in the sanity of the world. He studied writing as the University of California San Diego and has amused readers with many short stories. His first published book, The Changing Vampire of Film and Television, analyzes the past seventy years of vampires. He lives and teaches in Chula Vista, California, with his spectacular wife, daughter, and a dog that stands upside down. He enjoys traveling to the dark places of his mind and bringing back souvenirs. He hopes you have enjoyed this brief tour of his life.

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I’m a Boston-area public interest lawyer, activist, and writer.

By day and often also the night, I’m the Legal Director at Free Speech For People, where we work to fight for free and fair elections, challenge corruption at the highest levels of government, and fight the influence of unchecked corporate power and big money in politics.

In my copious free time, I write humor, science fiction, fantasy, horror, and occasionally mystery.

Find me online at ronfein.com, on Twitter @ronfein, or on Mastodon @ronfein@masto.ai. If you’d like to be updated when I publish something, email me at ronfein.fiction AT gmail dot com. I promise I won’t spam you.

Robert Bagnall is a writer of short and not-so-short fiction, working primarily in the genres of science fiction and new weird with a smattering of fantasy and horror. He was born in Bedford, England, when the Royal Navy still issued a rum ration and the nation had yet to accept everyone else’s definition of a nautical mile, and now enjoys a life of quiet desperation on the English Riviera. He is the author of the novel ‘2084’, and the short story anthology ‘24 0s & a 2’, which collects two dozen of his thirty-plus published stories from the 2010s. He can be contacted via his blog at meschera.blogspot.co.uk.

Mike writes science fiction, fantasy, and horror, and often contributes to non-fiction books on various science fiction series, like Doctor Who. He also contributes work to magazines and comics not sold through Amazon. To read more about his publishing history, please go to: https://perpetualstateofmildpanic.wordpress.com/

C.R. Johansson writes gripping thrillers, science fiction, and fantasy stories with a genetic twist. Her characters explore universes where the unknown prevails and the impossible is possible akin to her life with congenital heart disease. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and comical pugs. When not writing, she enjoys listening to the river nearby, working in her garden, paper-mache’, knitting and sitting on the couch drinking tea.

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