Amy Grech has sold over 100 stories to various anthologies and magazines including: 10 by 10 Flash Fiction Stories, A New York State of Fright, Apex Magazine, Even in the Grave, Gorefest, Hell’s Heart, Hell’s Highway, Hell’s Mall, Microverses, Punk Noir Magazine, Roi Fainéant Press, Tales from the Canyons of the Damned, Yellow Mama, and many others. Alien Buddha Press published her poetry chapbook, A Shadow of Your Former Self.

She is an Active Member of the Horror Writers Association and the International Thriller Writers who lives in Forest Hills, Queens.

Mercedes M. Yardley is a whimsical dark fantasist who wears poisonous flowers in her hair. She is the author of many works including BEAUTIFUL SORROWS, PRETTY LITTLE DEAD GIRLS: A NOVEL OF MURDER AND WHIMSY (now available as a graphic novel with art by Orion Zangara), and the Stabby Award-winning APOCALYPTIC MONTESSA AND NUCLEAR LULU: A TALE OF ATOMIC LOVE.

She is a two-time Bram Stoker Award winner for her realistic horror novella LITTLE DEAD RED and her magical surrealism short story "Fracture." She was a Bram Stoker finalist for her short story "Loving You Darkly" and for her ARTERIAL BLOOM anthology, for which she was editor. Mercedes lives and creates in Las Vegas with her family and menagerie of battle-scarred, rescued animal familiars.

Carina Bissett is a writer, poet, and educator working primarily in the fields of dark fiction and fabulism. Her short fiction and poetry have been published in multiple journals and anthologies including What Remains, Upon a Twice Time, Bitter Distillations: An Anthology of Poisonous Tales, Arterial Bloom, Gorgon: Stories of Emergence, Weird Dream Society, Hath No Fury, and the HWA Poetry Showcase Vol. V, VI, and VIII. She has also written stories set in shared worlds for RPGs at Green Ronin Publishing and Onyx Path Publishing. In addition to writing, she has edited several projects; the most recent is in the role as co-editor for the award-winning anthology Shadow Atlas: Dark Landscapes of the Americas.

As an educator, Carina has taught at Pikes Peak Community College, Glendale Community College, and Arizona State University. She also participated in the Colorado Writing Project and works with educators to develop writing instruction in college and secondary school classrooms. She currently offers workshops focused on story generation at The Storied Imaginarium. Her fiction has been nominated for the Sundress Publications Best of the Net Award and was a finalist for the Ron L. Hubbard Writers of the Future Awards. Her poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Sundress Publications Best of the Net Award. In her editorial capacity, she’s received recognition as a Winner at the Colorado Book Awards 2022 (Anthology) and as a Finalist in the Fiction: Anthologies category of the 2022 International Book Awards.

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Juleigh Howard-Hobson is most widely known for her modern poetry. Which is written in form. Working under the principle that taboos --even literary ones-- must always be challenged, she also writes fiction, creative non-fiction, reviews and articles. In various genres. From literary to pulp horror.

Recognition for her poetry spans decades, from the1980 ANZAC Day Award (in Australia) to nominations for Best of the Net, the Pushcart Prize, the Rhysling Award and the Elgin Award.

Her first chapbook, Sommer and Other Poems (RavensHalla Arts Pub. March 2007), sold out its premier edition. The illustrious Red Salon Press brought out Our Otherworld, her Elgin Award nominated collection of formal numinous poems. Her most recent book is Curses, Black Spells and Hexes: A Grimoire Sonnetica (Alien Buddha Press, July 2021).

Individual poems have appeared in scores of venues, across the globe, including 34 Orchard, Mooky Chick, Midnight Echo. Silver Blade, Capsule Stories, Faerie Magazine, Enchanted Conversation, Star*Line, Eye to the Telescope, Polu Texni, Illumen, Riddled with Arrows, Verse Wisconsin, The Lyric, Able Muse, Mezzo Cammin, The Raintown Review, Hip Mama Magazine, Mobius, 14 by 14, The Barefoot Muse, Umbrella, Poemeleon, Mandragora (Scarlet Imprint), Caduceus: The Poets at Art Place Vol 8 (Yale University), Poem, Revised: 54 Poems, Revisions, Discussions (Marion Street Press), Five Minutes at Hotel StormCove (Atthis Arts), Weaving the Terrain (Dos Gatos), Lift Every Voice (Kissing Dynamite) along with many other places.

Her fiction, though lesser known than her poetry, has appeared in such varied places as the Liars League, The New Southern Fugitives, The First Line, Her Story, Key Hole Magazine, Going Down Swinging, The Cantibrigian, History is Dead (Permuted Press), The Knitters Gift (Adams Media), and Alien Days (Castrum Press).

A firm believer in throwing literary breadcrumbs in any path that may hold them, her wide-faring non-fiction appears in many guises, from arcane journals such as Witch Way Magazine, Northern Traditions, and The Journal of Contemporary Heathen Thought all the way to the traditional/maternal/personal such as The Tishman Review, Devolution Z, Got Milk? (Demeter), Chick Ink (Simon and Schuster), and Ex-Pat (Seal Press).

Born in the south of England, raised in both the US and Australia, she currently lives in the rainy grey US Pacific Northwest, right beside a dark deep forest. Off grid, dropped out, and quite happy in her defiant otherworld. There are ghosts. And magic.

Vivian Kasley hails from the land of the strange and unusual, Florida! She’s a writer of dark fiction and poetry which have appeared in various science fiction anthologies, horror anthologies, horror magazines, literary journals, and webzines. Her words haunt places such as Cemetery Gates Media, Brigids Gate Press, Deaths Head Press, Blood Bound Books, Vastarien, Ghost Orchid Press, The Denver Horror Collective, and poetry in Black Spot Books inaugural women in horror poetry showcase: Under Her Skin and Under Her Eye. She has more on the way, including her first collection, "All's Well That Ends Well" coming in October 2025 from Brigids Gate Press!

When not writing or subbing at the local middle school, she spends her time reading in bubble baths, snuggling her rescue cats and dogs, going on foodie adventures with her other half, and searching for seashells and other creepy treasures along the beach.

Author Melodie Bolt writes poetry & dark fantasy. She loves entertaining you with deep characters and surprise endings. Her debut novel, Fix, is releasing December 1st. Her poetry, both literary and genre, has appeared in magazines like Prairie Schooner, Black Spot Book's women in horror anthology Under Her Skin, and in the magazine "Witches and Pagans". Her dark, dystopic and fantasy short stories have appeared in several anthologies. She is a member of GLAHW Great Lakes Horror Writers and the Flint Area Writers critique group. She's pagan, manages a mental illness, and lives in Flint, Michigan.

R. J. Joseph is an award winning, Stoker™ and Shirley Jackson awards nominated, Texas based writer who earned her MFA in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University and who must exorcise the demons of her imagination so they don't haunt her being. A life long horror fan and writer of many things, she joyously discovered and embraced writing in the academic arena about three important aspects of of her life: horror, Black femininity, and popular culture. She has had works published in various venues, including the Halloween 2020 issue of Southwest Review and The Streaming of Hill House: Essays on the Haunting Netflix Series. Her horror collection, Hell Hath No Sorrow like a Woman Haunted, was released in August 2022 by The Seventh Terrace.

When she isn't writing, reading, or teaching, she can usually be found wrangling her huge blended family of one husband, five adult sprouts, six teenaged sproutlings, five grandboo seedlings, and one furry hellbeast who sometimes pretends to be a dog.

R.J. is also an instructor at The Speculative Fiction Academy, a co-host of the Genre Blackademia podcast, and the editor of a novella series with RDSP. Film/TV rep: Karmen Wells, The Rights Factory.

R. J. can be found lurking (and occasionally even peeking out) on various social media platforms from behind @rjacksonjoseph.

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/rjacksonjoseph

Website: www.rhondajacksonjoseph.com

Morgan Sylvia is an Aquarius, a metalhead, a coffee addict, a beer snob, and a work in progress. A former obituarist, she is now a full-time freelance writer. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in several places, including Pseudopod, Wicked Weird, Wicked Witches, Wicked Haunted, Northern Frights, Twice Upon An Apocalypse, Endless Apocalypse, Haunted House Short Stories, and The Final Summons. In 2013, she released Whispers From The Apocalypse, a horror poetry collection. Her first novel, Abode, which was released from Bloodshot Books in July 2017, was recommended by the Library Journal. Her second novel, Dawn, is the first book of a fantasy trilogy. Her most recent book, As The Seas Turn Red, an ocean-themed poetry collection, was nominated for an Elgin Award. She is an active member of the HWA and the SFWA. Sylvia currently lives in Maine with her boyfriend, two cats, the best dog ever, and a chubby goldfish.

I live in the UK near the Bronte moors where I walk my rescue dog, Roxy. I write dark fiction, and ghost stories. I was obsessed with historic haunted houses growing up and old movies especially film noirs of the 1940's. I blend the two genres in my fiction. I teach creative writing, edit and mentor writers. Away from my writing I swim, craft, sing, eat chocolate and laugh a lot with friends.

Vanessa Jae writes horrifically beautiful anarchies, reads stories for Apex Magazine and is poetry editor at Strange Horizons. She also collects black hoodies and bruises in mosh pits on Tuesday nights.

Described by NPR as “Shirley Jackson meets Johnny Rotten,” Emma J. Gibbon is an award-winning horror writer and poet. Her debut fiction collection, Dark Blood Comes from the Feet, was one of NPR’s best books of 2020 and won the Maine Literary Book Award for Speculative Fiction. Her stories have appeared in The Dark Tome and Toasted Cake podcasts, and various anthologies, including Wicked Haunted and 13 Haunted Houses. Her poetry has been published in magazines and anthologies, including Strange Horizons, Kaleidotrope, and Under Her Skin. Most recently, Emma was part of the writing team behind the Realm podcast drama, Undertow: Blood Forest. Emma lives with her husband, Steve, and four exceptional animals: Odin, Mothra, Hamlet, and M. Bison (also known as Grim) in a spooky little house in the woods. You can find her online at emmajgibbon.com.

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Antonia Rachel Ward is an author of horror and speculative fiction, based in Cambridgeshire, UK. Her short stories and poetry have been published by Blackspot Books, Kandisha Press, and Orchid’s Lantern, among others. She has published two novellas, MARIONETTE and ATTACK OF THE KILLER TUMBLEWEEDS, and her first novel, DREAMSCAPE, is forthcoming in October 2023.

She is also the founder and editor-in-chief of Ghost Orchid Press.

Roni Stinger lives in the Pacific Northwest, USA. When not writing strange, dark fiction, she's often wandering the forests, beaches, and streets in search of shiny objects and creative sparks. Her work has been published in Dark Matter Magazine, Unnerving Magazine, and Underland Arcana, among others. She’s a member of the Horror Writers Association, Science Fiction Poetry Association, Codex Writers and Willamette Writers.

Lindy Ryan is an award-winning author, anthologist, director, and professor. Ryan served from 2020 to 2022 on the Board of Directors for the Independent Book Publishers Association and was named one of Publishers Weekly‘s 2020 Star Watch Honorees. She is the current author-in-residence at Rue Morgue, the world’s leading horror culture and entertainment brand and the “Chill Quill” columnist at Booktrib. In 2022, she was named one of horror's most masterful anthology curators and has been declared a "champion for women's voices in horror" by Shelf Awareness (2023).

Caitlin Marceau is a queer author and lecturer based in Montreal. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing, is an Active Member of the Horror Writers Association, and has spoken about genre literature at several Canadian conventions. She spends most of her time writing horror and experimental fiction, but has also been published for poetry as well as creative non-fiction. Her work includes PALIMPSEST, MAGNUM OPUS, A BLACKNESS ABSOLUTE, and her debut novella, THIS IS WHERE WE TALK THINGS OUT. Her second novella, I'M HAVING REGRETS, and her debut novel, IT WASN'T SUPPOSED TO GO LIKE THIS, are set for publication in 2023. For more, visit CaitlinMarceau.ca or find her on social media.

Naching T. Kassa is a member of the Horror Writers Association, Mystery Writers of America, and a staff writer at Crystal Lake Publishing. She resides in Eastern Washington State with her husband Dan. They are the proud parents of three children and a dog.