John is a Canadian author living in Ottawa with a little over twenty published short story credits. His fiction has appeared in such professional paying publications as Writers of the Future vol. 35, Galaxy's Edge, and Pressfuls Digipress. His trilogy of humorous fantasy novels starting with The Reluctant Barbarian are published by Renaissance Press and

A child educator, Mei Davis maneuvers between managing fictional children and the far more troublesome tangible variety. She has been published by prairiefire, Sans Press, Translunar Traveler’s Lounge, and Radix Media.

Dan Peacock is a science fiction and fantasy writer from the UK, with short stories forthcoming in F&SF, Kaleidotrope and Etherea. He is also a First Reader for Orion's Belt. You can find links to all his published stories at danpeacockwriter.com.

Amanda Cecelia Lang is a horror author and aspiring recluse from Denver, Colorado. As a die-hard scary movie nerd, her favorite things are meta-slashers, 80s nostalgia, and the rise of a fierce final girl. Her stories currently haunt the dark corners of several podcasts, ezines, and anthologies, including NoSleep, Uncharted, and Mixtape: 1986. Her short

Jessica Feather, at various times, lived in much of the middle and southern United States, but has called Austin, Texas home for the past 17 years. She makes her living as a grant writer for hire. She is an award-winning trapeze performer, former drag-king, and occasional knitter.

Aly lives in the UK, with her family, and rescue animals where she works as a tutor and editor. Her fiction has been published in a variety of magazines, and anthologies and sites, e.g.The Horror Tree, Sirens Call and by Brigids Gate Press, and most recently in Space and Time magazine #141.

J. Syringa is strictly a human being (contrary to what the overly large plants and equally distressing sleeping habits might indicate). Syringa lives in Canada and is a writer with a particular fondness for non-human narratives, exotic food, and natural world trivia. When they aren’t networked to the hive-mind, Syringa is writing about robots, monsters,

Bert S.G. is a former video store clerk. He spends his days herding cats and awaiting death in the greater Kansas City area.

Rachel Nussbaum is an author from The Big Island of Hawaii. Her previous works have been published in The Mammoth Book of Dieselpunk from Running Press and Crash Code and several other anthologies from Blood Bound Books. Some more recent publications include her short story Whiskey to the Wound, which was published in Brewtality by

Mike Deady's work has appeared in That Is So Wrong, Bag of Bones: 206 Word Stories, and Totally Tubular Terrors. He is a member of the New England Horror Writers and a lifelong resident of Massachusetts. After retiring from a forty-two-year career in engineering, he started writing horror fiction at the urging of his brother,