Tim Waggoner has published nearly sixty novels and eight collections of short stories. He writes original dark fantasy and horror, as well as media tie-ins, and his articles on writing have appeared in numerous publications. He’s a four-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award, a one-time winner of the Scribe award, and he’s been a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award and the Splatterpunk Award. He’s also a full-time tenured professor who teaches creative writing and composition at Sinclair College in Dayton, Ohio. His papers are collected by the University of Pittsburgh's Horror Studies Program.

Lucy A. Snyder is the five-time Bram Stoker Award-winning and Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author of 14 books:

* Sister, Maiden, Monster

* Halloween Season

* Exposed Nerves

* Garden of Eldritch Delights

* While the Black Stars Burn

* Spellbent

* Shotgun Sorceress

* Switchblade Goddess

* Soft Apocalypses

* Orchid Carousals

* Sparks and Shadows

* Chimeric Machines

* Installing Linux on a Dead Badger

* Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer's Survival Guide

Her writing has been translated into French, Russian, Italian, Czech, and Japanese editions and has appeared in publications such as Apex Magazine, Nightmare Magazine, Pseudopod, Strange Horizons, Weird Tales, Steampunk World, and Best Horror of the Year, Vol. 5.

She has an MFA in creative writing from Goddard College and lives in Ohio. You can follow her on Twitter at @LucyASnyder.

You can learn more at her website: www.lucysnyder.com

Jessica McHugh is a novelist, a 2x Bram Stoker Award-nominated poet, & an internationally-produced playwright running amok in the fields of horror, sci-fi, young adult, and wherever else her peculiar mind leads. She’s had twenty-seven books published in fourteen years, including her bizarro romp, “The Green Kangaroos,” her YA series, “The Darla Decker Diaries,” and her Elgin Award nominated blackout poetry collection, “A Complex Accident of Life. ” For more info about publications and blackout poetry commissions, please visit McHughniverse.com.

Wendy Nikel is a speculative fiction author with a degree in elementary education, a fondness for road trips, and a terrible habit of forgetting where she's left her cup of tea. Her short fiction has been published by Analog, Nature, Daily Science Fiction, and elsewhere. Her series of time travel novellas, beginning with THE CONTINUUM, was published by World Weaver Press. For more info, visit wendynikel.com

Robert S. Wilson is the author of THE QUIET, the EMPIRE OF BLOOD dystopian vampire series, the LIFELINE cyberpunk/noir series, the long fiction collection ​LONG SHADOWS: VOLUME 1, and the new serial ​HEX: A Novel of Cosmic Horror. He is the Bram Stoker Award-nominated editor of ​ASHES AND ENTROPY, BLOOD TYPE: AN ANTHOLOGY OF VAMPIRE SF ON THE CUTTING EDGE, HORROR FOR GOOD: A CHARITABLE ANTHOLOGY and NIGHTSCAPES: VOLUME 1, and Co-Editor in Chief and co-owner of ​Nightscape Press alongside his wife, Jennifer Wilson. He lives in Middle Tennessee with his family, an equally adorable and obnoxious dog, and a few psychotic cats skilled in the martial arts.

Robert's short fiction has appeared (and/or is forthcoming) in numerous publications including ​Vastarien, ​Daily Science Fiction, ​Factor Four Magazine, ​Test Patterns: Creature Features, 32 White Horses on a Vermillion Hill: Volume One, Cosmic Scream, Darkfuse Magazine, Gothic Lovecraft, and more. His LIFELINE Lovecraftian/cyberpunk/noir novella EXIT REALITY was chosen as one of e-thriller.com’s Thrillers of the Month in July 2013.

He is currently working hard to finish a number of novels and novellas all at once like a blind juggler given knives and led into oncoming traffic.

Greg Sisco was born in Los Angeles, California in 1988. An independent filmmaker since his late teens and a novelist since his early twenties, he writes darkly comedic fiction mostly within the horror and thriller genres.

Paul Michael Anderson is the writer of the collections BONES ARE MADE TO BE BROKEN and EVERYTHING WILL BE ALL RIGHT IN THE END: APOCALYPSE SONGS, as well as the novellas STANDALONE, HOW WE BROKE (with Bracken MacLeod), THE ONLY WAY OUT IS THROUGH, and the upcoming YOU CAN'T SAVE WHAT ISN'T THERE.

Kristi DeMeester is the author of Such a Pretty Smile, a novel from St. Martin's Press, Beneath, a novel from Word Horde, and Everything That's Underneath, a collection of short stories forthcoming from Apex Publications.

Her short fiction has appeared in publications such as Ellen Datlow's Best Horror of the Year, Year's Best Weird Fiction, Black Static, The Dark, Apex Magazine, and several others.

In her spare time, she alternates between telling people how to pronounce her last name and how to spell her first.

Find her online at www.kristidemeester.com.