Samantha Bryant believes in love, magic, and unexplainable connections between people. Her favorite things are lonely beaches, untamed cliff tops, sunlight through the leaves of trees, summer rains, and children's laughter. She lives in North Carolina, grew up in Kentucky, and left her heart in Alaska. She is fierce at heart, though she doesn't look it.

She reads poetry and comic books, sometimes on the same day because she contains multitudes.

She writes blogs, poems, essays, and novels. Mostly she writes about things that scare or worry her because writing is a great work to work things out. Someday, she hopes to make her living solely as a writer. In the meantime, she also teaches middle school Spanish, which, admittedly, is an odd choice for money-earning, especially in North Carolina.

When she's not writing or teaching, Samantha enjoys time with her family, watching old movies, baking, reading, and going places. Her favorite gift is tickets (to just about anything).

Scotty Milder is a writer, filmmaker, and film educator living in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He received his MFA in Screenwriting from Boston University, and his award-winning short films have screened at festivals all over the world, including Cinequest, the Dead By Dawn Festival of Horror, HollyShorts, and the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival and CthulhuCon. His independent feature film "Dead Billy" is available to stream on Amazon.com and Google Play.

His short fiction has appeared or will appear in such magazines as Dark Matter Magazine, Cosmic Horror Monthly, Dark Moon Digest, and anthologies from Dark Moon Books, HellBound Books, Dark Peninsula Press, Sinister Smile Press, Dark Ink Books, and others.

He teaches screenwriting and film production at Santa Fe Community College. He is also host of the "Horror from the High Desert" podcast and co-host of "The Weirdest Thing" history podcast with actor/theatre artist Amelia Ampuero.

You can find him online at scottymilder.com or www.facebook.com/scottymilderwrites.

Rachel A. Brune graduated from the NYU Tisch School of the Arts in May 2000 and was immediately plunged into the low-stakes world of entry-level executive assistant-ship. After the events of September 11, 2001, she joined the Army Reserve and got her first writing gig.

Rachel served five years on as a combat journalist, including two tours in Iraq, and a brief stint as a columnist for her hometown newspaper. After her second tour, she attended graduate school at the University at Albany in NY, where she earned her MA in Political Communication, and her commission as a second lieutenant in the military police corps. She returned to the Army Reserve in November 2014 and continued to serve until retiring in 2023.

When she moved on, she didn’t quit writing stories with soldiers in them, just added werewolves, sorcerers, a couple evil mad scientists, and a Fae or two. In addition to writing, she is the founder and chief editor at Crone Girls Press, an indie horror micropress specializing in anthologies. She also edits the Falstaff Dread line of horror fiction at Falstaff Books, a Charlotte, NC-based regional indie press.

Previously, Rachel was a contributing editor to the Writerpunk Press anthology series, which benefits the PAWS no-kill animal shelter in Lynnwood, WA. She lives with her spouse, two daughters, one reticent cat, and two flatulent rescue dogs. Her werewolf secret agent novel, Cold Run, was published in 2022 by Falstaff Books. She holds two additional graduate degrees, a Masters of Criminal Justice and an MFA in Creative Writing.

Tarver Nova is a spec-fic writer and professional night owl in New York.

His stories are found in Baffling Magazine, Air & Nothingness Press, Daily Science Fiction, and other fine places.

He is the assistant editor of CatsCast, a feline-themed fiction podcast.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Mike Robinson is the award-winning author of multiple novels and dozens of short stories, most of them speculative fiction. His work has appeared in the likes of American Gothic Fantasy, Storyteller Magazine, ClonePod, December Tales II, Underland Arcana, Thirteen Podcast, Creepy Podcast and more, and has received honors from Writers of the Future, Publishers Weekly's BookLife Contest, the Next Generation Indie Book Awards, Maxy Awards, The BookFest and others.

As an editor, he worked closely with J.P. Barnett on his bestselling "Lorestalker" series. He is also a book coach with Wordsmith Writing Coaches, as well as a copywriter, illustrator and award-winning screenwriter with two produced credits.

Between all this, he hikes (often with his two dogs), swims, draws, and tries to learn the didgeridoo.

"One of the best speculative fiction authors writing now."

-- Leslie Ann Moore, bestselling author of the "Griffin's Daughter" series

"Chock full of mind-bending goodness. Mike Robinson delivers equal parts of scares and the bizarre with wit and style―put him on your list of authors to watch!"

-- Guy Anthony De Marco, HWA Bram Stoker Award Finalist