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D. Dina Friedman

D. Dina Friedman grew up in New York City, a place she still holds close to her heart. She met her husband forty years ago at an open poetry reading in a fifth-floor walk-up in Greenwich Village. Three years later they moved to western Massachusetts, (where she still lives—next door to a farm with 600 cows) because it was “a compromise between Brooklyn and the Ozarks.”

Dina’s five books include two young adult novels: Escaping Into the Night (Simon and Schuster) an Association of Jewish Libraries Notable Book for Older Readers and an American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults nominee, and Playing Dad’s Song (Farrar Straus Giroux) a Bank Street College of Education Best Book. Her newer work, Immigrants, (Creators Press, 2023) a

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Jennifer Ruth Jackson

Jennifer Ruth Jackson (she/her) is a poet and fictionist with cerebral palsy. Her individual works have appeared in Strange Horizons, Algebra of Owls, Apex Magazine, Vinyl Poetry and Prose, South Florida Poetry Journal, and more. When she isn’t writing, you can find her making greeting cards, creating beaded jewelry, championing other disabled writers, or playing video games with her husband. Domestic Bodies, her debut poetry collection, is published by Querencia Press.

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Kim Malinowski

Born in Silver Spring, Maryland, Currently, residing in Laurel, Maryland, but her heart and home is somewhere in the wilds. She feels closest to it in West Virginia but is on a quest to understand "success" and "home." One day she hopes to find the meanings of both.

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Ellie White

Ellie White has been trying really hard since 1986. She holds an MFA from Old Dominion University. Her volume of work includes poetry, creative nonfiction, and the comic strip “Uterus & Ellie.” Ellie’s writing has appeared in Painted Bride Quarterly, Breakwater Review, The Columbia Review, and many other journals. She has published two other poetry chapbooks, Requiem for a Doll (ELJ Publications, 2015) and Drift (dancing girl press, 2019), as well as a hybrid memoir, and for too long after (Unsolicited Press, 2019). Her work has won an Academy of American Poets College Poetry Prize, a Best of the Net nomination, two Pushcart Prize nominations, and was a finalist for the Meridian Short Prose Prize. She is currently a reader at Muzzle Magazin

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John Scalzi

John Scalzi, having declared his absolute boredom with biographies, disappeared in a puff of glitter and lilac scent.

(If you want to contact John, using the mail function here is a really bad way to do it. Go to his site and use the contact information you find there.)

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Tad Williams

Tad Williams is a California-based fantasy superstar. His genre-creating (and genre-busting) books have sold tens of millions worldwide, in twenty-five languages. His considerable output of epic fantasy and science fiction book-series, stories of all kinds, urban fantasy novels, comics, scripts, etc., have strongly influenced a generation of writers: the ‘Otherland’ epic relaunches June 2018 as an MMO on steam.com. Tad is currently immersed in the creation of ‘The Last King of Osten Ard’, planned as a trilogy with two intermediary novels. He, his family and his animals live in the Santa Cruz mountains in a suitably strange and beautiful house. @tadwilliams @mrstad

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Jeff Noon

Jeff Noon is a novelist, short story writer and playwright whose works make extensive use of wordplay and fantasy.

He studied fine art and drama at Manchester University and was subsequently appointed writer in residence at the city's Royal Exchange theatre. But Noon did not stay too long in the theatrical world, possibly because the realism associated with the theatre was not conducive to the fantastical worlds he was itching to invent. While working behind the counter at the local Waterstone's bookshop, a colleague suggested he write a novel. The result of that suggestion,

Vurt, was the hippest sci-fi novel to be published in Britain since the days of Michael Moorcock in the late sixties.

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Christopher Moore

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Christopher Moore is an American writer of absurdist fiction. He grew up in Mansfield, OH, and attended Ohio State University and Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, CA.

Moore's novels typically involve conflicted everyman characters suddenly struggling through supernatural or extraordinary circumstances. Inheriting a humanism from his love of John Steinbeck and a sense of the absurd from Kurt Vonnegut, Moore is a best-selling author with major cult status.

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Nathan Ballingrud

I'm the author of North American Lake Monsters: stories, coming from Small Beer Press in July 2013. I'm currently at work on my first novel and several more short stories. I live with my daughter in Asheville, NC.

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Nick Cutter

Hello Everybody!

I figured this bio was looking a little cobwebby, so here to update it a bit (Sept 2025). What's changed in the decade since I wrote my initial bio? Mmmm, not a lot. I still enjoy bubblebaths, strong coffee and passionate conversations, moonlit walks on the beach, eldritch horrors and biological horrors run amuck.

Oh, and I have a new book: The Queen!

The following years should see the arrival of The Dorians (2026?), The Coffin Worms and other Grotesques (2027?), The Invaders (2028?) Gravenhurst (etc), and republications of The Acolyte and The Breach ... after which I will likely devolve into a puddle of sentient goo (2030 - RIP).

I've been politely requested to be on Twitter again. I may pollinate to other social media locale

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T. Kingfisher

T. Kingfisher is the vaguely absurd pen-name of Ursula Vernon. In another life, she writes children's books and weird comics, and has won the Hugo, Sequoyah, and Ursa Major awards, as well as a half-dozen Junior Library Guild selections.

This is the name she uses when writing things for grown-ups.

When she is not writing, she is probably out in the garden, trying to make eye contact with butterflies.

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Alix E. Harrow

a former academic, adjunct, cashier, blueberry-harvester, and kentuckian, alix e. harrow is now a full-time writer living in virginia with her husband and their semi-feral kids.

she is the hugo award-winning and nyt-bestselling author of THE TEN THOUSAND DOORS OF JANUARY (2019), THE ONCE AND FUTURE WITCHES (2020), a duology of fairytale novellas (A SPINDLE SPLINTERED and A MIRROR MENDED), STARLING HOUSE (2023) and various short fiction. her next book, THE EVERLASTING, will be out on october 28th, 2025!

her writing is represented by kate mckean at howard morhaim literary agency.

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Megan Bannen

Megan Bannen is a USA Today bestselling author of award-winning speculative fiction. Her work has been selected for the RUSA Reading List, the Indies Introduce list, and the Kids’ Indie Next List, along with numerous best-of-the-year compilations. As a former public librarian, she has spent most of her professional career behind a reference desk, but she has also sold luggage, written grants, collected a few graduate degrees from various Kansas universities, and taught English at home and abroad. She lives in the Kansas City area with her family and more pets than is reasonable.

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L.V. Russell

Lydia grew up on a farm deep in the Dorset countryside alongside her three elder brothers, using the fields and woodland as their playground.

As an adult with two young children, she has used the memories of the wild woods of her youth to write The Wicked Woods Chronicles

A tale of lost sisters, whispering trees, and dark romance.

oh, the woods are dark and wicked...

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Alex Woodroe

Alex Woodroe is a Romanian writer and editor of dark speculative fiction. She’s the editor-in-chief of Tenebrous Press. Her folk horror/fantasy book, WHISPERWOOD, is coming July 2023 from Flame Tree Press, and she has short stories and non-fiction published across venues like The Horror Library, The NoSleep Podcast, and Nightmare Magazine. She’s passionate about infusing her country’s culture, food, and folklore into her work, and loves talking shop at @AlexWoodroe.

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Lyndsey Croal

Lyndsey is a Scottish author of strange and speculative fiction. Her work has appeared in over eighty magazines and anthologies, including with Apex, Analog, Weird Tales, Flash Fiction Online, Shoreline of Infinity, and PseudoPod. She's a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Awardee, British Fantasy Award Finalist, and former Hawthornden Fellow. Her novelette Have You Decided on Your Question (2023) and collection Limelight and Other Stories (2024) are published with Shortwave Publishing. Her novelette The Girl With Barnacles for Eyes appeared in Tenebrous Press' Split Scream Volume Five, and her second collection of Scottish folklore-inspired tales Dark Crescent is forthcoming in 2025 from Luna Press. She lives in Edinburgh with her giant kitte

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Brian McAuley

Brian McAuley’s debut novel Curse of the Reaper was named one of the Best Horror Books of 2022 by Esquire. His holiday slasher novella Candy Cain Kills earned praise from Booklist, Library Journal, and Kirkus Reviews. The sequel Candy Cain Kills Again: The Second Slaying will be published in Winter 2024. His short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Dark Matter, Nightmare, Shortwave, and Monstrous Magazines. Brian is also a WGA screenwriter who has written everything from family sitcoms (Fuller House) to psychological thriller films (Dismissed). He teaches as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Screenwriting at ASU’s Sidney Poitier New American Film School. Connect with him on social media @BrianMcWriter

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Nicky Gonzalez

Nicky Gonzalez is a writer from Hialeah, Florida. Her fiction has appeared in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, BOMB Magazine, Kenyon Review Online, Taco Bell Quarterly, and other publications. She's received support from the Elizabeth George Foundation, the Granum Foundation, Millay Arts, Lighthouse Works, and the Hambidge Center. Mayra, a literary gothic novel set in the Everglades, is her first book.

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Bridgette Valentine

Hi there, it’s Bridgette. I write romance, fantasy, and poetry. I’m married to my husband and we raise a few kitties and pups in the greater Cincinnati area. When I’m not reading or writing, you can find me watching horror movies, buying way too many fruity candles, and attending university where I study Human Services.

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Johanna van Veen

Johanna van Veen grew up in the Netherlands with her two sisters. She received an MA in English Literature with a specialization in early modern literature, as well as an MA Book and Digital Media with a specialization in early modern book history.

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Mia Ballard

Mia Ballard is an American poet and fiction writer. She loves all things horror and is passionate about writing stories focused on feminine rage. She lives with her partner and dog in Northern California.

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A.B. Poranek

A. B. Poranek grew up sharing her time between Ontario, Canada and rural Poland, and eventually completed a veterinary degree at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences. A lover of mythology and history, she enjoys exploring both in her writing. When she isn't off on yet another inadvisable adventure, she can be found in London, where she spends her free time drawing strange creatures and trying to keep her plants from dying.

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Neena Viel

Neena is a horror writer who lives in a cabin in the Washingtonian woods with her husband. She has a canine assistant who fundamentally disrespects the creative process.

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Bridgette Valentine

Hi there, it’s Bridgette. I write romance, fantasy, and poetry. I’m married to my husband and we raise a few kitties and pups in the greater Cincinnati area. When I’m not reading or writing, you can find me watching horror movies, buying way too many fruity candles, and attending university where I study Human Services.

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Benjamin Eric

Benjamin Eric is a writer born and raised in Washington, DC. In 2012, he earned a bachelor’s degree from Ithaca College. He was previously a member of the Washington DC Comedy Writers Group where he first began writing with local comics. His fiction has been featured in New Plains Review, On The Run, Querencia Press, and others. He is an editorial volunteer at Street Sense Media.

"A Peculiar Day in the Douro Valley and other stories" is his debut chapbook.

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Alexandra Weiss

Author also writes as Sasha Weiss

Alexandra/Sasha Weiss is a writer and artist who mostly writes poetry focusing on queerness, embodiment, and illness.

They're also a PhD candidate at IU and research Indigenous futurisms and health activism, with a focus on the relationship between cancer and colonialism and how people and communities survive and thrive in spite of these forces.

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Patricia Feinman

Patricia Feinman is a writer and a visual artist living in the Catskill mountains.
Voices of the Sea, a dream series, combines pastel and charcoal drawings with a tone poem: two interlocking stories that fully intersect only at the very end. The drawings depict a nuclear family who find themselves in a garden of living sculptures, hunted by a satanic mansion owner, traveling through light and surreal landscapes until a mist threatens to devour them. Woven throughout is the description of our desperate search for solid land as the currents toss us and tease us. Where are we now, we wonder as we dream of sun and sky. It is available for preorder from Querencia Press. https://www.querenciapress.com/voices...
LOSING ART, a memoir, is the story o

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Lauren Miller

Author, Speaker, Stress Relief Expert. Two books were written through my experience with stage three cancer and divorce. Hearing His Whisper is the 2009 Indie Book Award finalist in three categories: Inspirational, Woman's Issues and Religious non-fiction. Lauren works daily with clients all over the US and Canada empowering them to take back their ability to heal using universal stress relief techniques and practices. For more information please visit her website: www.laurenemiller.com"

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Melissa Eleftherion

Melissa Eleftherion (she/they) is a writer, a librarian, and a visual artist. Born & raised in Brooklyn, she holds degrees from Brooklyn College, Mills College, and San Jose State University. They are the author of four poetry collections: field guide to autobiography (The Operating System, 2018), gutter rainbows (Querencia Press, 2024), Suture (Cooper Dillon, 2026), & Malocchia (White Stag, 2026), twelve chapbooks including abject sutures (above/ground press, 2024), & several books currently touring the rejection circuit. Her work has been widely published & featured in venues like Quarter after Eight, Sixth Finch, Entropy, & Barren Magazine. Melissa now lives in Northern California where she manages the Ukiah Branch Library, curates the L

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C.E. Hoffman

C.E. Hoffman is a grant winner, Elgin Award nominee, Silver Honourable Mention in the Writers of the Future Award, Honourable Mention in the Muriel’s Journey Poetry Prize, and winner of the 2022 Defunct May Day Chapbook contest.
Current releases include SLUTS AND WHORES (Thurston Howl Publications, 2021), GHOSTS, TROLLS, AND OTHER THINGS ON THE INTERNET (Bottlecap Press, 2022), NO ACTUAL SIN (May Day Press/Defunct Magazine, 2023), LOSERS AND FREAKS (Querencia Press, 2024), and BLOOD, BOOZE, AND OTHER THINGS IN NATURE (extended edition, Bottlecap Press, 2025.) SKELETONS AND OTHER THINGS IN MY CLOSET is forthcoming from Anxiety Press. A 5th Anniversary edition of SLUTS AND WHORES is forthcoming from Querencia Press. Find more weirdness at ceho

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Alysa Levi-D'Ancona

Alysa Levi-D'Ancona was born in Trieste, Italy, grew up in Chicagoland, and lives in Seattle, Washington with her husband and two polydactyl cats. She received her MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics from the University of Washington Bothell in June 2023, and she teaches high school English by day. Liminality, surrealism, burlesque, absurdism, and speculative fiction are the pepper of her pages; stories, coffee, cooking, hikes, and blankets are the salt of her earth. Levi-D'Ancona's writing has recently appeared in TulipTree Press, Querencia Press, Occulum Journal, Stone Pacific, The RavensPerch, UWB Crow, Clamor Journal, Alice Says Go Fuck Yourself, Cream Scene Carnival Magazine, and Caustic Frolic.

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