(Art by Erik Wilson) Richard Thomas is the award-winning author of seven books: three novels—Disintegration and Breaker (Penguin Random House Alibi), as well as Transubstantiate (Otherworld Publications); three short story collections—Staring into the Abyss (Kraken Press), Herniated Roots (Snubnose Press), and Tribulations (Cemetery Dance); and one novella in The Soul Standard (Dzanc Books). With over 150 stories published, his credits include The Best Horror of the Year (Volume Eleven), Cemetery Dance (twice), Behold!: Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders (Bram Stoker winner), PANK, storySouth, Gargoyle, Weird Fiction Review, Midwestern Gothic, Shallow Creek, The Seven Deadliest, Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories, Qualia Nous, Chiral Mad (numbers 2-4), PRISMS, Pantheon, and Shivers VI (with Stephen King and Peter Straub). He has won contests at ChiZine and One Buck Horror, has received five Pushcart Prize nominations, and has been long-listed for Best Horror of the Year six times. He was also the editor of four anthologies: The New Black and Exigencies (Dark House Press), The Lineup: 20 Provocative Women Writers (Black Lawrence Press) and Burnt Tongues (Medallion Press) with Chuck Palahniuk. He has been nominated for the Bram Stoker, Shirley Jackson, and Thriller awards. In his spare time he is a columnist at Lit Reactor. He was the Editor-in-Chief at Dark House Press and Gamut Magazine. His agent is Paula Munier at Talcott Notch. For more information visit www.whatdoesnotkillme.com.

David Tallerman is the author of the historical science-fiction novel To End All Wars, thrillers A Savage Generation and The Bad Neighbor, fantasy series The Black River Chronicles and The Tales of Easie Damasco, and the Tor.com novella Patchwerk, among other works.

David's short fiction has appeared in over a hundred magazines and anthologies, including Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, Nightmare, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and fourteen of his horror and dark fantasy stories were brought together in the collection The Sign in the Moonlight and Other Stories.

Further details can be found at his website www.davidtallerman.co.uk.

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Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam’s fiction has appeared in over 90 magazines and anthologies. She's been nominated for a Nebula Award, and her debut novella and story collection released in 2022. Visit her online at bonniejostufflebeam.com or on Twitter @BonnieJoStuffle

Julie C. Day's novella THE RAMPANT (Aqueduct Press) is a 2020 Lambda Literary Award finalist. Her

genre-bending debut collection, UNCOMMON MIRACLES (PS Publishing, 2018), contains some of her most beloved work. She’s also the Editor-in-Chief of the charity anthology WEIRD DREAM SOCIETY (Reckoning Press, 2020) and the forthcoming DREAMS FOR A BROKEN WORLD (2022). Julie is currently working on the mosaic novel STORIES OF DRIESCH (Vernacular Books). She’s published over forty stories in magazines such as Interzone, Split Lip Magazine, Black Static, Podcastle and the Cincinnati Review. Some of her favorite things include loose teas, standing desks and the tricolored prevost's squirrel. You can find her @thisjulieday or visit her blog at stillwingingit.com.

Zach Lisabeth is a Los Angeles-based speculative fiction author and Weirdo. He was born on Long Island and took a circuitous route west by way of Brooklyn, NY, Burlington, VT and Chicago, IL. He is a graduate of the 2014 Clarion Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Workshop at UCSD, an experience he credits with exacerbating his Weirdness. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Fantasy Scroll Magazine, Gaia: Shadow & Breath vol. 2 (Pantheon Press), Burningword Literary Journal and the anthology RealLies (The Zharmae Publishing Press).

After studying classics, rhetoric, theatre, philosophy, business institutions and English, Zach graduated from Northwestern University in 2006 with a BS in Communications Studies and a transcript that reads like a choose your own adventure novel. He left Chicago immediately after graduation and never looked back, relocating to Brooklyn where his writing career began in earnest.

In August of 2010, Zach joined Americorps, serving with alternative educator Matt Schlein's Willowell Foundation through the Vermont Youth Development Corps. During his term of service, Zach regularly assisted with Matt's outdoor high school, the Walden Project, set on 200+ acres of preserved land in bucolic Monkton, VT. As a service-member, he was supposed to assist with writing instruction during the class' weekly workshop in Burlington, VT, but he admittedly learned far more than he taught. It was the Walden approach to place-based education and Matt's Thoreau-inspired pedagogy that Zach credits with solidifying his unique voice and approach to fiction.

In 2013 Zach placed in the Zharmae Publishing Press New Writers Contest with the surrealist space cult story "Onward Into Dark." "Onward" was subsequently published in Zharmae's anthology RealLies (2013). In 2014 he was accepted to the prestigious Clarion Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Workshop at UC-San Diego where he studied with many talented and well-known writers and editors including Greg Frost, Geoff Ryman, Catherynne Valente, N.K. Jemisin, Jeff VanderMeer & Ann VanderMeer. Since Clarion, Zach's work has appeared in a number of publications, all of which are listed here.

Zach currently lives in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles with his partner Liz and zero pets. For regular updates, follow him on Twitter @zachlisabeth, Facebook and Goodreads or visit his official site: zachlisabeth.com