Mark Allan Gunnells loves to tell stories. He has since he was a kid, penning one-page tales that were Twilight Zone knockoffs. He likes to think he has gotten a little better since then. He loves reader feedback, and above all he loves telling stories. He lives in Greer, SC, with his husband Craig A. Metcalf.

Nicole Willson has been a frequent visitor to small coastal towns located along the Eastern seaboard but has yet to see anything truly alarming emerge from those waters, much to her disappointment. She’s hopeful that her lifelong aversion to eating fish or seafood might earn her a little mercy when the hungry ocean gods finally start coming ashore.

Her debut horror novel TIDEPOOL is a Bram Stoker Award nominee for Superior Achievement in a First Novel and is out with Parliament House Press. A Spanish translation of the novel is available from Dilatando Mentes Editorial. Her novella THE SHADOW DANCERS OF BRIXTON HILL is coming out from Cemetery Gates Media in 2023. Her YA horror novel THE KEEPER OF THE KEY is forthcoming in Fall 2024.

Her short fiction has appeared in anthologies published by Cemetery Gates Media. She is a regular contributor to Hinged, a prompt-based writing challenge on Medium.com. She also writes and runs her own Medium publication "50-Word Horror Stories."

Visit http://www.nicolewillson.com to learn more about Nicole's work.

Kathryn E. McGee’s horror stories have appeared in Kelp Journal, Scoundrel Time, Automata Review, and Gamut Magazine, on the Ladies of the Fright website, and in anthologies including Chromophobia, Halldark Holidays, Dead Bait 4, Horror Library Vol. 6, Winter Horror Days, and Cemetery Riots. She hosts Skeleton Hour, the Horror Writers Association's horror literature webinar series, and is an Active Member of the HWA. Her other work includes co-authoring DTLA37: Downtown Los Angeles in Thirty-seven Stories, a non-fiction coffee table book about Downtown Los Angeles. She holds an MFA in creative writing from UC Riverside Palm Desert. She is represented by Dara Hyde at Hill Nadell Literary Agency. For more information, please visit, www.kathrynemcgee.com.

Praised by Robert Coover for being a “noir master” and Brian Evenson for writing “transgressive fiction at its uncomfortable best,” Michael Harris Cohen is a recipient of the New Century Writer’s Scholarship from Zoetrope: All-Story, a Fulbright grant for literary translation, and fellowships from the OMI International Arts Center for Writers, Atlantic Center for the Arts, The Djerassi Foundation, The Jentel Artist’s Residency, The Blue Mountain Center and the Künstlerdorf Schöppingen Foundation.

At Brown University he received the Weston Award for best graduate fiction manuscript. He’s also won the Modern Grimmoire Literary Prize as well as Mixer Publishing’s Sex, Violence and Satire prize.

Michael lives with his wife and two daughters in Sofia. He teaches creative writing and literature at the American University in Bulgaria. Occasionally he tweets @fictionknot

Read more at MichaelHarrisCohen.net

Jillian Bost is a horror and young adult author. She loves horror movies, pro wrestling, 80s pop culture, and green tea.

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.