(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.

Michael Bailey is a recipient of the Bram Stoker Award (and nine-time nominee), a multiple recipient of the Benjamin Franklin Award, a five-time Shirley Jackson Award nominee, and over thirty independent publishing accolades. He has authored numerous novels, novellas, novelettes, and fiction & poetry collections. Recent work includes AGATHA'S BARN, a tie-in novella to Josh Malerman’s CARPENTER'S FARM, a collaborative novella with Erinn L. Kemper called THE CALL OF THE VOID, and SIFTING THE ASHES, a collaborative a poetry collection with Marge Simon.

He runs the small press Written Backwards and has edited and published twelve anthologies, such as THE LIBRARY OF THE DEAD, the CHIRAL MAD series, MISCREATIONS: GODS, MONSTROSITIES & OTHER HORRORS, and the critically-acclaimed YOU, HUMAN. He lives in Costa Rica where he is rebuilding his life after surviving one of the most catastrophic wildfires in California history, which is explored in his memoir SEVEN MINUTES.

Michael Paul Gonzalez is the author of the novels ANGEL FALLS and MISS MASSACRE’S GUIDE TO MURDER AND VENGEANCE. His newest project is the serial horror audio drama LARKSPUR UNDERGROUND, available for free on iTunes and Stitcher. A member of the Horror Writers Association, his short stories have appeared in print and online, including Great Jones Street, Lost Signals, Gothic Fantasy: Chilling Horror Stories, the Booked. Podcast Anthology, FCJR, HeavyMetal.com, and the Appalachian Undead Anthology. He resides in Los Angeles, a place full of wonders and monsters far stranger than any that live in the imagination. You can visit him online at MichaelPaulGonzalez.com

As a child, Pat R. Steiner once found himself hanging from a nail pounded into a tree. Left there by his older siblings, he happily communed with the tree until his mother dragged the whereabouts of the missing younger brother from the guilt-ridden children. Since then he has had a fascination with nature (including the human variety) along with its many mysteries. His writings and art are his attempts to explain these Big Questions as well as those more mundane. Pat is the author of the dark fantasy novel Enlarge Your Tentacles, Overnight! as well as the novellas Wyrd and The White Hart. His short stories have appeared in Eric Flint's Grantville Gazette: Universe Annex and alongside Stephen King in the horror/science fiction anthology Qualia Nous. Pat is also a winner in the long-running international Illustrators of the Future Contest. He lives in Wisconsin with his wife and two children.

Pedro Iniguez is a horror and science-fiction writer from Los Angeles, California. He is a Rhysling Award finalist and a Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominee.

He is the author of MEXICANS ON THE MOON: SPECULATIVE POETRY FROM A POSSIBLE FUTURE. His fiction and poetry has also appeared in Nightmare Magazine, Never Wake: An Anthology of Dream Horror, Shadows Over Main Street Volume 3, Qualia Nous Vol. 2, A Night of Screams: Latino Horror Stories, Speculative Fiction for Dreamers, Worlds of Possibility, Infinite Constellations, Tiny Nightmares, Shortwave Magazine, Star*Line, Eye to the Telescope, Space and Time Magazine, and Savage Realms Monthly, among others.

Apart from leading writing workshops and speaking at several colleges, he has also been a sensitivity reader and has ghostwritten for award-winning apps and online clients. He is currently a member of the editorial team at Galaxy Science Fiction as a proofreader. 

Forthcoming, his horror fiction collection, FEVER DREAMS OF A PARASITE (Raw Dog Screaming Press), and his SFF collection, ECHOES AND EMBERS: SPECULATIVE STORIES (Stars and Sabers Publishing), are slated for 2025 releases.

Geneve Flynn is a two-time Bram Stoker Award winner and a winner of a Shirley Jackson Award and an Aurealis Award. She is a freelance editor from Australia who specialises in speculative fiction. Her horror short stories have been published in various markets, including Flame Tree Publishing, PseudoPod, and Crystal Lake Publishing. Her works have been nominated and shortlisted for the Locus, British Fantasy, Aurealis, Australian Shadows, Rhysling, and Elgin awards, and for the Pushcart Prize. She is a recipient of the 2022 Queensland Writers Fellowship. She loves tales that unsettle, all things writerly, and B-grade action movies; if that sounds like you, check out her website at www.geneveflynn.com.au

Michael J. Riser is a working writer and editor from California. His fiction and poetry have appeared in print and around the internet, with work in Solarcide and Pantheon Magazine anthologies, Craig Clevenger's Put Out the Lights and Cry, and Michael Bailey's Qualia Nous 2. He lives near Chico with his wife, a rescued pit bull from Texas, and an especially mischievous Halloween cat.

Sachin Baliga is a psychiatrist and a speculative fiction writer based in Bangalore, India. An all-time fan of everything horror, Sachin always wanted to be a writer, ever since he was a thirteen-year-old kid who snuck into the solitude of his apartment building’s terrace to attempt fiction writing. During medical school, the subject that fascinated him the most was Psychiatry: how adversities and abnormal experiences colored the thinking and behaviors of humans, and the things they did to stay afloat and deal with them. Incidentally, this was the main theme he loved to explore through fiction as well. In 2021, he finally took to writing seriously and has ever since been writing stories in the speculative fiction genre that frequently combine elements of medical science, folklore, philosophy and most importantly, horror.