Justin Hunter lives with his beautiful wife and four adopted boys in Missouri, USA.

Kelly Matsuura grew up in Victoria, Australia, but always dreamed she would live abroad. She has lived in China, the USA, and she now lives permanently in Nagoya, Japan.

Kelly's stories have been published by Harbinger Press, Black Hare Press, A Murder of Storytellers, Ink and Locket Press, and many more. She also publishes her own short story collections, The Natura Series.

As the creator and editor for Insignia Stories, Kelly promotes Asian speculative fiction from writers around the globe, and publishes small ebook anthologies with various Asian fantasy themes.

Michael Donoghue grew up in a small fishing village on the East coast of Nova Scotia, Canada. Now he resides in Vancouver, Canada but still mostly lives in his head. Michael's stories have appeared in anthologies, literary journals, sci-fi magazines, and online. He has been a James White Award runner-up, a Sunburst Award finalist, won a Raven from Pulp Literature, and a reader at the Vancouver Word Festival. Michael works in public health, where he spends much of his time preoccupied with hand washing. You can find him on Twitter @mpdonoghue

Robert Bagnall is a writer of short and not-so-short fiction, working primarily in the genres of science fiction and new weird with a smattering of fantasy and horror. He was born in Bedford, England, when the Royal Navy still issued a rum ration and the nation had yet to accept everyone else’s definition of a nautical mile, and now enjoys a life of quiet desperation on the English Riviera. He is the author of the novel ‘2084’, and the short story anthology ‘24 0s & a 2’, which collects two dozen of his thirty-plus published stories from the 2010s. He can be contacted via his blog at meschera.blogspot.co.uk.

Eddie D. Moore travels hundreds of hours a year, and he fills that time by listening to audiobooks. When he isn’t playing with his grandchildren, he writes his own stories. His stories have been published by Kzine, Alien Dimensions, Black Hare Press, Nomadic Delirium Press, Fantasia Divinity Publishing and by dozens of online publishers. You can find a list of his publications on his blog, eddiedmoore.wordpress.com. Be sure to pick up a copy of his mini-anthology Misfits & Oddities.

Terry Miller is the author of Den of the Wererats, Wererats Underground, We All Die Eventually, and Love You to Death. His work has also been featured in anthologies from around the world. Miller is a 2017 nominee for the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association's Rhysling Award for his short-form poem, "Salome's New King".

M. Sydnor Jr. is a self-published author of novels and short stories. He began his career in writing in 2005 after trading in his basketball sneakers for a pen and pad, and the desire to create worlds took off. Early in his writing journey, he learned there was more than just putting an idea to paper, you had to read. Now, he lives in the pages, occasionally taking breaks for Netflix or Game of Thrones.

He lives in Northern California collecting an unhealthy amount of movies and graphic novels. The characters of his fantasy series, The Legends of the World, take most of his time when he's not coaching high school basketball.

Alexander Nachaj, PhD lives just outside of Montreal with his wife, daughter, and a cranky old cat. He is the author of over two dozen short stories and several of his horror and thriller screenplays have won awards at various festivals. His debut novella, Heist, is now available from Black Hare Press.

Short-fiction author, and poet, Nerisha Kemraj, hails from Durban, South Africa. She is the mother of procrastination, and two beautiful girls.

J.W. Garrett is a multi–award winning author and has been writing in one form or another since she was a teenager. Her love of the Fantasy genre goes all the way back to elementary school when she read The Hobbit for the first time - she's been hooked ever since. Her works include novels and poetry as well as short stories.

When she's not hanging out with her characters, her favorite activities are reading, running and spending time with family.

Check out Remeon's Quest, the latest book in her fantasy scifi series, Realms of Chaos.

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G. Allen Wilbanks, an internationally best-selling author on Amazon, is a retired police officer living in Northern California. For twenty-five years he wrote collision and crime reports to pay the bills while writing short fiction at nights to keep himself sane. In 2016, he retired from real life to live in a fantasy world of his own making full time.

He is a member of the Horror Writers Association (HWA) and has had over 200 short stories published in Deep Magic, Daily Science Fiction, Mythic, The Colored Lens, as well as many other magazines, e-zines and anthologies from all over the world.

In addition to short stories, G. Allen is the author of several novels, including the Amazon #1 best sellers, A Life of Adventure, Deadly Seven, and Testing Grounds. He recently concluded his science fiction trilogy, On Dangerous Grounds, with the Hunting Grounds, and he is currently hard at work on new series of novels tentatively titled Dead Town.

For additional information, please check out his website, and feel free to say hi in the comments section.

AR Johnston is just a small-town girl from Nova Scotia, Canada, looking to share her tales with others. She is known to write mostly urban fantasy, though she goes where the muses lead her and you never know where that may be. She is a lover of coffee, good tv shows, horror flicks, and a reader of good books. She pretends to be a writer when real life doesn’t get in the way. Pesky full-time job and adulting!

M. M. Montelione has a Master of Arts degree in History and has published articles in Long Island History Journal and Journal of the American Revolution.

Hari Navarro has for many years now been locked in his neighbours cellar. He survives due to an intravenous feed of puréed extreme horror and Absinthe infused sticky-spiced unicorn wings.

His anguished cries for help can be found via Black Hare Press, Raven & Drake Publishing, Black Ink Press, Hellbound Books, 365 Tomorrows, Breachzine, AntipodeanSF and Horror Without Borders.

Hari was the Winner of the Australasian Horror Writers’ Association [AHWA] Flash Fiction Award 2018 and has, also, succeeded in being a New Zealander who now lives in Northern Italy with no cats.

James Lipson's debut book, Fallen and Other Stories, was published in 2019. His short stories have appeared in Black Hare Press Anthologies, Zombie Pirate Publishing, Clarendon Publishing Anthologies, Teleport Magazine and many others.

With a background in art, James has naturally turned to illustrating as he writes, bringing many of his short stories to life not only with descriptive detail, but also detailed visual imagery.

You can find his illustrations and other art work at www.jameslipson.com, www.instagram.com/jameslipsonart/ or www.facebook.com/james.lipson.1654

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Andrew was born and raised in Bathgate, Scotland, in the last millennium. He is a full-time civil servant writing flash fiction and short stories, alternating between general fiction, crime, sci-fi and fantasy themes.

His most recently published work can be found in Selcouth Station Press, Five Minute Lit, The Drabble, and Glittery Literary.

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Luis Manuel Torres went in search of El Dorado but instead found an old curse which should remain buried. He escaped Raccoon City after it suffered a biological outbreak. He participated in the mages rebellion in the city of Kirkwall. Okay, maybe he did all this in video games but they have inspired his writing.

Luis Manuel Torres was born in Puerto Rico, lived in Boston Massachusetts for thirteen years and currently lives in Springfield Mass. He has a love for stories in all forms they come in, from books to television to video games. His work can be found in multiple anthologies. He is always working on multiple writing projects.

You can follow him on twitter at https://twitter.com/Luis1989Manuel

Jo Seysener is a mum of three crazy kids, and a rambunctious (if affectionate) GSD living near Brisbane, Australia. When she's not exposing her kids to cult story books from her childhood she can be found tending a dying range of kitchen herbs. She adores alpacas and is building her own alpaca park. She writes romance as USA Today bestselling author Sofia Aves.

www.joseysener.com

Dawn DeBraal lives in rural Wisconsin with her husband, Red, a rescued dog, and a stray cat. Dawn also writes under the pen name of Garrison McKnight. Along with the books on these pages, Dawn has been published in nearly 700 pieces in many online magazines, a finalist in the Owl Canyon Hackathon 2023, runner-up in the 2022 Short Story Horror Contest, Author of the Month Spillwords x2, Contributor of the Year 2023 Spillwords Magazine, Member of the Month in The World of Myth x2, Your Daily Poem contest winner, 2012. The Falling Star Magazine nominated her for the 2019 Pushcart Award, a song published in the House of Harmony, International Habitat for Humanity Song Book, and, was a finalist in the "Great American Song Writing Contest." 2016.

N. M. Brown is a married mother of three who has taken the horror community by storm this year. She has lived in St. Augustine, Florida for her whole life and took creative writing in high school.

Her ability to create, terrify, and drive home stories is insurmountable. Whether you are a parent, spouse, animal lover or anyone even remotely susceptible to fear, this is your girl.

Brown's published works can be found in multiple anthologies for all to read, but be forewarned, if you do... you may want to call your therapist after, her stories are terrifying, disturbing and devilishly unsettling.

She is not only a fright in print, but also has a creepy tentacle in horror podcasting as well. This Sinister Sweetheart writes, voice acts and is the media director of the Scarecrow Tales podcas

Neen Cohen is an Australian Sapphic Speculative Fiction author, and lives in Brisbane with her partner, son and fur babies. She has a Bachelor of Creative Industries from Queensland University of Technology and is a member of the Springfield Writer's Group. She's had a multitude of 'day jobs' to pay the bills but her heart has always been in the art of marking dead trees with squiggles of ink and graphite.

When she’s not running after her son, spending time with her partner or working at the current 'day job', she can often be found writing while sitting against a tombstone or tree in any number of graveyards. She's also discovered a new found passion for throwing sharp objects at thick pieces of wood and tries to squeeze at least 30 hours in to each day because sleep is for the weak.

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Sue Marie St. Lee writes tales that challenge your imagination and poems that touch your heart — one way or another. She has featured in several international horror anthologies including Black Hare Press releases. Her poems and prose can be found on Spillwords Press. A short fantasy tale, Unseen Magic, appears on The Paper Djinn. Her most recent work, Rhapsodie de Claire, appears in an anthology inspired by Edgar Allan Poe and is available on Amazon.

Maxine lives in Essex UK with Steve her husband of over 35 years. She has recently started writing poetry and short stories some of which have been included in anthologies by Stormy Island Publishing, Clarendon House Publishing and Black Hare Press. Her interests include reading, walking, teaching yoga and playing with her grand children.

Rhiannon Bird has a passion for words and storytelling. She has her own quotes blog; Thoughts of a Writer. She has had multiple works published online and in anthologies which vary between short stories and poetry. Her favorite genres tend to be fantasy or young adult, but she has a complicated relationship with genres and will often jump around to whatever she feels like at the time.

J. M. Meyer ( Jacqueline Moran Meyer )is a writer, artist and small business owner living in New York, where she received her master’s degree from Teachers College, Columbia University. Jacqueline loves to read short stories, especially by O. Henry, Alice Munro, and Ray Bradbury. She also enjoys time with her family, hiking with her dog, and watching scary movies.

Nicola Currie is a writer and poet from Cambridge, UK. Her poetry and short stories have been published in various magazines and anthologies. She has also been longlisted for the Bath Children's Novel Award and nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Her first speculative fiction novel, Those of the Light, is publishing on September 24th 2021 and is available for digital pre-order.

Jodi Jensen, author of time travel romances and speculative fiction short stories, grew up moving from California, to Massachusetts, and a few other places in between, before finally settling in Utah at the ripe old age of nine. The nomadic life fed her sense of adventure as a child and the wanderlust continues to this day. With a passion for old cemeteries, historical buildings and sweeping sagas of days gone by, it was only natural she’d dream of time traveling to all the places that sparked her imagination.

As a writer from Ontario, Canada, Brianna Witte has a passion for spinning tales of sci-fi, horror and fantasy. She enjoys taking readers on a ride through the realm of fiction by weaving twisted, futuristic and magical stories that materialise from her wildly creative dreams and vivid imagination. Brianna has had her first novel, “Witches and Vampires”, published in December 2019. To date she has had a number of short stories and drabbles published, as well as her short story, ‘The Hunt’ commended for the 2019 Author of Tomorrow award.

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Sandy Butchers is an author and an artist, known for her elaborate dystopian sci-fi worlds and creature designs. After living in Scandinavia for a year and traveling throughout the world, she now settled in the countryside along with a variety of pets and maps on which 'X' marks the spot.

With the launch of The Singularian Grimoire Anthologies, she's set a new bar for illustrated science fiction, breaking the boundaries of self-publishing through crowdsourced media. Today, she works as a freelance cover designer for Urano World USA, and artist working on commissions.

For more information on her stories and work, go to: https://www.sandybutchers.com

More than anything, I am a lover of stories. To tell them, to be told, to listen to, to watch, to play, to read, to write, there are so many ways for stories to be conveyed and I have yet to find a medium I don't enjoy. Stories are a huge part of my life, and being a nerd has exposed me to some of the best. Whether it's Asimov, King, Bradbury, Jacques, Tolkien, Crichton, Adams, Abnett, Ross, or any of the other uncountable storytellers I've been so lucky to witness, I am inspired and awed by those who have come before me.

I live in southern Iowa with my wife, our two dogs, and a herd of four cats.