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Inkeri Kontro is an award-winning Finnish short story writer who lives in Helsinki. Physicist by day, writer by night, she writes mostly science fiction and Finnish Weird with a touch of horror. She has published stories in magazines such as Kosmoskyn? and T?htivaeltaja, and her English debut was in Strange Horizons in 2014.
Penelope Love is an Australian who has written extensively for the tabletop role-playing game Call of Cthulhu, including contributing scenarios to the award-winning Horror on the Orient Express campaign. Her Cthulhu Mythos short stories have been published in Cthulhu’s Dark Cults, Madness on the Orient Express, and Tales of Cthulhu Invictus. Her work also appears in the award-winning anthologies, One Small Step and Belong. Her story “A Small Bad Thing” was first published in Bloodstones and reprinted in The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2013.
Sharon Mock’s short stories have appeared in publications including Fantasy Magazine, Clarkesworld and The Mammoth Book of Steampunk. She lives in California and can be found online at sharonmock.com.
Despite the warnings of her family that studying science would warp her tender mind and shrivel her womb, Premee Mohamed completed degrees in molecular genetics and environmental science, and has used those disciplines to pursue the improvement of mankind’s lot, somewhat ineffectually, for over a decade. When not performing mad science, she blogs regularly, tweets less regularly, paints, draws, writes, worries about the supernatural, and annotates her paperback copy of The Necronomicon.
Eugenie Mora is a writer of fanciful, occasionally creepy, sometimes sweet, stories. In her spare time, she makes a science of hating walks on the beach, bird and TV-watching. Considers herself a music ninja. Professional reader. Passionate troublemaker. Food aficionado. Wine practitioner.
Ann K. Schwader’s most recent collection of dark verse is Twisted in Dream. Her next collection, Dark Energies, is forthcoming from P’rea Press. Her fiction and poetry have recently appeared in Black Wings IV, Searchers After Horror, A Season in Carcosa, and elsewhere. She is a 2010 Bram Stoker Award finalist for her dark SF verse collection Wild Hunt of the Stars.
Rodopi Sisamis lives and writes out of Brooklyn, NY, where she raises Hellion triplets, and lives with a dog and a cat. When she isn’t devouring books, or running after children, she can be found spinning tales of romance and dark fantasy. “Cypress God” is her third contribution to an anthology.
Specializing in dark fantasy and horror, Angela Slatter has won five Aurealis Awards, been a finalist for the World Fantasy Award, and is the first Australian to win a British Fantasy Award. She’s the author of, among other things, The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales, Sourdough and Other Stories, and The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings. Forthcoming from Jo Fletcher Books is the novel, Vigil, and its sequel Corpselight.
Priya Sridhar has been writing since fifth grade, a year after her mother forbade her from watching television all day. This led to several published short stories, one of which made the Top Ten Amazon Kindle Download list, and Alban Lake publishing her novella Carousel. She invites readers to read her blog a Faceless Author at http://pseudonymousfictionwriter.blogspot.com.
Benjanun Sriduangkaew writes love letters to strange cities, beautiful bugs, and the future. Her work has appeared in Tor.com, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Phantasm Japan, The Dark, and year’s bests. She has been shortlisted for the Campbell Award for Best New Writer and her debut novella Scale-Bright has been nominated for the British SF Association Award.
Molly Tanzer is the author of the Weird Western, Vermilion, and the forthcoming historical novel, The Pleasure Merchant. Her debut collection, A Pretty Mouth, was nominated for a Sydney J. Bounds and a Wonderland Book Award. Her short fiction has appeared in other Innsmouth titles such as Historical Lovecraft and Fungi, as well as other venues such as The Book(s) of Cthulhu, The Book of the Dead, and Children of Old Leech. She lives in Boulder, Colorado with her husband and a very bad cat. When not writing, she enjoys mixing cocktails, hiking in the Rocky Mountains, and experimenting with Korean cooking. She tweets @molly_the_tanz, and blogs — infrequently — at http://mollytanzer.com.
E. Catherine Tobler’s short stories have appeared in Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Her first novel, Rings of Anubis, is now available. Follow her on Twitter @ECthetwit or her website, ecatherine.com.
Mary Turzillo’s 1999 Nebula-winner, “Mars Is no Place for Children,” and her Analog novel, An Old-Fashioned Martian Girl, are recommended reading on the International Space Station. Her poetry collection Lovers & Killers won the 2013 Elgin Award. She has been a finalist on the British Science Fiction Association, Pushcart, Stoker, Dwarf Stars, and Rhysling ballots. Sweet Poison, her Dark Renaissance collaboration with Marge Simon, was a Stoker finalist. Sweet Poison is on the 2015 Elgin ballot. She’s working on a novel, A Mars Cat and his Boy. She lives in Berea, Ohio, with her scientist-writer husband, Geoffrey A. Landis.
Valerie Valdes earned her BA in English at the University of Miami, with minors in creative writing and working too many jobs. She still lives in Miami with her husband and his miniature doppelganger. Valerie took the brakes off her roller blades because they only slowed her down.
Wendy N. Wagner is the author of Skinwalkers, a Pathfinder Tales novel inspired by Viking lore. Her short fiction has appeared in many successful anthologies, including Shattered Shields, Armored, and The Way of the Wizard, and magazines like Beneath Ceaseless Skies and The Lovecraft eZine. She is the non-fiction editor of Women Destroy Science Fiction!, which was named one of NPR’s Best Books of 2014. She lives in Oregon with her very understanding family.