Born and raised in the American Southwest, to an existentialist librarian and a teacher/child-care specialist, Nathan was pretty much doomed from the start. Drawn to working class heroes, lurid ghost stories, urban planning, UFOs, architecture, history, and the underdog, he found writing as a way to entertain these interests.

Due largely to his love of movies, his first serious writing was screenplays, of which he's written five over the past several years. He has also written over a dozen novels, including several super-hero within his Cobalt City world. His short fiction has appeared in such places as Thuglit.com, Byzarium, Crossed Genres, Absent Willow Review, WilyWriters.com, and the anthologies Close Encounters of the Urban Kind, Rigor Amortis, Cthulhurotica, Cobalt City Christmas, and Cobalt City Timeslip.

Nathan currently lives in the Bohemian wilds of north Seattle, where micro-brew beer flows like water and everyone wears ironic t-shirts and mustaches--even the women. He lives alone with his cat, Shiva, who is currently managing his career in exchange for fresh kibble.

As the editor of Tied-In, the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers (IAMTW) newsletter, Brandie Tarvin has her finger on the pulse of every author who produces fiction with other people’s characters. Her first published work, a short story in the Transformers: Legends was anthology based on the popular toy series. Tarvin is now a regular contributor of prose material for the Shadowrun series of role playing games and related fiction.

Tarvin writes for the Blue Kingdoms fantasy series edited by Jean Rabe and Stephen D. Sullivan and is a freelance author for Catalyst Game Labs. She is working on Latchkeys, a collaborative new YA series, is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association of America (SFWA), the Horror Writer’s Association (HWA), the IAMTW and attended the Viable Paradise writing workshop in 2009. She served a term as editor-intern at Musa Publishing and guest-edited several issues of Penumbra eMag.

Jason Andrew is a writer, editor, and game designer. He lives in Seattle, Washington with his two partners Lisa and Andrea and his pug, Otter.

By day, he works as a mild-mannered technical writer. By night, he writes stories of the fantastic and occasionally fights crime. As a child, Jason spent his Saturdays watching the Creature Feature classics and furiously scribbling down stories. His first short story, written at age six, titled 'The Wolfman Eats Perry Mason' was severely rejected. It also caused his Grandmother to watch him very closely for a few years.

He writes in several genres and styles, including contemporary fiction, historical fiction, young adult, science fiction, fantasy and horror. In 2011, his story "Moonlight in Scarlet" received an honorable mention in Ellen Datlow's List for Best Horror of the Year.

Jason is a rabid gamer, having written for several role-playing games, such as Call of Cthulhu and Shadowrun. He serves as the Line Developer for Mind's Eye Theatre for By Night Studios, producing a number of MET products including MET: Vampire The Masquerade, MET: Werewolf The Apocalypse, and the upcoming MET: Changeling: the Dreaming.

For more information, visit Jason Andrew on the web at http://www.jasonbandrew.com/

Dylan Birtolo is a writer, a gamer, and a professional sword-swinger. He still works a day job to pay for his passions, but his evenings are filled with shape shifters, mythological demons, and epic battles. He writes primarily fantasy. Not content to just write about fantastical situations, he joined an acting troop that focuses on stage combat called the Seattle Knights and has been in live performances as well as video shoots. He has had the honor of jousting multiple times, and yes, the armor is real - it weighs over 120 pounds.

Nathaniel Lee puts words in various orders, and occasionally receives payment for this. No one has yet explained why. He primarily writes short fiction, and his work can be seen at all of the Escape Artists podcasts (Escape Pod, Podcastle, and Psuedopod), as well as Ideomancer, Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, Daily Science Fiction, and various other online venues. A full bibliography (and an ever-growing collection of 100-word stories) can be found at www.mirrorshards.org, where he publishes one very short story (almost) every day.

Nathan lives in the southern US, and he is the Assistant/Managing Editor for the Escape Pod and Drabblecast audio fiction magazines, respectively. He owns far too many board games and far too little time to play them all in.

"Rolfe is a vital part of this horror generation." - Brian Keene, World Horror Convention Award Grandmaster of Horror, and author of GHOUL and THE RISING

Glenn Rolfe is an author from the haunted woods of New England. He has studied Creative Writing at Southern New Hampshire University and continues his education in the world of horror by devouring the novels of Stephen King, Richard Laymon, Brian Keene, Jack Ketchum, and many others. He has three children, Ruby, Ramona, and Axl. He is grateful to be loved despite his weirdness.

He is a Splatterpunk Award nominee and the author of Until Summer Comes Around, Ascension Agenda, Blood and Rain, The Window, Becoming, The Haunted Halls, Chasing Ghosts, Abram's Bridge, Things We Fear, Boom Town, and the collections, Slush and Land of Bones.

Look for his next novel, August's Eyes, coming from Flame Tree Press in 2021.

Richard Chizmar, New York Times and USA Today Best Selling-Author of Gwendy’s Button Box, says of Rolfe’s Blood and Rain: “A wonderful throwback to the fun and bloody days of paperback horror glory!”

Adam Cesare, author of Clown in a Cornfield adds: "Many authors nowadays get lauded for writing 'throwback' horror fiction, but none of them quite goes the distance as Rolfe does in Blood and Rain. Werewolves, silver samurai swords, and small New England towns: it all makes you wish this was twenty years ago so you can take the paperback off a supermarket spinner-rack and huff the yellowed pages."

Booklist says of Rolfe’s Until Summer Comes Around: “Rolfe is a rising talent in the horror field. Fans of The Lost Boys film will enjoy this, and Rolfe puts his own spin on the standard summer bloodsucker tale."

He is hard at work on many more. Stay tuned!

Twitter: @authorgrolfe

www.Patreon/GetRolfed

www.glennrolfehorror.com

Martin Livings (born 1970) is an Australian author of horror, fantasy and science fiction. He has been writing short stories since 1990 and has been nominated for both the Ditmar Award and Aurealis Award. Livings resides in Perth, Western Australia.

Livings’ short fiction has appeared in the award-winning anthology Daikaiju! (Agog! Press), as well as in Borderlands, Agog! Terrific Tales (Agog! Press) and Eidolon, among many others. His work has been listed in the Year’s Best Horror and Fantasy Recommended Reading, and reprinted in Year’s Best Australian SF and Fantasy Volume 2 (MirrorDanse Books, 2006), Australian Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2006 Edition (Brimstone Press, 2006), and The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror in 2010, 2012, 2013 and 2015 (Ticonderoga Publications).

His first novel, Carnies, was published by Lothian Books in Australia in June 2006. Carnies was nominated for an Aurealis Award and won the 2007 Tin Duck Award for Best Novel by a Western Australian. His collection of short stories, Living With the Dead, was released in 2012 by Dark Prints Press, and an original story from the collection, “Birthday Suit”, won the Australian Shadows award for Best Short Fiction that year.

Both Carnies and Living With the Dead are available now available through Amazon, along with his techno-thriller novel Skinsongs, zombie spy thriller Sleeper Awake, and the novellas Rope and The Final Twist. His latest novel, An Ill Wind, has just been released on Amazon as well.

https://martinlivings.wordpress.com/