K. A. Laity (kalaity.com) writes in a variety of genres. She's author of WHITE RABBIT, A CUT-THROAT BUSINESS, LUSH SITUATION, DREAM BOOK, OWL STRETCHING, CHASTITY FLAME, THE CLADDAGH ICON, UNQUIET DREAMS, PELZMANTEL and many more stories, essays, plays and humour pieces as well as editor of WEIRD NOIR, NOIR CARNIVAL and DRAG NOIR for Fox Spirit Books. She writes historicals as KIT MARLOWE and crime as GRAHAM WYND. Laity received a 2006 Finlandia Foundation grant and the 2005 Eureka Short Story Fellowship to work on a collection of short stories based on Finnish mythology and the Kalevala. In 2011-2 she was a Fulbright Fellow at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Dr. Laity is Associate Professor of English at the College of Saint Rose, where she teaches medieval literature, film, New Media and popular culture, with a particular interest in magic -- see her collection ROOK CHANT or read her History Witch column at Witches & Pagans. She divides her time between NY and Dundee, Scotland. Find her on Facebook, Twitter, and Goodreads or follow her blog.

Paul D. Brazill's books include Stray Bullets, Guns Of Brixton, Gumshoe Blues and Seatown Blues. He was born in England and lives in Poland. His writing has been translated into Spanish, Italian, Finnish, Polish, German and Slovene. He has had writing published in various magazines and anthologies, including The Mammoth Books of Best British Crime.

Katherine Tomlinson is an award-winning fictionista, a Pushcart Prize nominee for her short stories, and a screenwriter and editor. She was educated at Duke University; and began her career as a writer/editor for city magazines in Virginia, Hawaii, and California before transitioning to writing features for Copley News Service. She has worked in the entertainment industry as a development executive, researcher, and film doctor. Her pen name, Katherine Moore, is a USA Today bestselling novelist. Her pen name Kat Parrish is an international and Amazon bestselling author. An inveterate traveler, she is a digital nomad living in Portugal.

W. P. Johnson is a writer of horror. He graduated from Temple University with a degree in English Literature in 2009 and currently lives and works in Philadelphia. You can also read about his work at www.americantypo.wordpress.com

Christopher Irvin is the author of the novel Ragged. His debut collection, Safe Inside the Violence, was a finalist for the 2016 Anthony Award for Best Anthology or Collection. He lives in Boston, MA with his wife and two sons.

Hector Acosta was born in Mexico City and moved to the United States. He spent time in El Paso and Dallas before moving with his understanding wife and dog to New York. His time living on the border left an impression on him, and much of his writing revolves around that area and its people. In his free time he enjoys watching wrestling and satisfying a crippling Lego addiction.

Jan Kozlowski is a freelance writer, editor and researcher. Her first novel DIE, YOU BASTARD! DIE! is now available from Deadite Press.

Jan sold her first story, PSYCHOLOGICAL BACCHANAL to the EWG E-zine in 1997. Her short story, PARTS IS PARTS won awards in both the International Writing Competition sponsored by DarkEcho’s E-zine and Quoth the Raven’s Bad Stephen King contest. Another short story, STUFF IT, was sold to an independent film producer and went into production as a movie short called SWEET GOODBYES. Her short stories appear in HUNGRY FOR YOUR LOVE: An Anthology of Zombie Romance and FANGBANGERS: An Erotic Anthology of Fangs, Claws, Sex and Love, both edited by Lori Perkins; NECON EBOOKS FLASH FICTION ANTHOLOGY BEST OF 2011 edited by Matt Bechtel & Bob Booth; WEIRD NOIR and NOIR CARNIVAL edited by Kate Laity; and WICKED WITCHES: An Anthology of The New England Horror Writers, edited by Scott Goudsward, David Price & Dan Keohane. She also has an exercise in the non-fiction book, NOW WRITE! Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror: Speculative Genre Exercises from Today's Best Writers and Teachers by Laurie Lamson.

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Andrez Bergen is an expat Australian writer, journalist, DJ, photographer, artist, and ad hoc saké connoisseur who's been entrenched in Tokyo, Japan, for the past 15 years.

He published noir/sci-fi novel 'Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat' in 2011, surreal, Japanese culture-based fantasy 'One Hundred Years of Vicissitude' in 2012, comic book/noir/pulp homage 'Who is Killing the Great Capes of Heropa?' in 2013, the coming-of-age noir/mystery 'Depth Charging Ice Planet Goth' (2014), and hardboiled/horror romp 'Small Change' in 2015.

In addition he has published two graphic novels -- 'Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat' (2014) and 'Bullet Gal' (2015), as writer/artist -- and three comic book series.

In 2013 Bergen also released 'The Condimental Op' (a collection of short stories, comics, and articles on music, movies and Japan), as well as co-editing 'The Tobacco-Stained Sky' anthology.

His next novel 'Black Sails, Disco Inferno' will be published in 2016.

Bergen has published short stories through Crime Factory, Shotgun Honey, Snubnose Press, All Due Respect, 8th Wonder Press, Big Pulp, Perfect Edge Books, IF? Commix, Under Belly Comics, Pulp Ink, Another Sky Press, Project-Nerd, Roundfire Fiction and Solarcide, and worked on translating and adapting the scripts for feature films by Mamoru Oshii, Kazuchika Kise and Naoyoshi Shiotani at Production I.G in Japan.

Asher Wismer is a second-generation writer; his father Don Wismer published four sci-fi novels in the late 80s. Asher's short fiction has appeared at 365tomorrows.com, as well as in anthologies from Wild Wolf Publishing, Matt Hilton, Fox Spirit Press, and Cohesion Press. Asher lives and works in Maine; "The Sungrown: Wings" is his first novel. Follow him on Twitter @Belarafon.

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Child of the Rust Belt. Maker of weird artsy things. Writer and purveyor of crazy talk. Bringer of the wrong. Evil Overlord and Comics Editor for The Cultural Gutter. Member of Fox Spirit Books’ skulk of authors. Read her essays on disreputable art at www.culturalgutter.com and see her other doings at her personal website: www.monstrousindustry.wordpress.com/