Claude Lalumière (claudepages.info) was born and raised in Montreal. He’s the author of Objects of Worship (2009), The Door to Lost Pages (2011), and Nocturnes and Other Nocturnes (2013). His fourth book, Venera Dreams, is forthcoming in 2017. His first fiction, “Bestial Acts,” appeared in Interzone in 2002, and he has since published more than one hundred stories; his work has been translated into French, Italian, Polish, Spanish, and Serbian and adapted for stage, screen, audio, and comics. In summer 2016, he was one of 21 international short-fiction writers showcased at Serbia’s Kikinda Short 11: The New Deal.

Cooper Anderson was born in the backwoods of North Carolina, where he fell in love with all things strange and fantastic. He has since earned his Master’s Degree in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow in Scotland, where he lives with his wife Amanda and a part-time cat named Patches who shows up when she feels like it. You can find other examples of his work in Tales To Terrify and From Glasgow to Saturn, and most recently he won the Pamlico Writer’s Haunt Season Writing Competition. You can follow him on Twitter @cooperthewriter.

Cori Hull is an author, yarncrafter, gamer, and avid tea drinker. She is new to the world of publishing but has enjoyed an eleven year winning streak as a participant of National Novel Writing Month. She also enjoys serving as a long-running GM for her daughter and friends. She lives in Texas with her husband, daughter, and three ridiculous cats. Her musings on all of her varied interests can be found at corihull.com.

Corie Ralston’s writing has been found in Strange Horizons, Clarkesworld, and Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, among others. She has a full time job as a staff scientist as Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and is also the managing director for the Speculative Literature Foundation. In general, she works too much, daydreams too little, and always wishes she had more time. She can be found at www.sff.net/people/cyralston/ and on Facebook.

Cory Skerry lives in the Pacific Northwest, where he goes exploring with his sweet, goofy pit bulls and any friends who can keep up. He writes impossible things and paints what he shouldn’t. When his current meatshell begins to fall apart, he’d like science to put his brain into a giant killer octopus body, with which he’ll be very responsible and not even slightly shipwrecky. Pinky swear. For more about him and his work, visit plunderpuss.net.

D.K. Thompson (also known as the Easter Werewolf) has written stories featured or forthcoming in Apex, Bull Spec, Drabblecast, Pseudopod, and Escape Pod and has lost NaNoWriMo twice. His collection of stories And Welcome Back was funded via Kickstarter last year and will be out in 2016. He lives in Southern California with his wife and three children.

Damien Krsteski writes science fiction and develops software, and his stories can be found in Metaphorosis, NewMyths, and The Future Fire, among others. His online home is monochromewish.blogspot.com, and he tweets updates about his writing @monochromewish. He lives in Berlin.

Damien Walters Grintalis lives in Maryland with her husband and two rescued pit bulls. Her short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Strange Horizons, Fireside Magazine, Daily Science Fiction, and others. She is an Associate Editor of the Hugo Award-winning magazine Electric Velocipede, and her debut novel, Ink, will be released in December 2012 by Samhain Horror. You can visit her website, damienwaltersgrintalis.com, or follow her on Twitter @dwgrintalis.

Dan Micklethwaite writes short stories and novels in a shed in the north of England. His most recent short fiction is forthcoming in NewMyths.com and Third Flatiron’s Terra! Tara! Terror! anthology. His debut novel, The Less than Perfect Legend of Donna Creosote, was published by the award-winning UK publisher Bluemoose Books in 2016. Follow him on twitter @Dan_M_writer for further updates and info.