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Michael Dean Clark, Beneath its Weight
Michael Dean Clark is an author of fiction and nonfiction situated primarily in the San Diego area. His work has appeared in Relief, FastForward, and Literary Circular among other outlets. He lives in San Diego with his wife and almost three children and works as a professor of writing at Point Loma Nazarene University.
Libby Cudmore, Preacher Man
Libby Cudmore is a regular contributor to Hardboiled, A Twist of Noir, Celebrities in Disgrace, and Thrillers, Killers ‘n’ Chillers, where her story "Unplanned" won a Bullet Award in August 2009 and was nominated for a Derringer award in 2010. Her work has also appeared in The MacGuffin,
the Yalobusha Review, the Chaffey Review, the Southern Women’s Review, Xenith, Inertia, Battered Suitcase, Big Pulp (with Matthew Quinn Martin), Eastern Standard Crime, Pulp Pusher, the Flash Fiction Offensive, PowderBurnFlash and the anthology Relationships and Other Stuff. Her stories are forthcoming in issues of Crime Factory, Connotation Press and the anthologies We’ll Always Have Chicago and Quantum Genre on the Planet of the Arts (also with Matthew Quinn Martin).
Jason Hubbard Derr, The Haunting of Mabel
Jason Derr holds an MA in Theological Studies from the Vancouver School of Theology and studied creative writing in his undergrad at Eastern Washington University. His writing has appeared in Relief, Patheos.com, and The Huffington Post. His first book will soon be released by the Progressive Christian Alliance Press. Jason is a Theologian-In-Affiliation with the Progressive Christian Alliance and is married to Erin. They live in Vancouver, BC.
Edward M. Erdelac, The Blood Bay
Edward M. Erdelac was born in Indiana, educated in Chicago, and lives in the Los Angeles area with his family. He is an award winning screenwriter, an independent filmmaker, a sometime Star Wars contributor, and the author of Merkabah Rider: Tales of a High Planes Drifter, the acclaimed first installment in a weird western series from Damnation Books.
Brian J. Hatcher, The Clockworks of Hell
Brian J. Hatcher is an author, poet, and editor from Charleston, W.V. His work has appeared in the Legends of the Mountain State series, the poetry anthology Leonard Cohen: You’re Our Man, the Stoker-award winning Writers Workshop of Horror, and Weird Tales Magazine. Brian will be
appearing in The Terror at Miskatonic Falls, Blood Lite 2: Overbite, and the fourth volume of Legends of the Mountain State. Mountain Magic: Spellbinding Tales of Appalachia, Brian’s first anthology as editor, will be coming out sometime this fall. Keep up with Brian at www.brianjhatcher.com.
Virginia Hernandez, A Better Place
Virginia Hernandez is not having much luck finding time to write because life with her husband and three terrific kids keeps getting in the way. However, she is officially interested in the multiple world theory and hopes this existence is the one where her novels get published.
Douglas Kolacki, Cloak
Douglas Kolacki began writing while stationed with the Navy in Italy, where he received his first story earnings in a Red Cross contest. Since then he has placed fiction in Dragons, Knights & Angels, Mindflights, Dreams & Visions and Weird Tales. He currently lives and writes in San Diego.
Kevin Lucia, Lonely Places
Kevin Lucia is the Review Editor for Shroud Magazine. His short fiction has appeared in several anthologies. He’s currently finishing his Creative Writing Masters Degree at Binghamton University, he teaches high school English and lives in Castle Creek, New York, with his wife and children. He is the author of Hiram Grange & The Chosen One, Book Four of The Hiram Grange Chronicles. Visit him on the web at www.kevinlucia.net.
Matthew Quinn Martin, Big Apple Gothic
Matthew Quinn Martin is a New York based writer. His original screenplay Slingshot was made into a feature film starring Juliana Margulies, David Arquette, Thora Birch, Balthazar Getty, and Joely Fisher. Slingshot had its premiere at the TriBeCa Film Festival, 2005, has been featured onAccess Hollywood, and is currently on DVD, distributed by the Weinstein Co.
Matthew’s prose fiction has been published (or is forthcoming) in Transition Magazine,The Crossing Chaos Anthology: Quantum Genre on the Planet of Arts, and Big Pulp (co-written with Libby Cudmore), Thuglit, MFA/MFYou Literary Journal, A Twist of Noir, Eastern Standard Crime, The Oddville Press, Aphelion and The Flash Fiction Offensive.
His screenplay A Very Good Year, featuring Dan Lauria (The Wonder Years) and Gaius Charles (Friday Night Lights) was presented at FilmFest New Haven. Other works of his have been produced by NYCollective and The New Haven Theatre Co. In addition he has acted as a consultant or ghostwriter on numerous projects for film and television.
He can also be seen flitting around the margins of your TV set...most notably in a recurring co-starring role on the first season of the JJ Abrams-created Fringe.
Chris Mikesell, Hanlon’s Folly
If you were to take a dictionary and highlight all the words in it that pertain to Chris Mikesell you would wind up with a hefty fine for defacing library reference materials. You would also probably be left with plenty of ink in your Hi-Liter. Chris lives in suburban Dallas with his wife (Dina), his son (Philip), and his regrets (a few, but then again, too few to mention) and teaches Sophomore English (think you’re smarter than a 10th Grader? Visit his class website at mikesell128.blogspot.com). His fiction has appeared in DKA (now Mindflights), Ray Gun Revival, and the previous editions of Coach’s Midnight Diner. He has no interest in cliff-diving, but has no objection to living vicariously through the lives of his characters.
Colin McKay Miller, The Ocean Thief
Colin McKay Miller is a writer and volunteer halfway house minister from Edinburgh, Scotland. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in numerous publications, including Vagabond Press’ MIND anthology and in Colored Chalk (which he has guest edited). He lives in Colorado with his wife and daughter.
Greg Mitchell, Flesh and Blood
As a child, Greg Mitchell was afraid of monsters. So, naturally, when he grew up, he devoted his life to writing stories about people shooting monsters in their hairy faces. He has contributed to the Star Wars continuity as well as the Halloween franchise based on the original John Carpenter film. The first novel in his The Coming Evil faith-versus-fear series, The Strange Man, was originally self-published in 2007, and a revised and expanded edition is due out February 2011 from Realms Fiction. While he’s not writing about monsters, he, his wife Meghan, and their two daughters can be found preparing for the inevitable zombie apocalypse at their home in northeast Arkansas. Check him out at www.thecomingevil.com.
Eric Ortlund, A Thousand Flowers
Eric Ortlund teaches Hebrew and Old Testament at Briercrest Seminary in Saskatchewan, Canada. When he is not playing with his two kids, he is busy reading Gene Wolfe and Neil Gaiman and planning his next novel.
Lon Prater, The Way of Cold Teeth
Lon Prater is an active duty Navy officer by day, writer of odd little tales by night. His short fiction has appeared in the Stoker-winning anthology Borderlands 5, Writers of the Future XXI, and Origins Award finalist Frontier Cthulhu. He is an avid Texas Hold’em player, occasional stunt kite flyer, and connoisseur of history, theme parks and haunted hayrides. To find out more, visit www.lonprater.com.