M. Scott Carter is an Oklahoma native and a political-investigative reporter and columnist for the Oklahoma City Journal Record where he covers the Oklahoma legislature and state government. A graduate of Northern Oklahoma College and the University of Oklahoma, Carter has spent the majority of his career writing about the impact of government policy on the general public.
In 2007, he was awarded the Marshall Gregory Award by the Oklahoma Education Association for a series of stories exploring teacher pay in Oklahoma. Carter has also earned numerous state and national awards for his work; he is the author of two novels both scheduled for publication in 2011.
Carter lives in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, with his wife, Karen and their four children.
Jason Kahn lives in Brooklyn, NY, with his lovely wife amidst all of the other young families fleeing Manhattan for more space. His online series, The Dark InSpectre (http://darkinspec.blogspot.com), is currently running courtesy of Abandoned Towers magazine. He has had short stories published in various places including Baen’s Universe, Damnation Books, and Abandoned Towers (print version), as well as several anthologies.
When not writing, Jason enjoys rooting for his University of Michigan Wolverines and chasing after two mischievous gnomes who claim to be his children.
Feel free to check out more about Jason’s writing here: www.jrkahn.com
Scott Brendel is the author of “The Seventh Green at Lost Lakes,” which appeared in Read By Dawn, Volume 1. Ramsey Campbell called the story “… satisfyingly grisly… the kind of fun in the sun Sam Raimi might have had in his less respectable days.”
He also wrote “The House Beneath Delgany Street”, which appeared in Subtle Edens, an anthology nominated for a 2009 British Fantasy Award. “Ataraxia” appeared in an anthology entitled Day Terrors.
Scott lives along the Front Range of the Colorado Rocky Mountains, where he is at work on a novel.
Damien Filer’s stories and poems have appeared in dozens of books and magazines. His short story collection From Blood to Water includes stories recognized in the Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror and recommended for the Nebula award. Filer is a grant recipient from the California Institute of Contemporary Arts and a graduate of the Clarion Writer’s Workshop. He lives in Tallahassee, Florida.
A. A. Garrison is a twenty-eight year old man living in the mountains of North Carolina, USA. His fiction has appeared in various magazines, anthologies, and web journals, most recently the anthologies Say Goodnight to the Bad Guy and Chivalry is Dead, and an inordinate number of Static Movement anthologies.
His website is http://synchroshock.blogspot.com.
William Mitchell lives in London, England, and is married to Emma with one little boy. He works in aerospace research and writes in his (limited) spare time. He has been published in the SF and Horror short fiction markets.
When not being an aircraft designer / writer / dad, he is either learning karate or travelling. He is also a member of the London-based writers group the T-Party. His website is www.wmfiction.com
Michael Hodges lives in Chicagoland with his saintly girlfriend and three insane cats. He’s represented by agent Laura Wood of FinePrint Literary in NYC for his novel Invasive. His short story “Shiners” was published in Dead Bait 2 alongside stories by Ramsey Campbell, Steve Alten, and Guy N Smith.
Four more of his stories were scheduled for publication in 2011. They were: “The Believers” - America the Horrific, October 2011; “Revenge on Apex Mountain” - Fearology 2, Winter 2011; “The Red Aspen” - Ghostlight Magazine, September 2011; “Window of Jacob” – Big Book of New short Horror October 2011.
He’s hard at work on the sixth draft of a new novel. He’s also contemplating his next camping trip to the Northern Rockies, as usual. You can find out more at his site, http://michaelhodgesfiction.com/
Davin Ireland was born and bred in the south of England, but currently resides in the Netherlands. His fiction credits include stories published in over fifty print magazines and anthologies on both sides of the Atlantic, including Aeon, Underworlds, The Horror Express, Zahir, Neo-Opsis, Rogue Worlds, Storyteller Magazine and Albedo One.
You can visit his site at http://members.ziggo.nl/d.ireland/
Lynne Jamneck is a transplanted South African who lives in Auckland, New Zealand. Shortlisted for the Sir Julius Vogel and Lambda Awards, she has published short fiction in various markets, including Jabberwocky Magazine, H.P. Lovecraft’s Magazine of Horror, So Fey: Queer Fairy Fiction and Spicy Slipstream Stories.
For Lethe Press, she edited, selected, and introduced the SF anthology, Periphery. Lynne is currently doing her MA in English Literature at the University of Auckland, unlocking the secrets to Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, madness and the occult. She is also writing her first speculative novel featuring a lost protagonist and a city of secrets.
Domenico Pisanti lives in Johannesburg and believes every word he writes. He was a visitor back in issue one of Something Wicked, and promises to not leave it for too long before he is back.
He has been a top ten finalist for the past two years running in the annual Citizen Book Prize. Currently he is trying to get through all the stories in his head.
Cedar Sanderson, mother of four and aspiring author, grew up without television in the Alaskan bush. This and learning to read at age four have skewed her world toward books. A house full of books and a part-time librarian job keep that going to this very day.
She writes what she wants to read herself, and hopes someday her children will like her books. Until then, they all live together on a farm in New Hampshire and read late into the night. She writes because she can’t help it, gets a story stuck in her head and has to write it out or it bothers her. This has led to enjoying the crafting of stories over the years, but she didn’t seek to become published for a long time - she was content just to write. Now, she’d like to share some of her work.
Sylvia Hiven lives and writes in Atlanta, Georgia. Her fiction has appeared in Daily Science Fiction, PseudoPod, Bête Noire, New Myths, and many others.
Domyelle Rhyse, or Domy (as she prefers to be called) started writing at the age of 10 and fell in love with fantasy when a fifth-grade teacher read The Hobbit to the class. She started annoying friends with weird stories in high school but didn’t take her writing seriously until after earning a college degree and having a family that took pride in interrupting her every minute.
Her short stories and articles have appeared in several online and print magazines and anthologies, including Aoife’s Kiss, Beyond Centauri, Golden Visions, and Distant Passages: The Best from Double-Edged Publishing Vol. 1. As an editor and an admin of Dreaming In Ink Writers Workshop, she’s had the honor of working with a number of authors whose work has been published by both small press and traditional publishers. Domy is the mother of four children and lives in Georgia with her chef husband, two of the kids, four cats, and a dog.
Sheila Crosby is British, but she lives in the Canary Islands, just off the North West coast of Africa. She originally went to the island to work at the astronomical observatory in 1990 on a three year contract. There she met a tall, dark, handsome local man and got married. Now they have a son, who is the sweetest, handsomest, cleverest kid in the history of the universe, at least according to his mother.
Sheila’s hobbies are cooking, laundry, ironing and cleaning the house. Unfortunately she’s so busy writing fiction, selling photos, and playing with her son that she rarely gets a chance for her hobbies.
Tom Jolly has published short stories in Daily Science Fiction, and now Something Wicked. He’s had a number of game- and puzzle-related articles published in Games, Knucklebones, and Cubism for Fun, and is best known for designing an assortment of board games, including Wiz-War, Drakon, Vortex, and Diskwars. He collects and designs fiendishly difficult mechanical puzzles, and pretends to be an electrical engineer as his day job so the bills will be paid on time. He lives in the hills above Santa Maria, California, with his wife, hors
es, mule, cats, dog, chickens and a broad assortment of wild animals that visit on occasion.
Cate Gardner lives in Liverpool and hopes tiny pirate ships ferry rats to a surreal otherworld via the brook that runs beneath her street. She also hopes said rats wear pinstripe suits and carry umbrellas. Monocles are optional. Her short stories have appeared in Fantasy Magazine, Shock Totem, Daily Science Fiction and many other wonderful places.
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