by Sean Wallace
Described as “among the most important writers of contemporary British horror” by Ramsey Campbell, Simon Bestwick is the author of Tide of Souls, The Faceless, the serial novel Black Mountain, and the upcoming Hell’s Ditch and Redman’s Hill. Having spent most of his life in Manchester, he now lives in Liverpool with a long-suffering girlfriend.
Kane Gilmour is the international bestselling author of The Crypt of Dracula and Resurrect. His short stories have appeared in Kaiju Rising: Age of Monsters, SNAFU II: Survival of the Fittest, and MECH: Age of Steel. He also writes the sci-fi noir webcomic, Warbirds of Mars. He lives with his family in Vermont. Find him on the web at kanegilmour.com.
Maxine McArthur has published three science-fiction novels and a number of short stories. Her first novel, Time Future, won the George Turner Prize and her third novel, Less Than Human, won the Aurealis Award. Her short stories have appeared in anthologies by the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild and Aurealis magazine, as well as The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror. She lives in Canberra and works as an editor at the Australian National University.
Although Nick Stathopoulos has had small amounts of fiction published over the years, he is best known as a multi-award winning illustrator who has worked as an artist for over thirty years in fine art, film, television, animation, and book publishing. He has been a finalist for the prestigious BP Portrait Prize, the Archibald Prize, and the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize. Stathopoulos exhibits regularly at Sydney’s NG Art Gallery. He divides his time between an inner city terrace studio and a cottage in Katoomba.
Jason Nahrung lives in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia with his wife, writer Kirstyn McDermott. His most recent long-fiction titles are Salvage and the outback vampire duology Blood and Dust and The Big Smoke. He lurks online at jasonnahrung.com.
Emily Devenport has published a dozen novels under two pseudonyms including the Philip K. Dick Award-nominee Broken Time. Her short stories have been published in Asimov’s, Full Spectrum, Uncanny, Clarkesworld, and Aborginal SF, whose readers voted her a Boomerang Award. She blogs at emsjoiedeweird.com.
Tessa Kum’s fiction has most recently appeared in the Review of Australian Fiction and Baggage, an anthology of speculative fiction. She lives in Melbourne with a small angry bird and drinks a lot of tea. Find her at silence-without.blogspot.com.
Steve Rasnic Tem is the recipient of the World Fantasy, Stoker, and IHG Awards. His latest books include In the Lovecraft Museum and the massive collection Out of the Dark: A Storybook of Horrors. Blood Kin is his most recent novel and dark sf novel Ubo will be published in early 2017.
Frank Wu is a transdimensional interspace being, living physically near Boston with his wife Brianna the Magnificent, but regularly projecting his mind across time and space to commune with dinosaurs and energy beings. Visualizations and written accounts of these journeys can be found in Analog, Amazing Stories, Realms of Fantasy, and much stranger venues.
Adam Ford is the author of the short story collection Heroes and Civilians, the novel Man Bites Dog, and the poetry collections Not Quite the Man for the Job and The Third Fruit is a Bird. His stories have appeared in Daikaiju! Giant Monster Stories, This Mutant Life, Aurealis, and Desktop. His website is theotheradamford.wordpress.com
Along with a couple of dozen shorter works, Chris McMahon has authored the three-book heroic fantasy series, The Jakirian Cycle, and the soon-to-be published hard sf novel The Tau Ceti Diversion. A chemical engineer, he applies his specialist knowledge and mindset to his fiction.
Perth-based writer Martin Livings has had over eighty short stories published in a variety of magazines and anthologies. His first novel, Carnies, was nominated for both the Aurealis and Ditmar Awards. See martinlivings.com for more.
J.C. Koch’s stories have appeared in Arkham Tales, Necrotic Tissue, Penumbra, Kaiju Rising: Age of Monsters, The Madness of Cthulhu Vol. 1, Penumbra, and A Darke Phantastique. Reach J.C. (otherwise known as Gini Koch) at ginikoch.com.
Gary McMahon is the award-winning author of nine novels and several short story collections. His acclaimed short fiction has been reprinted in various “Year’s Best” volumes. Gary lives with his family in West Yorkshire, where he trains in Shotokan karate and cycles up and down the Yorkshire hills. Website: garymcmahon.com
James A. Moore is the award-winning author of over twenty-five novels—thrillers, dark fantasy, and horror alike—including the critically acclaimed Fireworks, Under the Overtree, Blood Red, the Serenity Falls trilogy, Cherry Hill, and Smile No More. His most recent novels include The Blasted Lands, Alien: Sea of Sorrows, City of Wonders, and The Silent Army.
Michael Canfield has published horror, mystery, suspense, fantasy, science fiction, and just-plain-odd stories in Daily Science Fiction, Escape Pod, Strange Horizons, and elsewhere. Born in Las Vegas, he lives in Seattle.
Cody Goodfellow has written five novels—his latest is Repo Shark—and co-written three more with John Skipp. Two of his three collections received the Wonderland Book Award. He wrote, co-produced and scored the short Lovecraftian hygiene film Stay at Home Dad, which can be viewed on YouTube. He is also a director of the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival–Los Angeles and co-founder of Perilous Press, a micropublisher of modern cosmic horror.
Jonathan Wood is an Englishman in New York. His urban fantasy series, which begins with No Hero, has been described by Charlaine Harris as “so funny I laughed out loud.” His short fiction has appeared in Weird Tales, Chizine, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. He can be found online at jonathanwoodauthor.com.
Jeremiah Tolbert lives in Kansas with his wife and son. He is a web designer and life-long fan of all things kaiju. His son’s room is decorated with pictures of baby Godzilla, and he looks forward to the day soon when they can watch kaiju movies together on Saturday afternoons.
Daniel Braum is an American author whose favorite kaiju are Gidorah, Mothra, and Gamera. His science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories often reside in the places between genres. More about his fiction can be found at danielbraum.com and bloodandstardust.wordpress.com.
Penelope Love is an Australian writer whose stories have appeared in Australian and US anthologies. Her work has been nominated for the Aurealis Award and has appeared in the award-winning anthologies, One Small Step and Belong.
Alys Sterling shares a small flat in London with the Cult of Khoshek, who refuse to leave due to a prophecy the Great One will soon manifest via her television set. She plays bass in a band called Witching Hour and is hoping to finish writing a novel before the Great One arrives.
An (pronounce it “On”) Owomoyela is a neutrois author with a background in web development, linguistics, and weaving chain maille out of stainless steel fencing wire, whose fiction has appeared in a number of venues including Clarkesworld, Asimov’s, Lightspeed, and a handful of “Year’s Bests.” An can be found online at an.owomoyela.net.
Neal Asher lives sometimes in England, sometimes in Crete, and mostly at a keyboard. Having over twenty books published he has been accused of overproduction (despite spending far too much time ranting on his blog, cycling off fat and drinking too much wine) but doesn’t intend to slow down just yet.