Brian Hodge is one of those people who always has to be making something. So far, he’s made thirteen novels, around 130 shorter works, and five full-length collections. He’ll have three new books out in 2018 and early 2019: The Immaculate Void, a novel of cosmic horror; A Song of Eagles, a grimdark fantasy; and Skidding Into Oblivion, his next collection. He lives in Colorado, where he also likes to make music and photographs; loves everything about organic gardening except the thieving squirrels; and trains in Krav Maga and kickboxing, which are of no use at all against the squirrels. Connect through his web site (www.brianhodge.net), Twitter (@BHodgeAuthor), or Facebook (www.facebook.com/brianhodgewriter).
Catriona Ward was born in Washington, DC, and grew up in the United States, Kenya, Madagascar, Yemen and Morocco. She read English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and is a graduate of the Creative Writing Masters at the University of East Anglia. Her debut novel, Rawblood (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2015), won Best Horror Novel at the 2016 British Fantasy Awards, was shortlisted for the Author’s Club Best First Novel Award and was selected as a Winter 2016 Fresh Talent title by WHSmith. Rawblood is published in the US and Canada as The Girl from Rawblood (Sourcebooks, 2017). She works for a human rights foundation and lives in London. Her second novel, Little Eve, was published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in July 2018.
V.H. Leslie ’s stories have appeared in many publications, including Black Static, Interzone and Shadows & Tall Trees, and have been reprinted in several Year’s Best anthologies. Her fiction has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award, the British Fantasy Award and the Shirley Jackson Award, and she won the Lightship International First Chapter Prize. Her non-fiction has appeared in History Today, Gramarye, Thresholds and The Victorianist. She has also been awarded Fellowships at Hawthornden in Scotland and the Saari Institute in Finland and is currently studying for her PhD in English and Creative Writing at the University of Chichester.
Rio Youers is the British Fantasy Award-nominated author of Point Hollow and The Forgotten Girl. His short fiction has been published in many notable anthologies, and his novel Westlake Soul was nominated for Canada’s prestigious Sunburst Award. He has been favourably reviewed in such publications as Publishers Weekly, Booklist and The National Post. His new novel, Halcyon, was released by Macmillan/St. Martin’s Press in July 2018.
Brian Evenson is the author of a dozen books of fiction, most recently the story collection A Collapse of Horses (Coffee House Press, 2016) and the novella The Warren (Tor.com, 2016). His fiction has been a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award and the Edgar Award, and he has won the International Horror Guild Award and the ALA-RUSA Award. He received a 2017 Guggenheim Fellowship. His work has been translated into Czech, French, Italian, Greek, Spanish, Japanese, Persian and Slovenian. He lives in Los Angeles and teaches in the Critical Studies Program at CalArts.
Steve Rasnic Tem is a past winner of the Bram Stoker, World Fantasy and British Fantasy Awards. His latest novel, Ubo (Solaris, February 2017), is a dark science fictional tale about violence and its origins, featuring such historical viewpoint characters as Jack the Ripper, Stalin and Heinrich Himmler. Yours To Telclass="underline" Dialogues on the Art & Practice of Writing, written with his late wife, Melanie, also appeared in 2017 from Apex Books. New for 2018 from Valancourt Books is Figures Unseen, a volume of his selected stories, as well as The Mask Shop of Doctor Blaack, a middle grade novel about Halloween from Hex Publishers.
Aliya Whiteley was born in Devon in 1974 and currently lives in West Sussex. She writes novels, short stories and nonfiction and has been published in periodicals such as The Guardian, Interzone, Black Static and Strange Horizons, and anthologies such as Fox Spirit’s European Monsters and Lonely Planet’s Better than Fiction I and II. Her recent novellas, The Beauty and The Arrival of Missives, have been shortlisted between them for a Shirley Jackson Award, the James Tiptree Jr. Award, the BSFA and BFS Awards, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. She blogs at aliyawhiteley.wordpress.com and she can be found on Twitter as @AliyaWhiteley.
John Langan is the author of two novels, The Fisherman and House of Windows, and three collections of stories, Sefira and Other Betrayals, The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies and Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters. With Paul Tremblay, he co-edited Creatures: Thirty Years of Monsters. One of the founders of the Shirley Jackson Awards, he served as a juror for its first three years. Currently he reviews horror and dark fantasy for Locus magazine. He lives in New York’s Hudson Valley with his wife, younger son and the sound of guitars.
Paul Tremblay is the British Fantasy Award-winning author of seven novels including The Cabin at the End of the World, A Head Full of Ghosts, Disappearance at Devil’s Rock and The Little Sleep. He is currently a member of the board of directors of the Shirley Jackson Awards, and his essays and short fiction have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly.com, and numerous Year’s Best anthologies. He has a master’s degree in mathematics and lives outside Boston with his wife and two children.