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About the Authors
Mike Allen lives in Roanoke, Va. with his wife Anita, a demonic cat, and a comical dog. By day he covers arts and theater for the city's daily newspaper; in his spare time the hats he wears include editor of the poetry journal Mythic Delirium and the anthology series Clockwork Phoenix. He's a semi-regular performer in the local improv venue and a three-time winner of the Rhysling Award for poetry. The Philadelphia Inquirer called his work "poetry for goths of all ages." His latest fiction includes horror tales in Tales of the Talisman and Cabinet des Fées, as well as Follow the Wounded One, a dark fantasy chapbook from the publishers of Not One of Us magazine. His short horror story "The Button Bin" was a finalist for the 2008 Nebula Awards.
Laird Barron's work has appeared in places such as The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, SCI FICTION, Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural, Poe, and The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy. It has also been reprinted in numerous year's best anthologies. His debut collection, The Imago Sequence & Other Stories, was recently published by Night Shade Books. Mr. Barron is an expatriate Alaskan currently at large in Washington State.
Simon Bestwick lives in Lancashire. Since 1997, he has had in excess of one hundred pieces of fiction published in Britain, the US, and Canada, including appearances in the award-winning anthologies Inferno and Acquainted with the Night. His first story collection, A Hazy Shade of Winter, was published in 2004 and the title story was reprinted in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror #18. His second collection, Pictures of the Dark, and his first novel, Tide Of Souls, were published in 2009.
Richard Bowes has written five novels, the most recent of which is the Nebula Award-nominated From the Files of the Time Rangers. His most recent short fiction collection is Streetcar Dreams and Other Midnight Fancies from PS Publishing. He has won the World Fantasy, Lambda, International Horror Guild, and Million Writers awards.
Recent and forthcoming stories appear in
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Electric Velocipede, Clarkesworld, and Fantasy magazines and in the Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Year's Best Gay Stories 2008, Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, The Beastly Bride, Haunted Legends, Fantasy Best of the Year 2009, Year's Best Fantasy, and Naked City anthologies. Several of these stories are chapters in his novel in progress, Dust Devil on a Quiet Street.
Steve Duffy's short stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies in Europe and North America. His forthcoming collection, The Moment of Panic, will be his third, and includes the International Horror Guild Award-winning tale "The Rag-and-Bone Men." He lives in North Wales.
Graham Edwards, after spending rather too much of his life messing about with graphic design, animation, and pretty pictures, decided to write instead. The rest, as they say, is alternative history. His fantasy novels include Dragoncharm and its sequels, and Stone & Sky, which kicks off a time-travel adventure trilogy.
His short fiction has been published in
Realms of Fantasy and Jim Baen's Universe. He exists as part of the usual set of physical dimensions in an English city called Nottingham.
Adam Golaski is the author of the fiction collections Worse Than Myself and Color Plates. He edits the journal New Genre and is cofounder of Flim Forum Press. The publication of "Green," his translation of Sir Gawain & the Green Knight, is ongoing in the critical journal Open Letters. Golaski's work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including: McSweeney's, Supernatural Tales, Conjunctions, Haunted Histories, Exotic Gothic II, Torpedo, and The Lifted Brow.
Euan Harvey teaches writing and linguistics at Mahidol University International College in Thailand. He lives in the suburbs of Bangkok with his long-suffering wife and three children, where he leads a life of sun-drenched tropical indolence. (At least, that's what he planned when he moved to Thailand; so far, things haven't quite worked out that way.) His fiction has been published in Semaphore, Byzarium, Black Gate, and several times in Realms of Fantasy.
Trent Hergenrader is a Ph.D. student in Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His short stories have appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Realms of Fantasy, Weird Tales, Black Static, and the anthology Federations, among other places. Hergenrader is also a graduate of the 2004 Clarion Writers Workshop. He lives in Madison, WI.