Glen Hirshberg's first two collections, American Morons and The Two Sams each won the International Horror Guild Award and were selected by Locus as one of the best books of the year. He is also the author of a novel, The Snowman's Children, and a five-time World Fantasy Award finalist. With Dennis Etchison and Peter Atkins, he cofounded the Rolling Darkness Revue, a traveling ghost story performance troupe that tours the West Coast of the United States each October. His fiction has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, including multiple appearances in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Inferno, The Dark, Dark Terrors 6, Trampoline, and Cemetery Dance. He lives in the Los Angeles area with his wife and children.
Daniel Kaysen's short dark fiction has appeared online at ChiZine and Strange Horizons, and in print in Interzone and Crimewave, among other venues. "The Rising River " was his first publication in Black Static. He has since appeared there several more times. He lives in England, near London.
Margo Lanagan lives in Sydney, Australia, and works as a contract technical writer. She has published three collections of speculative short stories: White Time, Black Juice, and Red Spikes, and a novel, Tender Morsels. Her stories have won two World Fantasy Awards, two Ditmar Awards, four Aurealis Awards, and two Michael L. Printz Honors, and have been shortlisted for many other awards, including a Nebula, a Hugo and the James Tiptree Jr. Award. Lanagan taught at Clarion South in 2005, 2007, and 2009. She has also published poetry, and fiction for junior readers and teenagers.
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Joe R. Lansdale has been a freelance writer since 1973, and a full time writer since 1981. He is the author of thirty novels and eighteen short story collections and has received the Edgar Award, seven Bram Stoker Awards, the British Fantasy Award, and Italy 's Grinzani Prize for Literature, among others. As obvious from his awards, he writes in several different genres and is proficient in them all.
The novella "Bubba Ho-Tep" was filmed by Don Coscarelli and is now considered a cult classic, and his story "Incident On and Off a Mountain Road" was filmed for Showtime's
Masters of Horror.
He has written for film, television, comics, and is the author of numerous essays and columns. His most recent work is the collection
Sanctified and Chicken Fried, The Portable Lansdale, and Vanilla Ride, his latest in the Hap Collins, Leonard Pine mystery series.
Daniel LeMoal is a writer and communications assistant based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. His fiction has appeared in the pages of genre publications such as On Spec and Apex Science Fiction & Horror Digest, while his journalism has run in local dailies including the Winnipeg Free Press, the Winnipeg Sun and the Portage la Prairie Daily Graphic. He also once worked on the kill floor of a slaughterhouse. To this day, people still ask him what wieners are really made out of. They never like the answer.
E. Michael Lewis studied creative writing at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Wa. He is a lifelong native of the Pacific Northwest, where he raised two sons who routinely make him proud. His work can be found in All Hallows, Shadowed Realms, and The Harrow.
Margaret Ronald's fiction has appeared in such venues as Fantasy Magazine, Strange Horizons, Realms of Fantasy, Baen's Universe, and Clarkesworld magazine. Her debut novel, Spiral Hunt, was published in early 2009. She is an alum of the Viable Paradise workshop and a member of BRAWL. Originally from rural Indiana, she now lives outside Boston.
Nicholas Royle, born in Manchester in 1963, is the author of five novels -including Counterparts, The Director's Cut, and Antwerp-and two novellas-The Appetite and The Enigma of Departure. He has published around 120 short stories, twenty of which are collected in Mortality. Widely published as a journalist, with regular appearances in Time Out and the Independent, he has also edited thirteen original anthologies, including two Darklands volumes and The Tiger Garden: A Book of Writers' Dreams. The winner of three British Fantasy Awards, he teaches creative writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.
R. B. Russell's first collection of strange fiction, Putting the Pieces in Place, was published in January 2009, and his second collection, Literary Remains, will be published in late 2009. He runs Tartarus Press with his wife, Rosalie Parker, and also writes music and poetry and occasionally draws illustrations for dust jackets.
Miranda Siemienowicz lives in Melbourne, Australia. Her work has appeared in literary and speculative magazines including Overland, Island, and Aurealis, and been reprinted in Australian Dark Fantasy and Horror Volume 3 (Brimstone Press).
William Browning Spencer is the author of four novels and two collections of short stories. Spencer's satirical horror novel Résumé with Monsters describes a corporate America in which Lovecraftian monsters haunt the workplace. The novel won the International Horror Award for best novel. Various creatures from Lovecraft also inhabit his novel Irrational Fears, in which alcoholics are discovered to be the progeny of an ancient underground tribe who worship Tsathoggua.
His short stories have been included in
The Year's Best Science Fiction and The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror and have been finalists for the Bram Stoker, World Fantasy, and Shirley Jackson awards. He currently lives in Austin, Texas, and is completing his novel My Sister Natalie: Snake Goddess of the Amazon, which will be published by Subterranean Press.
JoSelle Vanderhooft is the critically acclaimed author of poetry collections The Minotaur's Last Letter to His Mother, the 2007 Stoker Award-nominated Ossuary, Desert Songs, The Handless Maiden and Other Tales Twice-Told, Fathers, Daughters, Ghosts & Monsters, The Memory Palace, and Death Masks; the novels The Tale of the Miller's Daughter, and Owl Skin; and Ugly Things, a collection of short stories. She is currently at work on a series of novels.
Her poetry and fiction has been published online and in print in a number of publications, including
Cabinet des Fees, Star*Line, Mythic Delirium, MYTHIC, Jabberwocky, Helix, The Seventh Quarry.
An assistant editor of a gay and lesbian newspaper by day, she lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Ellen Datlow
Ellen Datlow has been editing science fiction, fantasy, and horror short stories for almost thirty years. She was co-editor of
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror and has edited or co-edited many other anthologies, most recently The Coyote Road and Troll's Eye View (with Terri Windling), Inferno, The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Nebula Award Showcase 2009, Poe: 19 New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, and Lovecraft Unbound.
Forthcoming are, Digital Domains: A Decade of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror, Naked City: New Tales of Urban Fantasy, Best Horror of the Year, Volume 2, Haunted Legends (with Nick Mamatas), and The Beastly Bride (with Terri Windling).
She has won multiple awards for her editing, including the World Fantasy, Locus, Hugo, International Horror Guild, Shirley Jackson, and Stoker awards. She was named recipient of the 2007 Karl Edward Wagner Award for "outstanding contribution to the genre."
For more information, visit her website at www.datlow.com.
