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Priya Sharma is a medical doctor who lives in the UK. Her fiction has appeared in periodicals such as Albedo One, Interzone, Black Static, and Tor.com and anthologies including Once Upon a Time, Black Feathers, Mad Hatters and March Hairs. She’s been anthologized in several “year’s best” anthologies in the U.S. and UK. Her work has appeared on the Locus Recommended Reading List. Sharma’s story, “Fabulous Beasts” was a Shirley Jackson Award finalist and won a British Fantasy Award for Short Fiction. Her first collection, All the Fabulous Beasts, was published earlier this year.

Robert Shearman has worked as writer for television, radio, and the stage. He is probably best known for being one of the writers for the BAFTA Award-winning revived Doctor Who series starring Christopher Eccleston. (His episode “Dalek,” was nominated for a Hugo Award.) Shearman’s first collection of short stories, Tiny Deaths, won the World Fantasy Award, and was shortlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize and nominated for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Prize. His second collection, Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical won the Shirley Jackson Award, the British Fantasy Award, and the Edge Hill Short Story Reader’s Prize. His third collection, Everyone’s Just So So Special, won the British Fantasy Award

Shearman’s first collection published in North America, Remember Why You Fear Me, was shortlisted for the Shirley Jackson and British Fantasy Awards.

Angela Slatter is the author of the urban fantasy novels Vigil, Corpselight, and Restoration as well as eight short story collections, including The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales, Sourdough and Other Stories, The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings, and A Feast of Sorrows: Stories. She has won a World Fantasy Award, a British Fantasy Award, a Ditmar, an Australian Shadows Award, and six Aurealis Awards. She has an MA and a PhD in Creative Writing, is a graduate of Clarion South and the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop, and was awarded one of the inaugural Queensland Writers Fellowships. Slatter served as the Established Writer-in-Residence at the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers Centre in Perth. She has been awarded career development funding by Arts Queensland, the Copyright Agency and, in 2017/18, an Australia Council for the Arts grant.

Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam’s fiction and poetry has appeared in over forty magazines and anthologies such as Black Static, The Toast, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, Hobart, Interzone, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Fairy Tale Review. She and her partner collaborated on the recently released audio fiction-jazz collaborative album Strange Monsters. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast program and created and coordinates the annual Art & Words Collaborative Show in Fort Worth, Texas.

Steve Rasnic Tem’s collaborative novella with his late wife Melanie Tem, The Man On The Ceiling, won the World Fantasy, Bram Stoker, and International Horror Guild Awards. He has also won the Bram Stoker, International Horror Guild, and British Fantasy Awards for his solo work. His recent novel UBO won the Bram Stoker Award. His previous novels are Deadfall Hotel, The Man On The Ceiling (written with Melanie Tem as an expansion of their novella), The Book of Days, Daughters (also written with Melanie Tem), and Excavation. Tem has published over four hundred short stories. His ten story collections include City Fishing, Celestial Inventories, Twember, Here With The Shadows, and the giant seventy-two-story treasury, Out of the Dark: A Storybook of Horrors. A transplanted Southerner Virginia, Steve is a long-time resident of Colorado. He has a BA in English Education from VPI and a MA in Creative Writing from Colorado State.

Katherine Vaz is the author of two novels, Saudade and Mariana, as well as two short story collections, Fado & Other Stories and Our Lady of the Artichokes & Other Portuguese-American Stories. Her work has appeared in six languages and has received numerous accolades, including the Library of Congress’ Top Thirty International Books of 1998, the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, and the Prairie Schooner Book Award. The recipient of fellowships at Harvard University, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as the Harman Fellowship, Vaz has lectured internationally about Portuguese and Luso-American literature and is the first Portuguese-American to have her work recorded for the archives of the Library of Congress (Hispanic Division). A native Californian, she lives in New York City and East Hampton with her husband.

Kaaron Warren has published over seventy short stories, some of which are collected in The Gate Theory, Through Splintered Walls, The Grinding House, and Dead Sea Fruit. Her short fiction has won Australian Shadows, Ditmar, and Aurealis Awards. Her four novels are Slights, Walking the Tree, Mistification, and The Grief Hole. An Australian, she’s lived in Melbourne, Sydney, and Canberra, with a three year stint in Fiji. She currently lives in Canberra with her family, two cats and, possibly, rats in the roof.

Conrad Williams is the author of nine novels (Head Injuries, London Revenant, The Unblemished, One, Decay Inevitable, Loss of Separation, Dust and Desire, Sonata of the Dead, and Hell is Empty), four novellas (Nearly People, Game, The Scalding Rooms, and Rain) and three collections of short stories (Use Once Then Destroy, Born with Teeth, and I Will Surround You). One was the winner of the August Derleth Award for Best Novel, while The Unblemished won the International Horror Guild Award for Best Novel. He also received a British Fantasy Award for his novella The Scalding Rooms. He is an associate lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University and lives in Manchester, UK, with his wife and three sons.

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