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LH Moore is a writer, poet and historian. Her speculative fiction, poetry and essays have appeared in numerous publications and anthologies such as FIYAH, Fireside and Apex magazines; the Bram Stoker Award Finalist Sycorax's Daughters, Black Magic Women and Chiral Mad. You can follow her on Twitter at @ElleHM, IG: lh_moore or visit her website at lhmoorecreative.com.
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L. Marie Wood is an award-winning author and screenwriter. She is the recipient of the Golden Stake Award for her novel The Promise Keeper, as well as the Harold L. Brown Award for her screenplay Home Party. Her short story, "The Ever After" is part of the Bram Stoker Award Finalist anthology Sycorax's Daughters. Wood was recognized in The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Vol. 15 and as one of the 100+ Black Women in Horror Fiction. You can find her online at www.lmariewood.com.
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Lynette S. Hoag is a freelance writer and lawyer. She is married to an adrenaline junkie engineer. Together, she and her husband share one creative, energetic son, a cat and a doodle. She lives, loves and laughs in the eclectic, diverse community of Oak Park, Illinois. She can be found on Twitter @LeftBrainMom1 and on Facebook as LeftBrainMom.
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Michele Tracy Berger is a professor, a creative writer, a creativity coach and a pug-lover. Her main love is writing speculative fiction, though she also is known to write poetry and creative nonfiction, too. Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Concrete Dreams: Witches, Warriors and Wise Women, Afromyth: A Fantasy Collection Volume 2, Stories We Tell After Midnight #2, UnCommon Origins: A Collection of Gods, Monsters, Nature and Science, Flying South: A Literary Journal; 100 Word Story; Thing Magazine, Blood and Bourbon, FIYAH: Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, and The Red Clay Review.
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Her nonfiction writing and poetry have appeared in The Chapel Hill News, Glint Literary Journal, South Writ Large, Oracle: Fine Arts Review, Trivia: Voices of Feminism, The Feminist Wire, Ms. Magazine, Carolina Woman Magazine, Western North Carolina Woman, A Letter to My Mom (Crown Press), Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia Butler (Twelfth Planet Press) and various zines.
She runs an award-winning blog called ‘The Practice of Creativity’. https://micheleberger.wordpress.com
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Her science fiction novella, “Reenu You” was recently published by Falstaff Books. Much of her work explores psychological horror, especially through issues of race and gender.
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Milton Davis is a Black Fantastic fiction writer and owner of MVmedia, LLC, a publishing company specializing in Science Fiction, Fantasy based on African/African Diaspora culture, history and traditions. Milton is the author of nineteen novels; his most recent is the post-apocalyptic adventure Gunman’s Peace. He is the editor and co-editor of nine anthologies; The City, Terminus, Blacktastic, Dark Universe with Gene Peterson; Griots: A Sword and Soul Anthology and Griot: Sisters of the Spear, with Charles R. Saunders; The Ki Khanga Anthology, the Steamfunk! Anthology, and the Dieselfunk anthology with Balogun Ojetade. MVmedia has also published Once Upon A Time in Afrika by Balogun Ojetade and Abegoni: First Calling and Nyumbani Tales by Sword and Soul creator and icon Charles R. Saunders.
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Milton’s work had also been featured in Black Power: The Superhero Anthology; Skelos 2: The Journal of Weird Fiction and Dark Fantasy Volume 2, Steampunk Writers Around the World published by Luna Press and Bass Reeves Frontier Marshal Volume Two. His Steamfunk story, “The Swarm” was nominated for the 2017 British Science Fiction Award. You can contact Milton Davis from his website: https://www.miltonjdavis.com
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Miranda J. Riley lives in Nashville, TN with her husband and three feline children, working at a HPL library. When she isn’t writing, she’s working on arts and crafts, reading, horror movie watching, and spending time with her friends and family. She enjoys volunteering with her youth group at church and squeezing as many naps as she can fit into one day. “Rampage” is her first official published work but keep an eye out for full feature books coming soon!
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki is an African speculative fiction writer, slush reader and editor from Nigeria. He was awarded an honourable mention, twice in the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest and his short story won the Nommo award for best short story by an African. He has been published in African Writer, Omenana magazine, Selene Quarterly, Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores, Uncanny Magazine, Strange Horizons, and Tor. He co-edited the Invictus Quarterly, Selene Quarterly, and the Dominion Anthology. He also happens to be a member of the African Speculative Fiction Society, Codex, BFA, BSFA, HWA and the SFWA.
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Penelope Flynn-As an author and 3D Illustrator Penelope Flynn enjoys creating mixed genre adult-targeted speculative fiction featuring elements of horror, suspense, science fiction, romantica and fantasy. She has works in the Dark Universe anthologies, The Steamfunk anthology, Genesis: An Anthology of Black Science Fiction Book II, Scierogenous II, Blerdrotica I and has published a novel, The Chronicles of Renfields: Regarding Koescu and the second of the Chronicles of Renfields: The First Book of Ramona is scheduled for release October 30, 2020.
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She is also cover artist for her Chronicles of Renfields, the Flash Bang anthology, Carole McDonnell’s novelette, The Charcoal Bride and Stone Mays’ Blumeverse short “Ava Dianthus and her Minion of Evil.”
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Monday through Friday at 9am EST Penelope is on attwitch.tv/emazingxp hosting Go With the Flow!, an hour of chat while creating fantasy landscapes with Flowscape. You can also find her Saturday nights at 9pm Eastern hosting the Talkshoe podcast Discussions From the Otherhoodhttps://www.talkshoe.com/conf/show/discussions-from-the-otherhood. Her art and literary works can be found at PenelopeFlynn.com and Renfields.us.
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Samantha Bryant teaches Spanish to middle schoolers. Clearly, she’s tougher than she looks. She writes The Menopausal Superhero series of novels, and other feminist leaning speculative fiction. When she's not writing or teaching, Samantha enjoys family time, old movies, baking, gaming, and walking in the woods with her rescue dog. You can find her on Twitter and Instagram @samanthabwriter or at: http://samanthabryant.com and subscribe to her newsletter at: http://eepurl.com/bwgsxD.
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Sheree Renée Thomas is an award-winning fiction writer, poet, and editor. Her work is inspired by myth and folklore, natural science, music, and the genius of the Mississippi Delta. Nine Bar Blues: Stories from an Ancient Future (Third Man Books, May 2020) is her debut fiction collection. She is also the author of two multigenre/hybrid collections, Sleeping Under the Tree of Life (Aqueduct Press July 2016), longlisted for the 2016 Otherwise Award and honored with a Publishers Weekly Starred Review and Shotgun Lullabies (Aqueduct January 2011). She edited the World Fantasy Award-winning groundbreaking Black speculative fiction anthologies, Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora and Dark Matter: Reading the Bones (2000 and 2004) and is the first to introduce W.E.B. Du Bois’s science fiction short stories.
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Sheree was the first Black author to be honored with the World Fantasy Award since its inception in 1975. As fiction writer, poet, and occasional essayist, her work is widely anthologized and appears in The New York Times and The Big Book of Modern Fantasy edited by Ann & Jeff VanderMeer (Vintage Anchor, 2020). She is the Associate Editor of the award-wining historic Black arts literary journal, Obsidian. She was recently honored as a 2020 World Fantasy Award Finalist in the Special Award – Professional category for contributions to the genre. She lives in her hometown, Memphis, Tennessee, near a mighty river and a pyramid. Follow her @blackpotmojo or visit http://www.shereereneethomas.com
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Steven Van Patten is a Brooklyn native and the author of the critically acclaimed Brookwater’s Curse trilogy, about an 1860s Georgia plantation slave who becomes law enforcement within the vampire c
ommunity. In contrast, the titular character in his Killer Genius series is a modern day hyper-intelligent black woman who uses high-end technology as a socially conscious serial killer.
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SVP’s short fiction includes contributions to nearly a dozen horror anthologies, including the Stoker Award nominated New York State of Fright. A collection of short horror and dark fiction stories entitled Hell At The Way Station, published by his company Laughing Black Vampire Productions and co-authored by acclaimed storyteller, Marc Abbott hit shelves in 2018.
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Along with a plethora of other honors and accolades, SVP won three African-African-American Literary Awards in 2019, two for Hell At The Way Station (Best Anthology and Best In Science Fiction) and one for Best Independent Publisher. He’s written about everything from sleep demons to the Harlem Hellfighters of WWI for episodes of the YouTube series’ Extra Credit and Extra Mythology, He’s also a contributor for Viral Vignettes, a charity-driven YouTube comedy series benefitting The Actor’s Fund.
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He uses his full name on Facebook but goes by @svpthinks on Twitter and Instagram. When he’s not creating macabre literature, he can be found stage managing television shows primarily in New York City and occasionally on the West Coast. Along with
being a member of the New York Chapter of The Horror Writer’s Association, he’s also a member of The Director’s Guild of America and professional arts fraternity Gamma Xi Phi. His website is www.laughingblackvampire.com.
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Steve Van Samson is the author of the Predator World series books and numerous short stories. His writing tends to be on the pulpy side--intermingling genres like horror, dystopian with dark fantasy and adventure. He believes that character is king and there should always be little seeds planted between the lines, that the reader will only discover in subsequent readings. His third novel Mark of the Witchwyrm is a dark fantasy tale and will be released by Rough House Publishing.
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When not tapping the keys on his Chromebook, Steve co-hosts the Retro Ridoctopus podcast, writes and watches entirely too many black and white monster films.
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Sumiko Saulson is an award-winning author of Afrosurrealist and multicultural sci-fi and horror. Ze is the editor of the anthologies and collections Black Magic Women, Scry of Lust, Black Celebration, and Wickedly Abled. Zhe is the winner of the 2016 HWA StokerCon "Scholarship from Hell", 2017 BCC Voice "Reframing the Other" contest, and 2018 AWW "Afrosurrealist Writer Award."
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Zhe has an AA in English from Berkeley City College, and writes a column called "Writing While Black" for a national Black Newspaper, the San Francisco BayView.
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V.G. Harrison-Science fiction has been my love since I was a little kid who purposely tried to stay up at 11 PM to watch Star Trek. I've been writing for a few years now and even though I watch a lot of sci-fi, I don't read it nearly as much of it as I do paranormal. It made sense to combine the two and come up with my Project Solstice series. From there, it's been pure science fiction all the way.
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I like to write sci-fi that has some basis in reality. So, whenever I introduce something like the Fine Structure Constant or quantum entanglement, I do as much research as possible to make the story plausible. I don't like to rehash something that made you fall asleep in physics class, but rather, insert just enough to stir your imagination in the right direction. I guess my overly priced engineering degree paid off.
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Between the day job, family, and enjoying life as a North Carolinian implant, I'm either hiking, binge watching TV, or trying to connect with my daughter, Jayden, on a cool level. I’m sure I’m failing at that last one, so I’ve resigned to embarrassing myself whenever things don’t go as planned
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Valjeanne Jeffers is a speculative fiction writer, a Spelman College graduate, and a member of the Horror Writers Association and the Carolina African America Writers’ Collective. She is the author of nine books, including her Immortal and her Mona Livelong: Paranormal Detective series. Valjeanne has been published in numerous anthologies including: Steamfunk!;The Ringing Ear; Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler; Fitting In:Historical Accounts of Paranormal Subcultures; Sycorax’s Daughters; Black Magic Women, The Bright Empire, and, most recently, All the Songs We Sing. Preview or purchase her novels at: www.vjeffersandqveal.com.
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Vonnie Winslow Crist, HWA, SFWA, is author of The Enchanted Dagger, Owl Light, The Greener Forest, Murder on Marawa Prime, and other award-winning books. Her fiction appears in Amazing Stories, Cast of Wonders, Chilling Ghost Short Stories, Killing It Softly 2, Creep, Blood & Beetles, Horror for Hire, Insignia 2020: Best Asian Speculative Fiction, and elsewhere. A clover-hand who has found so many four-leafed clovers she keeps them in jars, Vonnie believes the world is still filled with mystery, miracles, and magic. For more info: http://www.vonniewinslowcrist.com
Horror Anthologies from Mocha Memoirs Press
Black Magic Women: Terrifying Tales by Scary Sisters edited by Sumiko Saulson
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An Improbable Truth: The Paranormal Adventures of Sherlock Holmes edited by A.C. Thompson
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Curious Incidents: More Improbable Adventures edited by A.C. Thompson
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In the Bloodstream: An Anthology of Dark Fantasy and Horror edited by Eden Royce
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The Grotesquerie edited by Eden Royce
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Ghosts, Gears and Grimoires edited by Rie Sheridan Rose
