NANCY HOLDER, New York Times Bestselling author, has had work appear on the New York Times, USA Today, LA Times, amazon.com, LOCUS, and other bestseller lists. A five-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award from the Horror Writers Association, she has also received accolades from the American Library Association, the American Reading Association, the New York Public Library, and Romantic Times. She and Debbie Viguié co-authored the New York Times bestselling series Wicked for Simon and Schuster.
They have continued their collaboration with the Crusade series, also for Simon and Schuster, and the Wolf Springs Chronicles for Delacorte (2011.) She is also the author of the young adult horror series Possessions for Razorbill.
She has sold many novels and book projects set in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Saving Grace, Hellboy, and Smallville universes. She has sold approximately two hundred short stories and essays on writing and popular culture.
Her anthology, Outsiders, co-edited with Nancy Kilpatrick, was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award in 2005. Pretty Little Devils and The Watcher’s Guide Volume 1 appeared in the New York Public Library’s Books for the Teen Age, and The Watcher’s Guide Volume 1 also appeared on the Los Angeles Times Bestseller List in 1999. Saving Grace: Tough Love won the 2011 Scribe Award for General Fiction/Best Original Novel. Nancy teaches in the Stonecoast MFA Creative Writing Program, offered through the University of Southern Maine.
She has previously taught at UCSD and has served on the Clarion Board of Directors. She lives in San Diego, California, with her daughter Belle, their two Corgis, Panda and Tater; and their cats, David and Kittnen Snow. She and Belle are active in Girl Scouts and dog obedience training.
RACHEL KARYO. When Rachel Karyo was a young child, her older cousins thought it good fun to lock her in a closet with a plastic punching bag clown. Rachel was terrified of that clown--it bobbed back and forth, it seemed to be laughing and crying at the same time. Perhaps not surprisingly, Rachel developed a chronic case of coulrophobia and grew up to be a writer. Rachel has worked as a journalist, copywriter, editorial assistant and English teacher. She recently attended the Sarah Lawrence College Summer Writers Seminar and is an Amherst Writers and Artists affiliate. Rachel lives with her family in Westchester County, New York.
ED KURTZ is the author of Bleed (Abattoir Press), Control (Thunderstorm Books), and numerous short stories. His work has appeared in Dark Moon Digest, Needle: A Magazine of Noir, BEAT to a PULP, Shotgun Honey, Horror Factory, Mutation Nation, and Psychos: Serial Killers, Depraved Madmen, and the Criminally Insane. Ed resides in Texas, where he is at work on his next novel and running his genre imprint, Redrum Horror. Visit Ed Kurtz online at edkurtzbleeds.wordpress.com.
PATRICIA LILLIE used to write picture books. Now, she makes bad things happen to nice people—but only on paper. She lives in Northeastern Ohio and is working towards an MFA in Writing Popular Fiction at Seton Hill University. “Abby” is her first published story for readers over the age of six. You can visit her online at patricialillie.com.
E.S. MAGILL (co-editor) likes to wear the two hats of writer and editor. She is the editor of The Haunted Mansion Project: Year One, an anthology of essays and short stories based on the experiences of a dozen horror writers who attended a writers retreat at a haunted mansion. She is also the former reviews editor and columnist for Dark Wisdom magazine. Her most current short fiction can be found in the Horror Writers Association’s anthology Blood Lite III. She has an M.A. in English, specializing in the postmodern gothic. By day, she teaches middle school English; night is a whole other story. Southern California is home to her and her husband Greg and their menagerie of cats and Corvettes. Find her at facebook.com/esmagill.
CHRIS MARRS (co-editor) lives on the West Coast of British Columbia, has two kids, two jobs, and two cats. Before the kids took over, Chris used to write a lot and had two stories published. Now that the kids are older, Chris is back to writing a lot, usually very late into the night and accompanied by copious amounts of coffee. In the past year, Chris had two pieces of flash fiction published in Necon E-books Flash Fiction Anthology Best of 2011 and another piece of flash fiction published in 100 Horrors, Tales of Horror in The Blink of An Eye. Also, a short story of hers recently appeared in Behind Locked Doors, an anthology by Wicked East Press. Chris is a supporting member of the HWA. You can find her at facebook.com/chris.marrs.14.
ANGEL LEIGH MCCOY (co-editor) is the producer and lead editor at www.WilyWriters.com, a professional speculative fiction e-zine. She also writes, and her fiction has appeared in numerous places. During the day, she is a narrative designer at ArenaNet, part of a vast team effort to make the coolest MMORPG ever: Guild Wars 2. Angel lives with Boo, Simon, and Lapis Lazuli in Seattle, where the long, dark winters feed her penchant for all things spooky and cozy. Visit her at www.angelmccoy.com.
ANJA MILLEN (cover artist) was born somewhere at the end of the world, so-called Germany, and spent her entire youth there, followed by some years as a cook in France. In 1984, Anja started to visualize her own world in paintings and sketches. Strange, monstrous, nifty, and sometimes beautiful. After visiting the European Academy of Art, the school of design and art, she discovered the wonderful, unlimited world of digital art in 1998. For a few years, she has banned the demons in her head also with photography—still learning, still going crazy from all those surreal fantasies in her mind. Anja is currently living in a cave, on top of the highest mountain, scratching little stick men in the wall, and thinking of publishing a volume of photographs or an illustrated book. Her art is shown and featured in different virtual galleries. She is currently working with musicians creating their CD cover art. Anja made MMORPG concept arts and character studies for the RPG genre and is looking forward to creating book covers for fantasy novels.
ROB M. MILLER was born and raised in the hood of Portland, Oregon. Over the years, he has been victimized by violent bad guys, has victimized violent bad guys, been a U.S. Army Infantryman, taught martial arts, worked security, video store clerked, washed windows, retreaded tires, and stocked products in a grocery store. After two years of freelance stringer work for a military newspaper, he tired of nonfiction and decided to use his love of the dark, his personal terrors, and his talent with words, to do something more beneficial for his fellow man: scare the hell out of him. Rob’s continuing his quest to write tales of dark woe in the Pacific Northwest, from where he moderates an online writing group (www.writers-in-action.spruz.com). His work can be found in various American and U.K. anthologies. Come give him a visit at www.jaggeddarkness.com.
LISA MORTON began her career as a professional writer in 1988 with the horror-fantasy feature film Meet the Hollowheads (aka Life on the Edge), on which she also served as Associate Producer. For the Disney Channel’s 1992 Adventures in Dinosaur City, she served as screenwriter, Associate Producer, Songwriter, and Miniatures Coordinator. Lisa has also written numerous episodes of the animated television series Sky Dancers, Dragon Flyz, and Van-Pires. For stage she has written and co-produced the acclaimed horror one-acts Spirits of the Season, Sane Reaction and The Territorial Imperative, and has adapted and directed Philip K. Dick’s Radio Free Albemuth and Theodore Sturgeon’s The Graveyard Reader; her full-length science fiction comedy Trashers was an L.A. Weekly “Recommended” pick. Her short fiction has appeared in dozens of books and magazines, including Dark Delicacies: Original Tales of Terror and the Macabre, Mondo Zombie, Dark Passions: Hot Blood XIII, The Mammoth Book of Zombie Apocalypse!, and the forthcoming Blood Lite 3. Her first book, The Cinema of Tsui Hark, about the legendary Hong Kong director/producer of such classics as Peking Opera Blues and A Chinese Ghost Story, was published by McFarland, who also published The Halloween Encyclopedia in 2003 and A Hallowe’en Anthology: Literary and Historical Writings Over the Centuries in 2008.
Her television movie Tornado Warning was chosen by the Pax cable station to launch their 2002 fall season, and 2005 saw the release of three horror films, the vampire thriller Blood Angels,
the mutant shark story Blue Demon, and The Glass Trap, about genetically altered fire ants.
Lisa was awarded the 2006 Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction for her story “Tested” (which first appeared in Cemetery Dance magazine), and the 2008 Bram Stoker Award for Non-fiction for A Hallowe’en Anthology. For the first anthology she edited, 2009′s Midnight Walk, Lisa received a Black Quill Award for Best Dark Genre Anthology, and she won the 2009 Bram Stoker Award for Long Fiction for her novella The Lucid Dreaming. In 2010, she received her fourth Stoker Award, this time in the First Novel category for The Castle of Los Angeles.
Her first collection, Monsters of L.A., was published by Bad Moon Books in 2011, and garnered Lisa her seventh Bram Stoker Award nomination. Her most recent book is Witch Hunts: A Graphic History of the Burning Times (co-written with Rocky Wood and illustrated by Greg Chapman), and forthcoming from Reaktion Books is Trick or Treat?: A History of Halloween.
Lisa is currently Vice President of the Horror Writers Association, and she lives in North Hollywood, California.
YVONNE NAVARRO lives in southern Arizona, where by day she works on historic Fort Huachuca. She is the author of twenty-two published novels and well over a hundred short stories, and has written about everything from vampires to psychologically disturbed husbands to the end of the world. Her work has won the HWA’s Bram Stoker Award plus a number of other writing awards.
Visit yvonnenavarro.com to keep up with slices of a crazy life that includes her husband, author Weston Ochse, three Great Danes (Goblin, Ghost and Ghoulie), a people-loving parakeet named BirdZilla, painting, and lots of ice cream, Smarties, and white zinfandel.
Also at facebook.com/yvonne.navarro.001
Her most recent work is Concrete Savior, the second book in the Dark Redemption Series. She has both lived in real haunted houses and weekended with friends in a seriously haunted mansion, just like those dumb blondes in B-movies.
SANDRA M. ODELL is a 45-year old, happily married mother of two teenage boys, an avid reader, compulsive writer, and rabid chocoholic. Her work has appeared in Jim Baen's UNIVERSE, Ideomancer, and Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, been produced by The Drabblecast and Pseudopod, and her short story collection, The Twelve Ways of Christmas, was released by Hydra House Books in 2012. Find out more about her work and her love of audio fiction, at her blog: sandramodell.com.
C.W. SMITH is a writer from Southwest Virginia. From 2008-2010, he contributed creative non-fiction to The New River Voice. He does not have children.
SARA TAYLOR is a socially anxious product of rural Virginia. She traded her good health for a BFA in Creative Writing from Randolph College, and is now furiously attempting to earn an MA in the same from The University of East Anglia before the faculty realizes she isn't the reincarnation of Ernest Hemingway, as stated on her application. Her short stories have been published in anthologies from Seedpod Publishing, Storm Moon Press, and Cruentus Libri, as well as in print and online magazines. She currently lives in the UK.
MEHITOBEL WILSON has been publishing horror fiction since 1998. You may find her work in Psychos: Serial Killers, Depraved Madmen, and the Criminally Insane (Black Dog Levinthal, 2012), Necro Files: Two Decades of Extreme Horror, Zombies: Encounters with the Hungry Dead, Sins of the Sirens, Damned: An Anthology of the Lost, and Dead But Dreaming. Selected stories have been collected in Dangerous Red, which is now available in a range of e-book formats from various retailers. She contains most of the planet’s caffeine and salt. If you can’t pronounce her name, call her “Bel.”
STEPHEN WOODWORTH, a graduate of the Clarion West Writers Workshop, is the author of the New York Times best-selling Violet Series of paranormal thrillers, including Through Violet Eyes, With Red Hands, In Golden Blood, and From Black Rooms. His short fiction has appeared in such publications as Weird Tales, Realms of Fantasy, Fantasy Science Fiction, Year's Best Fantasy 9, The Dead That Walk, and Mutation Nation.
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