by Allyson Bird
DAMIEN ANGELICA WALTERS’ work has appeared or is forthcoming in various anthologies and magazines, including The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2015, Year’s Best Weird Fiction: Volume One, The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu: New Lovecraftian Fiction, Nightmare, Black Static, and Apex. “The Floating Girls: A Documentary,” originally published in Jamais Vu, was nominated for the 2014 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction. Sing Me Your Scars, a collection of short fiction, is out now from Apex Publications, and Paper Tigers, a novel, is forthcoming from Dark House Press. You can follow her on Twitter @DamienAWalters or visit her website at http://damienangelicawalters.com.
MERCEDES M. YARDLEY wears stilettos, red lipstick, and poisonous flowers in her hair. She writes dark fantasy, horror, nonfiction, and poetry. Mercedes minored in Creative Writing and worked as a contributing editor for Shock Totem Magazine. She is the author of the short story collection Beautiful Sorrows, the novella Apocalyptic Montessa and Nuclear Lulu: A Tale of Atomic Love and her debut novel Nameless: The Darkness Comes, which is the first book in THE BONE ANGEL TRILOGY. Her latest book is titled Pretty Little Dead Girls: A Novel of Murder and Whimsy and was released in September of 2014. She often speaks at conferences and teaches workshops on several subjects, including personal branding and how to write a novel in stolen moments. Mercedes lives and works in Las Vegas, and you can reach her at www.mercedesyardley.com.
