A. J. Cooper has been writing since he was eight years old. He enjoys fantasy, thrillers, and assorted genre fiction. You can catch up with his writing and contact him at his blog, Random Thoughts.
Barrie Darke writes from the UK, where the short story market is a pitiful thing. He has a track record as a scriptwriter, but thinks prose is the main thing. He has recently been published in the UK by Byker Books, New Writing North and Sentinel Literary Quarterly; and in the US by Menda City Review, Nossa Morte, Demon Minds, Infinite Windows, Underground Voices, Big Pulp, Pseudopod, Inwood Indiana, Bastards and Whores, Onomatopoeia, Orion Headless, Xenith, Otoliths, All Due Respect, Fiction365, An Electric Tragedy and Scissors and Spackle.
Christian A. Larsen grew up in Park Ridge, Illinois and graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His short story “Bast” appears alongside the work of Graham Masterton, Ramsey Campell, and Joe R. Lansdale in the anthology What Fears Become: An Anthology from The Horror Zine (Imajin Books). He lives with his wife and two sons in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Follow him on Twitter @exlibrislarsen or visit exlibrislarsen.com for more of his writings.
Clay Waters is a media analyst who lives and works in Hoboken, New Jersey. He has had short stories published in The Santa Barbara Review, Liquid Ohio, Abyss & Apex, and Black Petals, and knows an embarrassing amount of information regarding Dr. Who.
David Wright is an English teacher living on Canada’s majestic west coast. He is married with two sparkling daughters. His short stories have appeared in over a dozen magazines including Neo-opsis Issue 12, Mindflights Issue 1, and Niteblade December 2010.
Eric Bonholtzer is a USC graduate with a Master’s Degree in English from the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Eric’s work has appeared in a number of publications and anthologies; he has received numerous awards for his writing and poetry. His short story collection, The Skeleton’s Closet, is available at online retailers as well as his book of poetry, Remnants & Shadows. You can read more at EricBonholtzer.com.
Eric Ortlund teaches Hebrew and Old Testament at the best seminary in Canada. When he’s not doing that, he’s writing myths about death and rebirth, sin and forgiveness, in the tradition of MacDonald and Lewis. You can keep up with Eric at his blog, Scatterings.
Francis W. Alexander resides in Ohio and has a number of current works in a variety of online and print publications, including Necrotic Tissue, Star*Line, Scifaikuest, Nova Science Fiction, AlienSkin, Night to Dawn, House of Horror, The Drabbler 15, and the Nine Months on the Moon Anthology.
G. J. Wise has been writing for more than twenty years, but has taken it seriously the last two. His first novel, Spiritwood, is being shopped while he’s hard at work on the next one.
Gail Dennehy was born in Massachusetts and presently lives in Arizona. She is a jack of all trades and master of more than a few having trained in herbalism, accounting, and drafting and having worked as a bookkeeper, nurses aide, sheet metal worker, industrial collector, teaching assistant, meat wrapper, motel maid, and telephone tarot card reader. Her hobbies include hand-spinning, beading, and the twenty grandchildren she shares along with husband.
Greg Rhodea is a full-time seminary student in Dallas, Texas. He is married to a better girl than he deserves, has three surprising kids, and goes kiteboarding whenever he can. He has a story forthcoming from Big Pulp, and for more of his writing you can visit his home on the web at acrosseyesky.com.
Gordon LeVasseur is a husband, father, and teacher in Connecticut. When he is not husbanding, fathering, or teaching, he likes to read and write.
J. J. Daniels lives in Texas with his wife and son. His writing is inspired somewhere between his waking imagination and observing the chaotic world around him. Along with following his passion in writing he is currently attending graduate university.
Jack Dowden is a recent college grad from Franklin and Marshall, who hasn’t really used that history degree for anything yet. When not drinking and spending time with friends, usually together, he’s either working or writing, the latter of which he enjoys immensely more than the former. He resides in the often maligned state of New Jersey.
Jaime A. Heidel is a Connecticut native living in North Carolina who has been writing since she was old enough to hold a pen, producing her first short story as a 7 year old. In addition to prose, Jaime has also written and published poetry, song lyrics, and non-fiction. Her short story, “Phobia,” is featured in the horror anthology, Night Falls on Everyone (ReadMe Publishing, Dec 2008). Read more at JamieAHeidel.com.
James Rawbone has (in no particular order) spent significant parts of his life: being mugged in Johannesburg and Maputo, sleeping on the temples at Tikal, building a ranger’s post in Belize, losing cheques for Barclays International, working with drug addicts in Manchester, tomb-stoning in Jersey, learning Spanish in Guatemala, being beaten up by Hell’s Angels in Sheffield, accidentally joining a brainwashing cult and spending subsequent months ‘kulking’ around Denmark, working in a Street Children’s Orphanage in Mozambique, being a special needs teacher, and owning two very spoilt ginger cats. He is 33, still not dead and lives with his wife in the rolling countryside of the North Downs.
Jeromy Henry writes, designs games, programs, and involves himself in far too many other nefarious creative activities to mention. He earned degrees in Art and English from Drury College in 1997, and later earned a BS in Computer Science from Columbia College. He lives in central Missouri with his wife and two kids. Discover more of Jeromy’s writing here.
Jonathan Cullen is a lawyer and has contributed to a number of legal publications including, as co-author, “Anton Piller Orders and the Federal Court of Canada,” published by the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada. He also writes book reviews for The Future Fire, a publisher of speculative fiction. He is an avid reader, spending most of his time in the worlds of science fiction and fantasy. “Theft” is his first short story.
Julie Jansen resides in Olympia, Washington. She spends the cold, short, rainy days of winter weaving creepy stories when she isn’t teaching Italian. Her stories have appeared in The Harrow, Nature Magazine, and Necrology Magazine.
K.T Louis lives in Springfield, MO. She likes the dark side of literature—particularly enjoying vampire and Gothic tales. Works retail by day, writes by night. She also has a weakness for “old-fashioned” humor and Carey Grant movies.
Kevin R. Doyle is a high school teacher and part-time community college instructor from Columbia, Missouri. He’s had a particularly busy year with new material appearing in Dark Fire, Static Movement and Death Head Grin. He’s also had reprints appear in Daikaijuzine, Ghostlight and Tales of the Talisman. His life, however, is not all gloom and torment. Among other things, he also spends time each week at the local Humane Society, where he takes the shelter dogs on exercise walks down Columbia’s trails.
M. L. Archer wrote her first novel during her elementary years about a talking car. She also began playing violin at the age of eight. Since then she has studied music and performance at Eastfield College in Mesquite, Texas and played with many groups including the St. Louis Youth Orchestra and the Dallas Opera Orchestra. All the while she just kept writing. She decided her two great loves ought to meet and began writing stories for the musical sub-genre. Her first story, “Paint it Black,” was published in Coach’s Midnight Diner, winning the Editor’s Choice award. She continues the fun with her story featured here, “A Tale of Cremona.”
Malley Hayes is a teacher and stage actor living in upstate New York. This is his first short story.
Milo James Fowler is a teacher by day, writer by night. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in over 25 publications, including Residential Aliens, Daily Science Fiction, and Bards and Sages Quarterly. Read more at In Medias Res.
P. F. White is a concertina player, knife fighting instructor, former US Navy sailor, and lifelong vagabond. He lives almost entirely in worlds of fiction. His various insanities have been published in Aphelion Online, Bewildering Tales and Niteblade, as well as the literary journal, Interim. You can find out more at his author site, P. F. White.
Pauline Creeden is a reader, reviewer, writer, rider, and horse trainer! Her two loves are Jesus and Horses. Born in Montana, after a short stint as a military brat, her family settled in Virginia when she was seven-years-old. She has published articles and devotionals in Ruby for Women Magazine, and she’s the entertainment reviewer for Faith Filled Family Magazine. She blogs at Hosanna’s Christian Reader.
R. S. Pyne is a researcher and science journalist from West Wales. Credits including: Albedo One, Aurora Wolf, Bards and Sages Quarterly, Fifth Di, Hungur, Lacuna, Neo-opsis, Silver Blade, Undead of Winter and others. Several of Pyne’s stories are available on the Anthology Builder website.
Robert C. J. Graves, a former sports writer and bartender, is Assistant Professor of English at Paine College, a private, Christian, historically black college in Augusta, GA. His poetry and fiction is widely published in print and on the web, including journals such as 491 Magazine, Bijou Poetry Review, Boston Literary Magazine, Chickenpinata, Crash, Chiron Review, Eclectic Flash, Haiku Ramblings, LeafGardenPress, The New Flesh, Prairie Poetry, and vox poetica.
Scott Davis is a small business owner living north of Boston.
Sharon Kae Reamer developed a deep love for all kinds of speculative fiction as a teen; and her written short fiction spans the entire speculative gamut. She has just completed the third novel of the Schattenreich fantasy series that includes Primary Fault, Shaky Ground, and Double-Couple. Sharon is an American seismologist teaching at the University of Cologne and also works as assistant editor for the speculative ezine Allegory. Read more at Sharon Kae Reamer.
Stoney M. Setzer lives outside of Atlanta, GA, with his beautiful wife and three wonderful children. As a fiction writer, he strives to create suspenseful stories with Christian themes. His works have been featured in such publications as Residential Aliens and Christian Sci-Fi Journal, as well as a number of anthologies. He is employed as a middle school special education teacher. You can find out more at his blog, Zero Hour.
TK Kenyon graduated from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop with an M.F.A. in fiction (Truman Capote Fellow). She then took the weekend off and started her Ph.D. in molecular virology culminating in a model that explains why chickenpox is worse if you get it as an adult than if you get it as a child which caused a near-riot among the herpesvirus cognoscenti. She then did a stint as a postdoctoral researcher in the Center for Neurodegenerative Disease at the University of Pennsylvania, studying Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and other maladies. TK has published scholarly papers and numerous non-fiction pieces along with literary short fiction pieces which have been placed in a number of literary journals. Two of her novels, Rabid and Callous, were published in 2007 and 2008 by Kunati Book Publishers. You can read more at her author site and blog.
Tom Greene is a professor of English at a small liberal arts college in New England. He also works part time as a ghost tour guide and lecturer on vampire legends. He lives in Salem, Mass with his wife and a cat.
Tom Howard is a banking software analyst in Little Rock, Arkansas. He’s sold two short stories recently and looks forward to writing (and selling!) more.
Wendy Schmidt is a Wisconsin native who writes short stories and poetry. She enjoys collecting local ghost stories and is an avid film enthusiast. Her poetry and short stories have been published in Strange, Weird and Wonderful, Daily Love, Three Line Poetry, Tainted Tea and are forthcoming from Howls and Pushycats, Verse Wisconsin and Twisted Dreams Magazine.
