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Aaron J. French is a college student who’s been writing speculative fiction for the last six years. His work has appeared in the inaugural issue of Abandoned Towers Magazine (as well as various stories on their website), Wanderings Magazine, the one-year anniversary issue of the sorely missed Willows Magazine, issue #5 of Macabre Cadaver Magazine, issue #9 of Werewolf Magazine, the October ’09 issue of Sonar4, issue #10 of The Monsters Next Door, November and December issues of Death Head Grin, Dark and Dreary Magazine – as well as upcoming issues of Dark Gothic Resurrected Magazine and The Absent Willow Review. He resides in Tucson, Arizona, where he plays keyboard in a local alt/rock band called Think Big, and lives with his unequivocal girlfriend, Britt.

Abra Staffin-Wiebe's publications include stories in Baen's Universe, Art Times, Allegory, and Strange, Weird, and Wonderful Magazine. She maintains Aswiebe's Market List, a resource for science fiction, fantasy, and horror market listings. She also runs the annual Spec the Halls contest for speculative holiday fiction. She's currently working on Vicesteed, a steampunk science fiction novel that is a locked-room murder mystery and exploration of how society forms identity. Her other passions are photography and martial arts. She lives and writes in Minneapolis. Her website is at http://www.aswiebe.com and she blogs at http://cloudscudding.livejournal.com.

Allen Kopp is a technical writer and lives in St. Louis. His work has been published in Foliate Oak Literary Journal, Temenos, The Legendary, Danse Macabre, Bartleby-Snopes, Skive Magazine, Hoi-Polloi, Conceit Magazine, and Dark and Dreary Magazine. Future work will appear in Sunken Lines, The Storyteller, and The Bracelet Charm. Allen was a contest finalist in the Bartleby-Snopes dialogue-writing contest and a 2009 Pushcart Prize nominee for the story “Hermaphrodite Ward.”

Billy Wong is an avid fan of heroic fantasy, with a special love for hardcore warriors of the fairer sex. His fiction has appeared in many venues including Afterburn SF, Sorcerous Signals, and The Written Word. A full list of his published works can be found here: http://www.absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=58445

Based in his hometown of Montreal, Canada, C.J. Miozzi is a planetary scientist and freelance writer with a passion for art and fiction. A McGill University graduate, he has worked on a number of publications as a graphic designer, layout editor, and supervising editor, and has been interviewed on local radio.

Chris Deal has published over 50 poems and short stories, most recently Leviathan in Troubadour 21 and a poem in Red Fez. He also regularly writes about literature at Creative Loafing. He has several stories and poems coming out in the months to come, and will be publishing a collection of micro-stories through Brown Paper Publishing in early 2010. You can find him online at http://cdeal.blogspot.com/.

David Dalglish is full-time substitute teacher hoping for a permanent Math spot. He has a beautiful wife and baby daughter.

David is a Canadian writer and screenwriter with a dark past and a darker future.

Don Norum writes things. Less often than not, they are published.

Doug McIntire writes training by day and fiction by night. When not writing, he is riding his Harley-Davidson motorcycle or spending time with his wife and two children. You can find out more about Doug and his writing at www.DougMcIntire.com. You can also find him on Facebook and Twitter.

Douglas T. Araujo is a Brazilian writer who lives in Sao Paulo with his wife, two children, and a dog. Born during the Halloween night of 1970, he has been an avid reader since his childhood, with a strong preference for the speculative fiction. He began writing during his childhood, mainly mystery and science fiction stories, but it was only when he began writing horror that he knew he had found his true vocation. His work has appeared since then in several magazines and anthologies, such as “The Asylum - Vol 3”, “The Blackest Death – Vol. 1 and 2” and “Sideshow: Tales of the big top and the bizarre”.

Elizabeth Creith has written flash fiction for the last five years. Her 55-word flash "Companion Animal" placed twelfth in the 2008 Writers' Union of Canada Postcard Fiction Contest and served as the seed of a novel currently in progress. For ten years she wrote humour for CBC radio, both regional and national. Her flash has appeared in The Linnet's Wings, Flash Fiction Online, The Lorelei Signal, Maple Tree Review, New Myths, Grey Sparrow, Flashshot and THEMA. She currently pays the bills by working part-time with her Australian shepherd, Sky, at the pet store she and her husband own in Sault Ste Marie, Ontario. Elizabeth lives, writes and commits art in Wharncliffe, Northern Ontario.

F.G. King is a high school student seeking to get a head start in the field of professional writing. He's presently working on a book that is nearing completion and hopes to have it in print in the near future. In his free time outside of writing he regularly reads, watches movies, and partakes in a nearly non-existent social life that for some reason takes up a lot of time.

Born in Erie, PA during the best decade of music ever: the 70's. He tried to be a doctor in an East Coast Big City, but he realized that he was destined to be a novelist and sometime West Coast surfer. Like many writers who can't stick with one thing and can't hold down a day job, he assumes other identities as well including: Novelist, Ex-technician, Unix hobbiest, Bicyclist (touring and commuting, NOT racing), Wanna be surfer, Wanna be comedian, Meditator and wanna be Buddhist, and unemployable despite an active RN license. He writes about anything that catches his interest.

Giovanna Lagana is a three-time Eppie finalist and a freelance editor for several publishing houses.