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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.

Adam Armstrong is a life-long native of Northern Kentucky. He has sold short stories to Magazines/e-zines such as LostSouls, Tales from the Moonlit Path, and Allegory Magazine. He is a staff reviewer for Withersin Magazine (www.withersin.com) with about 130 or so reviews under his belt and counting. Feel free to contact Adam at his myspace or facebook.

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.”

Augustus Peake is currently teaching English in the UAE. He has been an English teacher for almost 20 years and has worked in various locations including Japan, Greece and Saudi Arabia.

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

Brian is thirty-three and lives in Scotland. He has over eighty publications to his name - from humour (Defenestration) to horror (Nossa Morte), mystery (Futures Mystery Anthology Magazine) to mainstream (Southern Ocean Review). He appears in the first three volumes of paperback horror anthology, Read By Dawn, available from Bloody Books, and is currently at work on his first novel. He is married, both to his wife and his words, and runs a blog of his literary wanderings at briangrantross.blogspot.com.

Bruce Memblatt lives in New York City. He has had his stories featured in such magazines as Aphellion, Strange Weird and Wonderful, Danse Macarbe,Static Movement, SNM Horror Magazine, The Horror Zine, The Piker Press, A Golden Place, Eastown Fiction, Viola Beadleton’s Compendium of Seriously Silly and Astoundingly Amazing Stories and The Feathertale Review. His short fiction eBook “The Painter” was released by Gypsy Shadow Publishing in February 2010. His short story “Parndora’s Surprise” has been published in the anthology from Pill Hill Press Pandora’s Nightmare: The Horror Unleashed. He writes a bi-monthly series for The Piker Press based on his short story “Dinner with Henry,” The first installment appeared on March 8, 2010.

Bryan Veldboom is a part-time writer from the Milwaukee area. He holds a B.A. in English from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. In the eight years since graduation he has been a waiter, barista, and ice cream man, written for The Milwaukee Post, and served as an office drone. He likes his fiction dark, drinks his scotch on the rocks, and writes about all manner of awful people. Still, he's not such a bad guy once you get to know him. 

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.

Cheryl Gilbert is a poet and writer based in Amsterdam. She is a long-time fan and reader of speculative fiction, but has only recently started writing fantasy and science fiction stories. You can find her on the web at http://belovedsnail.blogspot.com/.

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/.

Christine C Terranova is a life-long resident of Louisiana and teaches math at Southeastern Louisiana University.  She and her husband have recently entered parenthood and are amazed by how fast their baby boy is developing. In December 2008, she self-published Spiraling Through the Void, her first book of poetry.  At this time, Christine is working on a second book of poetry that is currently entitled Shattered Glass, and she is also trying to find a home for her dark fantasy novel in which the world of mortals and the world of dreams collide.

Craig Gehring lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana with his wife and one-year-old daughter.  He writes fiction and non-fiction across many genres. Craig always loves to hear from his readers. Drop him a line at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Dale studied writing with Stephen King, has written three novels, and published short stories in Plot magazine, Space & Time, Ethereal Gazette, Big Pulp, Crime and Suspense, Atomjack, Aoife’s Kiss, House of Horror, and the current issues of Sorcerous Signals, Kasma, and New Myths. He has appeared on stage, television, and in an independent feature film, Throg. He has also appeared on two nationally televised quiz shows, Jeopardy and Think Twice. He co-wrote and acted in The Nine, a short political satire film, available at www.Libertynewstv.com. He has traveled to all 50 states, Mexico, Canada, and through Europe. He enjoys many sports, historical re-enactment, and his family.