Terri Bruce has been making up adventure stories for as long as she can remember. Like Anne Shirley, she prefers to make people cry rather than laugh, but is happy if she can do either. She is the author of the paranormal/contemporary fantasy "Afterlife" series, which includes Hereafter (Afterlife #1) and Thereafter (Afterlife #2), and several science fiction and fantasy short stories, including "Welcome to OASIS" ("Dear Robot" anthology, November 2015), "The Well" ("It's Come to Our Attention" anthology, Third Flatiron Press, February 2016), and "The Lady and the Unicorn" (NH Pulp Fiction "Live Free or Dragons" anthology, Plaidswede Publishing, Fall 2016). Her third novel, Whereafter (Afterlife #3) releases March 15, 2016.

Kristi Petersen Schoonover’s short fiction has been featured in The Adirondack Review, Orca Lit, Barbaric Yawp, The Illuminata, Carpe Articulum Literary Review,  Afternoon,  I Like Monkeys, New Witch Magazine, MudRock: Stories & Tales, and many, many others; by far, however, her favorite short pieces are those she wrote specifically for anthologies as diverse as Unnatural Tales of the Jackalope, Generation X-ed, ForNever After, Dancing in the Shadows: An Anne Rice Tribute Anthology, Dead Stars & Stone  Arches: A Collection of Utah Horror, Out of Time: True Paranormal Encounters, Ghastly Gastronomy, and Bugs.

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Karen Heuler is a prolific writer who has been writing since the 1980's first in literature and later in both science fiction and dark fantasy genres. 

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Kate Heartfield is the author of The Embroidered Book, a historical fantasy novel, and the Alice Payne time travel novellas (2018/2019). Her debut novel Armed in Her Fashion (2018) won Canada’s Aurora Award. She also writes interactive fiction, including The Road to Canterbury, and The Magician's Workshop, published by Choice of Games. Her short fiction has been shortlisted for the Nebula, Locus, Aurora, Sunburst and Crawford awards and her journalism for a National Newspaper Award. Her short stories have appeared in Strange Horizons, Lackington's, Podcastle and elsewhere. A former newspaper journalist, Kate lives near Ottawa, Canada.

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Elle E. Ire resides in the Disney-created town of Celebration, Florida, with her spouse and two dogs. A graduate of the University of Miami, she earned her Bachelor’s degree in creative writing but left the MFA program when they refused to allow her to write genre fiction, instead receiving a Master’s in Literature mostly made up of writing courses. Currently, she teaches writing to middle school students. She and her spouse run several writing groups, as well as present at many local and statewide conferences.

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Carol Gyzander was a prolific reader of classic science fiction and mysteries in her early days. To her, the letter “A” means Asimov, Andre Norton, and Agatha Christie! Now that her kids have flown the coop, leaving behind the writer’s requisite cats, she’s gone back to her early loves with short stories that veer into several genres (sci-fi, weird fiction, dark fantasy, and horror).

Carol is the editor and writes for Writerpunk Press, which creates anthologies of ’punk genre stories based upon classics. Her contributions include cyberpunk Shakespeare, clockpunk Poe, and a cyberpunk tale inspired by Lovecraft’s “The Colour Out of Space.” They have recently released their latest anthology, Taught by Time: Myth Goes Punk.

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Britta Jensen’s debut YA novel Eloia Born won the 2019 Writer’s League of Texas YA Discovery Prize and was long-listed for the 2016 Exeter Novel Prize. Reviewers are calling the book “both a dystopian narrative and a quest story; consider it a spiritual successor to Lois Lowry’s The Giver and M. Night Shyamalan’s The Village.” 

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Juggling her roles as a wife, mom, and pet-wrangler doesn’t leave much free time, but what time Claudia has is filled to the brim with creating sci-fi and fantasy novels set in some worlds that are slightly familiar and some that are totally unique and new. Taking inspiration from all kinds of media, from Dungeons & Dragons to the Dresden Files as well as Alan Dean Foster and so much more, Claudia Blood crafts stories that entice readers and keep them wondering what will happen next. #fantasy #youngadult

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Amy Grech has sold over 100 stories to various anthologies and magazines including:

Amy is an Active Member of the Horror Writers Association and the International Thriller Writers who lives in New York. You can connect with her on Twitter: https://twitter.com/amy_grech or visit her website: https://www.crimsonscreams.com.

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