Jacqueline Smith was born and raised in Dallas, Texas. She attended the University of Texas at Dallas, where she earned her Bachelor's Degree in Art and Performance in 2010. Two years later, she earned her Master's Degree in Humanities.

Along with writing and publishing, Jacqueline loves photography, animals, and BTS.

Andrea L. Staum is the author of the Dragonchild Lore series and contributed to several best selling anthologies. She's a trained motorcycle technician with an Associates in Supervisory Management, is an amateur home renovator, and somehow manages to find time to write. She lives in south central Wisconsin with her husband, two 'unique' cats.

E.M. loves long walks through bookstores, horror & Disney movies (sometimes back to back), books, and all things stories.

She's the author of "The Demon's Grave" (2015) trilogy & "Zombie-Killer Bill" series (2015)

Gina A. Watson is an Australian Writer who has always loved to tell a story. She started writing her first book in 2012 and has loved writing ever since. Gina studies a double degree of Journalism and Professional Writing, and English and Creative Writing at the University of South Australia in Adelaide. Her favourite genres to write in are: Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Young Adult and loves to read in those genres as well. Gina’s life now revolves around her Husband and family as well as studying, writing and trying to squeeze in time to read. To find out more visit her website: https://ginaawatson-author.wixsite.com/authorginaawatson

Scott A. Butler was born in Rochford, England.

After losing his natural hearing at a very young age, Scott developed a very active imagination. He discovered his passion for writing when he found an old typewriter in his grandparent's house at a young age. From then on he would pen or type stories for his own entertainment and share them with his family.

Scott's employment history includes him working in a radio station, property development business, online community and an educational centre for children with learning, mental and physical disabilities.

As an author, Scott dabbles in multiple genres, including dystopian, fantasy and horror. He is co-author of the charity anthology 'In Memory: A Tribute to Sir Terry Pratchett".

Jaidis Shaw is an award-winning author who currently resides in South Carolina with her three beautiful daughters. With a passion for reading, Jaidis can always be found surrounded by books and dreaming of new stories. She enjoys challenging herself by writing in different genres and currently has several projects in the works.

One of her main goals in life is to encourage her daughters to let their imaginations run wild.

Visit Jaidis on her blog at https://www.junipergrove.net/ or hang out with her on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/jaidisshaw

Beth W. Patterson was a full-time musician for over two decades before sidestepping into the world of writing (a process she describes as “fleeing the circus to join the zoo”). Much of her fiction is based on real-life musical experiences made more plausible by the infusion of things that go bump in the night. Her most recent novel is The Wild Harmonic, and her short stories and poetry have appeared in over ninety anthologies. She has also penned some nonfiction articles on music.

Patterson has played in over twenty countries across the Americas, Europe, Oceania, and Asia. She appears on over two hundred albums (including nine solo albums of her own) in addition to a smattering of soundtracks, videos, commercials, and voice-overs. Various artists have recorded over a hundred of her compositions and co-writes. She studied ethnomusicology at University College, Cork in Ireland and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Music Therapy from Loyola University New Orleans.

Beth has occasionally worn other hats as a body paint model, film extra, minor role actor, recording studio partner, record label owner, and artist. She is a lover of exquisitely stupid movies and a shameless fangirl of the band Rush.

Jef Rouner (he/him) is an award-winning freelance journalist who specializes in weirdness and injustice. He formerly sang in The Black Math Experiment and wrote a critically acclaimed memoir about his adventures there before transitioning to horror fiction. In his spare time, he collects portraits of people with bird heads and bone sculptures. He lives in Houston, Texas with his wife, kid, a dog, and the worst cats on Earth.

Born a modern-day nomad in the Deep South, Timothy Black wandered through most of the southern United States in an attempt to find his life, love, and home. After studying Geology, Astronomy, and the Occult, he found himself with a degree in Philosophy and a habit of writing odd things. A serial killer of coffee and whiskey sours, he has since found his den in the Pacific Northwest with two raucous bird ladies that peck him when he gets too far out of line. That's a whole lot of beaking.

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Shelly Schulz has been published in the anthologies Bitter Blackout, Dark Light 4, and Lurking in the Deep. She is an accomplished horror writer crafting things that go bump in the night. Shelly maintains a blog about writing, books and comics while posting flash fiction weekly with an online group. Aside from her writing group, Shelly leads a Girl Scout troop, or chases her nieces and can be unearthed professing her love for the anti-hero. The brooding skies and dark forests of Shelly’s home in the Pacific Northwest supply fertile land for her writing.

Kelly Matsuura grew up in Victoria, Australia, but always dreamed she would live abroad. She has lived in China, the USA, and she now lives permanently in Nagoya, Japan.

Kelly's stories have been published by Harbinger Press, Black Hare Press, A Murder of Storytellers, Ink and Locket Press, and many more. She also publishes her own short story collections, The Natura Series.

As the creator and editor for Insignia Stories, Kelly promotes Asian speculative fiction from writers around the globe, and publishes small ebook anthologies with various Asian fantasy themes.

Liz Butcher resides in Australia, with her husband, daughter, and their two cats. She’s a self-confessed nerd with a BA in psychology and an insatiable fascination for learning. When she’s not writing or spending time with her family, Liz enjoys road trips, astronomy, music and knitting.

http://lizbutcherauthor.com.au

Bestselling Author Michael Cross lives in Seattle, WA. This land is prone to lots of rain, fantastic adventures and the occasional flyby dragon. When Cross isn't working at his next novel, he spends his time reading, modding steampunk inventions or working on his airship with his copilot chihuahua.

Cross dreamed of becoming a storyteller back when he was read stories like "The Odyssey" and legends of Roman soldiers and Arthur. He writes mostly paranormal, fantasy, New Adult and steampunk.