Nebula, Shirley Jackson and two-time World Fantasy award finalist Mike Allen wears many hats. As editor and publisher of the Mythic Delirium Books imprint, he helmed MYTHIC DELIRIUM magazine and the five volumes in the CLOCKWORK PHOENIX anthology series. His own short stories have been gathered in three collections: UNSEAMING, THE SPIDER TAPESTRIES and AFTERMATH OF AN INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT. He’s won the Rhysling Award for poetry three times, and his most recent collection of verse, HUNGRY CONSTELLATIONS, was a Suzette Haden Elgin Award nominee. A dark fantasy novel, THE BLACK FIRE CONCERTO, appeared in 2013.

More of Mike's stories have popped up in places like BENEATH CEASELESS SKIES, LACKINGTON'S, SPECTRAL REALMS and the anthologies BEST HORROR OF THE YEAR ONE, CTHULHU'S REIGN, SOLARIS RISING 2, TOMORROW'S CTHULHU, PLUTO IN FURS, PHANTASM/CHIMERA, NOWHEREVILLE, TRANSMISSIONS FROM PUNKTOWN and A SINISTER QUARTET.

For more than a decade he’s worked as the arts and culture columnist for the daily newspaper in Roanoke, Va., where he and his wife Anita live with a cat so full of trouble she’s named Pandora. You can follow Mike’s exploits as a writer at descentintolight.com, as an editor at mythicdelirium.com, and all at once on Twitter at @mythicdelirium. You can contact Mike at mythicdelirium[at]gmail[dot]com.

Evan J. Peterson is a 2015 Clarion West writer, an author of horror, science fiction, fantasy, and queer journalism, a poet, a critic, and a game writer. In 2017, he published THE PrEP DIARIES: A SAFE(R) SEX MEMOIR, the world's first book about the HIV-prevention breakthrough Truvada, through Lethe Press. In 2019, Evan published DRAG STAR!, the world's first drag performance RPG, through Choice of Games. His serialized dark fantasy novel, BETTER LIVING THROUGH ALCHEMY, is currently releasing chapter by chapter from Broken Eye Books.

Evan is also the volume editor of the Lambda Literary Award finalist GHOSTS IN GASLIGHT, MONSTERS IN STEAM: GAY CITY 5. His fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have appeared in Best Gay Stories 2015, Weird Tales, Nightmare Magazine, The Stranger, The Rumpus, The Queer South Anthology, Unspeakable Horror 2, Queers Destroy Horror, NOWHEREVILLE (Broken Eye Books), WHETHER CHANGE (Broken Eye Books), Drawn to Marvel: Poems from the Comic Books, Arcana: The Tarot Poetry Anthology, and Aim for the Head: An Anthology of Zombie Poetry. He was the founding Editor-in-Chief of Minor Arcana Press and the founder/producer/host of the SHRIEK: Women of Horror Cinema series in Seattle. He currently lives in Seattle with his lazy werewolf, Dorian Greyhound. Find more at www.evanjpeterson.com

Maura McHugh was born in the USA, but raised in Ireland, where she developed a love of mythology, horror fiction, art, and writing. She has lived in New York, Dublin, and Galway, and worked in IT before succumbing to her love of storytelling.

She co-wrote the comic book Witchfinder: The Mysteries of Unland with Kim Newman, and is working on a variety of comic book stories in the 2000 AD universe. She's the author of the fairy tale collection, Twisted Fairy Tales, and the collection of world myths, Twisted Myths. Her collection of original short stories, The Boughs Withered (When I Told Them My Drams), is published by NewCon Press and was nominated for a British Fantasy Award for Best Collection.

Her non-fiction exploration of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me was nominated for a British Fantasy Award for Best Non-Fiction. She's also a published poet, a produced playwright, and a screenwriter, and often appears on Irish radio discussing pop culture.

She loves exploring the woods: the darker, the wilder, the better.

Scott Gable lives in the beautiful underwater city of Seattle. He is publishing serialized novels and anthologies, such as Nowhereville, Welcome to Miskatonic University, Ride the Star Wind, Tomorrow's Cthulhu, Ghost in the Cogs, and By Faerie Light, via Eyedolon magazine. He runs the independent press Broken Eye Books, publishing the odd, strange, and offbeat side of speculative fiction from many wonderful authors, and is lead designer on the forthcoming The Faerie Ring roleplaying game from Zombie Sky Press.