Inna is a speechwriter, fiction writer, and poet who emigrated from Ukraine to the U.S. as a child. Her writing has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and appears or is forthcoming in numerous publications, including Santa Monica Review, Tartarus Press' 30th Anniversary anthology Strange Tales, Undertow Publications' Weird Horror, the Lethe Press anthology Spirits Unwrapped, and has been reprinted in The Best Horror of the Year, among others. She lives in California with her husband, David Effress. Her web site is innaeffress.com

"Her stories are unsummarizable, and do not exist apart from their style... Inna’s work is not about manners or current affairs, but instead her stories function as vehicles to probe the centers of darkness within all of us, those timeless places that define, far more than manners or politics, what it means to be human." - Jim Krusoe, author of The Sleep Garden

Steve Toase was born in North Yorkshire, England, and now live in Munich, Germany.

His fiction has appeared in Nightmare Magazine, Shadows & Tall Trees 8, Analog – Science Fiction and Fact, Three Lobed Burning Eye, Shimmer, and Lackington’s amongst others. Three of his stories have been reprinted in Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year series.

His debut short story collection ‘To Drown in Dark Water’ is now out from Undertow Publications.

As well as fiction, he has been published at Tor.com and in Back Street Heroes Custom Motorbike Magazine, 100% Biker, Kerrang Magazine, and Imperica Magazine. He also writes regularly for Fortean Times and Folklore Thursday.

From 2014 he worked with Becky Cherriman and Imove on Haunt, the Saboteur Award shortlisted project inspired by his own teenage experiences, about Harrogate’s haunting presence in the lives of people experiencing homelessness in the town.

He recently worked with astrophysicist Dr Chris Harrison on a script for a planetarium show designed for people with a vision impairment.

He also like old motorbikes and vintage cocktails.

You can keep up to date with his work via Patreon www.patreon.com/stevetoase, www.tinyletter.com/stevetoase, facebook.com/stevetoase1, and @stevetoase on Twitter