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Forrest Aguirre |
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Forrest Aguirre recently
received the World Fantasy Award for his
editorial work on the Leviathan 3
and which also made him a finalist for the
Phillip K. Dick Award. His own fiction has
appeared in a wide variety of publications
including Notre Dame Review, 3rd Bed,
Exquistie Corpse, The Journal of Experimental
Fiction, Flesh & Blood, Polyphony,
and Redsine, among others. His most
recent projects include editing Leviathan
4 and finishing work on his first novel,
tentatively entitled Swans Over the Moon.
Forrest lives in Madison, Wisconsin with
his wife and four children.
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Steven Archer |
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| Steven Archer |
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Steven Archer is an artist and musician living in Baltimore, MD. When not recording, DJing, or producing art, he and his wife, author Donna Lynch, tour with their dark electronic rock band Ego Likeness. He has a BFA from the Corcoran School of Art in Washington DC, and has shown his work at galleries and other venues throughout the east coast, and internationally in the form of album art and magazine illustrations. Luna Maris is his first book.
For more information about Ego Likeness, please visit
www.egolikeness.com. Stevens solo electronic project can be found at
www.hopefulmachines.net
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Michael A. Arnzen |
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| Michael
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"Minimalist
horror is a shotgun shell:
a tightly wadded package of shrapnel designed
for maximum coverage, minimal escape."
—Michael A. Arnzen
Over the past two decades, Michael Arnzen has won four Bram Stoker Awards for his avant horror fiction, his quirky dark poetry and his bizarro antics online at gorelets.com. His titles from Raw Dog Screaming Press include a novel (Play Dead), a collection of flash fiction (100 Jolts: Shockingly Short Stories), a CD of musically-enhanced readings (Audiovile) and, forthcoming, a scholarly study of dread in pop culture (The Popular Uncanny). When he's not writing, Arnzen wears the mask of professor of English at Seton Hill University, home of the country's only MFA degree in Writing Popular Fiction. Get gored again and again at gorelets.com or join his social network at michaelarnzen.com
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Steve Aylett |
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"...facing
the truth of the situation is an honest
start. Nothing can happen before that. I
write about it in ways that keep me interested
and alive... "
—Steve Aylett
Steve Aylett was born in Bromley, England. He wrote the books Slaughtermatic, The Crime Studio, Bigot Hall, The Inflatable Volunteer, Toxicology, Atom, Shamanspace, Only an Alligator, The Velocity Gospel, Dummyland, Karloff's Circus, LINT, Fain the Sorcerer, And Your Point Is? and Rebel at the End of Time. He was a finalist for the 1998 Philip K Dick Award (for Slaughtermatic). He's also responsible for comic projects The Caterer, Get That Thing Way From Me and Johnny Viable.
www.steveaylett.com
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Steve Beard |
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| Steve Beard |
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Steve Beard was born in England
in 1961 and after attending Oxford University
worked as a style journalist on i-D
magazine. In 1999 he published the science
fiction/fantasy novel, Digital Leatherette,
which William Gibson said was “fresh
evidence that the street finds its own uses
for literature.” He is collaborating
with Jeff Noon on a baroque fantasy novel
accessible at www.mappalujo.com.
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Tom Bradley |
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| Tom Bradley |
Tom received his novelist's calling at the age of nineteen. He climbed into the moonlit mountains around his hometown, where he got an unambiguous vocation with physical symptoms and everything, just like Martin Luther in the electric storm. He fucked permanently off from America in 1985, moved to Red China, and has lurked around the left rim of the Pacific ever since, in a successful search for sinecures that steal virtually no time and absolutely no mental energy from his writing.
Tom's prose shares the legendary pages of London's AMBIT Magazine with those proto-bizarros, J.G. Ballard and Ralph Steadman. His first nonfiction book is Fission Among the Fanatics (Spuyten Duyvil Press, NYC, 2007). Various of his novels have been nominated for the Editor's Book Award and the New York University Bobst Prize, and one was a finalist in the AWP Award Series in the Novel. Reviews and excerpts, a couple hours of recorded readings, plus links to Tom's essays in Salon.com and other such high-tone swanky magazines, are at tombradley.org.
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Alan M. Clark |
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| Alan M. Clark |
Alan M. Clark grew up in Tennessee. He is most known for his work in illustration, which appears in books of fiction, non-fiction, textbooks, young adult fiction and children’s books. His awards in the illustration field include, the World Fantasy Award and four Chesley Awards. His fiction has appeared in magazines, anthologies and a collection released by Scorpius Digital Publishing. Siren Promised his Bram Stoker Award-nominated novel, written with Jeremy Robert Johnson, was released in 2005. His two book series with Stephen Merritt and Lorelei Shannon, The Blood of Father Time, Books 1 & 2, a dark time-travel fantasy, was published by Five Star Books in 2007. Mr. Clark’s publishing company, IFD Publishing, has released six books, the most recent of which is a full color book of his artwork, The Paint in My Blood. He and his wife, Melody, live in Oregon. For more info visit: www.alanmclark.com
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Efrem Emerson is an over-educated
under-achiever from Aroostook County, Maine,
a small but great nation near New Brunswick.
He highly encourages the overthrow of the
United States government and prays diligently
that the president will soon ride in an
open limo through a hostile city. He hates
soft limpwristed jazz, is bored by women
who are too 'healthy', and has a fine collection
of 'treated' crucifixes. His fiction has
been published in a number of anthologies,
including Fiction International, Sick:
an Anthology of Illness, The Dream People,
and Bastard Fiction.
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Larry Fondation |
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| Larry Fondation |
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"I think
Los Angeles reveals itself most at the margins.
On the street corners, in bars and nightclubs.
In the sounds of the traffic, police sirens
and helicopters, in the words and music
of local bands…"
—-Larry Fondation
Larry Fondation is the author of the novels Angry Nights and Fish, Soap and Bonds, and of Common Criminals, a collection of short stories. His fiction focuses on the Los Angeles underbelly. His two most recent books feature collaborations with artist Kate Ruth.
Fondation
has lived in LA since the 1980s and worked
for fifteen years as an organizer in South
Central Los Angeles, Compton, and East LA.
His fiction and non-fiction has appeared
in a range of diverse publications including Flaunt (where he is Special Correspondent), Fiction International, Quarterly West,
the Los Angeles Times and the Harvard
Business Review. He is a recipient of a 2008-09 Christopher Isherwood Fellowship in Fiction Writing. He can be contacted
at lfondation@aol.com.
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| Jake Fuchs |
Jake Fuchs has written scholarly books, short fiction, and the satiric mysteries Death of a Dad and Death of a Prof. The son of Daniel Fuchs, Brooklyn novelist and Hollywood screenwriter, he grew up in Beverly Hills and now lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife, Freya.
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Eckhard Gerdes |
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| Eckhard
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Eckhard
Gerdes grew up among philistines who belittle
all attempts to enrich our lives with literature
and art. His work had to be covert, for
the dominant culture seeks to silence all
whose voices do not chant the dominant culture's
desires in unison. He was able to pick up
an MFA in writing from the School of the
Art Institute of Chicago along the way,
but not before one teacher threatened to
choke Eckhard to death for producing this
kind of writing. Eckhard's true teachers
have been the voices he heard through literature-Brautigan,
Patchen, Joyce, Beckett, Federman, Barth,
Jaffe, Burroughs, Acker, Moorcock, Calvino,
Ionesco, and the amazing Arno Schmidt to
name a few-and the voices he has heard through
other art forms, such as Clyfford Still,
Picasso, Pollack, Kraan, Captain Beefheart,
Pere Ubu, Stockhausen, Webern, and, of course,
the Doors. These are the voices of the idiosyncratic.
They will be heard long after the weak voices
have faded.
He lives near
Chicago with two of his
sons, Ludwig and Ulysses. His oldest son,
Sterling, is away at college at Georgia
Tech. Occasionally, Eckhard publishes The
Journal of Experimental Fiction. At
times, he writes about literature for The
Review of Contemporary Fiction, American
Book Review, and Electronic Book
Review. His fiction appears in various
journals every now and then.
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Michael Gills |
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| Michael Gills |
Michael Gills’ first collection of short fiction, Why I Lie, was published by U. of Nevada Press/2002. It won a Utah Book Prize, was a finalist for the Arkansas’ Porter Prize and was chosen as a top literary debut by The Southern Review. A second collecion, The Death of Bonnie and Clyde, will be out from Texas Review Press in October 2011, the title story of which won Southern Humanities Review’s Hoepfner Prize for the best story published there in 2010. A third collection of stories, Eternally Yours, is currently on the market. Gills has published more than forty short stories, received 25 Pushcart nominations, and held the Randall Jarrell Fellowship at the University of North Carolina. He holds additional degrees from the University of Arkansas and the University of Utah where he earned the Ph.D. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in New Madrid, Boulevard, The Texas Review and elsewhere. A Utah Established Artist grant recipient, Gills is currently Associate Professor/Lecturer of writing and core faculty for the Honors College at the University of Utah. Go Love is his first novel.
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Adam Golaski |
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| Adam Golaski |
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Adam Golaski is a husband and a father. Adam wrote Color Plates (Rose Metal Press, 2009). His translation of Sir Gawain & the Green Knight—"Green"—appears in installments on the critical site Open Letters. His poetry, fiction (horror and otherwise), and non-fiction has appeared in journals such as: word for/word, Supernatural Tales, McSweeney's, Sleepingfish, Conjunctions, and All Hallows. He is currently editing selected poetry of Paul Hannigan for Pressed Wafer, and co-edited for Flim Forum Press two anthologies of experimental poetry, Oh One Arrow (2007) and A Sing Economy (2008). Adam edits and publishes New Genre, a journal of horror and science fiction, now in its seventh year. He collaborates musically with Jeremy Withers as Outlet; their most recent single, "Why Worry Rosary," appeared on the multi-media compilation Schwa 10.
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Harold Jaffe |
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| Harold
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"Find
a seam, plant a mine, slip away."
—Harold Jaffe
Harold Jaffe is the author
of author of ten fiction or creative nonfiction volumes and four novels,
including Jesus Coyote, (2008) 15 Serial Killers (2003) and Terror-Dot-Gov (2005)
from RDSP, Beyond the Techno-Cave: A Guerrilla Writer's Guide to Post-Millennial Culture, (2007) False Positive, (2002),
Sex for the Millennium (1999), Othello
Blues (1996), Straight Razor
(1995), Eros Anti-Eros (1990), Madonna
and Other Spectacles (1988) and Beasts
(1986). Jaffe's fiction has appeared in
numerous journals and has been widely anthologized.
His novels and stories have been translated
into German, Japanese, Spanish, French,
and Czech. Jaffe is editor-in-chief of Fiction
International and Professor of Creative
Writing and Literature at San Diego State.
www.jaffeantijaffe.com
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Dustin LaValley |
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| Dustin LaValley |
Dustin LaValley is an author, screenwriter and martial artist from upstate New York. His film Rise of the Ghosts, co-written with Robbie Ribspreader premiered at the FanTasia film festival in 2007 and was awarded Best Horror Film by the Wreck-Beach International Film Festival. Find out more at Dustin's myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/dustinlavalley
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John Edward Lawson |
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| John Edward
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John Edward Lawson
is an author, editor, and publisher living
just outside Washington, DC. He was born
in 1974 and enjoys traveling. His poetry
collections include The Horrible
and The Scars Are Complimentary;
fiction includes the novel Last Burn
in Hell, seven chapbooks, and the collection
Pocket Full of Loose Razorblades.
While serving as editor-in-chief of Raw
Dog Screaming Press and The Dream People
webzine, John has also been editor of the
anthologies Tempting Disaster, Sick,
and Of Flesh and Hunger. Spy on him
at:
www.johnlawson.org
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| Donna Lynch |
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| Donna Lynch |
Donna Lynch is a writer and musician currently living in Baltimore, MD. Her written works include a novel Isabel Burning and a collection of poetry entitled In My Mouth, as well as numerous other poems and short stories. She is the co-founder along with her husband, artist and musician Steven Archer, of the dark electro-rock band Ego Likeness (Dancing Ferret Discs), and the spoken word/ instrumental outfit The Trinity Project. She is fond of all genres of music, twisted and creepy film and literature, maps, quarries and coal mines, theology, and hairless animals.
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Elizabeth Massie |
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| Elizabeth Massie |
Two-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author Elizabeth Massie has published 26 novels for adults, teens, and young readers, primarily in the genres of horror, historical fiction, and media tie-ins. Her titles include Sineater, Welcome Back to the Night, Wire Mesh Mothers, Homeplace, The Tudors: King Takes Queen, The Tudors: Thy Will Be Done, and others. She lives in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia with illustrator Cortney Skinner. She hates cheese and loves World’s Softest Socks, and thinks Alan Clark has one wicked sense of humor.
www.ElizabethMassie.com
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Jason Jack Miller |
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| Jason Jack Miller |
Jason Jack Miller hails from Fayette County, PA, as in, "Circus freaks, temptation and the Fayette County Fair," made famous by The Clarks in the song, "Cigarette." He is a writer, photographer and musician who has been hassled by cops in Canada, Mexico and the Czech Republic. An outdoor travel guide he co-authored with his wife in 2006 jumpstarted his freelancing career; his work has since appeared in newspapers, magazines, literary journals, online, and as part of a travel guide app for mobile phones. He wrote the novels Hellbender and All Saints during his graduate studies at Seton Hill University, where he is now adjunct creative writing faculty. He's been a whitewater raft guide, played guitar in a garage band and served as a concierge at a five star resort hotel in Florida. Now he's an Authors Guild member. When he isn't writing he's on his mountain bike or looking for his next favorite guitar. He is currently writing and recording the soundtrack to his novel, The Devil and Preston Black. Find him at http://jasonjackmiller.blogspot.com. Tweet him @jasonjackmiller.
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Lance Olsen |
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Lance Olsen |
Lance Olsen is author of more than 20 books of and about innovative writing, including the novels Calendar of Regrets, Head in Flames, and Nietzsche's Kisses. His short stories, essays, poems, and reviews have appeared in hundreds of journals and anthologies, such as Conjunctions, Black Warrior Review, Fiction International, Village Voice, BOMB, McSweeney's, and Best American Non-Required Reading. He serves as chair of FC2's Board of Directors and teaches experimental narrative theory and practice at the University of Utah.
www.LanceOlsen.com
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Leland Pitts-Gonzalez |
Leland studied Creative Writing and Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University where he discovered the enormous possibilities of poetry, experimentation, and critical theory. He eventually earned an MFA in Writing from Columbia University on a merit fellowship. He has published fiction in Open City, Fence, Dark Sky Magazine, Drunken Boat, and Monkey Bicycle, among other literary journals. He is also the project director for an upcoming literary event series, Phantasmagoria, for which he received fiscal sponsorship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.
www.TheBloodPoetry.com
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Bradley Sands |
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Bradley Sands |
Bradley Sands is the author of the novel, It Came from Below the Belt (Afterbirth Books), and the editor of the literary journal, Bust Down the Door and Eat All the Chickens. Forthcoming books include Disappointing Sophomoric Effort (Afterbirth Books) and TV Snorted My Brain (Evil Nerd Empire). His work has appeared in The Bizarro Starter Kit (Blue), The Magazine of Bizarro Fiction, The Dream People, Lamination Colony, No Colony, Opium Magazine, Zygote in My Coffee, Robot Melon, decomP, Mud Luscious, Thieves Jargon, NOÖ Journal, and elsewhere. He has received an &NOW Award for innovative writing. Visit him at:
www.BradleySands.com
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Jeremy C. Shipp |
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| Jeremy C. Shipp |
Jeremy C. Shipp is an author whose written creations inhabit various magazines, anthologies, and drawers. While preparing for the forthcoming collapse of civilization, Jeremy enjoys living in Southern California in a moderately haunted Victorian farmhouse. He’s currently working on many stories and novels and is losing his hair, though not because of the ghosts. Vacation is his first published novel. You can visit his online home at www.jeremycshipp.com.
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Darren Speegle |
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| Darren
Speegle |
Darren Speegle, an American writer, lives in Germany and currently works in the Middle East. When he’s not jumping around the world (and often while he is), he’s trying to come to terms with all the strangeness through his fiction. He is the author of Gothic Wine, A Dirge for the Temporal, and the forthcoming Relics. Current projects include the novels The Third Twin and Veils. Find his short fiction in such publications as Subterranean, Postscripts, and Crimewave.
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Alyssa Sturgill |
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| Alyssa
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Alyssa Sturgill's work has
been featured in Cthulhu Sex, The Dream
People, Crown of Bones (anthology),
Gothic Fairytales, Dream Virus, Tempting
Disaster (anthology), Decompositions,
A Kick in the Nuts (anthology), Girlskin
(chapbook), and assorted less memorable
publications. She is the co-editor of Bloodcookies
Webzine, DJ of its MP3 radio counterpart
Bloodcookie Radio, and author of
its movie review column, Cinemasochism.
She is deeply and psychotically obsessed
with obscure cult and horror flicks, and
has several rather mind-wrenchingly unpleasant
screenplays in the works.
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Jeffrey Thomas |
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| Jeffrey
Thomas |
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"…you
have to write because if you don't you'll
go mad, because you'll shrivel up and die,
because your soul will starve to death."
—Jeffrey Thomas
Jeffrey Thomas is the author
of the collections Terror Incognita
(Delirium Books), AAAIIIEEE!!!, and
Punktown, from which a story was
reprinted in St. Martin’s The Year’s
Best Fantasy and Horror #14. Other books
include the novels Letters From Hades
and Monstrocity, the novella Godhead
Dying Downwards, and a German edition
of Punktown with cover by HR Giger.
Anthologies featuring his work include Sick,
Of Flesh and Hunger and The Thackery
T. Lambshead Pocket Guide To Eccentric and
Discredited Diseases. He lives in Massachusetts.
www.jeffreyethomas.com/
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Scott Thomas |
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| Scott Thomas |
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"If
I sit down to write something, it's as if
I'm tuning
in to this latent resource and a story will
start
to form, will come to me and take shape."
—Scott Thomas
Scott Thomas is the author
of Cobwebs and Whispers and Shadows
of Flesh, both from Delirium books.
His fiction has appeared in a number of
anthologies which include: The Year’s
Best Fantasy and Horror #15, The
Year’s Best Horror #22, Sick:
An Anthology of Illness, Leviathan
3, Of Flesh and Hunger, Deathrealms
and The Ghost in the Gazebo.
Thomas is fond of old houses,
cats and the music of Corelli. He lives
in Maine.
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Paul A. Toth |
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| Paul A. Toth |
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Paul A. Toth lives in Florida and, aside from his work as a novelist, writes short stories and poetry, a well as the occasional nonfiction piece. His short fiction and multimedia work have been widely published, with credits including The Barcelona Review, Mississippi Review Online, Iowa Review, and many others.
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Jeff VanderMeer |
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| Jeff VanderMeer |
Jeff VanderMeer is a two-time winner of the World Fantasy Award as well as a past finalist for the Hugo Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, the International Horror Guild Award, the British Fantasy Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. His books have made the best-of lists of Publishers Weekly, Publishers News, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Los Angeles Weekly, Locus, The SF Site, and many others. His short fiction has appeared in several year’s best anthologies. He lives in Tallahassee, Florida, with his wife Ann VanderMeer, fiction editor of Weird Tales. Visit him online at www.JeffVanderMeer.com.
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Matthew Warner |
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| Matthew
Warner |
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Matthew Warner is author
of The Organ Donor and Death Sentences:
Tales of Punishment and Revenge in addition to his books for Raw Dog Screaming Press. He
writes a popular web column, “Author’s
Notes,” for Horror World, and
has written short stories for Dark Discoveries,
Cemetery Dance, and several anthologies.
In addition to his frequent speaking engagements
at schools and libraries, he enjoys playing
the piano, downhill skiing, and martial
arts. He lives in Virginia with his wife,
the illustrator Deena Warner, and three cats.
www.matthewwarner.com
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George Williams |
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| George Williams |
George Williams was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee and grew up in Birmingham, Alabama and Richmond, Virginia. He is the author of Degenerate, a novel. His stories and essays have appeared in The Pushcart Prize, Boulevard, and The Hopkins Review, among others. He is the recipient of a Michener Fellowship and a grant from the Christopher Isherwood Foundation. He teaches at Savannah College of Art and Design and works as a consultant and writer for Corra Films.
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Eric Miles Williamson |
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| Eric Miles Williamson |
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Eric Miles Williamson’s first novel, East Bay Grease, was a PEN Hemingway finalist and listed by both the San Francisco Chronicle and the Los Angeles Times as one of the best books of 1999. His second novel, Two-Up, was listed by the Kansas City Star and the San Jose Mercury News as one of the Best Books of Fiction published in 2006. The Atlantic Monthly said his 2007 book of criticism, Oakland, Jack London, and Me, is “one of the least politically correct texts of our time.” He is an editor of American Book Review, Boulevard, and The Texas Review. Winner of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, after many years as a laborer Williamson went to college and now works at the University of Texas, Pan American. He lives with his wife, Judy, and their sons, Guthrie and Turner.
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D. Harlan Wilson |
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| D. Harlan
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D. Harlan Wilson's most recent books include a book of literary criticism, Technologized Desire (2009), a short story collection, They Had Goatheads (2010) and the novel Codename Prague (2011). He has published hundreds of stories in magazines, journals and anthologies throughout the world in several languages, and he is the editor-in-chief of The Dream People, a journal of irreal texts. He lives in Indiana with his wife Christine and two daughters and teaches literature and writing at Wright State University-Lake Campus. For more information on Wilson and his work, visit his official website at www.dharlanwilson.com.
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Mickey Z. |
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| Mickey Z. |
Born and raised in Astoria, Queens where he currently lives with his
wife Michele, Mickey Z. is probably the only person on the planet to
have appeared in both a karate flick with Billy Blanks and an anti-war
book with Noam Chomsky. Mickey Z. is the author of five nonfiction
books, several of which have been translated into Italian: 50 American
Revolutions You're Not Supposed to Know, The Seven Deadly Spins, A
Gigantic Mistake, The Murdering of My Years, and Saving Private
Power. His nonfiction, short fiction, and poetry have appeared
regularly in a wide range of online and print publications and
anthologies, including: New York Daily News, Veg News, Poets and
Writers, Village Voice, Chess Life, Guerilla News Network, Black Belt,
What Would Bill Hicks Say?, Tutto in Vendita, Underground, and many
others. Mickey has also served as Senior Editor of Wide Angle (2002-04) and Editor-in-Chief of Curio (1996-98). Screenplays he has
optioned include A Saint in the City, Second Option, and The Pride.
He is the recipient of two writing grants from the Puffin Foundation
(2003 and 2005) and a Fellowship in Non-fiction Literature from the New
York Foundation for the Arts (1997).
Armed with only a high school diploma, Mickey Z. has spoken and lectured
in venues ranging from Yale University and MIT to ABC No Rio and the
Broadway Branch of the Queens Library. Newsday calls Mickey Z. a
"professional iconoclast." Time Out New York says he's a "political
provocateur." To historian Howard Zinn, he's "iconoclastic and bold." He
was also known as the "underground poet" for hanging his words in the
NYC subways. Mickey Z. maintains a popular blog, "Cool Observer," and
can be found on the Web at http://www.mickeyz.net.
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S. Craig Zahler |
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| S. Craig Zahler |
Florida-born New Yorker S. Craig Zahler worked for many years as a cinematographer and a catering chef, while playing heavy metal and creating some strange theater pieces. His debut western novel, A Congregation of Jackals was nominated for both the Peacemaker and the Spur awards, and his western screenplay, The Brigands of Rattleborge, garnered him a three-picture deal at Warner Brothers, topped the prestigious Black List and is now moving forward with Park Chan Wook (Old Boy) attached to direct, while Michael Mann (Heat & Collateral) develops his nasty crime script, The Big Stone Grid at Sony Pictures. In 2011, a horror movie that he wrote in college called, Asylum Blackout (aka The Incident) was made and picked up by IFC Films after a couple of people fainted at its Toronto premiere.
A drummer, lyricist and songwriter, Zahler continues to make music, and is now finishing his third album of doomy epic metal with his band Realmbuilder, which signed to I Hate Records of Sweden, after his foray in black metal with the project Charnel Valley (whose two albums were released by Paragon Records). He is also navigating preproduction on his directorial debut—a horror western that he wrote called, Bone Tomahawk, which will star Kurt Russell, Peter Sarsgaard, Jennifer Carpenter, Richard Jenkins and Timothy Olyphant.
Zahler studies kung-fu and is a longtime fan of animation (hand drawn and stop-motion), heavy metal (all types), soul music, genre books (especially, horror, crime and hard sci-fi), old movies, obese cats and asymmetrical robots. He is absolutely thrilled that Raw Dog Screaming is going to publish his new novel, Wraiths of the Broken Land, which is the most horrific piece he has ever written.
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