Scott C. Holstad has authored, edited & contributed to 75+ books & 800+ magazines & is a 32-year member of The Authors Guild. He holds degrees from the University of Tennessee, California State University Long Beach, UCLA & Queens University of Charlotte. He’s moved 35+ times, lives in the Gettysburg PA area and loves geopolitics, good vinyl and hockey.
Marsden Lyonwahl lives in his head. A graduate from the University of Washington, he's been published in 7th-Circle Pyrite and Altered Reality Magazine. This is not the last you've heard from him.
John Shieldsmith is a horror writer near Austin, Texas. He's been a full-time ghostwriter for 14 years, helping companies big and small tell their stories. Now, he's telling his own.
Shruti Goel is a marketing graduate from the University of Calcutta and a Curtis Brown Creative alum. Beyond the page, Shruti has worked as a restaurant consultant in the food and beverage industry, where campaigns, cuisines, and on-ground conversations shaped the distinct voice she brings to her writing today.
Alistair Blackledge is an emerging horror author based in Michigan. When he’s not reading or writing strange tales, he listens to the whispers of the trees and occasionally, when the fire burns low and the coyote howls die down, a softly seductive voice from the beyond. Can you hear it?
Justin Webb is a London based author specializing in speculative horror, science fiction and magical realism. Justin takes a postmodernist approach to writing and forever embraces the idiosyncratic.
Shobhita Thakur is an alumna of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune, where she completed a three-year course in Film Editing. Her journey in the film industry began with working alongside National Award–winning director Rajan Khosa as a Director’s Assistant, an experience that shaped her understanding of storytelling.
Ella Torres is a Brazilian writer and translator and a graduate of Barnard College, where she earned a degree in English and Creative Writing. She writes editorials, fiction, and poetry, and is currently pursuing an MFA in fiction at The New School.
Peggy Gerber is the 2021 winner of The Open Contract Challenge. When she is not busy writing poetry, she likes to indulge her love of speculative fiction by crafting stories of time machines, friendly aliens, creepy glass dolls and other phantasmagoria. In her spare time she enjoys reading, traveling, and all things magical.
Benjamin Wilson currently lives in central Texas, is a recent college graduate, and may or may not actually exist. He tends to write weird speculative fiction with a focus in horror.
William Edwin Cherico is a writer and filmmaker from Stamford, Connecticut. He loves to relax by reading the most stressful stories he can get his hands on. In his free time, he is an avid reader and tabletop gamer.
Jill Williams is a versatile writer whose work spans literary realism, satire, and Southern Gothic, often exploring themes of identity and spiritual transformation. She returned to writing after a decades-long hiatus.
