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A former fundamentalist turned simple fatalist, Maria Alexander currently works at Disney as a Web copywriter. Lest anyone think her head is full of pixie dust, since 2000 a number of her dark fiction tales have been published to some acclaim, as well asa collection of horror poetry. Her credits include stories in Gothic.net, Chiaroscuro Magazine and Paradox Magazine, as well as a number of anthologies.

Almost all of her works have garnered either Honorable Mentions in the Year's Best Fantasy & Horror anthologies, appearances on the Preliminary Ballot for the Bram Stoker Award, or both. Her story "The King of Shadows" was Finalist in the 2003 Moondance Short Fiction Competition sponsored by folks such as Oprah, Coppola and Variety magazine. The BBC radio occasionally invites her to talk about blasphemy, her favorite subject. She lives in Los Angeles with a French boyfriend, a pervasive sense of doom and a purse called Trog.

•  For the full literaryrap sheet, visit www.thehandlesspoet.com.

The national best-selling author of ten acclaimed books – both fiction and non-fiction – Jay Bonansinga is a rising star on the publishing and movie scenes. His novels have been translated into 9 different languages, and his 2004 non-fiction debut The Sinking of the Eastland was a Chicago Reader "Critics Choice Book" as well as the recipient of a Superior Achievement Award from the Illinois State Historical Society. His debut novel The Black Mariah was a finalist for a Bram Stoker award, and his numerous short tales have been published in such magazines as Amazing Stories, Grue, Flesh & Blood and Cemetery Dance, as well as a number of anthologies.

Jay also proudly wears the hat of indie filmmaker: his music videos have been in heavy rotation on The Nashville Network and Public Television, and his short film City of Men was awarded the prestigious silver plaque at the Chicago International Film Festival. He is also a visiting professor at Northwestern University in their Creative Writing for the Media program.

•  Visit www.jaybonansinga.com.

In addition to his short fiction collection Most Curious, Bill Breedlove's work has appeared in publications such as the Chicago Tribune, RedEye, InSider, The Fortune News, Restaurants & Institutions, Encyclopedia of Actuarial Science, Bluefood.cc and Playboy Online. His stories can also be found in the books Tales of Forbidden Passion, Strange Creatures, Tails from the Pet Shop, Book of Dead Things, Cthulhu and the Coeds and Blood and Donuts.

In 2002, Bill's horror film screenplay Last of the True Believers won a competition sponsored by DAILY VARIETY where the prize was a trip to the Cannes Film Festival to meet with Hollywood producers and executives. Bill lives in Chicago with his dog, Maestro.

•  His website is www.curiousstories.com.

Cullen Bunn grew up in rural North Carolina, but now lives in the St. Louis area. The first collection of his noir/horror comic, The Damned, was published in 2007 by Oni Press. The follow-up, Prodigal Sons, will be released in 2008. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies. Somewhere along the way, he founded Undaunted Press and edited the small press horror magazine, Whispers from the Shattered Forum. All writers must pay their dues, and Cullen has worked various odd jobs, including Alien Autopsy Specialist, Rodeo Clown, Professional Wrestler Manager (during which time his rivalry with Jim Cornette grew to epic porportions), and Sasquatch Wrangler.

•  Visit his website at www.cullenbunn.com.

John Everson is the author of the erotic horror novelette Failure (Delirium Books, 2006) and the Bram Stoker Award-winning occult horror novel Covenant (Delirium Books, 2004). Sacrifice, a sequel to Covenant, was released in March 2007 and both novels will be issued in paperback in 2008-09 from Leisure Books. Everson is also the author of three horror and dark fantasy short story collections – Needles & Sins (Necro Publications, 2007), Vigilantes of Love (Twilight Tales, 2003) and Cage of Bones & Other Deadly Obsessions (Delirium Books, 2000).

John also writes music, served for almost 20 years as the music columnist for The Star Newspapers, and copyedits books for Necro Publications, Earthling Publications and Cemetery Dance. He served as a fiction editor for Dark Regions Magazine and has done book and web design for Twilight Tales and Delirium Books. All this ancillary activity conspired to convince him to found his own press, Dark Arts Books.

•  For more info, art, music and fiction, visit www.johneverson.com.

Christa Faust is the author of nine novels, including Control Freak, Triads (with Poppy Z. Brite), Hoodtown and her latest, Money Shot forthcoming from Hard Case Crime.

•  Want more? Visit www.christafaust.com

Martin Mundt has published a collection of short stories called The Crawling Abattoir through Twilight Tales. His second collection, The Dark Underbelly of Hymns, was published by Delirium Books in March 2006.

He has published recent stories in Bone Ballet, Spooks!, and Masque of the Small Town Oddball. His play, The Jackie Sexknife Show, was produced in Chicago in 2003.

•  His website is www.MartinMundt.com.

David Thomas Lord is the author of the bestselling vampire novel Bound In Blood, a Lambda Literary Award finalist. In 2006, he released the sequel, Bound In Flesh, and the novella, “The Secrets of the Fey”, both nominees for the Lambda and the Spectrum Awards. He is currently working on his first non-horror novel.

He is not the member of any organization.

He has nothing tattooed but his memory, nothing pierced but his heart.

JA Konrath writes the Lt. Jacqueline “Jack” Daniels thrillers, the latest of which is Fuzzy Navel, which is a lot more hardcore than the sissy title hints at. He’s also the editor of the hitman anthology These Guns For Hire and the author of the horror novel Afraid under the pen name Jack Kilborn, coming spring 2009. He promises that Afraid will scare the shit out of you. In the past few years, Joe has had over fifty short stories published in various mags and anthos.

•  Visit Joe www.jakonrath.com.

Adam Pepper’s debut novel, Memoria received rave reviews from Cemetery Dance, Chronicle and Chizine. He’s drawn praise from genre veterans F. Paul Wilson, Thomas Monteleone and Tom Piccirilli for his unique brand of dark fiction. His short stories have appeared in Scars, Decadence and Best of Horrorfind, Vol. 2. Adam heads up the New York City chapter of the Horror Writers Association.

•  Learn more about Adam at www.AdamPepper.com.

Sarah Pinborough lives in Milton Keynes, England and is the author of four novels, The Hidden, The Reckoning, Breeding Ground and The Taken. She is currently working on a TV screenplay, two novels and a novella and has short stories coming out during 2007 in anthologies from Carrol and Graf and Cemetery Dance.

•  You can find out more about Sarah’s work at
  www.sarahpinborough.com or at
  www.myspace.com/sarahpinborough.

Rick R. Reed's short fiction has appeared in more than 20 anthologies. His horror short story collection, Twisted: Tales of Obsession and Terror was published in April 2006. He is also the author of a number of novels, including a thriller about a serial killer using a gay hookup website to find his victims called IM (Quest Books, May 2007); a tragic vampire love story set in 1950s Greenwich Village and modern-day Chicago called In the Blood (Quest Books, September 2007); and a paranormal page-turner about a psychic reluctantly caught up in the murders of two teenage girls in her small western Pennsylvania town called Deadly Vision (Quest Books, January 2008). Rick lives in Miami, FL with his partner.

•  Visit him on the web at www.rickrreed.com

For ten years, Loren Rhoads was the editor of the cult nonfiction magazine Morbid Curiosity. Before that, she wrote about cemeteries for Gothic.Net. Her fiction has appeared in Cemetery Dance, City Slab, Not One of Us, etc., and in the chapbook Ashes & Rust. She’s written erotica for Unzipped, Sex ToyTales,and Noirotica 4, with varying degrees of honesty. She’s never read On the Genealogy of Morals.

•  Visit her on the web at www.charnel.com/loren.

Jeff Strand is the creator of Andrew Mayhem, whose demented adventures appear in the novels Graverobbers Wanted (No Experience Necessary), Single White Psychopath Seeks Same, Casket For Sale (Only Used Once), and also in the hit-man anthology These Guns For Hire.

His other novels include the giant-killer-ants-on-a-rampage extravaganza Mandibles, the feel-good zombie novel The Sinister Mr. Corpse, and his first “serious” novel Pressure, which Publishers Weekly and other fine critics said did not suck at all. He’s also responsible for a trio of comedy novels where nobody gets dismembered: Out of Whack, Elrod McBugle on the Loose, and How to Rescue a Dead Princess. His short story collection Gleefully Macabre Tales is coming soon. Or, depending when you’re reading this, is already out. Or, depending on his career trajectory, has just been canceled by the publisher in a momentarily fit of rational thought.

•  Visit his Seriously Whacked website at www.jeffstrand.com.

Jeffrey Thomas is the author of the novels Deadstock, A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Dealers, Letters From Hades, Boneland, The Sea of Flesh and Ash (with Scott Thomas), Everybody Scream! and Monstrocity, which was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award. His collections include Punktown, Doomsdays, Unholy Dimensions, AAAIIIEEE!!! and Thirteen Specimens. He has appeared in the anthologies The Year’s Best Horror Stories XXII, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror #14, A Walk on the Darkside, Lost on the Darkside
and The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction.

•  His official web site is www.jeffreyethomas.com.

Mehitobel Wilson has been publishing horror fiction since 1999. She is a Bram Stoker Award nominee, and many of her stories have been granted Honorable Mentions in the Year's Best Fantasy and Horror series. If you can't pronounce her name, call her “Bel.” Bel’s been a dog groomer, an industrial painter, a runway model, a belt worker in a factory, a cigarette girl at a movie theater, an audio/visual technician, a Latin tutor, a truck dispatcher, and a waitress, among other things. She’s lived in the backwoods and on the streets. Now she lives (in a house) in the Deep South, prefers Jack, beer, and Marlboros, and inflicts Hong Kong rap music on the unwary.

•  Visit her on the web at www.mehitobelwilson.com.

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