Kit Reed is a prolific and highly-respected American writer of what has been referred to by many as “transgenre” fiction. Her most recent releases include her latest novel, Son of Destruction (Severn House), and her career-spanning collection of selected short stories, The Story Until Now (Wesleyan UP). Other books include her novels Enclave, J. Eden, and […]
Born a farmer’s son in the Pacific Northwest, Stant Litore took the college road and eventually earned his PhD in English, but remains passionate for things that grow. He spent several years in a dim corner of a library, repairing bruised and battered books, before heading overseas to backpack through Europe. Haunted by the hunger and poverty he […]
Belgian fabulist Bernard Quiriny (1978- ) is the author of one novel and three short story collections. His first, Fear of the First Line (Phébus, 2005), which won the Prix Littéraire de la Vocation, , a prize previously won by such notables as Christophe Bataille, Amélie Nothomb, Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Didier Van Cauwelaert, and Shan Sa. His […]
Nike Sulway is an Australian author who lives and works in Brisbane. In 2000, Nike won the Queensland Premier’s Literary Award for Best Emerging Queensland Author for her novel, The Bone Flute, which was released by UQP in 2001 and subsequently shortlisted in the Commonwealth Writers Awards. Her children’s book, What the Sky Knows, was […]
Rhys Hughes is a Welsh writer of fantasy, specualtive fiction, and magic realism who often uses comedy and absurdism to examine philosophical issues. Hughes is immensely prolific, having written hundreds of short stories, ebooks, novellas, and novels. His main project is a story cycle consisting of exactly 1000 linked stories bound under the overall title of Pandora’s […]
Jean Ferry (1906−1974) was primarily a screenwriter, best known for his collaborations with Clouzot, Buñuel, Louis Malle, and Georges Franju. A satrap of the College of ‘Pataphysics, he was known in his time as the greatest specialist in the works of Proust’s neighbor Raymond Roussel. His only book of fantastical tales, The Engineer, was published in 1953 […]
K.J. Bishop is an Australian writer and artist. In 2004, her neo-Decadent novel The Etched City was nominated for a World Fantasy Award and she won the William L. Crawford Award, the Ditmar Award for Best Novel and the Ditmar Award for Best New Talent. Her work has appeared in several publications including Leviathan 4, Fantasy […]
Carlos Díaz Dufoo (1861−1941) was a Mexican writer of fiction and nonfiction; he was also a journalist and an academic economist. He founded newspapers in his hometown of Veracruz and edited for major newspapers and journals, among other projects. His notable work of fiction is his collection Nervous Tales [Cuentos Nerviosos], which has been translated in full […]
Frederick Stuart Greene (1870−1939) was a writer and editor of horror fiction. Greene’s stories were often featured in famed editor Edward J. O’Brien’s Best American Short Stories anthologies in the early decades of the 20th century. Greene himself edited what was at the time a revolutionary collection of horror fiction, The Grim Thirteen, composed of stories repeatedly […]
A. C. Wise was born and raised in Montreal, and currently lives in the Philadelphia area. Her work has appeared in publications such as Future Lovecraft, ChiZine, Clarkesworld and The Best Horror of the Year Vol. 4. In addition to her fiction, she co-edits the online ‘zine, the Journal of Unlikely Entomology, along with Bernie […]