Nancy A. Collins (1959-) is the award-winning author of numerous urban fantasy, multi-genre, and Southern Gothic tales, as well as several graphic novels. She was the first woman to write Swamp Thing for DC Comics and the first author published under the Vertigo imprint. She is also the first woman to write for Vampirella. Her works include Sunglasses After Dark, Knuckles and Tales, The Golgotham series, and Blade Runner: Black Lotus. A native of Arkansas, she currently resides in the state of Georgia.

New York Times bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch writes in almost every genre. Generally, she uses her real name (Rusch) for most of her writing. Under that name, she publishes bestselling science fiction and fantasy, award-winning mysteries, acclaimed mainstream fiction, controversial nonfiction, and the occasional romance. Her novels have made bestseller lists around the world and her short fiction has appeared in eighteen best of the year collections. She has won more than twenty-five awards for her fiction, including the Hugo, Le Prix Imaginales, the Asimov’s Readers Choice award, and the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Readers Choice Award.

Publications from The Chicago Tribune to Booklist have included her Kris Nelscott mystery novels in their top-ten-best mystery novels of the year. The Nelscott books have received nominations for almost every award in the mystery field, including the best novel Edgar Award, and the Shamus Award.

She writes goofy romance novels as award-winner Kristine Grayson.

She also edits. Beginning with work at the innovative publishing company, Pulphouse, followed by her award-winning tenure at The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, she took fifteen years off before returning to editing with the original anthology series Fiction River, published by WMG Publishing. She acts as series editor with her husband, writer Dean Wesley Smith.

To keep up with everything she does, go to kriswrites.com and sign up for her newsletter. To track her many pen names and series, see their individual websites (krisnelscott.com, kristinegrayson.com, retrievalartist.com, divingintothewreck.com, fictionriver.com, pulphousemagazine.com).

Joe R. Lansdale is the author of over thirty novels and numerous short stories. His work has appeared in national anthologies, magazines, and collections, as well as numerous foreign publications. He has written for comics, television, film, newspapers, and Internet sites. His work has been collected in eighteen short-story collections, and he has edited or co-edited over a dozen anthologies.

Lansdale has received the Edgar Award, eight Bram Stoker Awards, the Horror Writers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the British Fantasy Award, the Grinzani Cavour Prize for Literature, the Herodotus Historical Fiction Award, the Inkpot Award for Contributions to Science Fiction and Fantasy, and many others.

A major motion picture based on Lansdale's crime thriller Cold in July was released in May 2014, starring Michael C. Hall (Dexter), Sam Shepard (Black Hawk Down), and Don Johnson (Miami Vice). His novella Bubba Hotep was adapted to film by Don Coscarelli, starring Bruce Campbell and Ossie Davis. His story "Incident On and Off a Mountain Road" was adapted to film for Showtime's "Masters of Horror." He is currently co-producing a TV series, "Hap and Leonard" for the Sundance Channel and films including The Bottoms, based on his Edgar Award-winning novel, with Bill Paxton and Brad Wyman, and The Drive-In, with Greg Nicotero.

Lansdale is the founder of the martial arts system Shen Chuan: Martial Science and its affiliate, Shen Chuan Family System. He is a member of both the United States and International Martial Arts Halls of Fame. He lives in Nacogdoches, Texas with his wife, dog, and two cats.

Sean Taylor is an award-winning writer of stories. He grew up telling lies, and he got pretty good at it, so now he writes them into full-blown adventures for comic books, graphic novels, magazines, book anthologies and novels. He makes stuff up for money, and he writes it down for fun. He's a lucky fellow that way.

He's best known for his work on the best-selling Gene Simmons Dominatrix comic book series from IDW Publishing and Simmons Comics Group. He has also written comics for TV properties such as the top-rated Oxygen Network series The Bad Girls Club. His other forays into fiction include such realms as steampunk, pulp, young adult, fantasy, super heroes, sci-fi, and even samurai frogs on horseback (seriously, don't laugh). However, his favorite contribution to the world will be as the writer/editor who invented the genre and coined the term "Hookerpunk."

For more information (and mug shots) visit www.thetaylorverse.com and his writer's blog at seanhtaylor.blogspot.com.

Rio Youers is the British Fantasy and Sunburst Award–nominated author of Westlake Soul and Lola on Fire. His 2017 thriller, The Forgotten Girl, was a finalist for the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel. He is the writer of Refrigerator Full of Heads, a six-issue comic series from DC Comics, and Sleeping Beauties, a graphic novel based on the number-one bestseller by Stephen King and Owen King. Rio’s latest novel, No Second Chances, was published by William Morrow in February 2022.

Lezli Robyn is an Australian author, as well as editor and Assistant Publisher of Arc Manor, who lives in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, with her blue-eyed chiweenie, Bindi (which means "little girl" in several indigenous Australian dialects).

Since her first short story sale to Clarkesworld, Lezli has sold shorter-length fiction to over a dozen countries, to professional markets like Asimov's and Analog. She has been an Aurealis Award finalist for Best SF Story, a finalist for the Spanish Premio Ignotus Award for Best Foreign Short Story, as well as a finalist for the prestigious Astounding Award for Best New Writer. Lezli has also won the Catalan Premi Ictineu Award for Best Translated Story twice.

After making her two book sales to Phoenix Pick, Lezli was hired by its parent company, Arc Manor, in 2016 to become their Assistant Publisher. Since then she was named editor of their romance magazine, Heart's Kiss (no longer in publication), and is the current editor of the science fiction/fantasy magazine, Galaxy's Edge. She's also developmental editor for the Caezik SF & Fantasy and Caezik Romance imprints.

Her first solo short story collection, Bittersuite, will be published by Australian publisher Ticonderoga Press in 2023. In between trips to the beach and her day job, Lezli is also penning her first novel, In Her Wake, and a children's book with a yet-to-be-revealed artist.

She can be reached on Instagram, Twitter and Tiktok as @lezlirobyn, and on Facebook as /LezliRobyn.

I'm the Chief Creative Officer of IDW Publishing, a San Diego-based comic book and graphic novel publisher. I'm also an Eagle- and Eisner Award-nominated writer and editor, and author of numerous comic-book series, prose stories, a non-fiction book about comics, and more. Zombies vs Robots, co-created with artist Ashley Wood, is currently in development as a major motion picture with Sony Pictures. Also, I love you.

Comics I've written include adaptations of SHAUN OF THE DEAD; MASTERS OF HORROR; GEORGE A. ROMERO'S LAND OF THE DEAD; CLIVE BARKER'S THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW; short adaptations collected under the title DOOMED from Robert Bloch, Rochard Matheson, and David J. Schow, including the Eisner-nominated "Best Short Story" from 2005, "Blood Son." Additionally, I have adapted the Neil Gaiman/Roger Avary BEOWULF, co-written the first TRANSFORMERS MOVIE PREQUEL; written stories for GENE SIMMONS HOUSE OF HORRORS; WEEKLY WORLD NEWS; STRING DIVERS; MARS ATTACKS ("First Born"); multiple KISS comic series, and the first DIRK GENTLY comic series, based on Douglas Adams' creation.

My graphic-novel co-creations include ZOMBIES VS ROBOTS (co-created with Ashley Wood); GROOM LAKE (co-created with Ben Templesmith); Frank Frazetta's Neanderthal, collected in The Fantastic Worlds of Frank Frazetta, Vol. 2 HC; THE COLONIZED (with Drew Moss); THE HOLLOWS (with Sam Kieth); and ONYX (with Gabriel Rodriguez).

Most recently, I led the revival of 1980s priority ROM and co-wrote the series (with Christos Gage) for its 14-issue run.

Prose releases include SUPERHEROES AND PHILOSOPHY ("The Fantastic Four as Family," co-written with Scott Tipton.); COMIC BOOKS 101 (co-written with Scott Tipton); CLASSICS MUTILATED ("Twilight of the Gods"); ZOMBIES VS ROBOTS: THIS MEANS WAR ("Meaner Than a Junkyard Dog"); and HARDBOILED HORROR ("Add One Medium-Sized Demon and Stir Over Low Heat").

I have also served as Editor-in-Chief for filmmaker Kevin Smith's entertainment Web portal, MoviePoopShoot.com, from 2002-2004; corporate speechwriter for American Honda; creative executive with Dick Clark Communications; and an advertising copywriter. In 2010, I wrote the text for Oakley's "Legion of Oakley" advertising comic book campaign and Web site.

I'm based in San Diego, where I live with my wife Julie, daughter Lucy, two cats, and my adopted second child, who I call MacBook Pro.

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John Skipp is a New York Times bestselling author, editor, film director, zombie godfather, compulsive collaborator, musical pornographer, black-humored optimist and all-around Renaissance mutant. His early novels from the 1980s and 90s pioneered the graphic, subversive, high-energy form known as splatterpunk. His anthology Book of the Dead was the beginning of modern post-Romero zombie literature. His work ranges from hardcore horror to whacked-out Bizarro to scathing social satire, all brought together with his trademark cinematic pace and intimate, unflinching, unmistakable voice. From young agitator to hilarious elder statesman, Skipp remains one of genre fiction's most colorful characters.