Sex and Murder Magazine

Patrick Anderson Jr. currently resides in Orlando where he is completing his MFA in Creative Writing at University of Central Florida. He has had short stories published in Ghostlight, Prick of the Spindle, Silverthought Online, and Existere Journal. Anderson is a native of Miami, Florida, where he says the truest horrors the world will ever know happen every morning and afternoon, on the highway, during rush hour, when humanity's savage nature reveals itself fully. Find out more about him at caribbeanall.blogspot.com.

Julie Ann August lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan with her chef girlfriend. They own a hearse and believe that the zombie apocalypse will happen. Julie Ann works as a Registered Nurse to support her writing habit. Recently she switched to the night shift and has strange dreams about titrating her own Propofol drip to help her sleep. Last year she graduated with her MFA from the University of Nebraska and published a dystopian short story at bringtheink.com. Two of her short stories are coming out soon in Barbaric Yawp and The Battered Suitcase. You can read her narcissistic blog at

Michael Bilinski is a Philadelphia based filmmaker and musician best known as a producer of the cult hit Evil Bong starring Tommy Chong. His band PAGAN is putting the finishing touches on their new album A Season Hell, while he films the splatter comedy Weed of the Living Dead. Both are set for release later this year. For more info go to www.mcbtv.net.

Shannon Barber is a 33 year old writer native to the Pacific Northwest. Her work can be seen in The Legendary, Diddle Dog, Frequently*Felt, Opium Poetry, among other places. She spends most of her non-writing time enjoying French Press coffee, reading and searching for the perfect piece of pie.

NY native Anthony Beal's short fiction and poetry have appeared in dozens of print and online publications. His interests include anime, Food Network programming, Japanese language study, the poetry of Paul Lawrence Dunbar, the fiction of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and web authoring. His writing is influenced by Marquez and Dunbar, as well as by Poppy Z. Brite, Edgar Allen Poe and H.P. Lovecraft. He also enjoys maintaining his website at www.TheOfficialAnthonyBeal.com. His recently-released short fiction collection titled Funereal Diseases of the Mind: Fifteen tales of dark erotica is currently on sale at Barnes and Noble, Books-A-Million.com, and Amazon.com, and already receiving favorable reviews.

Skadi meic Beorh is the author of the satirical novel To Be Saved from Witches (Wildside Press, 2010), the story collection Always After Thieves Watch (Wildside Press), the dictionary Pirate Lingo (Wildside Press), and the poetry collection Emhain Macha Dark Rain (Rebel Satori Press). His stories, poetry and essays are often found in anthologies and magazines worldwide. He makes his home in Highland Park, Pittsburgh with his best friend Amberlynn and their three faery-cats Winkin, Blinkin and Nod.

BJ Bourg lives in southeast Louisiana with his beautiful wife and two wonderful children. For more information, please visit his website at www.bjbourg.com.

Christa A. Bergerson finds pleasure traversing the sparse wilds of Illinois. She also enjoys listening to phonographs, saving serpents from careless bike tires, and swimming in the dead of night. poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Illumen, Sounds of the Night, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, Doorways, Waters of Life, and Bearing Torches. In 2008, she was honored to receive third place in the B.S.F.S. Poetry Contest for her piece “Sekhmet Upon the Horizon”.

John Bray served for seventeen years in the New York City Police Department and took early retirement with the rank of lieutenant in 1976. While in the Police Department, he acquired a Bachelor of Science degree from John Jay College and a Juris Doctor degree from Brooklyn Law School. After admission to the Bar, Mr. Bray served for four years as a prosecutor in the Department's internal disciplinary system.

After leaving the NYPD, he practiced criminal defense law on Long Island and in New York City for 30 years. In 2004, Mr. Bray received a Master of Arts degree in Theology from the Seminary of the Immaculate Conception in Huntington, Long Island. Now fully retired, he lives with his wife in Williamsburg, VA, where he currently serves as the President of the Chesapeake Bay Writers Club. Mr. Bray’s first novel, The Ballad of Johnny Madigan, is awaiting release by BeWrite Books of Lancashire, England.

Thanks to the films of Sir Alfred Hitchcock, Michael Brandonisio has been an aficionado of the Horror and Thriller genres since the age of ten. His lit and visual work has appeared in Danse Macabre, Unlikely 2.0, Yellow Mama and elsewhere.

AJ Brown was lost but now he is found.He resides in the white space between lines in stories, his fingers tap tapping away, trying to fill those gaps.Some of his works have appeared in SNM Horror Magazine, Allegory, Silver Blade, and The Monsters Next Door among others.

Kevin Brown recently won the Permafrost Literary Journal's Midnight Sun Fiction Contest, the Touchstone Fiction Competition, and placed third in the Cadenza Fiction Contest.He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and aJourney Award, and has published in GUD, Space & Time, Murky Depths, Twisted Tongue, Morpheus Tales, Horror Express, sub-TERRAIN, Rosebud, and Underground Voices.His first book, Ink On Wood, will be published by Virgogray Press this summer.Mr. Brown’s website is: InvisibleBodies.com

Natasha Browne has recently completed an MA at Kingston University London in Publishing and Creative Writing. She is 24 and moved from Ireland to London in September 2008 to further her interest in writing. She has recently had a short story published online for 'The Workshop', at Deansgrange Blogspot.

Andrew Bowen's work has appeared or is forthcoming in Prick of the Spindle, decomP, Nanoism, PicFic, elimae, Bartleby-Snopes, Metazen, Wrong Tree Review, The Legendary, and MiCrow. He is founder and editor-in-chief of Divine Dirt Quarterly.

Garth Von Buchholz is a Canadian author of dark fiction, poetry, drama and non-fiction whose work has been published in various books, journals and anthologies. He is currently working on his first novel. Buchholz has also covered the arts and technology for numerous print and online publications over the years. He is the co-founder, with author James Cheetham, of the Dark Fiction Guild ( http://DarkFictionGuild.com), a new arts and cultural community for creators of dark fiction. To contact him, visit his website: or email: Castle@VonBuchholz.com

David M. Buhajla is a writer and poet living in the Arkansas Ozarks with his wife Marci and his daughter Maya. He is an English professor at Arkansas Tech University. His work is currently available in the journal Counterexample Poetics.

Anton Cancre is one of those rotting, pus-filled thingies on the underside of humanity that your mother always warned you about. Skulking in his basement, he seems to hate pretty much everything but at least he's too lazy and broke to pick up any firearms. He has oozed symbolic word-farms onto the pages of Shroud and Horrorbound magazines as well as an upcoming poetry anthology by Shroud Publishing and continues to vomit his oh-so-astute literary opinions, random thoughts and nonsense at antoncancre.blogspot.com

Keely Christensen is a short-fiction writer, whose work always seems to generate a response of how crazy readers think she is. She primarily writes in first person with strong, female main characters. She has been published in Writer's Beat Quarterly, House of Horror magazine, and has a story waiting for future publication at Short-Story.Me!

Robert Collins studied Creative Writing at the University of Massachusetts. He is a retired ROTC cadet, an avid boater, and an outdoorsman by nature. He has been featured in the literary journal Jabberwocky.

Shane Collins graduated from the University of Massachusetts with a Bachelor's degree in English and a concentration in Creative Writing. He has been featured in Down in the Dirt, Jabberwocky,Blackstick Review and was nominated to appear in the 2010 Dzanc Books Best of the Web anthology. He lives on his boat in Mystic, Connecticut. His website is: https://sites.google.com/site/shanercollins/.

A freelance writer, copy editor and filmmaker, Ward Crockett hails from Denver, CO, but currently resides in Chicago, IL. His writing has appeared in GUD, The Three-Lobed Burning Eye, the Danger City Two anthology, Right Hand Pointing, Kaleidotrope, OG's Speculative Fiction, and Ideomancer, among other publications. He is currently finishing his first feature-length film, a sci-fi/horror entry called Night Things. Check out his film work at www.LastNightofApril.com.

Joseph Cooper is currently writing in Buffalo, NY. He is the author of the full-length books Autobiography of a Stutterer (BlazeVox 2007) and TOUCH ME (BlazeVox 2009) as well as the chapbooks Memory/Incision (Dusie 2007) from Autobiography of a Stutterer (Big Game Books 2007) and Insuring the Wicker Man Shadow Created Delusion co-authored with Jared Hayes (Hot Whiskey 2005). He is the 2009 winner of the Equinox Chapbook Award from Fact-Simile Editions with his chapbook, Point of Intersection. In addition, his work has appeared in numerous journals including most recently The Ash Anthology, Counterexample poetics: Assemblage of Experimental Artistry, Bombay Gin, Brown Bagazine, Sentence: a Journal of Prose Poetics, and Sous Rature.

John Currant was born and raised in Miami, Florida. He attended Texas A&M University and now lives and works in Denver, Colorado.

Ed Curtis received a B.F.A. from UNC-Wilmington, then his M.F.A. in Poetry from The New School (New York, NY). Poems from his manuscript, Tremulous, appear in Counterexample Poetics, Breadcrumb Scabs, and The Tower Journal.

Joe Darnall is a twenty-seven year old father of three. He and his wife, Ami, currently reside in Murray, Kentucky and attend Murray State University. In addition to his education, Joe is continuing to write short stories and is currently at work on his first novel.

Daniel W. Davis is a graduate student at Eastern Illinois University. Through his writing, he tries to explore the darker themes in life (death, decay, evil, etc.) and hopes, through a study of the darkness, to find some understanding of the light. He has had stories and poems accepted/published in The Vehicle (Eastern Illinois University), Eastown Fiction, and The Absent Willow Review.

Wendall Dayley resides in the northern Shenandoah Valley of Virginia with his wife, their demon spawn and two psychotic felines. He is a graduate of George Mason University's Individualized Studies program, where he received a BIS in Historical Creative Writing in 2007, and won the BIS Creative Project Award for his alternate historical fiction novella, The Right to Rule. With his loving wife's understanding and support, he has been a full-time writer since graduation. His influences include Poe, Clive Barker, R. A. Salvatore, Harry Turtledove, and Michael Sullivan, among others.

Jarrid Deaton lives in eastern Kentucky. He digs Nick Cave tunes and Bloody Marys. He received his MFA in writing from Spalding University. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Underground Voices, Thieves Jargon, decomP, Thirst For Fire, Pear Noir!, Zygote in My Coffee, Big Pulp, and elsewhere.

Paul DeCirce was born in Syracuse NY in 1972. Holds a BA in English from SUNY Fredonia. Well known for a hardcore horror style, Paul pushes the boundaries of mankind's relationship with the weird. His raw, modern style is quickly putting him on the map as a new author to read. He's published as well in Anthology of Ichor,Creatura, Don't Tread on Me and classic mags like Scavenger's Newsletter, DragonFang, White Knuckles and Stygian Articles. www.pauldecirce.wordpress.com.

Adam DeWalt lives in Northern California and works in the heating industry. He spends much of his time in the crawl spaces beneath people's homes, installing ducts for air conditioners and furnaces.Sometimes he likes to imagine being trapped down there with some sort of horrible monster.What he doesn't like is when a spider egg sack falls into one of his ears.This is his first published fiction

Shennandoah Diaz writes stories of humanity under less than human circumstances. Her paranormal thriller, A coyote Among Us, was named a finalist in the 2009 Writers' League of Texas Manuscript Contest.

Lena Judith Drake is the editor-in-chief of Breadcrumb Scabs poetry magazine ( http://www.breadcrumbscabs.com), and is a Creative Writing student at Grand Valley State University. For more information or previous publications, please investigate her personal site ( http://lenajudith.sedentarygecko.com).

Christopher J. Dwyer writes horror and noir. He has been published in Twisted Tongue Magazine, Gold Dust Magazine, Colored Chalk, Red Fez, and various fiction anthologies. He is currently the writer-in-residence for literary magazine Dogmatika. He can be reached through his official website: www.christopherdwyer.com.

Born in the last century, Myke Edwards has been writing about the darker sides of life for quite some time.He received his creative writing degree in 2005 from Bowling Green State University, and rarely stops writing.Previous publications have been in Crow's Nest Magazine and Bewildering Tales.While he physically lives in Toledo, his mind resides in sunnier pastures.

David Erlewine edits flash fiction for JMWW. His work appears or is forthcoming in about 100 journals. He live near Baltimore and has probably watched "The Wire" too many times to feel comfortable about his family being safe.

Asher Ellis, a Vermont native, is a writer of short fiction and screenplays, mainly in the horror genre. He holds a bachelor's degree in English from Colby-Sawyer College where his stage play script, "Stupid Cupids," was accepted by the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival in 2005. He is currently an MFA candidate in creative writing in the Stonecoast Program at The University of Southern Maine. His fiction has been published or is forthcoming at various publications including MicroHorror, The Monsters Next Door, Rope and Wire, Bewildering Stories, The Cynic Online Magazine, Yellow Mama, and VerbicideMagazine.com, where he also reviews films

Justin Ehrlich was born in Essex in 1985 and has a degree in Philosophy. His poetry has been published in Shoots and Vines, The-Beat, Dark Gothic Resurrected, Gloom Cupboard, The Recusant and more.

Daniel Fabiani is a 22 year old kid innate to NYC with the accent to prove it. He has been published in various e-zines for the year of 2009 and has a new short piece coming up in The New Flesh by mid-January. He is featured in the anthologies BBB II: A Romance in Red, Nocturnal Illumination and Ruthless. Reading, cooking and romance languages are his passions, along with the written word. He just put up a new website as well danfabiani.webs.com.

Ari Feld was born and grew to young manhood in the Midwest. got his MFA from Umass Amherst. he lives in Barcelona with his sweetie.

A. J. French has appeared in Abandoned Towers, The Absent Willow Review, Down in the Dirt, Short Story.Me!, Black Lantern Publishing, Dark Gothic Resurrected, theDF_undergriound, Fantastic Horror, and Golden Visions Magazine. He also has stories in the following anthologies: Ruthless: An Extreme Horror Collection by Pill Hill Press, Deep Space Terror, By Mind or Metal, and Novus Creatura.

Joseph M. Gant is a Scientific Glassblower by trade but a writer by passion. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Breadcrumb Scabs, The Stray Branch, Lines Written w/ a Razor, and Dark Gothic Resurrected. A long time student of traditional Tibetan religion and culture, he resides in the Delaware Valley where he sweats over words and plays with glass and fire. He sees the Compassion in Wrath, Renunciation in Irreverence, and Wisdom in Desire. He aims to write from these perspectives, making the innate holiness in everything perceptible through poetry.

Allyn “Porphyry” Garavaglia began publishing poetry in 1986 in an anthology by Hieroglyphics Press with a gadawful title of “Tidingsa Tick Vol 1. I.” He has also been published in places such as Morbid Musings and The Erotica Express. He’s published a few short stories and did a bit as a cartoonist for Skyline Magazine. The strip was called “Punker Poppa.” Po, as he is known, also ran Blood, Old Lipstick and Black Magick Ezine with some friends a few years back.

R. K. Gemienhardt resides in the suburbs of Cincinnati, Ohio. His fiction and photography have been published in various e-zines, magazines and anthologies. His inspiration comes from the things that go bump in the night.

Ken Goldman, an affiliate member of the Horror Writers Association, has homes on the Main Line in Pennsylvania and at the Jersey shore depending upon his mood and the track of the sun. His stories appear in over 530 independent press publications in the U.S., Canada, the UK, and Australia with over twenty due for publication in 2010-2011. Since 1993 his tales have received seven honorable mentions in The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror. His book of short stories, You Had Me At ARRGH!! : Five Uneasy Pieces by Ken Goldman (Sam's Dot Publishers) has been an all-time top ten best seller at The Genre Mall, and his novella, Desiree, is available in eBook downloadable format on the Damnation Books web site and on Amazon.com in Kindle and print format. Australia's Precision Pictures has contracted Ken's short story The Keeper to be filmed during 2010-2011. You may find Ken on the web sites Masters of Horror and The Horror Cafe.

Sean Greenhill began his career as a Debt Collector at 19 in the transport sector with COMET Express (a division of TNT) and over the next 20 years worked as a Debt Collector, Credit Officer, Accounts Analyst, Notice Server and Sub-Mercantile Agent. During the late 1990’s, he completed a Bachelor of Arts with a Psychology major at Wollongong University and worked as a pizza deliverer, cleaner, gate keeper, bartender, lost property and parking officer as well as a deckhand on Great Barrier Reef cruises. In 2007, he resigned from my position of Accounts Analyst to write fulltime. Since then he has completed numerous short stories and three novel-length manuscripts.

John Grey is an Australian born poet, playwright, musician, and US resident since late 70's. Married with no children, he has been published in The Georgetown Review, Pedestal, and The South Carolina Review and others. John works as a financial systems analyst. He collects books, musicmovies. He loves to travel, and has a pet Cockateil named Benny.

S.C. Hayden's fiction has appeared in a number of magazines and journals in the U.S. UK and Canada. His debut novel, a social satire titled "American Idol" will be published later this year by Mythica Publishing. Find him at www.schayden.com or .

Paul Heatley lives in a small town inNorth East of England. This grim location has a profound effect upon his writing, writing in which people usually end up maimed and/or horribly traumatized.

Kyle Hemmings lives and works in New Jersey. His stories and poems have been published in The Horror Zine, Abyss and Apex, Sonar4, Aphelion, Nite Blade, and others.

David Alan Hernandez is a native-born Texan currently working on his bachelor’s degree in creative writing/education.The author enjoys exploring the darker side of literature, continuing to hone his craft and forge his voice amongst his community of fellow writers.His work can be found published in various online horror and fantasy Ezines including, The Harrow, Sonar4, Flashes in The Dark, Microhorror and also the college literary journal, The Rio Review.

John Hill is a newly minted (June 2009) Bennington College MFA. His short story, “Monkey Number One,” was a finalist in the Glimmer Train June Fiction Open. He has completed a novel and is hoping to avoid restraining orders from literary agents. This is the first appearance of his written words, except as song lyrics (many of them). In his previous lives, he has been a songwriter/producer/composer and has taught Film Music at the UCLA Extension. He lives in Cape Cod in sight of the Azores.

Christina Hoag is a journalist with The Associated Press in Los Angeles. A former staff writer for the Miami Herald, she was also a Latin American correspondent for Time, Business Week, New York Times, Financial Times, the Houston Chronicle and many other publications. Her fiction, creative non-fiction and poetry have appeared in The Oddville Press, StraitJackets magazine, Hackwriters, Clever Magazine, ExPatLit.com, Bent Pin and Liquid Silver eBooks.

D. Hoeweler is a new writer whose works center predominantly around the issues of homelessness and disability. He is currently working on a book in an attempt to unlock the mysteries of the psychotic mind. His personal website can be found at
http://www.psychoticwriter.com.

Allen Huntsman is attending college at Utah Valley University and majoring in English Literary Studies. His story "Old Woman" can be found in Dark Gothic Resurrected Magazine. For a short year he attended Dixie State College and was an assistant editor for the Southern Quill Journal.

Kim Hutchinson is a former Detroiter, a writer and a filmmaker. Her short fiction has been published in The Adirondack Review, Two Hawks Quarterly and others, and her short story collection is featured on The Reading List Online. Her short films have played at film festivals in Canada and the US. She currently lives in a small Ontario town on the north shore of Lake Erie with her husband and dog, where she attends writer's group therapy regularly.

Colin James works in Energy Conservation and is great admirer of the Scottish landscape painter, John Mackenzie. Also, he is a member of The Brothers Of The Endemic, a philosophical society based in Blacon, Cheshire, England. His poems have been published recently in Sage Trail and Trespass. More are forthcoming in Sakura Review, Calliope Nerve and The Stray Branch.

Dev Jarrett is a Dad, a husband, a soldier, and a horror writer. He's a Warrant Officer who's been in the US Army about 15 years, and although raised in Columbus, Georgia he and his family are currently stationed at Fort Huachuca, Arizona. In his spare time, he's shopping around his first horror novel and finishing the final draft of his second.

Lorna D. Keach's stories have appeared in publications like The Willows, Dog Oil Press, The Harrow, 69 Flavors of Paranoia, and Necrotic Tissue Magazine. She writes sex for Edenfantasies.com Sex Is magazine and just a little murder for Darkmarkets.com.

Harold 'Hal' Kempka is a former Marine, and Vietnam Veteran. His poetry has appeared in Leatherneck Magazine, and his short stories have been published in Many Midnights, Black Petals, Microhorror, Long Story Short, The Shine Journal', and the Fiction Flyer, among others. He is a member of the FlashXer flash fiction workshop, and lives in Southern California with his wife, Celeste, and son Derek.

kj lives in orange county with his golden hound, Mr. Bear. he loves the way that candy looks boiling in great vats before being packaged in some other part of the factory. he wants everyone to know that hugs have no shelf life, and neither does merriment. have fun while it lasts.

Tyler Knight lives in Hollywood California within walking distance of Charles Bukowski's old bungalow. He's a porn star and if you recognize him in public please feel free to embarrass him about this. Especially when he's with his mom, who, after seven years, has no idea what he does for a living.

His characters are those who live on the fringe of society or deviants hiding in plain sight. He has a short story forthcoming in Thieves Jargon.

Right now Tyler is staring at a blank screen as he finishes up two books. A memoir about his tenure in porn and a novel where he gets to say all the things he legally can't in the memoir. His blog is www.tylerknight.com.

Nik Korpon is from Baltimore, MD. His stories have sullied the reputation of 3AM Magazine, Troubadour 21, Colored Chalk, Gold Dust, Cause and Effect, Sideshow Fables and Out of the Gutter. He reviews books for the Outsider Writers Collective and leads LAST SUNDAY, LAST RITES, a monthly reading series in Baltimore while his first novel is making the rounds. Visit him at www.nikkorpon.com.

Karl Koweski is a 35 year old displaced Chicagoan now living on top of a mountain in Alabama. He writes the monthly column Observations of a Dumb Polack for www.zygoteinmcoffee.com. His first full length collection of stories Blood and Greasepaint is due out in September from Epic Rites Press.

Born and raised in Georgia, Jeff Lacy received a MFA from the University of Nebraska. His stories have appeared in Timber Creek Review, Conte, The Wrong Tree Review, The Legendary, Review Americana - A Literary Journal, Green Silk Journal, Full of Crow and the fall 2009 issue of Writer's Bloc (Rutgers). Since 1991, he has practiced law, working as a prosecutor, a short stint private practice, but for most of his career as a public defender in the Atlanta metropolitan area and the Georgia coast.

David W. Landrum teaches Literature at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan. His fiction has appeared in many publications, including Sinister Tales, Amarillo Bay, Riverwalk, and 34th Parallel. He edits the on-line poetry journal, Lucid Rhythms, www.lucidrhythms.com.

Glen Lantz is 48 years old and lives in Dubuque, Iowa. He has a BA and a MA in Sociology from the University of Northern Iowa. His work has appeared in 10K Poets Zine, Bad Marmalade, Calliope Nerve, Clockwise Cat, Counterexample Poetics, the Curious Record, Deep Tissue Magazine, Ditch, the Dubuque Area Writer’s Guild 2009 Anthology Music & Dance, Eviscerator Heaven, Full of Crow, Heroin Love Songs, Lines Written W/ a Razor, Lit Up Magazine, Lost Souls in the Fishbowl Anthology by Subculture Books, Madswirl, the Plebian Rag, Poetry Now, Shoots and Vines, Underground Voices, and Zygote in my Coffee.

Phaedra LeStrange is a writer from New York. You can contact her at myspace.com/phaedralestrange for more information.

Ralph Loizzo lives in Chicago suburbia, and writes science-fiction, fantasy, and horror short stories. He can be reached at ralphloizzo@gmail.com as well as on twitter at @FriarTech.

Madrea Marie has been making art since she was old enough to hold a pen (or paintbrush or pencil). A zinester since around age 14, she once published a zine solely of her artwork Inside the Medulla. Since then she has incorporated her artwork into her zines, as well as the zines of others. Some of her artwork can be seen online at Full of Crow Galleries, among other places, easily found using a search engine. While she specializes in ink drawings, she has also been known to write poetry, paint, make collages, clay sculptures, and jewelry. She is a married mother of three young children, and is currently a full-time mother and actively involved in DIY culture.

Catfish McDaris has appeared widely in the small press scene. From hard boiled detective stories, to science fiction, to university magazines, to mags with Bukowski, Adrian C. Louis, & Ginsberg, to smut. Catfish's first & last poetry reading was in Paris, after a mental breakdown of 5 years. He's been nominated for the Pushcart Prizetimes in prose & poetry, won the Uprising Award in 1999, and won the flash fiction contest of Unlikely Stories judged by the U.S. Poet Laureate2009.

Doug McIntire is a central Texas horror author who has been published in several magazines and podcasts. You can find out more about him and his writing at www.DougMcIntire.com. You can also find him on Facebook, MySpace and Twitter.

David McLean is Welsh but has lived in Sweden since 1987.He lives there on an island in the Stockholm archipelago with his woman, many cats, and his dog. Up to date details of McLean's publications and several available books and chapbooks, including three print full lengths, some print chapbooks and a free electronic chapbook are at his blog at mourningabortion.blogspot.com. His latest full length laughing at funerals from epic rites press is available via Small Press Distribution at spdbooks.org/Producte/9780981184456/laughing-at-funerals.aspx?rf=1.

John McNee is an unemployed journalism graduate living on the west coast of Scotland. He writes solely to distract himself from the crushing boredom.

Mark Mellon is a novelist who supports his family by working as an attorney for the FDIC.His work has appeared in publications such as Albedo One; Rope And Wire; and Premonitions. Most recently, He has had short fiction accepted by A Twist Of Noir, Dark Gothic Resurrected, and Twisted Tongue.His Western novel, The Pirooters, has been published by Treble Heart Books. The Pirooters won the Books and Authors.Net Award for Best Western of 2008 ( books-and-authors.net/BooksoftheYear2008.html). More information may be found at: trebleheartbooks.com/SDMellon.html.His novella, Escape From Byzantium was published last month by Withersin Press ( withersin.com).Please also see escapefrombyzantium.com. His new novel, Napoleon Concerto, will be published in 2010 by Treble Heart Books ( trebleheartbooks.com/Upcoming_Books.html).A website featuring his writing is at .

Luigi Monteferrante is a Canadian poet & composer living in Italy. His Poetry has been published in Quills Canadian Poetry, Fractions, Neon, Forma Fluens, Poesia/Indiana Bay, Motel 58, Word Slaw, poetryfriends, kudos, Sonar 4, Poet's Ink Review, The Battered Suitcase/Vagabondage Press, Twisted Tongue, Danse Macabre, Language & Culture, Kritya, Burst Now, Yellow Mama, greenbeard, Glass Poetry Journal, Wow, Orbis, Faraway Journal, riverbabble, Blueprint Review, Toucan (forthcoming Summer 2010), and Accenti. His short fiction appears in Chicago Quarterly Review, Happy, and Taylor Trust. Luigi has recently completed his second novel; a play; a musical following his stay at STEIM, a contemporary music center in Amsterdam. GANG OF TOLSTOY, Manufacturers of Music for the Savant-Garde, www.myspace.com/gangoftolstoy

N.S. Mounts has stories published in Black Ink Horror Magazine, Dark of the Night: An Anthology of Shadows, as well as several places online. He currently resides in the middle of nowhere. For more information, visit http://www.alienfetus.blogspot.com.

B.L.Morgan is the author of the notorious John Dark Books known for extreme violence and extreme bad attitude. Books currently published in that series are Blood And Rain, Blood For the Masses & Blood On Celluloid. Over the next two years scheduled to be published are the novels You Play,You Pay, Night Knuckles, Gray World & Blood And Bones. If you like your reading to be taken to the extremes this is the author to come to. You Have Been Warned! http://johndark1985.googlepages.com/home

Derek Muk is a social worker and writer from California. His short stories have appeared in various online and print magazines, such as Night to Dawn, Sinister Tales, and M-Brane SF. He has three chapbooks published: Three Parts, The Sacrifice and Other Stories, and Sin after Sin. His new collection of stories The Occult Files of Albert Taylor was released in 2009. His blogsite address is theoccultfilesofalberttaylor.wordpress.com.

Charles Muir has contributed to Byzarium, Cthulhu Sex Magazine, The Willows, and Whispers of Wickedness, where a story of his received an Honorable Mention in the Year's Best Fantasy and Horror of 2008. His fiction is also forthcoming in Dark Distortions II and Necrography. He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife, two pugs and a chatty tabby. Some of his work (under the name George Kuato) can be seen on www.microhorror.com.

Brad Nelson is a former backyard samurai and blue jeans Zen master who spends most of his time now on the back porch with his pipe and a cup of coffee. He retired his sword and took up the pen after serving five years as an interrogator in the U.S. Army. Brad is a creative writing M.F.A. candidate at National University and Chief Editor of Eclectic Flash, a new online literary journal. You can find Eclectic Flash at eclecticflash.com.

Mathias Nelson has publications forthcoming in Rattle, Zygote In My Coffee, and The New York Quarterly. more information visit www.nyqpoets.net/poet/mathiasnelson.

Thom Olausson is 35 years old and lives in Sweden. A work-related accident ruined his spine and shoulder nine years ago and he suffers from sciatica 24/7. His horror-poems are well-liked and several of them have been published at Deadman's Tome, The Stray Branch, Aoife's Kiss, The Monsters Next Door, and Scifaikuest, to mention a few. He has had some of his short stories published as well. Thom has had a poetry collection, A Secret Place, published through Cyberwizard Productions. Thom's favourite show on TV is CSI: Las Vegas.

Josh Olsen lives and teaches in Southeast Michigan. His books On a train back to Michigan and Six monthsslated for publication in 2010. He welcomes comments, questions, and conversation at jolsen79@gmail.com. Read more of his poetry and flash fiction at www.nyqpoets.net/poet/josholsen.

Carolanne Patton grew up in the Central Ohio area, where from High School on she's been asked if she was "in the TV" due to her name being the same as the main character from the movie Poltergeist. She didn't mind the taunt so much as she's been a lifelong fan of horror fiction and movies. Currently she makes her living doing something that has involved middle of the night trips to the county morgue. Robbing the Cradle is her second short story accepted for publication.

Candace (Candy) Pedrick resides in Pennsville, NJ. She attended College for Small Business Management, Liberal Arts, & Mortuary. Candy has been writing since the age of 13 and uses that and music as her escapes from reality. She loves her daughters Alexis and Riley along with her drink—Jack.

William "Billy" Penix is a stagehand in Las Vegas, working for Cirque du Soleil. Billy has degrees in both drama and biology and loves both equally. He is an aspiring illusion designer who designs large-scale stage illusions for magicians. His last publication was a book filled with many of these different illusion ideas entitled, 'New Concepts in Illusion Design,' which was lauded by Paul Osborne and Andre Kole. Billy does not consider himself an author or designer so much as an idea man.

Puma Perl is a poet and fiction writer who believes strongly in the transformative power of the creative arts. Her work has been published in over 100 print and online journals and anthologies. Her first chapbook, Belinda and Her Friends, was published in 2008 and recently was awarded the Erbacce Press 2009 Poetry Award; a full length collection, knuckle tattoos, will be published early in 2010. She performs her work in many venues, in and out of New York City. Recent features include Cornelia Street Café , the Riverwood Poetry Festival, Middleton CT - Outlaw Night, and the HOWL Festival. She lives and writes on the Lower East Side and has facilitated writing workshops in community based agencies and at Riker's Island, a NYC prison. She is a member of Harmattan Theater, a performance group dedicated to environmental and socially engaging theater.

Mike Phillips grew up on a small farm in West Michigan. In addition to hard work and responsibility, his father gave him a very special gift. Each year during summer vacation, the television was turned off. This meant that when not tending sheep, mending fences, gardening, building furniture, chopping wood, or goofing off, Mike’s summers were spent reading. In memory of all the wonderful stories and things he didn’t understand at the time, Mike hopes that, through his writing, he can, in some small way, share this gift with others.

Aaron Polson was born on the Ides of March: a good day for him, unlucky for Julius Caesar. He currently lives and writes in Lawrence, Kansas with his wife, two sons, and a tattooed rabbit. To pay the bills, Aaron attempts to teach high school students the difference between irony and coincidence. His stories have featured magic goldfish, monstrous beetles, and a book of lullabies for baby vampires. You can visit him on the web at www.aaronpolson.com.

David S. Pointer is a widely published poet in the small press. He has work forthcoming at Criminal Class Review, The Lineup: Poems on Crime and elsewhere. Currently he is accepting poems, photos, essays, short stories and medical interviews for an upcoming domestic violence anthology that will be a fund raiser. David was the son of a bank robber. David was also a Marine military policeman.

M.P. Powers has been published in Rosebud, The New York Quarterly, Slipstream, Main Street Rag, A Cappella Zoo, etc. More info can be found here: www.nyqpoets.net/poet/mppowers.

Richard Radford's fiction has appeared in The Ampersand Review, Pear Noir!, A Cappella Zoo, Gloom Cupboard, Writers' Bloc, Jersey Devil Press, and other publications. His hobbies include excessive reading, cooking, and travel. Currently Richard is bivouacked in Juneau, Alaska, and can be reached via email at: raradford@gmail.com.

Rodney Ramos is half-filipino, half-Irish and lives in England. He has been writing short fiction for almost four years and focuses mainly on horror and experimental stories.

Chris Reed is the author of more than 50 short stories. His work has appeared in a variety of small press publications including Black Ink Horror, The New Flesh, Killer-Works.com, and Tattered Souls: The Provocative Boundary of Fear. Aside from writing, he enjoys frozen pizza, Seinfeld reruns, and hockey fights. He lives in Davison, MI, with his wife and their two enigmatic children. Visit his official Web site: .

Douglas Allen Rhodes lives and works in Akron, Ohio. He is a former Marine, an ex-convict, and an alumnus of Kent State University. His short fiction has appeared in Why Vandalism?, Twisted Tongue, Microhorror, and Twisted Dreams. His poetry has published in Midnight Screaming, Worlds Within - Worlds Beyond, Breadcrumb Scabs, and The (&). He scripted an upcoming issue of Bluewater Productions' horror comic Vincent Price Presents, and his novel, Sex and Murder, is available from Wild Child Publishing.

Jen Ricci is an author of complementary health and pet-care articles by day, and a gothic horror and erotica writer by night. She has published a story with Scarlet Magazine, December 09 issue, 'The Tease' and with the online division of Excite books, in the 'Hot Reads 2' collection: more are scheduled to come out in the very near future. Anything strange, dark, horrid, weird and creepy gets Jen's undivided attention. She is also a follower of the goddess Hecate and her favorite animal is of course the raven. Many of her poems were conceived during long walks at night in the moonlight. She happily lives in London, UK.

After performing both music and poetry around the Boston area for twenty years, Derek Richards shed his fear of rejection and began submitting his work this past August. So far his poetry has appeared in over thirty publications, including; Lung, Word Riot, Cantaraville, Soundzine, The Centrifugal Eye, Opium 2.0, Splash of Red, Calliope Nerve, Right Hand Pointing, Breadcrumb Scabs, Tinfoildresses, Poets Ink, The Foundling Review, and Underground Voices. He has also been told to keep his day job by Quills and Parchment. His dog, cat, and two ferrets admire his attempts to be honest, direct, brilliant, and lucrative. Also, he wants you to know that he has compiled over 50 fantasy sports championships. Happily engaged, he resides in Gloucester, MA, cleaning windows for a living.

Philip Roberts lives in Overland Park, Kansas and holds a degree in Creative Writing with a minor in Film from the University of Kansas. As a beginner in the publishing world, he's a member of the Horror Writer's Association, and has had numerous short stories published in a variety of publications, such as the Beneath the Surface anthology, Byzarium webzine, and The Tabard Inn. More information on his works can be found at www.philipmroberts.com.

Keith Rodgers lives with his wife, Ruby, in Lansing, Michigan.

Brandon S. Roy’s work has appeared in numerous reviews and journals, including The LitSnack, Breadcrumb Scabs, and Ghoti Magazine.

Ethan Ryan has been published in Opium Magazine and online at Cracked.com, monkeybicycle.net, opiummagazine.com, and mcsweeneys.net. He lives in Brooklyn. Visit him online at www.ethanryan.net.

Jack Ryan is an Addiction Therapist working in Hartford, Connecticut. He has lived in New York, Arizona, New Mexico, California, and Florida. This is his second published story.

28-year-old William Andre Sanders resides deep in the Appalachian mountains of Southwestern Virginia. His community is home to the location for the 1980's hit movie Dirty Dancing. In 2005 he published his first psychological horror short story "Eyesight Of Insanity", which appeared in Seasons In The Night issue #5. Right now the author is devoted to weaving dark poetry, but he hasn't taken his eye off potential stories just yet. Turning 29 in September 2009, Andre hopes his love for writing horror will one day lead him to accomplishing the dream of publishing his first novel.

Craig Sernotti has recently had poems published in Clutching at Straws and St. Vitus. His first collection, Forked Tongue, is available from Amazon.com. He edits The (http://welcometoyethe.blogspot.com).

Erica Settino holds a Bachelor's degree in Psychology, and is currently completing her MFA in Creative Writing at National University. Along with her writing endeavors, she works in animal welfare, rescue, and advocacy, and has been teaching yoga for over ten years. Her work has also been published in The Legendary. She shares her life and gains inspiration from her amazing husband and four animal companions.

Rob Shelsky is an avid and eclectic writer, and averages about 4,000 words a day. He has several novels to his credit, one out now, Veracity In Truth (Class Act Books), and two contracted for publication in 2010, Faith and Fallibility, as well as Lost Echoes, a time travel novel. Rob has written articles for such magazines as The Internet Review of Science Fiction, numerous articles for AlienSkin Magazine, Neometropolis, Midnight Street (UK), Doorways, and other publications. Rob has had short stories published with Jim Baen's Universe, Aberrant Dreams, AlienSkin, Gateway SF, Fifth Dimension, Continuum SF, Sonar4, Uncial Press, Planetary Stories, Pulp Spirit Magazine, and many more. He has a novella coming out in early 2010 with Aberrant Dreams Magazine, and a short story debuting with Sonar4's Phase Shift anthology.

Now, Rob Shelsky is not only a writer, but an editor for Red Rose Publishing, a contributing editor for Currate.com travel articles, as well as being a reviewer for Novelspot. He is also a resident columnist for AlienSkin Magazine.

Although widely traveled and continuing to travel, Rob now lives in North Carolina. He enjoys contemplating ideas for new stories while watching the sunsets over the mountains and sipping a glass of red wine, preferably a decent Merlot.

Michael Shorb lives in San Francisco. He writes frequently about environmental issues, as well as cultural and historical topics. His work has appeared in Michigan Quarterly, The Nation, Rattle, The Sun, Salzburg Poetry Review, European Judaism, and Queen’s Quarterly. He has also appeared in a number of anthologies, including A Bell Ringing in the Empty Sky (San Diego, CA, 1985) and Names in a Jar (Portland, OR 2007).

Jeff Sinclair has been reading and writing dark fiction since boyhood. His current fixations include possessed eyeliner pencils, razorblades in wine glasses, and evil ice cream trucks. Jeff recently completed his first novel and is neck-deep in the search for representation. To read more of his work, along with entertaining question and answer sessions on a number of topics, shamble on down to http://jeffsinclairshorts.wordpress.com/.

Mark Smith-Briggs is an award-winning writer from Melbourne, Australia. His horror fiction has appeared in more than a dozen publications in Australia, the US and Canada. His non-fiction work with Horrorscope has been shortlisted for two Ditmar and a Chronos award. He maintains a website at www.freewebs.com/marksmithbriggs.

Kaye Spivey is an undergraduate at Eastern Washington University majoring in Creative Writing with a poetry focus. Although hoping to eventually be a published novelist, she currently focuses on writing poetry and short stories. Her other writing can be found at .

James A. Stewart hails from the fair city of Glasgow and is a member of Cumbernauld's Frontier Writers. He has had his fiction published at various print and online outlets in 2009 and will appear in the print editions of Static Movement and Whortleberry Christmas Anthology later this year. He lives with his bonnie wife and bairn.

Glen Still is considered a poet of the people. His poetry is a voice for the voiceless and downtrodden of society. His poetry points out the absurdity and injustice of the world we live in. His poetry focuses on how the structure of modern society and it’s social and political institutions constantly screw the little people. He has poetry published in many online poetry journals and has been a publisher himself of 10K Poets Zine, Eviscerator Heaven, and Deep Tissue Magazine. He is a Spoken word Artist as well. Glen has worked tirelessly to promote poetry on the internet and to build a community of poets where the unknown can flourish and shine.

Christopher Tepedino is a speculative fiction writer currently attending the University of Tennessee. His works have appeared in the literary journal Arable and the horror webzine Necrology Shorts.

Patrick Trahey lives in Chicago, where he is working on a BFA in fiction writing from Columbia College Chicago.

Martin Turton lives in East Yorkshire, England, with his wife and three daughters. He has had work published in numerous anthologies and magazines including The Rage of the Behemoth, Flashing Swords, Reflections Edge, Afterburn SF, MBrane SF, Shadows and Light, and Ray Gun Revival. He is currently at work on his first novel, and keeps his progress posted at http://monstewer.blogspot.com.

A New Englander by birth and disposition and trained as a psychologist and minister, Ken Weene has worked as an educator and psychotherapist.

Besides writing, Ken’s earlier interests included whitewater rafting, travel, and playing paintball.

Ken’s poetry has appeared in numerous publications – most recently being featured in Sol. An anthology of his writings, Songs for my Father, was published by Inkwell Productions. Two of his short stories are soon appearing in Legendary. His short play, The Right Number, was recently workshopped with great laughter and success by Stage 55 in Phoenix.

Ken’s novel, Widow’s Walk, has just been published by All Things That Matter Press.

Now in semi-retirement, Ken and his wife live in Arizona. There Ken has been able to indulge his passion for writing and enjoying life.

Spencer Wendleton is a freelance horror author--and overall lover of everything horror--whose work has appeared in the magazines Children, Churches, and Daddies, Camp Horror, Thirteen, Midnight Times, Blank Ink Horror, thaneros.com, necrology.com, Morpheus Tales #3, The Monsters Next Door #6, and House of Horror issue #3. His first novel, "The Body Cartel," will be released by Damnation Books this September 2009 under the penname "Alan Spencer."

Robert White lives in a big house overlooking Lake Erie in Northeast Ohio. He writes mostly noir and hardboiled, has had publications in Hardboiled, Noir, Thrilling Detective, Thrillers, Killers, 'n Chillers, and Powder Burn Flash. On occasion he writes a mainstream story about characters who confront the quirkiness of life. Two recent ones landed in Storyglossia and 10,000 Tons of Black Ink. The former shortlisted the one for its annual prize while the latter was named one of the Best Of for 2009. He’s down to two intellectual heroes: Albert Camus and Ben Drew Kimpel of the University of Arkansas.

Adam J. Whitlatch is the author of over sixty short stories as well as the novels The Blood Raven: Retribution and E.R.A. - Earth Realm Army.

His works of short fiction have appeared in Six Sentences, Northern Haunts: 100 Terrifying New England Tales, Dead Science, Shroud Magazine, Crossed Genres Magazine, and The Drabbler to name a few. His works of speculative poetry have appeared (or are slated to appear) in Vicious Verses & Reanimated Rhymes, Illumen, Unheard Magazine, and Scifaikuest.

He resides in southeast Iowa.

Stephen Jarrell Williams loves to write, listen to his music, and dance late into the night.He was born in Fort Belvoir, Virginia.His parents are native Texans.He has lived most of his life in California.His poetry has appeared in Aoife's Kiss, Aphelion, Blue Collar Review, The Broome Review, Camroc Press Review, Censored Poets, Chronogram Magazine, Deuce Coupe, Fissure Magazine, Freefall, Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, Hawaii Review, Heroin Love Songs, Hungur, Is This Reality, Kalkion, Liquid Imagination, Mad Swirl, Metazen, Mirror Dance, Neonbeam, Nerve Cowboy, Nomad's Choir, POEM, Poesia, Posey, protestpoems.org, Purpose,Rusty Truck, Scifaikuest, Sex And Murder, Shoots And Vines, Tales from the Moonlit Path, Thieves jargon, Zygote In my Coffee,others.

Jim Wittenberg was born in 1956 in Placetas, Cuba. He joined the other neighborhood kids in chanting "Yankee go home!" in front of his parents home. His revolutionary days behind him, Jim was raised in Sacramento, California, where he currently lives with his teenage daughter. He also has one adult son, one daughter-in-law and two grandchildren. Jim always strives to be a storyteller and he began writing as a teenager.

Gerald Vincent is originally from New York City and is a devotee of classic horror/monster movies like Jaws, Alien, and Godzilla. His favorite writers are Edgar Allan Poe, Alexandre Dumas, and Rod Serling. Bela Lugosi once said that true horror both attracts and repels. That is what Gerald looks to accomplish in his writing. His stories can also be read in Morbid Outlook Online Magazine.

After a twenty year period of procrastination Deborah Walker has started to write short stories and poetry. She lives in London with her partner Chris and her two lovely, yet distracting, young children. She recently won the MISFITS annual writing competition. Find Deborah's poems in Scifaikuest, Outshine, AlienSkin, Everyday Poets, Dreams and Nightmares, Sounds of the Night, Breadcrumb Scabs, 7x20, SilverBlade, Fear and Trembling, Worlds within, Worlds without, Monsters Next Door and The Lorelei Signal.

Stephen Jarrell Williams loves to write, listen to his music, and dance late into the night. He was born in Fort Belvoir, Virginia. His parents are native Texans. He has lived most of his life in California. His poetry has appeared in Anthology, Avocet, Blue Collar Review, The Broome Review, Byline Magazine, Chronogram Magazine, Fissure Magazine, Freefall, Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, Hawaii Review, HUNGUR, Liquid Imagination, Nerve Cowboy, Mirror Dance, POEM, Poesia, Posey, Purpose, REAL, Tales from the Moonlit Path, and many others.

Christopher Daniel Zeischegg is a writer and filmmaker living in Los Angeles, California. He has his BA in Cinematic Arts from the University of Southern California. His work has been published in issues of Angelingo, Thieves Jargon, and Thirst for Fire, and exhibited at festivals such as OUTerfest.

Catherine Zickgraf quit law school to be a writer—let’s hope it pans out.intends to work on her MFA once her little boys get older. writing has appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Pank, and Bartleby-Snopes.She also has work forthcoming in GUD Magazine and A Cappella Zoo. You can find her blog at myspace.com/czickgraf
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