2015 & 2016 Contributors

AUTHORS:

C.S.E. Cooney is a Rhode Island writer, actor, poet, and singer-songwriter. Her first short fiction collection, BONE SWANS: STORIES (Mythic Delirium, July 2015), is the 2016  WINNER of the World Fantasy Award for Best Collection! She is the author of the Dark Breakers series, available in ebook from Amazon. By day she narrates audiobooks for Tantor Media. By night (whenever she’s not writing, or otherwise goofing off), she might be found inhabiting her alter-ego, an imaginary rockstar named Brimstone Rhine. Brimstone Rhine’s first EP, “Alecto! Alecto!” is downloadable from Bandcamp: eight songs of Myth and Legend—Witches, Queens, Nymphs, Fiends—as you’ve never heard them sung before. “Wild Over Tombs Does Grow,” originally published in Cemetery Guardians, can now also be found in her poetry collection HOW TO FLIRT IN FAERIELAND AND OTHER WILD RHYMES, published by Papaveria Press. Check out her website:  http://csecooney.com/

 

Brendan Detzner‘s stories are sometimes scary, sometimes funny, and usually very strange. His work has appeared in Chizine, Pseudopod, One Buck Horror, Bizarrocast, the Exigencies anthology from Dark House Press, and other venues. He also runs the Bad Grammar Theater reading series in Chicago. You can find out about that at: http://www.badgrammartheater.com/  and keep track of Brendan generally at:
http://www.brendandetzner.com/

 

Shawna Flavell likes her toothbrushes soft and finds pickled things in jars aesthetically pleasing. During the day, you can find her writing grants and other donor communications for The Nature Conservancy. Outside of the office, she’s a wanna-be homesteader who enjoys the mouthfeel of pies, aged music, and the aroma of bookstores.

Michael Penkas has been a typesetter, an editor, and a librarian. He currently lives in Chicago and works as a freelance writer. He’s had two dozen short stories and poems published in a variety of magazines, anthologies, and websites. His first novel, Mistress Bunny and the Cancelled Client, was published in November 2014. Lots more can be learned on his website at http://www.michaelpenkas.com/

Maha Rakta is a lover of all things curious; spells, ceremonies, bones & sporks! Above all she enjoys giving life to to cold things, strange things and breaking the stigma of “scary” rituals.

R. Huston has a website, tattooheathen, where you can see more of her stuff and read her attempts at self-explanation.

Marc Ludena likes to drink rum and make drawings. Sometimes he drinks too much rum and forgets all about the drawings. One day he might draw a comic book again. You can see his rarely updated but comprehensive website at http://bassline-shift.com/ or you can see more up-to-date work and pictures of stuff that makes him laugh (and also his kids, who normally make him laugh) by following him on instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/basest/

Holly Morningstar, like many people, fell in love with fairy tales (and all things fantasy and animated) as a child and never outgrew them. As an adolescent, she developed an admiration for portraiture and figurative art. The portraits she paints today are snapshot celebrations of perseverance, hope, love, and sexuality. She embraces a pallet of bright colors to echo the zesty and playful approach she still takes to life as an adult. Through portraiture, she explores the faces people present to society and exposes pieces of humanity that sit just below the surface. She doesn’t believe people have skeletons in their closets, rather, they have dragons under their skin. Her website is:  www.archaicsmiles.com

Scotty Tedrow creates most of his art though the outlet of being a custom tattoo artist. When he’s not stabbing people with needles, he works alongside other activists spreading misinformation and chaos throughout struggling communities around the world. Mr. Tedrow constantly expands his repertoire, as he is currently writing the much anticipated, ‘Don’t Stick Your Finger in my Honey’—an opera about the diverse history of honey badgers and their struggle in a homosapien dominated society. He enjoys piña coladas and getting caught in the rain in life; and in death plans on dying by the process of spontaneous human combustion. Mr. Tedrow currently resides with his pet honey badger, Marco in the Pacific Northwest. One day, he hopes to destroy you all.