Kathe Koja was born in 1960 in Detroit, Michigan, and still lives in the metro Detroit area. She began publishing adult science fiction, horror, and avant-garde short fiction in the mid-1980s. Her 1991 debut novel The Cipher, the first entry in Dell's Abyss horror line, won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel and the Locus Award for Best First Novel, and remains a touchstone of body-horror fiction. She has since written young adult novels, the historical Under the Pop...
Michael Kelly is the author of nEvermore! Tales of Murder, Mystery and the Macabre. He's a writer who clearly enjoys exploring the darker side of storytelling. If you like a good thrill with a touch of the unsettling, his work is definitely worth checking out.
Nathan Ballingrud is the editor of The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror. He's a writer who knows his way around the darker corners of speculative fiction.
Siobhan Carroll, born in Vancouver in 1980, is a Canadian writer and professor of English at the University of Delaware, where she has taught since 2008 after earning her PhD at Indiana University Bloomington. She specializes in British literature of 1750-1850 and environmental humanities. Her nonfiction study An Empire of Air and Water: Uncolonizable Space in the British Imagination, 1750-1850 examines how the era imagined the poles, oceans, and atmosphere as spaces resistant to imperial contro...
Julio Florencio Cortázar (Ixelles, 26 de agosto de 1914-París, 12 de febrero de 1984) fue un escritor, poeta y profesor argentino. También trabajó como traductor, oficio que desempeñó para la Unesco y varias editoriales. En 1981, sin renunciar a su nacionalidad argentina, optó por la francesa en protesta contra la dictadura militar en su país, que prohibió sus libros y que él denunció a la prensa internacional desde su residencia en París. Se lo considera uno de los autores más innovadores y ori...
Karen Joy Fowler is the editor behind The New Wave Fabulists and McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales. She's a fantastic curator of imaginative fiction.
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Caitlín Rebekah Kiernan (born 26 May 1964) is an Irish-born American paleontologist and writer of science fiction and dark fantasy works, including 10 novels, series of comic books, and more than 250 published short stories, novellas, and vignettes. Kiernan is a two-time recipient of both the World Fantasy and Bram Stoker awards.
Source: [Caitlín R. Kiernan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caitl%C3%ADn_R._Kiernan) on Wikipedia.
Rich Larson writes science fiction and fantasy. His short stories have appeared in major anthologies like The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022 and The Year's Best Science Fiction Vol. 1, as well as magazines such as Clarkesworld.
Carmen Maria Machado is the author of Wastelands, a collection that explores themes of horror and the uncanny. Her work often blends genre fiction with sharp, insightful prose.
Usman T. Malik writes science fiction and horror, with his own work including Final Cuts. His stories are also featured in anthologies such as Best of World SF and The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu. He has been recognized in The Long List Anthology series.
Nick Mamatas writes and edits a range of dark fiction, often exploring horror and speculative themes. You might know his work from collections like Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories or Lovecraft's Monsters. He's also the author of Whispers from the Abyss and Shadows Over Main Street.
Sunny Moraine is an author of dark fantasy, horror, and speculative fiction. Their stories have appeared in Mythic Delirium and Clarkesworld, and they are included in The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2014. You can also find their collection, Singing With All My Skin and Bone.
Sarah Pinsker writes compelling stories across science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Her work has been featured in "The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy," "The Year's Best Dark
Karin Tidbeck writes distinctive science fiction, dark fantasy, and weird fiction. Her short stories appear in collections like The Year's Best Science Fiction Vol. 1 and Weird Tales 358, plus her own collection Jagannath: Stories.
Charles Wilkinson writes speculative fiction, with stories featured in Theaker's Quarterly Fiction and SYNTH. Readers can find his work in multiple issues of both publications.
Isabel Yap was born and raised in Manila and has lived in the United States since 2010, holding a BS in marketing from Santa Clara University and an MBA from Harvard Business School; she works as a product manager alongside her writing. Her Filipino speculative fiction and poetry have appeared in Nightmare, Tor.com, and multiple award-nominated anthologies. Her debut collection, Never Have I Ever, portrays Filipino girlhood and queerness through folklore-infused stories and won the British Fanta...