Award-winning author Danielle Ackley-McPhail has worked both sides of the publishing industry for nearly fifteen years. Her works include the urban fantasies, Yesterday's Dreams, its sequel, Tomorrow's Memories (Mundania Press), and the upcoming novella, The Halfling’s Court: A Bad-Ass Faerie Tale (Dark Quest LLC), the anthologies, Bad-Ass Faeries, Bad-Ass Faeries 2: Just Plain Bad (Mundania Press), and No Longer Dreams, (Lite Circle Books), all of which she co-edited, and contributions to numerous anthologies and collections, including Dark Furies (Die Monster Die! Books), Breach the Hull, (Dark Quest LLC), Space Pirates (Flying Pen Press), and the upcoming science fiction anthologies So It Begins (Dark Quest LLC) and Barbarians at the Jumpgate (Padwolf Publishing).

Adam P. Knave maintains hellblazer.net and zenbastard,org while juggling all his other writing, which includes the recently published Strange Angel series and the story “Meat” in the anthology, No Longer Dreams.

Brian Koscienski & Chris Pisano reside in south, central Pennsylvania where Brian is often chased by angry villagers wielding pitchforks and torches due to his uncanny resemblance to Sasquatch while Chris can often be found in newspapers and magazines under the headline "Cro-Magnon Man Found." Their obsession with writing is pretty thorough; their compositions range from stories to articles to comic books to novels and even haiku. They even went so far as to start their own small press publishing company called Fortress Publishing, Inc.

Brian Koscienski & Chris Pisano reside in south, central Pennsylvania where Brian is often chased by angry villagers wielding pitchforks and torches due to his uncanny resemblance to Sasquatch while Chris can often be found in newspapers and magazines under the headline "Cro-Magnon Man Found." Their obsession with writing is pretty thorough; their compositions range from stories to articles to comic books to novels and even haiku. They even went so far as to start their own small press publishing company called Fortress Publishing, Inc.

CJ Henderson is the creator of the Teddy London supernatural detective series, author of such diverse yet fabulously interesting titles as The Field Guide to Monsters, Baby's First Mythos and The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Movies and some fifty other books and novels. He has had hundreds of short stories published along with hundreds of comics and thousands of non-fiction pieces. The first novel in his latest series, Brooklyn Knights, will be coming out from Tor later this year. Published in some ten languages around the world, he is as beloved as he is rotund, which is saying a lot. For more on this happiest, and heaviest, of fellows, check out his website, www.cjhenderson.com, where he invites you to read the posted short stories. If you send him a pie, he will remember you in his prayers.

D.C. Wilson lives in Harrisburg, PA with his wife Maria and their dog Rosie. His fiction has appeared in such anthologies as Bad-Ass Faeries, No Longer Dreams, and Fantasical Visions III. He’s also been the feature author in the periodical Tales of Indiscretion. He attend Penn State University from which he earned both his Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees. Allegedly, he works for the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and teaches part-time at Harrisburg Area Community College, but these may be just rumors.

Donald W. Schank After hundreds of small press appearances (illustrations, poetry, book reviews, and interviews in the 1980s and 1990s) this is the author's first short story publication and his first appearance in print since his self-declared hiatus from the genre in 2001.

Elaine Corvidae has been telling stories about faeries, elves, and dragons since she was a small child. Her dark fantasy novels have won numerous awards, including multiple Eppie Awards and Dream Realm Awards for Best Fantasy Novel. When she isn’t wandering the worlds of her imagination, she lives in Harrisburg, NC, with her husband and several cats. You can visit her on the web at www.onecrow.net.

Hildy Silverman is the publisher of Space and Time, a four-decade-old magazine of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. She is also the author of several works of short fiction, including “The Soul Cloister” (2003, Wild Child), “Play Misty for Me” (2004, The Adventures of Mist and Vale, Ordover, ed.), “Picky” (2008, Dark Territories, Frank and SanGiovanni, eds.). She is a member of the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society and the Garden State Horror Writers. In the “real” world, she is a freelance writer who develops corporate training, marketing and web site content.

L. Jagi Lamplighter is a fantasy author. She has published numerous articles on Japanese animation and appears in several short story anthologies, including Best of Dreams of Decadence, No Longer Dreams, Bad-Ass Faeries, and the Science Fiction Book Club’s Don’t Open This Book. She recently sold her first trilogy, Prospero’s Daughter, to Tor. Volume One, Prospero Lost, is scheduled for the Winter of 2009. Her is http://www.sff.net/people/lamplighter/.

James Chambers “writes stories that are paced fast enough to friction burn a reader's eyeballs,” says Horror Reader.com. His tales of horror, fantasy, and science fiction have been published in Bad-Ass Faeries, Breach the Hull, Crypto-Critters (Volume 1 and 2), Dark Furies, The Dead Walk, The Dead Walk Again, Hardboiled Cthulhu, Lin Carter’s Anton Zarnak Supernatural Detective, No Longer Dreams, Sick: An Anthology of Illness, Weird Trails, and Warfear as well as the magazines Bare Bone, Cthulhu Sex, and Allen K’s Inhuman. His short story collection, with illustrator Jason Whitley, The Midnight Hour: Saint Lawn Hill and Other Tales, was published in 2005. His website is ww.jameschambersonline.com.

Jesse Harris has always had a love for telling stories: either vocally, dramatically, or written; as well as a love for the mystique of Japan and its history and mythology. His short story, Hidden In the Folds, proved to be a perfect launch point for bringing the two together. He lives in the Tri-State area with his wife and two children.

John Sunseri lives and works in Portland, OR. He is the co-author (with David Conyers) of the upcoming collection The Spiraling Worm for Chaosium, and is currently editing an anthology of cross-genre Lovecraftian fiction for Permuted Press. He's had over forty stories published in various magazines and anthologies.

Keith R.A. DeCandido (www.decandido.net) Keith’s short fiction can be found in Murder by Magic, Hear Them Roar, Amazing Stories, Furry Fantastic, The Town Drunk, 44 Clowns: 11 Stories of the 4 Clowns of the Apocalypse, Urban Nightmares, and Did You Say Chicks!? He’s also written a ton of fiction in the media universes of Star Trek, World of Warcraft, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Starcraft, Marvel Comics, Serenity, Farscape, Andromeda, Doctor Who, and tons more. He lives in New York City.

In addition to the first volume of Bad-Ass Faeries, Lorne Dixon’s fiction has appeared, or is scheduled to appear, in +The Horror Library+ Volume 2, Strange Stories Of Sand And Sea, Bound Is The Bewitching Lilith, Dark Distortions, Bound For Evil: Curious Tales Of Books Gone Bad, Dark Wisdom Magazine, and PS Press’ wildly anticipated Darkness On The Edge. In 2006 he was awarded the Graverson Award, by the Garden State Horror Writers.

Patrick Thomas is the author of 80+ short stories and fifteen books including the popular fantasy humor series MURPHY'S LORE. The eighth book, EMPTY GRAVES: Tales of Zombies, was recently released from Padwolf Publishing. His tentatively titled THE MYSTIC INVESTIGATORS OF PATRICK THOMAS and FAIRY WITH A GUN (a Terrorbelle collection) will be out in 2009 from Marietta Publishing and Padwolf respectively. Patrick co-edited HEAR THEM ROAR and the upcoming NEW BLOOD vampire anthology. Patrick has novellas in GO NOT GENTLY and FLESH AND IRON from the Two Backed Books imprint of Raw Dog Screaming. Patrick writes the syndicated satirical advice column DEAR CTHULHU. Drop by his website at www.patthomas.net

Film reviewer and screenwriter R. Allen Leider lives in Manhattan with his photographer wife Barbara, and four feline companions. He wrote the screenplay for the 1985 horror flick,The Oracle, hosted his radio show Cinemascene on WWFM for five years. He was an editor for The Monster Times, Show, Celebrity, Elite and other magazines. His work has appeared in anthologies such as Crypto Critters, Dark Furies, and Hear Them Roar. He is currently working on a film/novel trilogy Wicca Girl.

Vincent Collins was born in a circle of mushrooms and swapped out for an innercity child when no one was looking. This is the only explanation for how a writer of faeries could come from so deep in the ghetto.

Monica Richards, best known for her music as half of the critically acclaimed duo, Faith and the Muse, is also a writer and multimedia artist living just north of Los Angeles. A graduate of American University with honors in Literature, Monica has published three books through her own company, The Mercyground. Her most popular release is The Book of Annwyn, a fully realized creative work which contains re-workings of Welsh-Celtic tales as well as her poetry, essays, original art and graphic design. She has just released her solo CD, InfraWarrior, and a graphic novel, Anafae, based on Mother Nature. All aspects of her creative talents can be found at www.monicarichards.com.

Jeff Lyman is a 2004 graduate of the Odyssey Fantasy Writing Workshop. Since then he has been published in various anthologies, including No Longer Dreams by Lite Circle Press, Sails and Sorcery by Fantasist Enterprises, and Breach the Hull by Marietta Publishing. He was involved in editing both Bad Ass Fairies I and II. He is currently finishing up a novel about some pretty rotten fairies. By day, he works as a mechanical engineer near New York City.

Lee C. Hillman considers herself primarily a fanfiction author and has become a fascinated informal scholar of both fan culture and transformative works. Known online as “GwendolynGrace,” she is a founding administrator at FictionAlley, where she moderates discussion boards and records readings for their fanfiction podcast, “SpellCast.” She ran the first Harry Potter Conference (Nimbus - 2003) for HP Education Fanon, Inc., http://www.hpef.net/, and although she is the outgoing President of their Board of Directors, she looks forward to their upcoming conferences. By day she is a Project Manager, on the weekends she is a Baroness and bard in the Society for Creative Anachronism, and at all times, but mostly in the evenings, she is an actor, singer, and dancer in Boston area theatre. Sleep is optional.