Vince Font is an award-winning writer and co-creator of the Shadows on the Page book series, which features the artwork of his wife, Jane Font (aka Painting with Jane). His other works include the award-winning American Sons: The Untold Story of the Falcon and the Snowman and the rather gross horror novella Gnome Way Out. In addition to his work as a writer, he is also the founder and chief editor of Glass Spider Publishing, a hybrid micropublisher headquartered in Northern Utah.

LEHUA PARKER writes speculative fiction for kids and adults, often set in her native Hawai‘i. Her award-winning and best-selling series include the Niuhi Shark Saga trilogy, Lauele Fractured Folktales, and Chicken Skin Stories. Her short stories have appeared in Va: Stories by Women of the Moana, Dialogue, and Bamboo Ridge, and are collected in Sharks in an Inland Sea. Her plays have been performed by The Honolulu Theatre for Youth.

A Kamehameha Schools graduate, Lehua is a passionate advocate of indigenous voices and authentic representation in media. She is a frequent speaker at conferences, schools, and symposiums, and mentors through the Lehua Writing Academy and PEAU Lit. When the right project wanders by, she’s also a freelance editor and story consultant.

Now living in exile in the high Rocky Mountains, during the snowy winters she dreams of the beach.

Connect with her on her website at https://www.lehuaparker.com .

Mickie lives in the Southwest, where she spends her nights writing stories of horror and suspense inspired by her beloved rescue cats, Pal and Lassie. She spends her days sleeping with her fists clenched because Shirley Jackson taught her that not everything that wants to hold her hand is a friend. Find her on Twitter @MBollingBurke.

Jo Ann Schneider grew up in Utah and Colorado, and wonders how people who live in flat places can tell where they’re going. In her sixteenth year, Jo went with her family to Europe. This spawned a travel bug that will never be satisfied. One of Jo’s goals is to travel to all seven continents—five down, two to go.

Perhaps the most challenging thing Jo has ever done (besides write novels) was stick with her Shaolin Kempo classes long enough to earn her black belt. Persistence, not an overabundance of mad skill, is what got her there, and she just keeps going back for more. An intervention may be in order at some point.

Being a geek at heart, Jo has always been drawn to science fiction and fantasy. She writes both, and hopes to introduce readers into worlds that wow them and characters that they can cheer for.

Jo lives in Salt Lake City, Utah with her adorkable husband, Jon, who is very useful for science and computer information as well as getting items off of top shelves. By day she is a mechanical designer of disgustingly expensive hand-crafted steel lights, and by night she is a ninja. Woosh, woosh.

Robert Bagnall is a writer of short and not-so-short fiction, working primarily in the genres of science fiction and new weird with a smattering of fantasy and horror. He was born in Bedford, England, when the Royal Navy still issued a rum ration and the nation had yet to accept everyone else’s definition of a nautical mile, and now enjoys a life of quiet desperation on the English Riviera. He is the author of the novel ‘2084’, and the short story anthology ‘24 0s & a 2’, which collects two dozen of his thirty-plus published stories from the 2010s. He can be contacted via his blog at meschera.blogspot.co.uk.

K. Scott Forman is a writer and editor. He received a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University, and was the recipient of the Robert Creeley Scholarship in 2007. He also received a Master of Arts and Education degree from the University of Phoenix, and a Bachelor of Arts in English and Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Maryland. Scott has taught English Composition at Weber State University since 2001 and currently teaches for the National Cryptologic University, Teaching and mentoring students in English and other subjects is a passion: Scott has taught courses in Developmental English, Composition, Research, Writing for Math and Science, and Haiku. He is a member of the Horror Writers Association (HWA) and enjoys long walks in inclement weather, sunsets with blood in them, and Metallica at volumes determined unsafe by the Surgeon General. He has had several short stories and poems published and is currently at work on the Great American Novel. He makes his home in the Rocky Mountains with his family and a collection of guitars. Find out what he's up to at https://fearknocks.com

C.R. Langille spent many a Saturday afternoon watching monster movies with their mother. It wasn't long before they started crafting nightmares to share with their readers. They are a retired, disabled veteran with a deep love for weird and creepy tales. This prompted them to form Timber Ghost Press in January of 2021. They are an affiliate member of the Horror Writer's Association, a member of the League of Utah Writers, and they received their MFA: Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University.

D. J. Moore grew up in Fort Union, Utah and currently resides in Salt Lake City's trendy SoTro district with his wife and daughter. He edited the literary magazine Megaera for seven years, and also wrote for Issues Magazine. He graduated from the University of Utah with an English degree. His poetry and short stories have appeared in The Blue Review, The Indite Circle, and several other places.

He loves to travel and has visited Chile, Peru, Mexico, Jamaica, Italy, and Scotland. He's an adventurous eater and spent the night of his 25th birthday violently ill after eating horse jerky he bought off some guy selling it on the side of the road. He's also a fan of quality cinema and appeared as an extra in Sharknado 4.

Caryn Larrinaga is an internationally best-selling mystery and horror author. She has won multiple awards for her work, including the League of Utah Writers Silver Quill and the Cat Writers Association Muse Medallion. In 2021, she was named Writer of the Year by the League of Utah Writers.

Watching scary movies through split fingers terrified Caryn as a child, and those nightmares inspire her to write now. Her 90-year-old house has a colorful history, and the creaking walls and narrow hallways send her running (never walking) up the stairs. Exploring her fears through writing makes Caryn feel a little less foolish for wanting a buddy to accompany her into the tool shed.

Caryn lives near Salt Lake City, Utah, with her husband and their clowder of cats. Visit www.carynlarrinaga.com for free short fiction and true tales of haunted places.

C. H. Lindsay (Charlie) is an award-winning poet, writer, housewife, and book-lover—not necessarily in that order. She currently has short stories and poems in over twenty anthologies (so far). Her poems have also appeared in magazines including Amazing Stories, Space and Time, Strange Horizons, Fantasy Magazine, and The Leading Edge. She is working on five novels, six short stories, and at least two dozen poems (although the numbers are always in flux).

She is a member of SFWA, HWA, SFPA, LUW, and is a founding member of the Utah Chapter of the Horror Writers Association. Mostly blind, she lives in Utah with her “seeing-eye husband,” library of books, and a bossy cat. In 2018 she became Al Carlisle’s literary executor. She now publishes his true crime under Carlisle Legacy Books, LLC.

Elizabeth Suggs is a writer, an editor, and a leader in the writing community. She obsessively writes each morning, lunch, and evening. When she’s not writing, she’s leading a group of writers through bi-weekly workshops on feedback and focused writing. She believes these meetings help writers understand themselves in the world and better prepare them for major publishers.

She is published in a podcast, a poetry journal, with news agencies, several anthologies, and headed an anthology project. She also helped an author publish his children’s book.

Outside of writing, Elizabeth devours literature through reading or listening. She tries any genre once, but she especially loves classics, horror, sci-fi, and psychology texts. Sometimes she even listens to audiobooks while playing games because she can stay productive that way.

She used to be a journalist, so many of her publications are nonfiction hard news and events, but she hopes to break the pattern and publish works of art in fiction and poetry, just like the authors she loves reading.

If you’d like to connect with her, please find her on Twitter: @elizabethasuggs

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Joshua P. Sorensen is from Orem, Utah (United States). He travels extensively, inspiring him to write poetry and short fiction. His other loves include history, nature, and all things geek.

His much neglected poetry blog can be found on Facebook @SorensenVagabondWriter