Tom Gartner’s fiction (of various genres) has appeared in numerous journals. One story was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He’s currently finishing up a mystery novel. He lives in California, just north of the Golden Gate, and works as a buyer for an independent bookstore in San Francisco. 

Miranda Dahlin is an anthropologist and emerging fiction writer from Manitoba, Canada. You can find more of her short stories in Macabre Ladies Present: Dark Carnival and Handmade Horror Stories. When she’s not writing or studying Latin American asylum cases in the US-Mexico borderlands, she’s listening to more 90s alt-rock than anyone would consider cool, and reading horror […]

Dustin Walker lives on Vancouver Island, Canada, with his wife and daughter. His short fiction has appeared in Yellow Mama, Pulp Modern, Dark Moon Digest and a handful of other places. Find him on Twitter at @dustinjaywalker

K. Anderson is a small town writer originally from Beulah, CO. Anderson enjoys a variety of homely hobbies such as baking, sewing, and other artistic avenues. Anderson is currently earning a BFA at Full Sail University and hopes to continue writing flash fiction in years to come.

Chris L. Robinson is a writer born and raised on the South Side of Chicago. An essayist, he writes about fatherhood and masculinity. He has a beautiful wife and a son that is gradually winning all of their wrestling matches. Send help. He can be found on Twitter as @ChrisLRobinson3. 

John Bosworth‘s short fiction has appeared in Mystery Weekly, Switchblade, and will be featured in the upcoming Mickey Finn 2 from Down & Out Books. He lives in Seattle, and can be found on Twitter @John_Bosworth_

Oreoluwa Oladimeji is a recent graduate of the Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University. Originally from Nigeria, she enjoys penning down her thoughts in the form of stories and will be starting medical school in the fall. She was a semifinalist in the Tulip Tree New Writers Story 2019 contest and has been […]

Scott Von Doviak‘s debut novel Charlesgate Confidential was published in September 2018 by Hard Case Crime. It was named one of the top ten crime novels of the year by the Wall Street Journal. Von Doviak is also the author of three books on film and pop culture, including Hick Flicks: The Rise and Fall […]

Sandy Smith holds an MFA in Creative Writing from UC Riverside and works as a freelance editor and writing instructor. Her work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, The Offbeat, Sky Island Journal, and Cleaver. She lives in Las Vegas with her family. On Twitter at @sandysmithwrites. 

Andrea Rogers is a writer (Cherokee) who received her MFA in Fiction from the Institute of American Indian Arts. She grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Andrea is a PhD student in English at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. Her historical fiction book for children on the Trail of Tears made the NPR best books list for 2020. […]

Crysta Parkinson has always been a writer, but she took a break to raise a great big “his, hers, and ours” family. Now that there is just one left to release upon the world (complete with plans for total world domination) and she has transitioned from band-aids and book reports to long phone calls with […]

Eli Cranor played quarterback at every level: peewee to professional, and then coached high school football for five years. These days, he’s traded in the pigskin for a laptop, writing from Arkansas where he lives with his wife and kids. Eli’s novel Don’t Know Tough was awarded the Peter Lovesey First Crime Novel Contest and will be […]