Shaun Hamill grew up on a steady diet of horror fiction and monster movies. He holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and his fiction has appeared in Carve and Spilt Infinitive. He lives in Alabama.

Brian Evenson is the author of a dozen works of fiction.

He has been a finalist for the Edgar Award and the Shirley Jackson Award, and has won an International Horror Guild Award and American Library Association's award for Best Horror Novel.

He lives in Los Angeles and teaches at CalArts.

Camilla Grudova lives in Edinburgh where she works as an usherette. She holds a degree in Art History and German from McGill University, Montreal. Her fiction has appeared in The White Review and Granta. Her critically acclaimed debut collection, The Doll's Alphabet, was published in 2017.

Danny M. Lavery is a co-founder of The Toast and the author of Texts From Jane Eyre, The Merry Spinster, and Something That May Shock and Discredit You. Lavery wrote Slate's 'Dear Prudence' column from 2016 to 2021. He writes an email newsletter at Substack called 'The Chatner'.