Michelle Lodge is an illustrator and comic artist whose signature styles include both a stark black and white noir, and a contrasting comedic cartoon genre. She has drawn the comic series The Black Wall and the all ages series Whiz Bang the Boy Robot as well as the semi-autobiographical webcomic strip Moementality, and she is just about to launch a Kickstarter to compile it; get more info here!

Umiyuri Katsuyama is a Japanese writer of fantasy and horror. In 2011, she won the Japan Fantasy Novel Award with her novel Sazanami no kuni. Her most recent novel, Chuushi, ayashii nabe to tabi wo suru, was published in 2018. Her short fiction has appeared in numerous horror anthologies in Japan.

Alex Woodroe was raised—possibly by wolves—in Romania, on the outskirts of Transylvania. She found her way into Weird, transgressive fiction through a gateway in the woods and made a career out of doing terrible things to words in multiple languages. Her favourite Horror story is Alice in Wonderland. She is a member of the Horror Writers Association; you can chat with her on Twitter or at woodroewriting.com.

Lena Ng shambles around Toronto, Ontario as a zombie member of the Horror Writers Association. She gnaws brains at night so no one knows she’s awake. Her stories have appeared in dozens of publications, including Amazing Stories, Twisted Love, What Monsters Do for Love, and Hybrid Fiction; and in venues from Australia, Canada, the US and the UK. Lena has released a collection of her short stories, Under an Autumn Moon, and is currently seeking a publisher for her Gothic Romance novel, Darkness Beckons.