Biographies Paul Brookes was shop assistant, security guard, postman, admin. assistant, poetry performer with “Rats for Love” and his work included in “Rats for Love: The Book”, Bristol Broadsides, 1990. His first chapbook was “The Fabulous Invention Of Barnsley”, Dearne Community Arts, 1993. He has read his work on BBC Radio Bristol and had a creative writing workshop for sixth formers broadcast on BBC Radio Five Live. Recently published in “Clear Poetry”, “The Beatnik Cowboy”, “Ekphrastic Review”, “In Between Hangovers”, “Three Drops From The Cauldron.” Bill Garten has published poetry in Rattle, Asheville Poetry Review, California State Poetry Quarterly, Portland Review, Wisconsin Review, Antietam Review, The Comstock Review, Hawaii Review and others. He is a graduate student in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Ashland University. He also has been anthologized in Wild Sweet Notes, And Now The Magpie and What The Mountains Yield. Billy Leigh is a Wolf who enjoys writing stories and sharing them in his free time. So far, he has been published in Thurston Howl’s “Seven Deadly Sins” and “SPECIES: Wolves” anthologies. When he is not writing, Billy likes to spend time listening to music, reading or going out for walks and hikes with his boyfriend. Daniel Lowd likes dogs, unicycles, and researching artificial intelligence. By day, he is a computer science professor. By night, he is also a computer science professor, because he tends to work odd hours. At various other times (dusk? gloaming? teatime?) he writes a few words of fiction or the occasional song. Mary E. Lowd writes stories and collects creatures. She’s had three novels and more than seventy-five short stories published so far. Her fiction has won an Ursa Major Award and two Cóyotl Awards. Meanwhile, she’s collected a husband, daughter, son, bevy of cats and dogs, and the occasional fish. The stories, creatures, and Mary live together in a crashed spaceship disguised as a house, hidden in a rose garden in Oregon. Learn more at www.marylowd.com. Ken MacGregor’s written work has appeared in dozens of anthologies and magazines, and the occasional podcast. He has two story collections, AN ABERRANT MIND, and SEX, GORE & MILLIPEDES. He edits an annual anthology (RECURRING NIGHTMARES) for the Great Lakes Association of Horror Writers. Ken is
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