HANNAH LESNIAK is a believer of fairies, spirits, and truth. She knows that the truth can be bitter, but that tea can make anything better. She is a supporter of libraries and continues to make her way through the ranks to become a librarian (currently in the position of squire/circulation). She received her BA in English from Madonna University and is currently working on her Master’s in Library and Information Science at Wayne State University. She has been interested in The Steadfast Tin Soldier since she saw a narrated cartoon on the mysterious holiday compilation VHS found in her basement. To this day, she still has no idea from whence it appeared. That particular story had a happy ending, as did the Disney version in Fantasia 2000. When she read the original story, the ending haunted her, like death and beauty haunt us all, and led her to write Steadfast.

ALETHEA KONTIS is a storm chaser, world traveler, and New York Times bestselling author. She has received the Scribe Award, the Garden State Teen Book Award, and is a two-time winner of the Gelett Burgess Children’s Book Award. She was twice nominated for both the Andre Norton Nebula and Dragon Award. Alethea narrates stories for multiple award-winning online magazines, contributes book reviews to NPR, and does freelance work for Writing the Other. Born in Vermont, Alethea currently resides on the Space Coast of Florida where she watches K-dramas with her teddy bear, Charlie. Together they are ARMY, VVS, and Black Roses. 🥀

SHARI L KLASE has been writing since childhood, but only publishing since about 2011. She has published about 50 articles, stories, poems, and stories in anthologies. She lives and writes in a small town on the beautiful Susquehanna River with an artist husband, fellow writer daughter, and incorrigible corgi, Lucy.

JASON KIMBLE escaped the arctic climes of Michigan winters for welcoming, sultry Florida. That is, if by “welcoming” you mean “full of retirees who ooze a sense of entitlement,” and by “sultry” you mean
“grotesquely humid and prone to hurricanes.” But it’s definitely Florida. Plus: no snow to shovel.

TARRAN JONES spent over 10 years in the book industry selling other people’s books at a bookshop and thought it was about time she started thinking about her own. She has finished her first novel Stones of Power and is now writing the second. Tarran has previously written articles, reviews, and blog posts for her bookstore’s blog and has also written a great many short stories and an unpublished novella. Her story All That Glitters is featured in Twice Upon A Time.

Tales From The Scribe is a collection of speculative fiction stories, all written with a common mystical theme.

She loves writing all kinds of spec fiction and thinks that it fires up the imagination. Gardening is one of Tarran’s passions and, when she isn’t writing, she can be found talking to the plants out in her vegetable garden in Adelaide, Australia, where she lives with her partner and young daughter.

BRIAN T. HODGES lives amongst the moss, trees, and concrete of the Pacific Northwest. In addition to writing fiction, Brian is also a musician, having released several albums of esoteric and ethereal music under the moniker, The Blue Hour.

He can often be found wandering stream beds or trails, turning over stones to find new stories. His fiction has been published by New Lit Salon Press, The Bearded Scribe Press, Liquid Imagination, The Strange Edge, received an Honorable Mention from the Writers of the Future contest (V31 Q1 2014), and was a finalist in the 2013 N3F Amateur Short Story Contest. He has a story coming out later this year with Metaphysical Circus.

TONIA MARIE HARRIS resides in Southcentral Illinois. She lives and writes happily (albeit frantically) among chaos, poetry, and books. Her muse is a cross-dressing goblin with a penchant for rum and Kafka novels.

Her latest work-in-progress is the contemporary fiction novel about a young woman drawn into the family drug business to keep her younger siblings out of foster care.

Also in the works is collection of witchy poetry centered around surviving toxic relationships (including the ones we have with ourselves and various substances).

Her work has appeared in Twice Upon A Time, a collection of reimagined fairy tales, Hand/Eye Magazine, Mash Stories, Silver Birch Press, and various anthologies.

Chocolate is her kryptonite.

KELLY HALE is the author of several short stories, a novella, two plays, a co-authored TV tie-in novel of the Doctor Who variety, and her own book, Erasing Sherlock now available on Amazon Kindle. She lives in a crazy little place called Stumptown–jewel of the Pacific Northwest–where the streets are paved with espresso beans and the garbage recycles itself. She used to fantasize about sexy Vampires, Timelords, and Vulcans; now she fantasizes about making them a nice bowl of soup.

K.R. GREEN writes fantasy novels about the modern-day equivalents of prehistoric creatures. If it existed in the Jurassic period, then she’s likely got an ancestor in her novels: lizards, birds and winged insects alike.

She has flown hawks and held a dragon, but has yet to grow her own wings. Aside from the practical research, her writing process involves a lot of herbal teas, list-making, singing, video games, and reading.

She spends a lot of time over at the NaNoWriMo forums, tries to read a book a month, and writes a mixture of novels, articles, and journal posts. She generally attends a writing convention each year, and updates her blog once a week. Her article on writing first drafts was featured in #64 of Focus, the BSFA magazine in July, and details of her published fiction can be found on her blog store.

She also empowers people to unfold their own stories—facilitating mental health workshops, running a self-help business, and editing works-in-progress for novelists.

When she’s not painting pictures with words or working; she star-gazes, meditates, dances, handles hawks, and takes photographs. She lives with her two house-rabbits in the overcast lands of Hampshire, England.

JAX GOSS is something of a jack of all trades. She has, in her many lifetimes, been a teacher, an IT professional, a customer service guru, a trainer, an editor, a writer, a typesetter, a mother, a fire-dancer, a theatre nerd, a coffee connoisseur, and a social media whizzkid.

These days she is focussed on the mother/editor/social media/writer parts of that modgepodge of skills. She has a habit of trying to keep too many balls in the air at once, which probably comes from being just a little bit interested in everything, but this means that she has, despite herself, become a master juggler.

She drinks too much coffee, reads a lot of books, hates the word ‘utilise’ with the fire of a thousand suns, loves baby elephants, misses the African sun, and is endlessly interested in people and their stories.