About Emmeline Clein
Emmeline Clein is a writer MFA candidate at Columbia University. Her work has been published in The Yale Review, The Nation, Buzzfeed News, and other outlets. She grew up in Washington, DC, and is now based in Brooklyn. She is working on a book of essays about capitalism’s demands on the female body and the cultural production of eating disorders.
About Philip Fracassi
Philip Fracassi is the author of the award-winning story collection Behold the Void, which was named “Best Collection of the Year” from both This Is Horror and Strange Aeons magazine. His short stories have been published in numerous magazines and anthologies, including Best Horror of the Year, Nightmare magazine, Black Static, and Cemetery Dance. The New York Times called his work “terrifically scary.”
About John Goodrich
John Goodrich is the author of Hag and I Do Terrible Things, two very different horror novels. He has lived in New England, New Mexico, and California, finally settling down in the vicinity of Shirley Jackson’s house. His first story was published in 2004, and in 2020 he became a member of SFWA. If you want to talk about swamp monsters in comics, kaiju film, Icelandic sagas, or biplanes, good luck getting a word in edgewise.
About Alexis Nedd
Alexis Nedd is a pop culture writer based in Brooklyn, New York. By day she writes about movies, television, and video games as a reporter for Mashable.com, and by night she does the exact same thing, except for free and on Twitter. Alexis is a graduate of Columbia University, where she studied cultural anthropology and psychology, two subjects that actually did end up being useful in her career. Her debut novel, Don’t Hate the Player, released in 2021.
About Rachel Rutherford
Rachel Rutherford developed a passion for writing throughout her time attending comic conventions and diving into the world of graphic novels later in life. An Executive Legal Assistant by day, she found a creative outlet through fiction. Rachel was born and raised in Flint, Michigan, and now calls Detroit her home.
About Max Winter
Max Winter is the pen name of producer Chris Goldberg, founder of Winterlight Pictures. A former literary scout for 20th Century Fox, Chris was involved in the rights deals on Gone Girl, The Martian, and The Fault in Our Stars, all of which were #1 New York Times bestsellers and #1 at the box office. Since founding his own company, he has set up feature films and series at Netflix, Amazon, Universal, Lionsgate, Showtime, MGM, and others. He wrote “Retro” one night on his phone when he couldn’t sleep.
About Stefan Rudnicki
Stefan Rudnicki is a Grammy-winning audiobook producer and a multiaward-winning narrator, named one of AudioFile’s Golden Voices.
About Bronson Pinchot
Bronson Pinchot, Audible’s Narrator of the Year for 2010, has won Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Awards, AudioFile Earphones Awards, Audible’s Book of the Year Award, and Audie Awards for several audiobooks, including Matterhorn, Wise Blood, Occupied City, and The Learners. A magna cum laude graduate of Yale, he is an Emmy- and People’s Choice-nominated veteran of movies, television, and Broadway and West End shows. His performance of Malvolio in Twelfth Night was named the highlight of the entire two-year Kennedy Center Shakespeare Festival by the Washington Post. He attended the acting programs at Shakespeare & Company and Circle-in-the-Square, logged in well over 200 episodes of television, starred or costarred in a bouquet of films, plays, musicals, and Shakespeare on Broadway and in London, and developed a passion for Greek revival architecture.
About Kirsten Potter
Kirsten Potter has won several awards, including more than a dozen AudioFile Earphones Awards and been a three-time finalist for the prestigious Audie Award for best narration. Her work has been recognized by the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts and by AudioFile magazine, among many others. She graduated with highest honors from Boston University and has performed on stage and in film and television, including roles on Medium, Bones, and Judging Amy.
About Taylor Meskimen
Taylor Meskimen is an actress and a narrator. Her audiobook readings include several L. Ron Hubbard novels, such as Gun Boss of Tumbleweed and Death Waits at Sundown.
