Joe Vallese is Clinical Associate Professor in the Expository
Writing Program at New York University. His creative and pop
culture writing appears in Bomb, Vice, Backstage, PopMatters,
Southeast Review, and North American Review, among other
publications. He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and named
a Notable in The Best American Essays. He is coeditor of the
anthology What’s Your Exit? A Literary Detour Through New Jersey
(Word Riot Press). He holds an MFA from NYU, and MAT and BA degrees
from Bard College.
Kirsty Logan’s latest book is Now She is Witch (Harvill
Secker, 2023), a queer medieval witch revenge quest. Forthcoming
is The Unfamiliar (Virago, 2023), a memoir of queer
pregnancy and parenthood. She is also the author of two novels,
three story collections, two chapbooks, a short memoir, a 10-hour
audio play for Audible, and several collaborative projects with
musicians and visual artists. Her books have won the Lambda,
Polari, Saboteur, Scott and Gavin Wallace awards. Her work has been
optioned for TV, adapted for stage, recorded for radio and
podcasts, exhibited in galleries and distributed from a vintage
Wurlitzer cigarette machine.
Carmen Maria Machado is the author of the short story collection
Her Body and Other Parties, which was a finalist for the National
Book Award, and the best-selling memoir In the Dream House. She is
a Guggenheim Fellow and the Abrams Artist-in-Residence at the
University of Pennsylvania.
Samuel Autman writes at the intersections of identity, place, and
pop culture. His essays have appeared in Kept Secret: The
Half-Truth in Nonfiction, The Best of Brevity: Twenty
Groundbreaking Years of Flash Nonfiction, The Chalk Circle:
Intercultural Prizewinning Essays, The St. Louis Anthology, Sweeter
Voices Still: An LGBTQ Anthology from Middle America, and numerous
literary magazines. He teaches creative writing at DePauw
University. www.samuelautman.com
Jen Corrigan is a prose writer who lives in Iowa. Their writing has
appeared in Prairie Schooner, Catapult, Literary Hub, Salon, and
elsewhere. They are currently working on a novel.
Viet Dinh was born in Vietnam and grew up in Colorado. He attended
Johns Hopkins University and the University of Houston and
currently teaches at the University of Delaware. He has received
fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the
Delaware Division of the Arts, as well as two O. Henry Awards and
the Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction from Ploughshares. His stories
have appeared in Zoetrope: All-Story, Witness, Fence, Five Points,
Chicago Review, Threepenny Review, and Best American Nonrequired
Reading 2017. His debut novel, After Disasters, a finalist for the
PEN/Faulkner Prize, was released in 2016. He is still wary of
summer camps.
Jude Ellison S. Doyle is the author of Trainwreck: The Women We
Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear . . . and Why (Melville House, 2016)
and Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the
Fear of Female Power (Melville House, 2019), the latter being named
one of Kirkus Reviews’s Best Non-Fiction Books of 2019. Maw, his
horror comic series from BOOM! Studios, debuted in September
2021.
Ryan Dzelzkalns has poems appearing with Assaracus, DIAGRAM, The
Offing, the Shanghai Literary Review, Tin House, and others. He
received an MFA from New York University and a BA from Macalester
College, where he was awarded the Wendy Parrish Poetry Prize. He
was recently a Fulbright scholar in Tokyo, where he still lives.
www.RyanDz.com
Sarah Fonesca is a self-taught writer from the Georgia foothills
who lives in New York City. Her fiction and cinema writing have
appeared in Bosie, Evergreen Review, Leste Magazine, the Los
Angeles Review of Books, Museum of the Moving Image’s Reverse Shot,
and others. She is a coeditor of The New Lesbian Pulp, forthcoming
from Feminist Press.
Bruce Owens Grimm is a Pushcart-nominated, queer ghost-nerd based
in Chicago. He is a coeditor of Fat and Queer: An Anthology of
Queer and Trans Bodies and Lives. His essays and reviews have
appeared in The Rumpus, Brevity’s Nonfiction Blog, Sweet: A
Literary Confection, Entropy, AWP’s Writer’s Notebook, Iron Horse
Literary Review, Older Queer Voices, Ghost City Review, and
elsewhere. He attended the 2021 Tin House Winter Workshop as well
as residencies and workshops at The Fine Arts Work Center in
Provincetown, Vermont Studio Center, and the Virginia Center for
the Creative Arts (VCCA) among others. @bruceowensgrimm
Richard Scott Larson earned his MFA from New York University, and
he is the recent recipient of fellowships from MacDowell and the
New York Foundation for the Arts. His creative and critical work
has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Chicago Review of
Books, Harvard Review, Colorado Review, Electric Literature, and
elsewhere. His writing has also been listed as notable in The Best
American Essays, and he is an active member of the National Book
Critics Circle.
Jonathan Robbins Leon identifies as a queer author of memoir and
fiction. His work has been published by Flame Tree Press, Dark Moon
Digest, and Distant Shore Publishing. He regards himself as a
Shirley Jackson enthusiast and decent Bette Davis impersonator. He
and his husband Nick are caretakers of a haunted house and fathers
to a super villain.
Tucker Lieberman is the author of very trans nonfiction books -
Painting Dragons, Bad Fire, and Ten Past Noon - and a bilingual
poetry collection, Enkidu Is Dead and Not Dead / Enkidu está muerto
y no lo está. Among the anthologies to which he has contributed,
Lambda Literary has recognized Balancing on the Mechitza (2011
winner), Letters For My Brothers (2012 finalist), and
Trans-Galactic Bike Ride (2021 finalist). Tucker is frightened by
pumpkin spice lattes, which is not to say he would never drink one,
since things that are frightening are sometimes good. Previously,
he worked for a decade for an investment company, and this was
mostly not scary. Originally from Boston, he now haunts Bogotá,
Colombia, with his husband, Arturo Serrano, where they scheme about
how to publish their novels. www.tuckerlieberman.com
Zefyr Lisowski is a trans and queer writer, artist, three-time
Pushcart nominee, and North Carolinian currently living in NYC.
She’s a Poetry Coeditor for Apogee and the author of Blood Box,
winner of the Black River Editor’s Choice Award from Black Lawrence
Press and released in fall 2019; she’s also the author of the
microchap Wolf Inventory (Ghost City Press, 2018) and a 2019 Tin
House Summer Workshop Fellow. Zefyr’s work has appeared in Literary
Hub, Nat. Brut., Muzzle Magazine, and DIAGRAM, among many other
places. She’s also received support from Sundress Academy for the
Arts, McGill University, the New York Live Ideas Fest, the Blue
Mountain Center for the Arts, and the 2019 CUNY Graduate Center
Adjunct Incubator Grant.
Laura Maw is a writer of essays and arts criticism. Her work has
been published in the New Statesman, the White Review, the Los
Angeles Review of Books, Hazlitt, Electric Literature, and Literary
Hub, among others.
Carrow Narby is a hobbyist writer based on the north shore of
Massachusetts. Their essays and fiction have appeared in Bitch, The
Toast, The Establishment, PodCastle, and Glittership. They also
contributed a piece of fabricated scholarship to The Anthology of
Babel, published in 2020 by Punctum Books.
Sachiko Ragosta (they/them) is a Bay Area–based speculative fiction
writer, sexual and reproductive health researcher, and sex
educator. As a nonbinary, mixed-race, second generation Japanese
American writer, they use fiction to examine the resilience and
resolve born out of nonbelonging. They are the author of the
chapbook The Mythology of Blood and Boyhood, available on their
website sachikor.com, and are currently working with Intergalactic
Gaysians, a group of Queer and Trans Asian and Pacific Islander
(QTAPI) writers, to publish an anthology of QTAPI speculative
fiction.
Sumiko Saulson is an award-winning author of Afrosurrealist and
multicultural sci-fi and horror. Ze is the editor of the
anthologies and collections Black Magic Women, Scry of Lust, Black
Celebration, and Wickedly Abled. Ze is the winner of the 2016 HWA
StokerCon Scholarship from Hell, 2017 BCC Voice Reframing the Other
contest, 2017 Mixy Award, and the 2018 AWW Afrosurrealist Writer
Award, and is a 2020 HWA Diversity Grant recipient. Ze has an AA in
English from Berkeley City College and writes a column called
'Writing While Black' for the San Francisco BayView, a national
Black newspaper. Ze is the host of the SOMA Leather and LGBT
Cultural District’s Erotic Storytelling Hour and Social Media
Manager at the Horror Writers Association.
Prince Shakur is an award-winning queer Jamaican American writer,
organiser, and podcast host living in Columbus, Ohio. His
journalism and nonfiction have appeared in Teen Vogue, Vice, Level,
and more on social movements, black resilience in the face of
iconography, and queer culture. His memoir When They Tell You to Be
Good is forthcoming from Tin House Books.
Bishakh Som is an Indian American trans femme visual artist and
author. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Autostraddle,
We’re Still Here, Beyond, vol. 2, The Strumpet, the Boston Review,
Black Warrior Review, Vice, the Brooklyn Rail, Buzzfeed, Ink Brick,
the Huffington Post, The Graphic Canon vol. 3, and Little Nemo:
Dream Another Dream. She received the Xeric grant in 2003 for her
comics collection Angel. Her graphic novel Apsara Engine (Feminist
Press) is the winner of a 2021 L.A. Times Book Prize for Best
Graphic Novel and a 2021 Lambda Literary Award winner for Best
LGBTQ Comics. Her graphic memoir Spellbound (Street Noise Books)
was also a 2021 Lambda Literary Award finalist.
Will Stockton teaches English in Clemson, South Carolina. His
essays have appeared in Hotel America, Broad Street, and Bennington
Review.
Grant Sutton writes and practices acupuncture in New Orleans,
Louisiana.
Tosha R. Taylor is a lecturer in Languages, Literature, and Writing
at Manhattanville College in New York. Her academic research
predominantly concerns abjection and extreme violence and sexuality
in horror media, as does her creative work. Recently published
works include studies of horror memes, post-object fandoms, women’s
horror filmmaking, queer horror, and performative masculinity in
rock music. She holds a PhD from Loughborough University.
S. Trimble is a writer and teacher from Toronto, Ontario. She’s
written on pop culture for The ROM Magazine and Bitch Media, and
her book on visions of the end times, Undead Ends: Stories of
Apocalypse, is available from Rutgers University Press. Trimble
teaches courses on pop culture and writing at the University of
Toronto’s Women and Gender Studies Institute. She’s a puppy parent,
NBA nerd, and fan of all things monstrous and ghostly.
Steffan Triplett is a poet and essayist from Joplin, Missouri. His
essays have appeared in Electric Literature, Longreads, Literary
Hub, Vulture, and Iowa Review. Steffan’s work has been anthologized
in Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color
(Nightboat, 2018), Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter
Era (Routledge, 2019), and Sweeter Voices Still: An LGBTQ Anthology
from Middle America (Belt Publishing, 2021). Steffan has been a
fellow for Callaloo and Lambda Literary and is a VONA/Voices
alumnus. He currently teaches at the University of Pittsburgh where
he is the interim Assistant Director for the Center for African
American Poetry and Poetics.
Addie Tsai (any/all) is a queer nonbinary artist and writer of
color. They collaborated with Dominic Walsh Dance Theater on Victor
Frankenstein and Camille Claudel, among others. Addie holds an MFA
from Warren Wilson College and a PhD in Dance from Texas Woman’s
University. She is the author of the queer Asian young adult novel
Dear Twin. Unwieldy Creatures, their adult queer biracial retelling
of Frankenstein, is forthcoming from Jaded Ibis Press. They are the
Fiction Coeditor at Anomaly, Staff Writer at Spectrum South, and
Founding Editor & Editor in Chief at just femme & dandy.
Spencer Williams is from Chula Vista, California. She is the author
of the chapbook Alien Pink (The Atlas Review, 2017) and has work
featured in Muzzle, PANK, Apogee, and Bright Wall/Dark Room. She
received her MFA in creative writing at Rutgers University–Newark
and is currently a PhD student in poetics at the University at
Buffalo. Her film work has screened at Fotofocus Biennial and the
Milwaukee LGBT Film Festival. She tweets @burritotheif.
'A brilliant display of expert criticism, wry humor, and original
thinking. This is full of surprises.'
*Publishers Weekly (starred review)*
'A critical text on the intersections of film, queer studies, and
pop culture.'
*Booklist (starred review)*
'An essential look at how spooky movies so often offer solace
through subversiveness.'
*Electric Literature*
'An impressively diverse array of queer voices contributes their
opinions on how and why particular horror movies made a personal
and indelible impression on them.'
*Bay Area Reporter*
'A really terrific collection of essays by a great selection and
variety of different authors—both fiction authors, poets, and
essayists—about the intersection between queer studies and queer
identity and horror movies.'
*Gothamist*
'In this wonderful and only somewhat disturbing book (the subject
is horror, after all), queer and trans writers explore the horror
films that have shaped them and most reflected their own
experiences. Horror, the anthology argues, while often full of
misogyny and anti-trans, homophobic tropes, is also uniquely
subversive and queer.'
*Shondaland*
'This book is perfect for exploring the queerness of horror through
a kaleidoscopic lens.'
*Them*
'Weaving elegantly between passages on theory to first sexual
encounters and wrenching experiences with a surrogate, the essays
take surprising turns and don’t look for easy answers. The movies
they take on are as varied as the writing styles and traverse the
queer spectrum.'
*Bomb*
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