Catherine Cooke, author of the Mask of the Wizard and The Winged Assassin fantasy trilogies, is also Catherine Montrose, the author of dark fantasy The Wendigo Border. She lives in Washington State with two grown sons, an engineer husband, and two standard poodles. She is currently working on an epic medieval fantasy, The Gentlefolk War, and a young adult series, The Wayfinders.
A native Oklahoman, Michael now calls Arizona home. He’s the co-creator and writer of Blood and Dust, Volume 1: The Life & Undeath of Judd Glenny and volume 2, Glenny Family Values. He also has the story “The Eyes of Yba’Sokug” in the new anthology Cthulhu Is Hard to Spell by Wannabe Press, illustrated by Jonathan Howard. During the day Mike manages a Virtual Reality development team. He relaxes with his wife Jeanne, and dogs Max and Sadie Mae, sometimes camping and mentoring through New Pathways for Youth.
An award-winning cosplayer, Kyros got into the hobby in 2017 after moving to Oklahoma from Alaska.
She has hosted panels and judged cosplay contests at events across the state of Oklahoma. Believing craftsmanship to be key, Kyros excels at the modification of items to better fit a cosplay or a design. She also excels in her handiwork for her 3D-printed and hand-painted props.
When she’s not working on cosplay, she can be found glued to her computer either writing, creating digital art, or working in CSS and HTML/DOHTML coding. An avid gamer, Kyros enjoys playing on the PC and the PS4, predominantly playing games with a solid story line. She reads on occasion and really likes snuggling her cats, Jynx and Eevee.
Carolyn Kay enjoys crossing genres and imagining what normally inanimate objects would do if given life. She is currently collaborating with award-winning illustrator Chaz Kemp, on the World of Ashelon, a series of novellas set in a Steampunk fantasy world. When not writing, she can be seen dancing with Batavia, a tribal fusion belly-dance troupe, knitting, or playing with her beloved cats.
Rubiee is a renaissance Pooka who sings, writes, blends geeky loose-leaf teas, and creates functional pottery. Her mischievous grin and bright laugh herald her arrival. She owns Dryad Tea and Dryad Pottery, where her art is available for purchase. Find her at the Art Show.
Sally Hamilton is a 10-year veteran of the DFW Writers Workshop and has taught classes about the writer/graphic designer relationship at DFWCon. Her work has appeared in the anthology Strange Afterlives, and has written many posts for the Totally the Bomb blog. Her day jobs include graphic design, illustration, and hocking (rarely cursed) antiques. She reads comic books, watches cartoons, and has entirely too many long discussions with her husband, A. Lee Martinez, about both. She welcomes discussion with you about comics, anime, and cartoons in general. You can check out some of her art at sallyannhamilton.com.
J.H. Fleming received her bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing from the University of Central Arkansas. Her work has appeared in anthologies by NewCon Press, Evil Girlfriend Media, Mocha Memoirs Press, Seventh Star Press, and Pro Se Productions, as well as New Realm Magazine, and Visionary Tongue magazine. Her latest novel, The Queen of Moon and Shadow, was released in 2018 from Pro Se Productions. She owns roughly 1400 books and spends her free time reading, playing video games, and learning Irish. J.H. lives in Arkansas with her boyfriend, a Yorkie, and a turtle.
Adrian Simmons is a Norman, OK-based reader, writer, and editor. His essays, reviews, and interviews have appeared in Black Gate Magazine, Internet Review of Science Fiction, and Strange Horizons. His short fiction has been in James Gunn’s Ad Astra magazine, Pseudopod, Lackington’s, and GigaNotoSaurus. An avid backpacker, he has hiked over 1,000 miles. He is famous on the internet (in a good way), and still waiting to live in a center-left nation. He is one-third the editorial team of heroicfantasyquarterly.com.
Rook Riley was once a military linguist, burlesque-show bouncer, Krav Maga instructor and Department of Defense contractor. Current job titles are: Army vet, middle-school history teacher, parent, and short-story author. TL;DR: Combat vet, writer, game enthusiast, and linguistic badass.
Raised in the swamps and pine forests of East Texas, Seth Skorkowsky gravitated to the darker sides of fantasy, preferring horror and pulp heroes over knights in shining armor. His debut novel, Dämoren, was published in 2014. He has released four Urban Fantasy novels in his Valducan series. Seth has also written two sword-and-sorcery rogue collections with his Tales of the Black Raven series. When not writing, Seth enjoys cheesy movies, tabletop role-playing games, making YouTube videos, and traveling the world with his wife.