AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES

Patricia Abbott is the author of the Anthony- and Macavity-nominated Concrete Angel, the Edgar- and Anthony-nominated Shot in Detroit, and 2018’s story collection I Bring Sorrow: and Other Stories of Transgression. She won a Derringer for her flash fiction story My Hero. The author of nearly 200 stories, she lives in Detroit.

Steve Brewer is the author of 34 books, including his 1994 debut, Lonely Street, which was made into a 2008 Hollywood comedy starring Jay Mohr, Robert Patrick, and Joe Mantegna. Brewer worked two decades as a daily journalist and another decade as a weekly humor columnist. He also taught for 15 years at the Honors College at the University of New Mexico. In 2018, he and his family opened Organic Books, a new-and-used bookstore in Albuquerque. More at www.stevebrewer.blogspot.com and at organicbooks.net.

Vince Darcangelo is an award-winning journalist, author and photographer. His fiction and creative nonfiction has appeared in more than a dozen literary journals and anthologies, and he has published hundreds of articles in newspapers and magazines. The Colorado Society of Professional Journalists has honored his work with four writing awards, and Darcangelo has worked as a managing editor, A&E editor and freelance writer in his decade as a journalist. He sold his first short story in 1999, and his photography has appeared in various newspapers, magazines and journals. He is currently publisher and editor of Transgress magazine and the Ensuing Chapters literary blog. For more information, visit www.vincedarcangelo.com.

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Jill Haslam lives in Chapel Hill, NC with Sheriff, her old and personable dog (who has a lot of his own stories). Her main gig is working as a registered nurse in a big hospital, but otherwise spends time entertaining wild imaginings out of true life. She is honored to call Dark Yonder her first publisher.

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Curtis Ippolito is an Anthony Award Finalist, a Derringer Award Finalist, and the author of the crime novel Burying the Newspaper Man, his debut. Additionally, his short stories have appeared in numerous prominent publications, including Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Vautrin, Mystery Tribune, and Shotgun Honey, as well as being included in several anthologies including the Anthony Award-nominated Trouble No More, and 4:20 Noir. He lives in San Diego, California, with his wife.

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April Kelly is former TV comedy writer and producer who now does less soul-sucking work writing crime stories which have appeared multiple times in Mystery Magazine, Tough Crime and Shotgun Honey, with one-offs in Mysterical-E, Down & Out Magazine, Punk Noir and others. Her satire, humor sci-fi, speculative and horror pieces have been featured (or are upcoming) in Sci-Fi Lampoon, The Vanishing Point, DECASP and The Mark Twain Royal Nonesuch Humor Contest. She has twice made the final five of the Shamus Awards, and once for the Derringers. You can find her comic P.I. novel Valentine’s Day on Amazon, along with Winged, her Kindle International Book Contest winner (First Prize, General Fiction).

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Mike McHone is a Detroit-based author whose work has appeared in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine; Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine; Mystery Tribune; Guilty Crime Story Magazine; Tough; Rock and a Hard Place; Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine; The AV Club; and the Anthony Award-nominated anthology Under the Thumb: Stories of Police Oppression, edited by S.A. Cosby. He placed on Ellery Queen Reader’s Poll for the year 2020 and was the recipient of the Mystery Writers of America Midwest Chapter’s Hugh Holton Award for the same year. www.mikemchone.com

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Karen Ovér is back in Texas after more than a decade in New York City. Her latest works appear in the anthologies The Book of Carnacki, Two Thousand Word Terrors, The Legion Press, and the forthcoming Arkham Institutions, available October 2024 from Dragon's Roost Press. Visit her author pages at balletsandbogeys.weebly.com/golemwerks and  https://www.facebook.com/KarenOverAuthor/ When not in the midst of wrestling the cat for the keyboard (and dealing with persistent feline editing), she can sometimes be found clinging to a ballet barre, attempting to realign the vertebrae sent in all directions by hours of maniacal word processing.

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James Queally is an award-winning reporter for the Los Angeles Times who has covered criminal justice on both coasts for the past 15 years. When he's not writing about real crimes, he makes them up. He is the author of the novels Line of Sight and All These Ashes, which make up the Russell Avery series, and his short fiction has been published in Thuglit, Under The Thumb, Shotgun Honey, Out Of The Gutter and other equally seedy publications.

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Anthony Neil Smith is a novelist (Slow Bear, Yellow Medicine, The Drummer, Trooper Down, many more), short story writer (Bull, HAD, Cowboy Jamboree, Reckon Review, Tough, The Hooghly Review, Guilty Crime Story Magazine, many more), and professor (Southwest Minnesota State University). He is a former editor of Mississippi Review Web, Plots with Guns, and currently editor for Revolution John. His story The Ticks Will Eat You Whole was published in Best American Mystery & Suspense 2023. He likes cheap wine, Mexican food, Italian exploitation flicks, and French noir.