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K.B. Wagers

April 4, 2026 / ravenchair

K.B. Wagers has a bachelor’s degree in Russian Studies and their non-fiction writing has earned them an Air Force Space Command media contest award for best guest writer. A native of Colorado, they currently live in the north of the state with plenty of access to hiking trails. They are a firm believer in the importance of rest and have given several talks on burnout and the deluge of toxic productivity especially in the publishing industry.

K.B. has an avid interest in martial arts and non-violence, seeing these two things as flip sides of the same coin rather than paradoxical ideas. They enjoy whiskey and coffee in unequal measure, would gladly live in the post-apocalyptic wasteland of Horizon Zero Dawn (until they were likely felled by a machine). During the hockey season you can find them buried under an Avalanche and the rest of the year they defend the managed democracy of Super Earth with the other Helldivers.

K.B. is the author of the NeoG Adventures from Harper Voyager and the Indranan and Farian War trilogies from Orbit Books. They are a fan of whiskey and cats, Jupiter Ascending, and the Muppets.

Mur Lafferty

April 4, 2026 / ravenchair

Mur Lafferty is an author.
Mur Lafferty is an editor.
Mur Lafferty is a podcaster.

Mur Lafferty podcasts about writing and writes about podcasting. She co-edits Escape Pod, a podcast with fiction. By writers.

She also writes about murders in space, zombies, Minecraft, and Han Solo. Her writing and podcasting have resulted in numerous award nominations and wins, such as the Best Semiprozine Hugo for Escape Pod, Best Novel Hugo and Nebula, Best Fancast Hugo, the Astounding Award for Best New Writer and was an inaugural inductee into the Podcast Academy Hall of Fame. Her books have received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, and Library Journal, and have been praised by Buzzfeed, CNET, NPR, among many others.

She lives in Durham with her family.

D.H. Aire

April 3, 2026 / ravenchair

D.H. Aire has published more than twenty books, most recent are Bigfoot and the Four Horsemen (Apocalypse Knot, Book III) and Children of a Lesser Dragon (Bred in Captivity, Book II). He’s also recently published two novella trilogies in single editions, Apocalypse or Bust and Apocalypse Knot: Hell World. His love of history and archaeology found expression in his epic fantasy/sci-fi Highmage’s Plight, Hands of the Highmage series, and Knights Tower series. He is a member of SFWA and an indy author. Follow him at: Twitter @DHaire15, Facebook (Dare 2 Believe), and dhaire.net.

Mike Allen

April 3, 2026 / ravenchair

Mike Allen writes spooky things—a Publishers Weekly reviewer once called his stories “nightmare fuel.” Two of his collections of horror tales, Unseaming and Aftermath of an Industrial Accident, were nominees for the Shirley Jackson Award, named after the author of The Haunting of Hill House.

To Mike’s delight, his newest novel, Appalachian horror yarn Trail of Shadows (Broken Eye Books, 2025), has been named a finalist for the 2026 Webster Award—an award that honors the memory of his dear departed friend Bud Webster.

His other novels include the post-apacolyptic swarming-undead sidearms-and-sorcery adventure The Black Fire Concerto (re-released by Ruadán Books in 2025) and its forthcoming sequel The Ghoulmaker’s Aria. He’s also the author of two more unnerving story collections, The Spider Tapestries and Slow Burn, and six books of poetry, among those the Philadelphia Inquirer Editor’s Choice selection Strange Wisdoms of the Dead.

His stories and poems have appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Apex Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Best Horror of the Year, Interzone, Nebula Awards Showcase, Strange Horizons, Weird Tales, and many other magazines and anthologies.

With his wife Anita, he runs Mythic Delirium Books, home to numerous award-winnning and award-nominated sci-fi and fantasy volumes that defy categories and expectations, including the five books in the Clockwork Phoenix anthology series. As an editor and publisher, Mike has twice been a finalist for the World Fantasy Award.

Follow him on Instagram @mythicdelirium and Bluesky @mythicdelirium.bsky.social.

Gregory Amato

April 3, 2026 / ravenchair

Gregory Amato made a career of selling his quill as a mercenary writer for many years. He wrote true and important things for newspapers, magazines, academia, and, for over a decade, intelligence analysis for the FBI.

Now, he writes fantasy stories based on the myths and sagas of the vikings. His fiction is often influenced by tales lost to time, usually full of high adventure, and always the sort that makes readers late to dinner.

Outside his time spent spinning yarns about vikings and wizards, he teaches Judo, brews beer, and plays D&D when he gets the chance.

Gregory lives happily with his family in the Pacific Northwest.

April J. Asbury

April 3, 2026 / ravenchair

April J. Asbury is a writer, teacher, and editor from southwest Virginia. She earned her M.F.A. from Spalding University and M.A. from Hollins. Her poetry and short stories appear in Artemis Journal, Still: The Journal, Gyroscope Review, Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, Songs of Eretz, Women Speak, Power of the Feminine I, Up Your Ars Poetica, Floyd County Moonshine, Anthology of Appalachian Writers, and other publications. Her poetry collection, Woman with Crows, is available on apriljasbury.com.

JM Beal

April 3, 2026 / ravenchair

JM Beal started writing seriously in 2001, behind the check-out counter at Walgreens on left over receipt paper, with a novel full of drama and romance and epic sword battles. In all honesty it will probably never again see the light of day.

It’s been a long road since then, through different genres and projects and full of life events that keep getting in the way.

In the grand tradition of writers who dream big, and jump without looking, she and a friend launched a publishing company in June of 2014. You can find them at Golden Fleece Press.

James Blakey

April 2, 2026 / ravenchair

James Blakey is an acclaimed author with over fifty short stories across multiple genres, earning three finalist nominations for the Short Mystery Fiction Society’s Derringer Award, including a 2019 win for “The Bicycle Thief.” His debut paranormal thriller, Superstition, was published by City Owl Press in 2024. James is publisher and co-editor of two speculative fiction anthologies: Charlottesville Fantastic: Arcane Echoes from Virginia’s Heartland and Shenandoah Fantastic: Mystic Whispers from the Valley’s Vales. An active member of the writing community, he leads critique groups in Harrisonburg, Charlottesville, and Shenandoah County, and is Secretary of the Rocktown Writers Guild. His short story collections include The Cat Who Loved David Duchovny, Fast Times at Spiro Agnew High, and The Five People You Meet in Atlantic City. When not writing, James summits US state high points—forty and counting—or embarks on bike-camping adventures along the East Coast. He lives in Broadway, VA. Visit JamesBlakeyWrites.com for more.

Bill Bridges

April 2, 2026 / ravenchair

Bill Bridges is a writer and game designer, most known for developing White Wolf’s World of Darkness horror RPG setting and the Fading Suns science-fiction universe (currently published by Ulisses Spiele). Bill lives near Atlanta, GA, where he currently serves on the boards of the C.G. Jung Society of Atlanta and Broadleaf Writers Association.

As one of the original crew behind the landmark World of Darkness property, Bill helmed the Werewolf: the Apocalypse line of books and games. He was Senior Content Designer on CCP Games’ World of Darkness MMO and was the lead designer of the award-winning Storytelling system rules for White Wolf’s Chronicles of Darkness. He created the Mage: the Awakening and Promethean: the Created settings, and developed numerous books in the Mage: the Ascension game series.

His fiction works include My Time Among the Stars for Fading Suns, and The Silver Crown, The Last Battle, and The Song of Unmaking novels for Werewolf: the Apocalypse. Bill contributed to world design for Segasoft’s Emperor of the Fading Suns computer game and co-wrote the scripts for Viacom’s interactive horror movie Dracula Unleashed and Interplay’s Star Trek: Starfleet Academy.
Visit Bill at bill-bridges.com.

Elizabeth Broadbent

April 2, 2026 / ravenchair

Elizabeth Broadbent is the author of Blood Cypress (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2025), Ink Vine, and Ninety-Eight Sabers (both Undertaker Books, 2024). A former journalist with bylines in The Washington Post, Insider, ADDitude Magazine, and TODAY! Parents, she was an eight-year staff writer for Scary Mommy; her essay, “A Mother’s White Privilege,” is used by anti-racism programs in universities and activist organization worldwide. She has appeared as a guest on BBC World News, MSNBC, CNN, and NPR’s All Things Considered. An exiled South Carolinian, Broadbent lives in the Commonwealth of Virginia with her husband, three sons, two dogs, and many cats.