Mercurio D. Rivera's short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Interzone (#204 and #214), Abyss and Apex (1st Quarter 2008 www.abyssandapex.com), Sybil's Garage, Sounds of the Night, Northwest Passages: A Cascadian Anthology and elsewhere. His story "Longing for Langalana" won Interzone's annual readers' poll for favorite story of 2006. He practices law by day, and by night writes short stories and serves as an Associate Editor at Sybil's Garage magazine (www.sensesfive.com). He is a proud member of the highly regarded Manhattan writing group, Altered Fluid (www.alteredfluid.com).
Author's site: http://www.mercuriorivera.com

Ian R. Faulkner is a UK based writer previously published in CRIMEWAVE (issues #8 and #9), the year's BEST BRITISH MYSTERIES, SINISTER TALES, NITEBLADE, THE WRITTEN WORD Literary MAGAZINE and BLACK STATIC #3. His forthcoming work is due to appear in ON THE NIGHT HIGHWAYS #2, CRIMEWAVE #10, ALL HALLOWS and MURKY DEPTHS #3. Ian contributes to the monthly webzine of VHS & DVD reviews, VIDEOVISTA.NET.
Author's site: http://www.ianrfaulkner.com

Lawrence Dagstine has been writing dark, pulpy tales of science fiction, fantasy, and horror since 1996. His short fiction has graced many a paying, print, and online venue within the genre field. Almost 300+ publication credits in twelve years, but he still calls it his little side hobby. Considered by friends a die-hard scifi geek and horror fanatic, he heralds from Brooklyn, New York, where he lives with his beautiful wife and son, dreaming the great writer’s dream…
Author's site: http://www.lawrencedagstine.com

Trent Roman is a writer from Montréal with an interest in all types of fiction strange and unusual in addition to academic interests in archaeology, anthropology, history and a number of other fields. He is fascinated by what makes people tick at both the intimately personal level and the sweeping societal level, and enjoys every opportunity to pursue such questions through the means of fiction. He occasionally maintains a cruddy website listed below, including a list of other publications where his stories have appeared.
Author's site:
http://www.geocities.com/trent_roman/index.html