Specters and Contributors

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Issue Twelve Contributors

Allen Ashley featured in “Speculative 66” issue 9 with “Security Tagged”. He works as a creative writing tutor with five groups running across north London, UK. He is a committee member for the British Fantasy Society. His most recent book is an updated, revised version of his novel “The Planet Suite” (Eibonvale Press, UK, 2016). He is the sole judge for the British Fantasy Society Short Story Competition.

Phil Berry's speculative fiction and poetry has appeared in Metaphorosis, Headstuff, Chrome Baby, Bunbury Magazine, Nebula Rift and Daily Science Fiction among others. Twitter: @philaberry Website: www.philberrycreative.wordpress.com

Many years ago, Kerry E.B. Black studied journalism at Penn State University, but creative writing remains her passion. Please follow the author at https://kerrylizblack.wordpress.com/ or https://twitter.com/BlackKerryblick

Freya Campbell / @spdrcstl collects jobs like stamps, and has been a cook, a garbage sorter, a recording engineer and a civil servant. She writes fiction and records music and makes short games, and can be found online at https://communistsister.itch.io, or in meatspace by the sea in Sussex, UK.

Claudia Gary writes, edits, sings, composes (tonally), and gives poetry workshops in the Washington DC area and elsewhere. She is author of Humor Me (David Robert Books 2006) and several chapbooks including Bikini Buyer's Remorse. Besides anthologies such as The Great American Wise Ass Poetry Anthology (Lamar University, 2015), Forgetting Home (Barefoot Muse Press 2013), and Villanelles (Everyman Press 2012), her poems are published in journals internationally. Her articles on health appear in The VVA Veteran and elsewhere. Web: http://www.pw.org/content/claudia_gary. Twitter: @claudiagary

Russell Hemmell is a statistician and social scientist from the U.K, passionate about astrophysics and speculative fiction. Recent work in Not One of Us, Perihelion SF, SQ Mag, and others.' Website: earthianhivemind.net Twitter: @SPBianchini

Rhys Hughes has lived in many different countries. He now works as a tutor of mathematics. His first book was published in 1995 and since that time he has published more than forty books and eight hundred short stories in ten different languages. https://rhysaurus.blogspot.co.uk/

Anna Kander writes with her sidekick, a fearless blue fish who doesn’t realize he’s only one inch tall. Her work is published or forthcoming in several journals, including Star*Line, Leveler, and Train. Find her at http://annakander.com or @AnnaKander on Twitter.

Herb Kauderer is an associate professor of English at Hilbert College, and the author of many short stories and poems including the recent mini-chapbook 'Cascade of Stardust'. His writing has been nominated for the Pushcart, Elgin, Analog AnLab Reader's, Rhysling, and Dwarf Star Awards, and has won the Asimov's Readers' Award, the Ewaipanoma Sonnet contest, and a WorldCon Poetry Slam among others. More can be found at his website HerbKauderer.com.

Thomas Locicero’s poems have most recently appeared or are forthcoming in Birmingham Arts Journal, Clockwise Cat, Snapdragon, felan, The Ghazal Page, Red Savina Review, Better Than Starbucks, Poetry Quarterly, Bindweed Magazine, The Skinny Poetry Journal, Abyss & Apex Magazine, The Avocet, and vox poetica. He lives in Broken Arrow, OK.

Kim Mannix is a Pushcart Prize nominated poet and fiction writer from Sherwood Park, Alberta. Her background in journalism and lifelong love of dark fiction means she spends much of her time pondering the nature of horror, both real and imagined. You can find her online at her blog www.makesmesodigress.com or on Twitter @KimMannix.

jfx mcloughlin is on an island in the Atlantic where he writes, some of it good, some even good enough to appear in various places around the net.

Guy Ricketts is a writer, artist and photographer. His stories have been published in Speculative 66, 101 Words, and Twisted Sister Lit Mag. His art was featured on the cover of Schlock! Webzine. He can be followed on Twitter @GuyRicketts

Fred Rock lives in a small village in northwestern Wisconsin with his wife and kids as well as his dog Cletus and a cat who barfs all the time. By day, Fred trudges about the countryside reading electric meters. (Yes, it’s still a real thing.) By night, Fred busts out rad-ass fictional short stories as well as occasional poems and meandering observations like a real rocking rocker who knows how to rock! Can you even stand it? It’s out of control.

Pushcart-nominated Gerard Sarnat MD’s authored HOMELESS CHRONICLES (2010), Disputes, 17s, Melting The Ice King (2016) and been published in Gargoyle, Lowestoft, Tishman Review, New Verse News etc. “Amber Of Memory” was the single poem chosen for my 50th college reunion Dylan symposium; the Harvard Advocate accepted a second plus Oberlin, Brown and other universities accepted concurrent pieces. Mount Analogue selected KADDISH FOR THE COUNTRY for pamphlet distribution on Inauguration Day for the DC and nationwide Women’s Marches. For HuffPo/other reviews, visit GerardSarnat.com. Harvard/Stanford educated, Gerry’s worked in jails, built/staffed clinics for the marginalized, been a healthcare CEO and Stanford professor.

Joshua Scully is an American History teacher from Uniontown, Pennsylvania. His fiction can be found at www.jjscully.wordpress.com or @jojascully.

Andrew Wheatley (@unclepapples) has been writing fiction and poetry for most of their life. They are located just south of Atlanta, Georgia. Their only aspiration is to write so well that everyone hates them.