AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES Bios

 

Richard Dansky has written extensively for video games, TTRPGs, and fiction publishers over the last three decades. He’s published eight novels and two short fiction collections, contributed to over 100 roleplaying sourcebooks, and written or designed for more than 60 video games featuring franchises like The Division, Splinter Cell, and Far Cry. He was once the world’s leading expert on Denebian Slime Devils, and is the only working horror writer out there who has also won PC Gamer Magazine’s coveted “Mission Pack of the Year” award. His next book is The Video Game Writer’s Guide to Surviving an Industry That Hates You, which was released in August of 2025. He lives in North Carolina with a frankly improbably number of books and bottles of scotch, and you can find him online at www.richarddansky.com.

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Don Foster grew up in a town without a stoplight. His fiction has appeared in Canyon Voices, The Main Street Rag, Bull, and elsewhere. He currently lives in Dover, Delaware with his wife and kids. When he’s not writing, he can be found masquerading as a flooring salesman, driving to soccer games, or losing to his son in ping pong. You can connect with him on Twitter @donleefoster or see more of his work at www.donfosterwriter.com.

 

Christina Hoag’s short crime fiction has appeared in Black Cat Mystery Magazine, Mystery Tribune, Black Cat Weekly, Shotgun Honey, Guilty Crime Story Magazine, All Due Respect, A Rock and a Hard Place and Crimeucopia, Black Beacon Mystery and Vigilante Crime anthologies. One of her literary short stories was longlisted for The Commonwealth Foundation’s Short Story Prize 2025, placing in the top 2.5% of 7,360 entries. She is the author of noir novels Girl on the Brink (named Suspense magazine’s Best of YA), Skin of Tattoos, a Silver Falchion Award finalist, and The Blood Room, an Audible bestseller. A former journalist and Latin America correspondent, she lives in Los Angeles, where she has taught creative writing to lifers in prison. 

 

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 short story "The Art of Disappearance," which appeared in Dark Yonder Issue #6, was included in the 2025 edition of The Mysterious Book Shop Presents The Best Mystery Stories Of The Year. Her satire, humor sci-fi, speculative and horror pieces have been featured 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).

 

Tom Larsen lives in the Pennsport section of South Philadelphia, home to Mummers, Flyers and that “screw you” slant that made this city great. Tom worked as a journeyman printer for 30 years before scrapping it all for the writer’s life. His work has appeared in Raritan, The Los Angeles Review, Philadelphia Stories Magazine, New Millennium Writing and Best American Mystery Stories. He has also had two books published this year: Two Street, a short story collection featuring the South Philadelphia “attitude,” and Murder in Mexico, a fake-your-own-death insurance scam novel. Both are available on Amazon.

 

Mike McCrary is the author of Someone Savage, the Remo Cobb series, and Genuinely Dangerous. In addition to writing, Mike has been a waiter, a dishwasher, an investment analyst, a bartender, and an unpaid Hollywood intern. He's quit corporate America, come back, been fired, been promoted, and fired again. Currently, he writes stories about questionable people who make questionable decisions from his home in Texas. Keep up with Mike at www.mikemccrary.com.

 

Armand Rosamilia is a full-time crime thriller and horror author who lives in Jacksonville, Florida. He has over 150 releases to date in his 35+ year career. Lots of novels, novellas, short stories, and flash fiction pieces. He loves coffee, bourbon, and bourbon-flavored coffee. He was born and raised in New Jersey but don't hold that against him. You can find out even more about him at armandrosamilia.com and all over social media. He also likes talking in third person. 

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Tonya Simpson is an award-winning (and losing!) journalist-turned-fiction-author who spent a decade writing and producing feature stories for ESPN. Her 2018 story of a soccer ball recovered from the wreckage of the Challenger disaster was named one of the best longform stories of the year by The Sunday Long Read. She has additional bylines to her credit in The New York Times, Narratively, The Assembly and more. She is originally from Connecticut but now lives and writes in Hillsborough, North Carolina. When not haunting the local library, she’s likely tinkering in the kitchen or petting strangers’ dogs. You can reach her on Instagram @tonyamichelle_.

 

Gabriela Stiteler is a writer and educator based in Portland, Maine. In 2023, her debut short story was published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine's Department of First Stories and was short-listed for the Robert L. Fish Award. She's since made the Other Distinguished in the Best American Mystery and Suspense in 2024 and 2025. You can find her writing in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, The Best New England Crime Writing, Dark Waters Anthology, Shotgun Honey Presents: At the Edge of Darkness, Rock and a Hard Place, and Stone's Throw. Learn more about her work at https://www.gabrielastiteler.com and follow her on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gabrielastiteler/.

 

Mike Zimmerman is an award-winning writer, journalist, and editor whose work has appeared in Men’s Health, The Wall Street Journal, Philadelphia, WebMD, AARP, Best Life, and many others. His short fiction has appeared in Dark Yonder, Pulphouse, Rock and a Hard Place, Shotgun Honey, and more. His crime novels A Mosquito Over Sunset and Where the Sun Don’t Shine are available in print and ebook, and his horror novella Bad Tunes and second fiction collection Darkness Doubled were released earlier this year. Follow him on Bluesky @zimwrites and find him at www.zimwrites.com.