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AE Stueve lives in Omaha, NE with his wife Kim, dogs Georgia and Piper, and cat Hillary. He writes scary stories and the occasional poem. Coincidentally, his latest novel, The ABCs of Dinkology: Deluxe is out on October 31, 2026.
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Ann Fulleros is a writer and English language tutor from the Philippines. Her writing explores memory, human vulnerability, grief, survival, and the darker spaces of the human experience. She is the author of The Betrayal and has written essays, poetry, and personal nonfiction on healing, identity, and becoming. Her work often examines the quiet intersections between pain and transformation. She continues to write fiction and poetry that seek beauty in difficult truths and stories in the shadows.
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Diana Olney is a Seattle writer of dark, speculative, and queer literature. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, optioned for film adaptation, and has appeared in publications by Blackstone Publishing, Small Wonders Magazine, The Deadlands, Merganser Magazine, Story Unlikely, and many others. Her forthcoming novella, Trauma Queen, will be published with Crystal Lake Publishing in 2027. And thanks to the dedication of her two furry assistants, all of Diana’s work is cat-approved! Visit her website dianaolney.com or Instagram @dianaolneyauthor for updates on her latest tales.
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Dixie L. Partridge grew up in rural Wyoming; lived most of her adult life along the Columbia River. Her poetry have won national and regional awards and appeared in many journals, including Poetry Magazine, The Georgia Review, Southern Poetry Review, and most recently Dialogue, MacGuffin and Healing Muse. Her two published books are Deer in the Haystacks (Ahsahta Press, Poetry of the West series); and Watermark, recipient of the national Eileen Barnes award. Personal impact of landscape is often at the root of her writing.
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James Garry is a writer and folklorist based in Midlothian, Scotland. His fiction and poetry draw on Scottish landscapes, folklore and the supernatural, with a particular interest in how the past inhabits ordinary places. He holds an MLitt in Scottish Heritage from the University of the Highlands and Islands, where he is now undertaking a part-time PhD exploring Scottish ghostlore and supernatural traditions. He also works as Assistant Director of the Cockburn Association, Edinburgh’s civic trust.
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Melanie Blignaut is a South African wife, mother, and teacher who has always loved to play with words. She writes in the pursuit of truth, goodness, and beauty. She has been published in The Simla Review. Her writing can be found at sometimesapoet.substack.com and on Instagram @melanie.blignaut.
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Nancy Brewka-Clark’s recent work has appeared in Scientific American, Close to the Bone, Yellow Mama, Mysterical-E, Love Letters to Poe, New Myths, and Eternal Haunted Summer. Her work has been anthologized in the U.S. by Malice Domestic, in the U.K. by Flame Tree, in Australia by Black Hare Press, and in South Africa by Sentinel Creatives. A member of New England Horror Writers, she’s the author of the poetry collection Beautiful Corpus.
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Pritidipa Das is eighteen years old and lives in Chittagong. She is currently in the twelfth grade, studying science at Chittagong Government Women's College. Even in the smallest of moments, she seems to see poetry, and she gets completely lost in it. She sits in silence, feeling every emotion within her; sometimes she laughs, other times tears well up in her eyes. It feels as though the whole thing is happening to her. And it is this raw experience that ultimately finds its way onto the page.
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Ron Schroer lives and writes in Canberra, Australia. He writes weird tales loosely based on the weird reality of his surroundings. His work has appeared in Midnight Echo, BFS Horizons, The Nameless Songs of Zadok Allen (anthology), Illustrated Worlds Magazine, Strange Legacy 2025: Creature Feature (anthology), Sinister Systems (anthology), and The Baneberry Book of Horror (anthology). His story Walpurgis won the 2025 Aurealis Award for Best Horror Novella. Visit him at www.strangefolly.com/
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Grief, loss, change and powerful emotions became fittingly frequent themes for Ruth's poems when she was invited to join GPS, a monthly online group - The Gorgeous Poets Society. As an advanced Grief Recovery Method specialist, Ruth delivers Grief Recovery programmes, in-person and online internationally, whilst also indulging in musings, philosophising and general blue-sky thinking, beneath the azure skies of Andalusia.
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Theresa C. Gaynord is an international author known for her work in horror, occult, and narrative poetry. As of August 2026, she has authored fourteen books and recently received a 2026 Pushcart Prize nomination for her poetry. She has also been nominated by Bloodroot Literary Magazine for inclusion in the Best of the Net Anthology 2027. Theresa has been actively writing and has been published since 1979.
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Zach Lamb is a Fictionist who creates thriller, horror, and dark fiction stories and poetry. He is the author of The Suicide Killer, Mourning Glory, Dark Water Sacrifice and Remove the Veil. Zach has an MFA in creative writing from Southern New Hampshire University. When he's not writing, he teaches writing and literature at Columbus State University. He lives with his wife and kids in Cataula, Georgia. Stay up to date at zachlambauthor.com
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The poem before the name.
Initial editorial review at The Mourning Lamp is blind. Publication history, credentials, and reputation do not enter the room before the work.
