Phantasmical Contraptions & More Errors
- Jennifer Lee Rossman (they/them) is an author and editor from the land of carousels and Rod Serling. They are queer, disabled, and autistic, and so are most of their characters. Find more of their work on their website jenniferleerossman.blogspot.com/ and follow them on Twitter @JenLRossman.
- Robert Bagnall was born in Bedford, England, in 1970, and now lives in Devon, between Dartmoor and the English Channel. He is the author of the novel "2084—the Meschera Bandwidth" and the anthology "24 0s & a 2", which collects two dozen of his sixty-odd published stories. Both are available from Amazon. Three of his stories have also appeared in the annual Best of British Science Fiction anthologies. He can be contacted via his blog at meschera.blogspot.com.
- Rose Strickman is a fantasy, science fiction and horror writer living in Seattle, Washington. Her work has appeared in anthologies such as Clockwork Dragons, Runs like Clockwork and Gilded Glass: Twisted Myths and Shattered Fairy Tales. She has also appeared in various e-zines and self-published several novellas. Please see her Amazon author's page at amazon.com/author/rosestrickman.
- As well as writing fiction, Arlen Feldman is a software engineer, entrepreneur, maker, and computer book author; useful if you are in the market for some industrial-strength door stops. Some recent stories of his appear in the anthologies The Chorochronos Archives, Particular Passages and Kevin J. Anderson's Gilded Glass, and in Little Blue Marble and Nocturne magazines. He lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado. His website is cowthulu.com. Twitter: @arlenfeldman.
- C.R. Johansson writes gripping, thriller, science fiction, and fantasy stories with a genetic twist. Her characters explore universes where the unknown prevails and the impossible is possible akin to her life with congenital heart disease. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and comical pugs. When not writing, she enjoys listening to the river nearby, working in her garden, papier-mâché, knitting, and sitting on the couch drinking tea.
- Ron Fein is a Boston-area public interest lawyer, writer, and activist. His speculative fiction appears in Daily Science Fiction and Sci Phi Journal; his humor writing appears in McSweeney Internet Tendency, Slackjaw, \emph and LOLcraft: A Compendium of Eldritch Humor. Find him at ronfein.com and on Twitter @ronfein.
- Henry Herz's speculative fiction short stories include "Out, Damned Virus" (Daily Science Fiction), "Bar Mitzvah on Planet Latke" (Coming of Age, Albert Whitman & Co.), "The Magic Backpack" (Metastellar), "Unbreakable" (Musing of the Muses, Brigid’s Gate Press), "A Vampire, an Astrophysicist, and a Mother Superior Walk Into a Basilica" (Three Time Travelers Walk Into, Fantastic Books), "The Case of the Murderous Alien" (Spirit Machine, Air and Nothingness Press), "The Ghosts of Enerhodar" (Literally Dead, Alienhead Press), "Maria & Maslow" (Highlights for Children), and "A Proper Party" (Ladybug Magazine). He's written twelve picture books, including the critically acclaimed I Am Smoke. www.henryherz.com.
- Wendy Nikel is a speculative fiction author with a degree in elementary education, a fondness for road trips, and a terrible habit of forgetting where she's left her cup of tea. Her short fiction has been published by Analog, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Nature, and elsewhere. Her time travel novella series, beginning with The Continuum, is available from World Weaver Press. For more info, visit wendynikel.com.
- Andrew Johnson was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and currently lives in northern Arizona. His fiction has appeared in Nebula Rift and in other JayHenge anthologies such as Unrealpolitik and the first Phantasmical Contraptions anthology. When not crafting stories, he pursues his other interests as a lapidary, an avid woodcarver and a published photographer.
- Simon Kewin is a fantasy and sci/fi writer, author of the Cloven Land fantasy trilogy, cyberpunk thriller The Genehunter, steampunk Gormenghast saga Engn, the Triple Stars sci/fi trilogy and the Office of the Witchfinder General books, published by Elsewhen Press. He's the author of several short story collections, with his shorter fiction appearing in Analog, Nature and over a hundred other magazines. His novel Dead Star was an SPSFC award semi-finalist and his short story \#buttonsinweirdplaces was nominated for a Utopia award. He is currently doing an MA in creative writing while writing at least three novels simultaneously.
- E.J. LeRoy is a freelance writer, poet, and aspiring novelist whose work has appeared at Submittable Content for Creatives, Transmundane Press Blog, and in a number of speculative fiction anthologies. "Mrs. Tilbury's Paramour" was inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's "The Nightingale," science fiction by Jules Verne, and France's Exposition Universelle of 1889. Visit the author's website at ejleroy.weebly.com.
- Like his favorite author, Chris Bauer started writing as an unemployed oil company executive. He has earned thirty-eight paid fiction credits, including reprints, and this will be number thirty-nine. His favorite authors are Chandler, Kafka, and Serling—his stories are often a mix of both. For more information about him, check out his Facebook page \facebook{www.facebook.com/chris.bauer.988711}, and his website wutastl.wixsite.com/wuta/chris-bauer.
- Holly Schofield travels through time at the rate of one second per second, oscillating between the alternate realities of city and country life. Her speculative fiction has appeared in many publications including Analog, Lightspeed, and Escape Pod, is used in university curricula, and has been translated into multiple languages. She hopes to save the world through science fiction and homegrown heritage tomatoes. \newline Find her at hollyschofield.wordpress.com.
- Jeff Young is an award-winning author who has contributed to the anthologies: Gaslight and Grimm, After Punk, Clockwork Chaos, In an iron Cage: The Magic of Steampunk, Writers of the Future V.25, and more. Jeff’s own fiction is collected in Spirit Seeker, the Steampunk adventures of Kassandra Leyden and Written in Light and Other Futuristic Tales. He’s also edited the TV Gods and TV Gods -- Summer Programming anthologies and is the managing editor for the magazine, Mendie: The Post-Apocalyptic Flower Scout. Finally, Jeff has also led the Watch the Skies SF&F Discussion Group of Camp Hill and Harrisburg for more than twenty years.
- Geoff Hart (he/him) works as a scientific editor, specializing in helping scientists who have English as their second language publish their research. He also writes fiction in his spare time, and has sold 49 stories thus far. Visit him online at www.geoff-hart.com.
- Gustavo Bondoni is a novelist and short story writer with over three hundred stories published in fifteen countries, in seven languages. He is a member of Codex and an Active Member of SFWA. His latest science fiction novel is Splinter (2021), a sequel to his 2017 novel Outside. He has also published four monster books: Ice Station: Death (2019), Jungle Lab Terror (2020), Test Site Horror (2020) and Lost Island Rampage (2021), two other science fiction novels: Incursion (2017) and Siege (2016) and an ebook novella entitled Branch.
- J. F. Sebastian is a Francophone who has been living and teaching in Toronto, Canada, for the last 17 years. Even though they have dozens of unfinished stories in French, it was during a creative writing course that they realized that writing in English (and under different, gender fluid, pen names) was a way for them to discover more about their identity beyond the limitations of their and established self. They still feel like a mess but the more they write, the more liberated they feel. Since they started writing in English they have been published in Interzone (upcoming), Savage Planet, Metastellar Magazine, Ab Terra Flash Fiction Magazine, Cloaked Press Winter of Wonder anthology, and others.
- Benjamin Thomas writes from New England where he unequally balances time between hiking, writing, and quoting seemingly random movies. His short fiction has appeared in a variety of publications and his medical thriller Jack Be Quick is available from Owl Hollow Press. Get in touch at benjiswandering.com
- Harry Whomersley is an editor and researcher who lives in New York. When he isn't working he mostly paints miniature soldiers and shows them to his bewildered dog. He has previously attempted to be a corporate lawyer, a cricketer and an academic. Jeffrey Archer once described him as "The most obnoxious man of his generation."
- Andrin Albrecht was born in 1995 in Switzerland, grew up speaking German, but fell in love with English during his university studies. His writing has appeared in The Foundationalist, Rougarou, and The Tiger Moth Review among many others. In addition to this, he regularly composes music for film and theater, plays guitar in the alternative rock band TRACK 4, and is currently pursuing a PhD in American literature.
- S.A. Cole has stories forthcoming in Zooscape and multiple anthologies. He lives in New Orleans, and when not busy changing diapers or working, he writes short stories. He often thinks that he might be wrong.
- H. N. Hunt lives in Pennsylvania where she spends her spare time hiking, reading, playing with her dogs, and avoiding anything that resembles housework. She is pleased to be featured in this anthology and looks forward to future volumes.
- Liam Hogan is an award winning short story writer, with stories in Best of British Science Fiction and in Best of British Fantasy (NewCon Press). He’s been published by Analog, Daily Science Fiction, and Flame Tree Press, among others. He helps host Liars’ League London, volunteers at the creative writing charity Ministry of Stories, and lives and avoids work in London. More details at happyendingnotguaranteed.blogspot.co.uk.
- Tim Kane loves things that creep and crawl. His first published book is non-fiction, The Changing Vampire of Film and Television, tracing the history of vampires in television and movies. Most recently published stories appear in Lovecraftia, Navigating Ruins and Dark Moon Digest. Find out more at www.timkanebooks.com.
- Damon L. Wakes was born in 1991 and began to write a few years later. He holds an MA in Creative and Critical Writing from the University of Winchester and a BA in English Literature from the University of Reading. He is the author of over 300 works of short fiction and upwards of one novel.
- Mike Morgan was born in London, but not in any of the interesting parts. He moved to Japan at the age of 30 and lived there for many years. Nowadays, he's based in Iowa, and enjoys family life with his wife and two young children. If you like his writing, be sure to follow him on Twitter where he goes by @CultTVMike or check out his website, PerpetualStateofMildPanic.wordpress.com.
- Douglas J. Ogurek is the pseudonymous and sophomoric founder of the unsplatterpunk subgenre, which uses splatterpunk conventions (i.e., transgressive/gory/gross/violent subject matter) to deliver a positive message. His short story collection I Will Change the World... One Intestine at a Time (Plumfukt Press), a juvenile stew of horror and bizarro, aims to make readers lose their lunch while learning a lesson. Ogurek also guest-edits the wildly unpopular UNSPLATTERPUNK! series published by Theaker's Quarterly Fiction. These anthologies are unavailable at your library and despised by your mother.
- Eric Del Carlo's short fiction has appeared in Analog, Asimov's, Clarkesworld and many other venues over the years. He wishes to thank Laura Frankos for her advice regarding the musical characters in this story; he also expresses his appreciation to Stephen Stephens, who talked him through a brief Punk Rock 101.
- Cover Art by Lukas Thelin www.instagram.com/lukas\_thelin
