Our MECHANISTS

Dennis Mombauer lives in Colombo, Sri Lanka, where he works as a consultant on climate change and as a writer of weird fiction and textual experiments. He is co-publisher of a German magazine for experimental fiction, “Die Novelle – Magazine for Experimentalism.” His first English novel, The Fertile Clay, was published in 2022 by Nightscape Press. His newest novella, The House of Drought, is available from Stelliform Press. Find Dennis on Twitter @DMombauerWriter.

Derek Austin Johnson has lived most of his life in the Lone Star State. His work has appeared in The Horror Zine, Rayguns Over Texas!, Horror U.S.A.: Texas, Terror Tract, and Campfire Macabre.

He lives in Central Texas.

Find information on his website at derekaustinjohnson.com

Twitter: daj42

Instagram: daj42

Douglas Ford lives and works on the west coast of Florida, just off an exit made famous by a Jack Ketchum short story. He is the author of a recent collection of weird fiction, Ape in the Ring and Other Tales of the Macabre and Uncanny. His short stories have appeared in such venues as Dark Moon Digest, Tales to Terrify, Weird City, along with The Best Hardcore Horror, Volumes Three and Four. His novella, The Reattachment, appeared in 2019 courtesy of Madness Heart Press.

Eddie Spohn lives on Long Island. He sometimes paints houses out on the East End. He currently resides alone in a house filled with exotic cacti, and which may be haunted.

You can find some of his stuff on Amazon, or archived in various defunct magazines.

Edith Lockwood enjoys transforming her anxiety and intrusive thoughts into bittersweet stories. When not writing, she can be found playing with knitting needles and/or dangerous chemicals.

Elizabeth R. McClellan is a disabled gender/queer demisexual poet writing on unceded Quapaw and Chickasha Yaki land in what settlers call the Mid-South. In their other life, they are a domestic and sexual violence attorney working with Latinx immigrant survivors to provide holistic civil legal services. They are a previous winner of the Naked Girls Reading Literary Honors Award, and a multiple time and current Rhysling Award nominee. Their work has appeared previously in Strange Horizons, as well as in Apex Magazine, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, Chrome Baby, Goblin Fruit, Stone Telling, Utopia Science Fiction, Apparition Lit, Illumen Magazine, Mirror Dance, Eternal Haunted Summer and many others. Work from them is forthcoming at Nightmare Magazine and Kaleidotrope. They can be found on Twitter and elsewhere as @popelizbet and on Patreon at patreon.com/ermcclellan.

Ephiny Gale is the author of more than two dozen published short stories and novelettes that have appeared in publications including 'Beneath Ceaseless Skies', 'Constellary Tales', and 'Daily Science Fiction'. Her fiction has been awarded the Sundress Publications' Best of the Net award and the Syntax & Salt Editor's Award, and has been a finalist for multiple Aurealis Awards. Ephiny lives in Melbourne with her wife and a small legion of bookcases.

Erin Pettit has had a strange, non-linear career that has involved grooming dogs and diving in sewers. While battling her own demons of procrastination and imposter syndrome she prefers to write about fighting actual demons, monsters, and dragons. When not writing, Erin enjoys growing and preserving vegetables, baking bread, and riding her bike. She is happiest with a warm cup of something and an imaginary world to escape to.