Editor-in-Chief: Brett Alexander Savory

Brett Alexander Savory is the Bram Stoker Award-winning Editor-in-Chief of ChiZine: Treatments of Light and Shade in Words, Co-publisher of the World Fantasy Award-nominated ChiZine Publications, has had over 50 short stories published, and has written two novels. He is now at work on his third novel, Lake of Spaces, Wood of Nothing. When he's not publishing and writing fiction, he writes reviews for The National Post and The Globe and Mail. Savory is represented by The Carolyn Swayze Literary Agency. He lives in Toronto with his wife, writer/editor/publisher Sandra Kasturi.

Managing Poetry Editor: Sandra Kasturi

Sandra Kasturi lives and writes in Toronto. Born in Estonia in 1966, to an Estonian mother and Sri Lankan father, she has also lived in Sri Lanka, Long Island (NY), Queens (NY), Montreal and Waterloo (Ont.). Her poetry has appeared in various magazines (including On Spec, TransVersions, Contemporary Verse 2 and Prairie Fire), anthologies (Tesseracts5, Tesseracts6, Tesseracts8, Northern Frights 4 and The Algonquin Square Table Anthology) and on-line publications (ChiZine and Lost Ages Chronicle). She was also Foreign Author of the Month for February, 1999 at Twilight Tales . Her first chapbook, Carnaval Perpetuel is currently available from Junction Books .

Sandra is a member of SF Canada , the Women's Horror On-line Reverence Ensemble and Chiaroscuro: Those Who Walk Alone. She is also co-founder of the infamous Algonquin Square Table Poetry Workshop. Winner of the Lydia Langstaff Memorial Prize for Writing in 1996 and placing third in the Rhysling Awards in 1997, Sandra has also received three Honourable Mentions in The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror (1995).

Poetry Editor: Colleen Anderson

Colleen Anderson's fiction and poetry have appeared in over 100 publications such as On Spec, Black Quill winner Horror Library Vol. 4 (an honorable mention in Year's Best Horror) , Evolve and Shroud. She is assistant poetry editor at Chizine and slush editor at CZP. New work will be coming out in New Vampire Tales, Polluto and Polu Texni.

Poetry Editor: Carolyn Clink

Carolyn Clink’s speculative poetry has appeared in the Canadian anthologies Northern Frights (all five volumes) and Tesseracts (volumes 4 and 7). Genre poems have also appeared in Analog, Weird Tales, On-Spec, TransVersions, Star*Line, Tales of the Unanticipated, and Gaslight.  She is a member of the Science Fiction Poetry Association and the Algonquin Square Table poetry workshop.

Carolyn co-edited Tesseracts 6 with her husband, Robert J. Sawyer. In 1994 and 1995, she was the poetry judge for Early Harvest, a young-adult writing contest sponsored by the Vaughan Public Library. In 2000, she and Phyllis Gotlieb co-edited the poetry portion of the TransVersions Anthology. Carolyn edited Herb Kauderer’s chapbook Ghosts Dream of Madmen, in 2002.

She has been poetry Guest-of-Honour at seven science-fiction conventions including: Eeriecon III in Niagara Falls, NY, Minicon 38 in Minneapolis, MN, and Context XII in Columbus, OH.

Fiction Editor: Nancy Baker

Nancy Baker blames her life-long love of horror and fantasy fiction on the first horror story she can remember: The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin by Beatrix Potter. She dabbled in rock and roll (writing lyrics and singing in basement bands during her university years) before switching to writing fiction. She made her first professional sale in 1988, to Rod Serling's Twilight Zone magazine and has subsequently published 3 novels (The Night Inside, Blood and Chrysanthemums, and A Terrible Beauty) and a collection of short stories (Discovering Japan). She is at work (slowly, very slowly) on her fourth novel.

Fiction Editor: Robert Boyczuk

Besides his space opera Nexus: Ascension, Robert Boyczuk is the author of Horror Story and Other Horror Stories, a critically acclaimed short story collection about love, grief, and loss, which is also available from ChiZine Publications. His website is located at: boyczuk.com.

Fiction Editor: Brent Hayward

Brent Hayward's fiction has appeared in several publications and anthologies, including Horizons SF, On Spec, ChiZine, the Tesseracts series, and Chilling Tales. In 2006, his story "Phallex Comes Out" was nominated for the StorySouth Million Writers Award as best online story of that year; it received an honourable mention. Filaria, his first novel, was published by ChiZine Publications in 2008 and has since garnered solid acclaim. His second novel, The Fecund's Melancholy Daughter, will be released by CZP in May 2011. Born in London, England, raised in Montreal, he currently he lives in Toronto with his family. He can be reached through his LiveJournal at: http://brenth.livejournal.com

Fiction Editor: Larry Brown

Larry Brown was born in England and moved to Canada when he was twelve. In a long and distinguished career as a reader of speculative fiction, he has read contributions to Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, ChiZine, OMNI, Analog and Gent.

Larry lives in Waterloo with his partner and two cats, but he'd rather be living in Prague with his partner and two cats.

Columnist: Ian Grey

Ian Grey's music and film critiques and cavils have appeared in Baltimore City Paper, The Prague Post, Smart Money Magazine, New York Post, The Perfect Sound, Fangoria and other otherwise-unrelated forums. He lives in the East Village of New York with his partner and three complex cats.

Columnist: David Niall Wilson

Hailing from the depths of Stately Wilson Manor in Norfolk Virginia, David brings yet another bit of Brian's curse, having been publisher and editor of The Tome, now defunct. David's fiction has wormed its way into nearly 100 unsuspecting short fiction markets, and his sixth novel, This is My Blood, is out now from Terminal Frights Publications. He has his sticky fingers in Hollywood, television, and now this wondrous site. Beware. He lives under the influence of two violent aliens disguised as human children and a pair of psychotic cats.

Book Reviewer: Bill Gagliani

W.D. Gagliani was born in Kenosha, WI, but grew up in Genova, Italy. He now lives and writes in Milwaukee, WI. He earned his Master's degree in English at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, where he also taught Composition and Creative Writing. Bill's first novel, Wolf's Trap, was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award in 2004—and was published by Leisure Books in 2006. He is also the author of the novels Wolf's Gambit (2009), Wolf's Bluff (2010), and Wolf's Edge (October 2011 from Samhain Publishing, who will also reissue Wolf's Trap in a new edition in 2012). He is also responsible for the thriller Savage Nights, and the novellas Wolf's Deal (2011), and The Great Belzoni and the Gait of Anubis, as well as the collection Shadowplays (all of which are available in all the popular ebook formats). With collaborator David Benton, he has published Mysteries & Mayhem, as well as various short stories and the middle grade novel I Was a Seventh Grade Monster Hunter (as A.G. Kent). Recently he has had nonfiction in On Writing Horror (WD Books), Thrillers: The 100 Must Reads (Oceanview), and the October 2011 issue of The Writer magazine.

His short fiction has appeared in the anthologies Dark Passions: Hot Blood 13, Malpractice – An Anthology of Bedside Terror, the German anthology Masters of Unreality, and the ezine Dead Lines (all with David Benton), plus Undead Tales, Wicked Karnival Halloween Horror, Robert Bloch's Psychos, More Monsters From Memphis, Extremes 3: Terror on the High Seas, Extremes 4: Darkest Africa, The Asylum: The Violent Ward, Small Bites, The Black Spiral: Twisted Tales of Terror, and The Midnighters Club, among others. Fiction has also appeared in mostly now-defunct ezines such as Horrorfind, 1000 Delights, The Grimoire, and Dark Muse.

Besides ChiZine, his nonfiction articles, reviews, and interviews have appeared in Cemetery Dance, Hellnotes, HorrorWorld, Paperback Parade, Flesh & Blood, SFReader.com, Bookpage, BookPage.com, BookLovers, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Science Fiction Chronicle, Bare Bones, The Scream Factory, Horror Magazine, Midnight Journeys, and various others.

Along with the Bram Stoker Award nomination for Wolf's Trap, he has had six Honorable Mentions in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, and won the 1999 Darrell Award of the Memphis Science Fiction Association. He is an Active Member of the Horror Writers Association (HWA), the International Thriller Writers (ITW), and the Authors Guild. For more info: www.wdgagliani.com. Find him on Facebook: www.facebook.com/wdgagliani and on Twitter @WDGagliani.

Book Reviewer: Chris Hallock

Born in the gorgeous hills of West Virginia, Chris Hallock moved to the Boston area to escape vicious unemployment and lack of a decent movie theater.

He currently writes for the site All Things Horror Online reviewing films, books, and comics where he likes to get to the meat of the work. He also helps program a monthly independent film screening series called All Things Horror Presents and is a firm supporter of true independent art.

When he's not writing, working on film productions, or lazing about in one of his four favorite indie movie theaters, he is working at a cat shelter with some of his best fuzzy buddies. On numerous occasions, he's been accused of being a George Romero apologist and is cool with that.

Check out his work at All Things Horror Online, IndiefFilmWV on youtube.

Book Reviewer: Stephen Studach

Words still have power.

After his flash fiction piece 'Waiting at the Break' received an honourable mention as one of the top eight stories in the 2007 13th ChiZine Short Story Contest, and offering two book reviews to Brett Savory for possible posting at Chiaroscuro, Stephen Studach was invited to be a ChiZine reviewer and in January 2008 he joined the crew.

Studach channels experiences masked as dark fictions, related by way of short stories, short-shorts, poetry, novelettes, novels and screenplays. He is an avid viewer and reviewer of films of a similar bend of black light.

He has had works published in Australia, the U.K. and the U.S. in various magazines and anthologies.

Studach's writing has been described as 'Creepy', 'Absolutely Disgusting!' and 'Offensive' ... and that's just his book reviews.

When composing his reviews purple is sometimes this creep from down under's favourite color. His passion for good books, and informing other readers about them, regularly gets the better of him. He is known for his enthusiastic, positive, and knowledgeable reviews and interviews and the personal style he brings to them.

The accompanying photograph displays the type of characters that the reviewer had to deal with as a child. He cannot remember anything about that 'birthday party time at the Overlook' scene, but he suspects that he may have been hiding behind or in the hedge somewhere.

He implores you to remember that 'down under' is just another name for Hell.

Book Reviewer: Ray Wallace

Ray Wallace hails from Brandon, FL, a suburb of Tampa he affectionately refers to as "Satan's Spawning Ground." There he writes his fiction and reviews, runs a record label and a recording studio with his brother, and composes electronic music. His stories have appeared in a number of online and print 'zines, including Welcome to Nod, Cthulhu Cultus, Whispers From the Shattered Forum, Bloodfetish, Bloody Muse, Dark Muse, Delirium, and Errata. His madness-inducing tale, "One of the Six," took first place in ChiZine's second fiction contest. He also wrote a long-running book review column for Twilight Showcase webzine.

Don't let his boyish good looks fool you. Evil wears many faces.

Check out his work at ChiZine Book Reviews .

Film Reviewer: Phillip Brugalette

Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Phillip Brugalette moved to Southern California where he taught university level courses in film studies and creative writing. At that time, his original fantasy novel, The Nine Gates, was published by TSR (Wizards of the Coast.) Phillip currently resides in Seattle, WA, where he writes film reviews for ChiZine while creating images in his digital photography studio Foto Fantastique.

Check out his work at The Smoking Gun .

Film Reviewer: Lisa Morton

A rare Southern California native, Lisa Morton attributes much of her interest in horror to that fateful day when dad held her up to the porthole to see the Giant Squid in Disneyland's late lamented 20,000 Leagues attraction. Since then she has written feature films (Meet the Hollowheads), TV movies (Tornado Warning), animation (Van-pires, DragonFlyz), short stories (in Dark Terrors, The Mammoth Book of Frankenstein, After Shocks and The Museum of Horrors, to name a few), a regular column of movie and television reviews (Horror magazine), and two non-fiction books (The Cinema of Tsui Hark and The Halloween Encyclopedia). Her first horror film, the vampire-babes-who-run-a-rave thriller Thralls, will be released in 2004, and her shark film Blue Demon will be released later in the year. All the credits she's too embarrassed to mention here can actually be found at www.lisamorton.com

Check out her work at Mike's and Lisa's Throw-down Review .