Brett Alexander Savory is the Bram Stoker Award-winning Editor-in-Chief of ChiZine: Treatments of Light and Shade in Words, Publisher of ChiZine Publications, a Senior Editor at Scholastic Canada, has had over 50 short stories published, written two novels, and writes for Rue Morgue Magazine.

In early 2006, Necro Publications released signed limited edition hardcovers and trade paperbacks of his horror-comedy novel The Distance Travelled. September 2007 saw the release of his dark literary novel In and Down through Brindle & Glass Publishing.

In the works are three more novels, and a dark comic book series with artist Homeros Gilani.

When he's not writing, reading, or editing, he plays drums for the southern-tinged hard rock band Diablo Red, whose third album, Lower the Troll, was released in late 2007.

He can be reached through his website: brettsavory.com.

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).

Fiction Editor: Gord Zajac

Gord's writing credits include over 50 cartoons for Cartoon Network's The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy and Evil Con Carne. His Billy and Mandy story outline, "Central Junction: What's Your Function?" (aka "Billy and Mandy Go To Hell") generated a delightful bit of controversy at Time Warner. After consulting two priests and a rabbi, Time Warner ultimately rejected the story. It later resurfaced in comic book form as the premiere Billy and Mandy story in issue 14 of DC Comics' anthology title Cartoon Cartoons. It has since been reprinted in DC's Cartoon Network Block Party #1, further proving that kids going to hell is comedy gold. His short fiction has also appeared in Challenging Destiny.

Gord is head writer/producer of the sketch comedy show, This is Screaming Halibut. He hates everything and finds death and misery to be very funny. Fear him!

Fiction Editor: Hannah Wolf Bowen

Hannah Wolf Bowen was born and raised in Illinois, but currently lives in Massachusetts, where she shares an apartment with her dog and hopes to learn how to speak Yankee sometime real soon now. She spends her work days counting mice, wrangling monkeys, and herding cats. Her fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Polyphony 6, and Fantasy Magazine, among others, and she was an editor for the Fortean Bureau and a judge of the 2005 ChiZine Short Story Contest.

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 published by Yard Dog Press in 2003 and nominated for the Bram Stoker Award in 2004—and was reissued in mass market paperback by Leisure Books (Dorchester Publishing) in 2006. Shadowplays, his e-book story collection, is still available from www.ebooksonthe.net and will also be published in German (Eloy Edictions, 2008). The German publisher Eloy Edictions plans to publish his new novel, Savage Nights, sometime in the future.

His short fiction has appeared in the anthologies Hot Blood 13 (with Dave Benton), 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, The Midnighters Club, and The Red, Red Robin Project, among others. Fiction has also appeared in e-zines 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, Crimespree, 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 five 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 and the International Thriller Writers. Check out his website for more info: www.williamdgagliani.com.

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.

Book Reviewer: Cherie Priest

Cherie Priest was born in Tampa, Florida, beside the ocean and beneath the sign of the sun. In 2002, she graduated from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga with an M.A. in Rhetoric/Professional writing. She also has a B.A. from Southern Adventist University in Collegedale, TN, which she finished in 1998. These days, she uses her college diploma as a mouse pad.

In 2003, Marietta Publishing produced her southern gothic novel Four and Twenty Blackbirds; and in October of 2005, this novel was re-released in a revised, expanded edition by Tor Books. A second novel, the sequel Wings to the Kingdom, is slated for publication late in 2006. Not Flesh Nor Feathers will complete the trilogy in '07.

Cherie regularly freelances for magazines, websites, and anthologies; and she produces both short and long source fiction for various role playing projects.

She lives in Seattle with her husband, Aric—and a fat black cat named Spain.

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

Stephen's computer keeps trying to inflict its own ideas of superior prose upon him, yet, savage that he is, he continues on in his habitual ways, unheeding.

He has had works published in Australia, the U.K. and the U.S. in various magazines and anthologies. He is a member of the Australian Horror Writers association, and the self-proclaimed King of Honorable Mentions. All bow before him.

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

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/Fiction Editor: Michael Marano

Horror movie reviewer and pop culture critic Michael Marano's 1998 novel Dawn Song received both The International Horror Guild Award and The Bram Stoker Award. His short fiction has appeared in anthologies such as Peter S. Beagle's Immortal Unicorn, The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 11, Queer Fear and Queer Fear 2. His Mom wanted him to be a dentist. A quick glance at Mike's bank account usually tells him just how right she was.

From 1990 to the present, as "Mad Professor Mike," Marano has reviewed horror movies on the nationally syndicated Public Radio program, Movie Magazine (produced at Western Public Radio in San Francisco and heard in 140 U.S. markets); his Punk/Heavy Metal style of criticism has been described as "combining the best of Cahiers du Cinéma with the spirit of pro-wrestling." In this capacity, he has seen and critiqued no fewer than 500 horror movies and is now unfit for any other form of employment. (Sorry, Mom.) "The Mad Professor" has reported on horror and science fiction films and TV for publications such as The Boston Phoenix, The Charleston City Paper, Sci-Fi Magazine, Science Fiction Weekly, and a bunch of others he can't think of right now. His popular rant-column on films, "MediaDrome," appears in the bitchin' horror magazine Cemetery Dance. If, while in yet another Top Ramen/MSG/malnutrition-induced fog of psychosis he hears one more time from one more editor, "No worries, Mike! The check's in the mail!" Marano claims no responsibility for his actions.

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

For further information and writing samples, please refer to Marano's web site at www.mindspring.com/~profmike.

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.

Webmaster: Ian Rogers

Ian Rogers was born in Toronto in 1976. At the age of twelve, his comic strip, Styx & Stone, was a regular feature of the Whitby Free Press. Since then, he has written film and book reviews for Rue Morgue magazine, created a film study website that received a favourable review in Entertainment Weekly, and worked in radio broadcasting as guest co-host of Strange Days... Indeed on NewsTalk 1010 CFRB Toronto.

His short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Cemetery Dance, Broken Pencil, All Hallows. Writers Post Journal, Dark Wisdom, and Bare Bone. His stories have also appeared in several anthologies.

The majority of Ian's work takes place in Canada, which he attributes to a steady diet of Douglas Coupland, David Cronenberg, and The Tragically Hip.

Ian lives with his wife in Peterborough, Ontario. Visit him on the Web at www.ianrogers.ca.