Zombies: More Recent Dead (76 page)

Alex Dally MacFarlane
is a writer, editor, and historian. When not researching narrative maps in the legendary traditions of Alexander III of Macedon, she writes stories that can be found in
Clarkesworld,
Strange Horizons,
Beneath Ceaseless Skies,
Phantasm Japan,
Solaris Rising 3,
Heiresses of Russ 2013: The Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction,
The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2014,
and other publications. Poetry can be found in
Stone Telling,
The Moment of Change,
and
Here, We Cross.
She is the editor of
Aliens: Recent Encounters
(2013), and
The Mammoth Book of SF Stories by Women
(2014).

Maureen F. McHugh
has lived in New York City; Shijiazhuang, China; Ohio; Austin, Texas; and now lives in Los Angeles. She is the author of two collections,
Mothers & Other Monsters
(a Story Prize finalist) and
After the Apocalypse: Stories
(a
Publishers Weekly
Top Ten Best of the Year) as well as four novels, including
China Mountain Zhang
(winner of the Tiptree Award) and
Nekropolis
(a
New York Times
Editor’s Choice). She received a Hugo Award for her short story “The Lincoln Train.” McHugh has also worked on alternate reality games for Halo 2, The Watchmen, and Nine Inch Nails, among others.

Joe McKinney
has been a patrol officer for the San Antonio Police Department, a homicide detective, a disaster mitigation specialist, a patrol commander, and a successful novelist. His books include the four-part Dead World series, as well as
Quarantined,
Inheritance,
Lost Girl of the Lake,
The Savage Dead,
Crooked House,
and
Dodging Bullets.
His short fiction has been collected in
The Red Empire and Other Stories
and
Dating in Dead World.
His latest works include the werewolf thriller,
Dog Days,
set in the summer of 1983 in the little Texas town of Clear Lake, where the author grew up, and
Plague of the Undead
(Book One in the Deadlands Saga). In 2011, McKinney received the Horror Writers Association’s Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel. For more information: joemckinney.wordpress.com.

Lisa Mannetti
’s debut novel,
The Gentling Box,
garnered a Bram Stoker Award and she has since been nominated three times for the award in both the short and long fiction categories. Her story, “Everybody Wins,” was made into a short film released under the title
Bye-Bye Sally.
Her novella, “Dissolution,” is currently being adapted for the screen as a feature-length movie by writer/director, Paul Leyden. She has also authored
The New Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn
; two companion novellas in
Deathwatch
; a macabre gag book,
51 Fiendish Ways to Leave Your Lover
; as well as nonfiction books and numerous nonfiction articles. Mannetti lives in New York. Visit her website lisamannetti.com and virtual haunted house: thechanceryhouse.com.

Tamsyn Muir
is based in Auckland, New Zealand, where she divides her time between writing, teaching, and dogs. A graduate of the Clarion Writers’ Workshop 2010, her work has previously appeared in
Fantasy,
Nightmare,
and
Weird Tales,
as well as in anthologies such as Ellen Datlow’s
The Best Horror of the Year (Volume 5)
and Ann and Jeff VanderMeer’s
The Time Traveler’s Almanac.
She was a 2012 finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Short Fiction.

Holly Newstein
’s short fiction has appeared in
Cemetery Dance
and the anthologies
Borderlands 5,
The New Dead,
In Laymon’s Terms,
Epitaphs: The Journal of the New England Horror Writers Association,
and
Evil Jester Digest, Volume 2.
Her collaboration with Rick Hautala, “Trapper Boy” appeared in anthology
Dark Duet
s, edited by Christopher Golden (Harper Voyager, 2014). Her story “Eight Minutes” was part of
Anthology II
(The Four Horsemen Press, 2013). She was the featured author in the June 2014 edition of
LampLight Magazine,
with her story “Shadows and Light.” She is also the coauthor of the novels
Ashes
and
The Epicur
e with Ralph W. Bieber, published originally under the pen name H. R. Howland. She lives in Maine with her dogs, Keira and Remy.

Cat Rambo
may be anywhere at a given time. Her two hundred-plus fiction publications include stories in
Asimov’s,
Clarkesworld,
and
Tor.com.
Her short story, “Five Ways to Fall in Love on Planet Porcelain,” from her story collection
Near + Far
(Hydra House Books), was a 2012 Nebula nominee. Her editorship of
Fantasy
Magazine
earned her a World Fantasy Award nomination in 2012. For more about Rambo, as well as links to her fiction, see kittywumpus.net.

Carrie Ryan
is the
New York Times
bestselling author of the critically acclaimed Forest of Hands and Teeth series, which has been translated into over eighteen languages and is in development as a major motion picture. She is also the editor of the anthology
Foretold: 14 Tales of Prophecy and Prediction,
as well as author of
Infinity Ring: Divide and Conquer,
the second book in Scholastic’s new multi-author/multi-platform series for middle grade readers. Her most recent book—co-written with her husband, JP Davis—is
The Map to Everywhere,
the first of a new middle grade series. Ryan is a graduate of Williams College and Duke University School of Law. A former litigator, she now writes full time. She lives with her writer/lawyer husband, two fat cats, and one large rescue mutt in Charlotte, North Carolina. You can find her online at carrieryan.com or @CarrieRyan.

Marge Simon
’s works appear in publications such as
Strange Horizons,
Niteblade,
DailySF Magazine,
Pedestal,
and
Dreams & Nightmares.
She edits a column for the HWA newsletter, “Blood & Spades: Poets of the Dark Side,” and serves as Chair of the Board of Trustees. She won the
Strange Horizons
Readers Choice Award 2010, and the SFPA’s Dwarf Stars Award 2012. In addition to her poetry, she has published two prose collections:
Christina’s World
(Sam’s Dot, 2008) and
Like Birds in the Rain
(Sam’s Dot, 2007). She won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Work in Poetry for
Vectors: A Week in the Death of a Planet
(Dark Regions Press, 2008) and again in 2013 for
Vampires, Zombies & Wanton Souls
(Elektrik Milk Bath Press).

Maggie Slater
hails from the snow-crusted woods of New England where she lives with her husband and son. Her fiction has appeared in
Fantastical Visions IV,
Dark Futures: Tales of SF Dystopia,
and
Leading Edge Magazine,
among others. She currently moonlights as an assistant editor for
Apex Magazine,
and formats books for Apex Publications. For more information about her and her current projects, visit her blog at maggiedot.wordpress.com.

Simon Strantzas
is the author of the critically acclaimed short story collections
Beneath the Surface
(2008),
Cold to the Touch
(2009),
Nightingale Songs
(2011), and
Burnt Black Suns
—published in 2014 by Hippocampus Press. His fiction has been nominated for the British Fantasy Award, and has appeared in
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror,
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror,
The Best Horror of the Year,
The Year’s Best Weird Fiction,
the Black Wings series,
Nightmare,
Postscripts,
Cemetery Dance,
and elsewhere. He was born in the cold darkness of the Canadian winter and has resided in Toronto, Canada ever since.

Charles Stross
is a British SF writer, born in Leeds, England, and living in Edinburgh, Scotland. He has worked as a tech writer, a programmer, a journalist, and a pharmacist; he holds degrees in Pharmacy and in Computer Science. He has won two Hugo Awards for his short fiction. Among Stross’s more recent novels are
The Revolution Business
and
The Trade of Queens
(in his Merchant Princes series),
The Apocalypse Codex
(part of the Laundry series of novels and stories),
Rule 34,
The Rapture of the Nerds (
with Cory Doctorow), and, published earlier this year,
The Rhesus Chart.

Genevieve Valentine
’s first novel,
Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti,
won the 2012 Crawford Award and was nominated for the Nebula. Her second novel,
The Girls at the Kingfisher Club,
a 1920s retelling of the Twelve Dancing Princesses, was published by Atria earlier this year.
Persona,
a near-future political thriller, will be published by SAGA Press in March 2015. Her short fiction has appeared in
Clarkesworld,
Strange Horizons, Journal of Mythic Arts,
Lightspeed,
and other periodicals, as well as anthologies
Federations,
The Living Dead 2,
After,
Teeth,
and others. Her story “Light on the Water” was a 2009 World Fantasy Award nominee, and “Things to Know About Being Dead” was nominated for a 2012 Shirley Jackson Award. She is a coauthor of pop-culture book
Geek Wisdom
(Quirk Books).

Carrie Vaughn
is the author of the
New York Times
bestselling series of novels about a werewolf named Kitty, the most recent installment of which is
Kitty in the Underworld.
The next,
Low Midnight,
will be published later this year. She’s written several other contemporary fantasy and young adult novels, as well as upwards of seventy short stories. She’s a contributor to the Wild Cards series of shared world superhero books edited by George R. R. Martin and a graduate of the Odyssey Fantasy Writing Workshop. An Air Force brat, she survived her nomadic childhood and managed to put down roots in Boulder, Colorado. Visit her at carrievaughn.com.

Don Webb
has been published in every major SF/F/H magazine in the English-speaking world from
Analog
to
Weird Tales.
He teaches “Writing the Science Fiction Novel” at UCLA extension. He lives with has a beautiful wife and two tuxedo cats in Austin, Texas, where he has been a guest at the four local SF conventions for over twenty years.

Jay Wilburn
lives with his wife and two sons in the swamps of coastal South Carolina. He left teaching after sixteen years to care for the health needs of his younger son and to pursue writing full-time. He has published
Loose Ends: A Zombie Novel
with Hazardous Press and
Time Eaters
with Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing. Follow his many dark thoughts at JayWilburn.com and @AmongTheZombies on Twitter.

Paula Guran
is senior editor for Prime Books. She edited the Juno fantasy imprint from its small press inception through its incarnation as an imprint of Simon & Schuster’s Pocket Books. Guran edits the annual Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror series as well as a growing number of other anthologies. In an earlier life she produced the weekly email newsletter
DarkEcho
(winning two Stokers, an IHG Award, and a World Fantasy Award nomination), edited print magazine
Horror Garage
—an eccentric mix of original dark fiction and garage/punk/indie music—earning another IHG Award and a second World Fantasy nomination—and has contributed reviews, interviews, and articles to numerous professional publications. (See paulaguran.com for more information.) She lives in Akron, Ohio, and is the mother of four, mother-in-law of two, and
grand-mère
to one.

Other Anthologies Edited by Paula Guran

Embraces

Best New Paranormal Romance

Best New Romantic Fantasy

Zombies: The Recent Dead

The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2010

Vampires: The Recent Undead

The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2011

Halloween

New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird

Brave New Love

Witches: Wicked, Wild & Wonderful

Obsession: Tales of Irresistible Desire

The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2012

Extreme Zombies

Ghosts: Recent Hauntings

Rock On: The Greatest Hits of Science Fiction & Fantasy

Season of Wonder

Future Games

Weird Detectives: Recent Investigations

The Mammoth Book of Angels and Demons

After the End: Recent Apocalypses

The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2013

Halloween: Mystery, Magic & the Macabre

Once Upon a Time: New Fairy Tales

Magic City: Recent Spells

“Trail of the Dead” © 2007 Joanne Anderton. First Publication:
Zombies,
ed. Robert N. Stephenson (Altair Australia Books).

“Rigormarole” © 2005 Michael A. Arnzen. First publication:
Rigormarole: Zombie Poems
(Naked Snake Press, 2005).

“What Still Abides” © 2013 Marie Brennan. First Publication:
Clockwork Phoenix 4,
ed. Mike Allen (Mythic Delirium Press).

“Iphigenia in Aulis” by Mike Carey © 2012 Mike Carey. First publication:
An Apple for the Creature,
eds. Charlaine Harris & Toni L.P. Kelner (Ace Books).