Author Interviews

A.P. Thayer is a queer Mexican-American living in Los Angeles. He writes cross-genre speculative fiction and is represented by Helen Lane at the Booker Albert Literary Agency. He has words in places like Dark Matter Magazine, Uncharted, and Neon Hemlock anthologies and is currently on submission with three books. He publishes short fiction and blogs in his Substack newsletter, Strange Speculations.

Natalie Jacobsen began writing fiction in high school, and after publishing her first newspaper article at age thirteen, she was invited to hone her craft in creative writing programs locally and overseas; in college she turned her interest in storytelling into journalistic endeavors. After graduating, she wrote and photographed for magazines, television, and music studios in Japan for years, fostering her love of untold stories.

Marlis Manley Broadhead, a former college instructor of all forms of written communication except Braille, has award-winning short stories and poems in literary magazines—including Kansas Quarterly, Mikrokosmos, Crosscurrents, and Kansas Women Writers. Her debut novel, Trophy Girl, published by Black Rose Writing, was awarded the William Faulkner second prize in 2018. Her second book, Is That Your Mother Calling? Advice That Echoes Down Through the Ages, was based on research of hundreds of people sharing stories of advice they remembered and its effects on their lives.

Basically a huge nerd, Jack Shannon's love of history and the macabre have combined in Brigandine, his first full-length dark fantasy novel. When not writing, he enjoys historical reenactment, TTRPGs, wargaming, spoon carving, brewing mead, and soap making. Time permitting, he is also a husband and father to two small children. He lives in Surrey.

Kelli Kassoff is a writer of prose and poetry. Diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder, her writing is based on moments in her life and firsthand experiences. She pushes the parameters of mediocrity, aiming to bend the rules of writing. She creates visceral images that readers can feel. Kelli lives in Houston, Texas, with her husband JK, three children + three bonus children, and Fred the Dachshund. When she is not writing or reading, she is spending her time outside in the sunshine (or the rain) with Fred.

A true student of the pop culture sphere, B. D. Greer has been absorbing just about every form of media from a young age. Whether it's legendary novels like Blood Meridian or Fight Club, Edgar Allen Poe’s oeuvre, movies, anime, folklore, or even video games, he’s not afraid to harvest and curate favored elements from the unlikeliest sources.

A full-time student and carer, I’ve loved writing my whole life. I have a problem with procrastination and fixating on a task that is definitely not the one I’m supposed to, so I’ve only recently finished the final draft of my novel.

Rebecca Bischoff is the award-winning author of several novels, including a YA novel titled The French Impressionist, a historical middle-grade mystery, The Grave Digger, a humorous middle-grade novel, Hole in the Rock, and a YA historical mystery, Streets of Shadow. Rebecca loves to read everything from mysteries to paranormal to historical novels. She tends to research quirky and little-known facts from the past and loves anything that might make her laugh. A dedicated Anglophile, Rebecca loves watching BBC shows and reading mysteries that take place in the British Isles.

Ericka Jordan is a recent NMSU undergraduate with a degree in English Language, Literature, and Culture, as well as a minor in Creative Writing. She has a deep love and passion for writing of all sorts but is particularly fond of poetry, believing that it connects individuals of all walks of life through shared experiences and emotions.

Emerging from the vibrant streets of Brooklyn, NY, where he first entered the world, O’Leary’s journey has been nothing but remarkable, serving as a true inspiration. Raised within a family deeply connected to their German and Irish heritage, O'Leary's formative years in Brooklyn were characterized by a profound inquisitiveness about the world and a keen intellect, leading him to graduate from the esteemed Brooklyn Technical High School at the tender age of 17.