Sumiko Saulson is an award-winning author of Afrosurrealistmulticultural sci-fi and horror. Author of the LOHR Reader’sChoice Award-winning collection Within Me Without Me (Dooky Zines), and the
novel Happiness and Other Diseases (Mocha Memoirs Press). Winner of the Carry the Light Award (2016) BCC Voice "Reframing the Other" contest (2017), Mixy Award (2017),  Afrosurrealist Writer Award (2018),), Ladies of Horror Reader’s Choice Award (2021), and the HWA Richard Laymon President’s Award (2021). They write a column called "Writing While Black" for a national Black Newspaper, the San Francisco BayView.

Kenneth Hite has designed, written, or co-authored 100+ roleplaying works, including Trail of Cthulhu, Bookhounds of London, The Dracula Dossier, the Delta Green RPG, Night’s Black Agents, The Fall of Delta Green, and Vampire: the Masquerade 5th Edition. His other works include the two-volume Tour de Lovecraft, Cthulhu 101, The Cthulhu Wars for Osprey, the “Lost in Lovecraft” column for Weird Tales, an annotated edition of Chambers’ The King in Yellow, and four Lovecraftian children’s books. Half of the Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff podcast and an Artistic Associate at Chicago’s WildClaw Theatre, he lives in Chicago with two Lovecraftian cats and his non-Lovecraftian wife, Sheila.

Tim Uren is a theater artist and board game writer who has worked on a number of Lovecraftian projects. As an actor, he and Joseph Scrimshaw portrayed hapless cultists Chuck and Dexter in the short films “Cthulhu for President” and “It’s the Great Cthulhu Chuck & Dexter.” Killing Joke Films joined with Uren for a filmed adaptation of “The Curse of Yig” in 2011. His theater company, Ghoulish Delights, specializes in bringing tales of terror to the stage including “The Rats in the Walls” as well as “Trust and Obey” (based on Lovecraft’s “The Temple” and Stephen King-Hall’s “Diary of a U-Boat Commander”). He is one of the co-hosts of the Mysterious Old Radio Listening Society podcast, a discussion of the classic horror shows from the golden age of radio. Tim provided design and writing expansions to the Arkham Horror board game and writes for the Eldritch Horror board game and its expansions. Most recently, he has been writing for the Mythos Tales game from 8th Summit Games.

Alaric S. Rocha has been making films since 1999 where he first learned the craft from Club Panico in London an organization run by some of the crew members of Monty Python. His work has been screened at many film festivals including the Chicago International Film Festival, Sitges, Dances with Films, LA and more. Alaric earned his MFA in digital cinema from DePaul University in 2014 and a BM from Lawrence University in 2002. His musical background has a huge influence on his style of filmmaking and subject matter. Alaric is a currently an instructor at the Los Angeles Film School and has also taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Tecnológico de Monterrey in Atizapán de Zaragoza, Mexico. Alaric’s area of research and expertise are writing/directing, Mexican cinema, film through psychology, and teaching film to children.

Andrew S. Fuller writes and edits horror, fantasy, and science fiction. His work appears in magazines On Spec, Crossed Genres, The Pedestal, anthologies FISH, Swords v Cthulhu, and several short films, including an HPLFF award-winner "Effulgence." Since 1999, he's edited the fiction magazine Three-Lobed Burning Eye. Once from the Midwest, he dabbled in heavy metal and theater, and now lives in Portland, Oregon between a volcano and two rivers, where he commits archery, design, and cocktail quaffery. Visit him online at andrewsfuller.com and Twitter @andrewsfuller.

Anya Martin has always rooted for the monster and regrets abandoning her earliest career aspiration--paleontology. She's also half-Finnish, still likes punk rock though now with a heavy side of blues and experimental jazz, has a bachelor's degree in anthropology, cooks dangerously hot curries, earns her living as a journalist and abides in Atlanta. Her fiction appears in such anthologies and magazines as the upcoming Eternal Frankenstein, Cthulhu Fhtagn!, Giallo Fantastique, Cassilda's Song, Xnoybis #2, Borderlands 6, Resonator: New Lovecraftian Tales From Beyond, and Womanthology: Heroic. She is also associate producer of The Outer Dark podcast, which interviews weird fiction creators and was awarded Best Podcast for 2015 by This Is Horror. She grew up with Weird as the daughter of William C. Martin, First Fandom member and one of the world's most prominent H.P. Lovecraft collectors.

Chris McMillan has written and published the webpage The Shadow Over Portland for 12 years, listing Horror/Sci Fi/Fantasy events around the Pacific Northwest, as well as writing opinion pieces and reviews. He has interviewed and moderated panels with genre filmmakers and including Roger Corman, Barbara Steele, Julie Adams, as well as local filmmakers such as Joe Sherlock. He plans to start a TSOP podcast, and self-publish his first novel, in 2023.

Danny Ashkenasi is an American theater/film director, composer, actor, writer and producer born in Berlin, Germany. His first short film “The Tell -Tale Heart – a musicabre” played at over 80 film festivals, winning over 65 awards. His second short “The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabre” is starting its festival run, already receiving many awards. Danny has created numerous music theater pieces that span a variety of styles from musical comedy to experimental. Among them, “Witches” has enjoyed dozens of productions in Europe and NYC and “The Song of Job 9:11”, “beTwixt, beTween and beTWAIN”, “The Tell-Tale Heart – a musicabre” have been performed repeatedly in NYC, as well as Toronto and Connecticut. In addition to Twain and Poe, Ashkenasi has also musically adapted literary works by Herman Melville and Langston Hughes, and, most recently in “Speakeasy”, reimagined Lewis Carroll’s Alice stories in the sexual underground of the Roaring Twenties.

David has published a blog for seven years called Dave’s Corner of the Universe. Where he covers, comics, Lovecraft and pulp culture. He has been a frequent guest on several podcast including The People’s Guide to the Cthulhu Mythos and Monster Kid Radio. He lives with his extended family in Estacada Oregon on a goat farm.

Emily Flummox uses 18 names (including An-Sisa, Gandalfina Face-and-Heart, & Tristissima) competed on two National Poetry Slam teams over a decade-long slam career. E also designs & streams TTRPG content, writes fiction, and edits anthologies. Much of eir poetry, notably “Sacred Purification Ritual Using Your Own Urine Instead of Water”, focuses on identifying with the divinity of the disgusting. Skunkheart performed that poem during the San Francisco Leather Cultural District’s Erotic Storytelling Hour; it was published in Scry of Lust. E teaches classes on Kink in Horror and Queerness in Horror with eir sweetheart Sumiko Saulson at the Speculative Fiction Academy.

Gretchen has volunteered at Portland Horror Film Festival and the H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival since 2016, and helps judge films for both. As a lifelong fan of horror movies, she loves found footage films and exorcism movies. She co-hosted the Kaijucast podcast, and was a frequent guest on Horror Brew podcast. A “recovering-goth” Gretchen is also a mother and a wife, and is the guardian of a Devon-Rex cat that looks like a goblin.

Owner and Head of Production at Strike With Chaos Productions. Jesse Terrell, as a director, has been making music videos, commercials and fashion films for over 10 years. As a writer he has written several scripts both short and feature length. "Sights Unseen" is his first narrative short.

Joseph Scrimshaw is a writer, comedian, and filmmaker with experience performing, producing, and writing in multiple mediums. He’s written for Adult Swim’s fantasy comedy TV show, Tigtone, the movie-riffing group, RiffTrax, the public radio sketch comedy show, Wits, the scripted podcast, Getting On With James Urbaniak, and more. His plays Adventures in Mating, An Inconvenient Squirrel, and My Monster (written with Bill Corbett) have been performed worldwide. Joseph also hosts the long-running comedy podcast, Obsessed, and co-hosts the hit Star Wars podcast, ForceCenter. As a comedian and actor, Joseph’s done the SF SketchFest, Jonathan Coulton’s JoCoCruise, multiple Fringe Festivals, pop culture conventions, and a commercial with the monkey from Friends. A true highlight of his career.

Liv Rainey-Smith was introduced to the art of printmaking at Oregon College of Art and Craft where she received her BFA in 2008. Since graduation, she has worked full time as a xylographic printmaker in Portland, Oregon. In 2013 she took the business name Xylographilia, which translates as “Love of Woodcut,” to reflect her passion for the art form. She is inspired by early European prints, folklore, fiction, and the natural world. In addition to her self-directed work, Rainey-Smith enjoys collaborating with writers and publishers.

Maria Collette Sundeen is a writer, producer and director with more than 15 years of experience in television, documentary, short, and corporate productions. After starting a career with CNN’s San Francisco bureau, she was hired as one of the founding producers for C|NET-TV. Since then she’s worked on a spectrum of award-winning short films and documentaries.. She has written more than a dozen scripts for film and television, many of which have won awards or placed in national festival competitions. She’s currently working on a new show for Disney+ as an Associate Producer and is developing a new superhero pilot, tentatively titled ARCADIA.

** Maria wrote “Lifeless” deep into the pandemic, as she was living alone in Los Angeles, in what essentially became a ghost town. This film channeled how she and many others were feeling.

Maxwell I. Gold is a Jewish American multiple award nominated author who writes prose poetry and short stories in weird and cosmic fiction. His work has appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines including Weirdbook Magazine, Space and Time Magazine, Startling Stories, Strange Horizons, Tales from OmniPark Anthology, Shadow Atlas: Dark Landscapes of the Americas and more. He’s the author of Oblivion in Flux: A Collection of Cyber Prose from Crystal Lake Publishing. He lives in Ohio with his partner and two dogs Marshall and Otto, and currently serves on the Board of Trustees for the Horror Writers Association as the organization's Treasurer.

Part-time high-school teacher, part-time college professor, Patrick Murphy somehow finds time to be a part-time filmmaker with Blaine Taggart and Mike Terrell. Mixing horror and comedy, the micro-crew have produced shorts for two decades.

Rion Smith is a bipedal mammal with an unhealthy obsession with Lovecraftian tales and is chained to the insanity of his job in order to pay for his film habit.  He is currently trying to relearn what “sleep” means after the recent birth of his a baby girl, and this will be her first of many HP Lovecraft Film Festival attendances.  

Roni Stinger lives in the Pacific Northwest, USA with her husband and two cats. When not writing strange, dark fiction, she’s often wandering the forests, beaches, and streets in search of shiny objects and creative sparks. Her work has been published in Dark Matter Magazine, Unnerving Magazine, and MetaStellar, among others. She’s a member of the Horror Writers Association, Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association. You can find her website at www.ronistinger.com. And find her on Instagram and Twitter @roni_stinger.

Scott Nicolay writes Weird Fiction. One of his stories won an award. He also hosts the Weird Fiction podcast The Outer Dark. The Outer Dark won an award too. You can listen to The Outer Dark on This Is Horror. You can read his second collection, And at My Back I Always Hear, in 2017.

Troy Fortenberry has been a lifelong film geek starting with playing with his parents VHS camcorder and making home movies as a child. He was involved in theatre in college before moving into cinema. When not directing he writes plays and films.

Valentina Battorti was born in Belluno, Italy, in 1983. Her dad watched made her watch all types of movies from Gremlins to Pretty Woman. When her love for films was complete, and she discovered her favorite genre, she longed to be part of it!! Valentina loves to draw, read, sing, write, listen to music, watch Tv series, theatre, films of all kinds and has always wanted to find a way to reunite all of these media to tell stories, so.. films!! Her love of sharing her work is fed by seeing the reactions of the audience and making them laugh, cry, get frightened or super happy with a story, with a soundtrack.. it's magic! She studied Classic Literature at the Liceo Classico Tiziano in Belluno and then cinema at the University of Pordenone. She worked in London and Paris for some time, and now wants to focus completely on movies 100%!!!