Rick Kitagawa is an award-winning visual artist, storyteller, and arts educator based in the foggy hills of San Francisco. Rick is a multidisciplinary artist that weaves together digital with traditional media, text and imagery, abstract and figurative subjects, and painting and printmaking. What results is a visual journey into a dark world of his own that pays homage to the horror genre, identity politics, and pop culture all while examining the human condition and the darkness within us all. Heavily inspired by the themes of H.P.
Philip Gelatt is a screenwriter, filmmaker and author of comic books. His first film, THE BLEEDING HOUSE, premiered at the 2010 Tribeca Film festival. He was the screenwriter on the Ray Bradbury Award nominated science-fiction film EUROPA REPORT, starring Sharlto Copley, Mikael Nyqvist, and Anna-Maria Marinca, released by Magnet Pictures in 2013.
John Langan is the author of two novels: The Fisherman (Word Horde 2016) and House of Windows (Night Shade 2009). He has published two collections of stories: The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies (Hippocampus 2013) and Mr.
Laird Barron spent his early years in Alaska, where he raced the Iditarod three times during the early 1990s and worked in the fishing and construction industries. He is the author of several books, including X’s for Eyes, The Imago Sequence, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All, and the forthcoming Swift to Chase. His work has also appeared in many magazines and anthologies. Barron currently resides in the Hudson Valley writing stories about the evil that men do.
Paul Tremblay is the author of DISAPPEARANCE AT DEVIL'S ROCK and the award-winning A HEAD FULL OF GHOSTS. His other novels include THE LITTLE SLEEP, NO SLEEP TILL WONDERLAND , SWALLOWING A DONKEY'S EYE, and the YA novel FLOATING BOY AND THE GIRL WHO COULDN'T FLY (co-written with Stephen Graham Jones, as P. T. Jones). He is the author of the short story collections COMPOSITIONS FOR THE YOUNG AND OLD and IN THE MEAN TIME. His essays and short fiction have appeared in the Los Angeles Times and numerous year's best anthologies.
Christina Rodriguez is an award-winning children's illustrator of more than a dozen picture books, including Lovecraftian favorites GOODNIGHT AZATHOTH and THE ANTARCTIC EXPRESS, both published by Atlas Games. She lives and works in Providence, Rhode Island. www.christinarodriguez.com
Donovan K. Loucks is the creator of The H.P. Lovecraft Archive (HPLovecraft.com), the foremost web site devoted exclusively to H.P. Lovecraft. What began 25 years ago as a mere dozen web pages is now a massive site of over 700 pages. However, his primary area of specialty in Lovecraftian scholarship is tracking down locations visited by Lovecraft and then described in his fiction and letters.
Ben Leonberg is a film maker and creative director for Virtual Reality. Despite living in NYC, Ben makes movies that feature exciting outdoor locations like caves, deserts, and distant lands. He's also a cinematographer and special-effects enthusiast. After learning his technical craft in the New Zealand film world, Ben worked as a DP/Producer in commercial advertising and independent film.
Marcos Esteves is an incredibly talented actor, writer, musician and father. "In Lucidity" is Marcos's second collaboration with director Kays Al-Atrakchi after starring in the award-winning short film Appntmnt. Marcos' next role is in the film "How to Start a War" where he plays an Italian/American from the heart of Boston who accidentally stirs the wrong hornets nest, setting the lives of his family and friends on an irreversible path.
J. Xavier Velasco is an award-winning Mexican writer/director based in Brooklyn, NY. His work is defined by the exploration of the otherly, set in an unsettling alternate reality and told through highly stylized visuals and emotional acting. His short film "Juan & La Borrega" (2011) got a Mexican Academy Ariel Award nomination in 2012 for Best Short Fiction Film and screened at more than thirty international film festivals like the AFI Fest.