Tom Gliserman is a director/editor living in upstate New York. The Thing on the Doorstep is Gliserman's first feature. For the last 25 years he has been creating award-winning commercials, high-end corporate work and programs for broadcast through his company GreyHouse Productions. His love for strong female characters probably stems from the fact that he has five daughters, an awesome wife and two female felines (yes they're black). Gliserman is thrilled to be showing Doorstep at the festival.

Victoria Blake is the founder and publisher of Underland Press, which has published novels by Jeff VanderMeer, Joe R. Lansdale, and Brian Evenson, among others. In the four years since launch, books from Underland Press have won a National Library Association Award for best novel, and have been nominated for the Hugo, World Fantasy, Shirley Jackson, and Nebula awards.

William (Liam) Thomas Damon was born in South Eastern Massachusetts, within the Bridgewater Triangle and the infamous Hockomock Swamp. Growing up as the second to youngest in a family of 7 kids, he found refuge from an overcrowded house in dusty books and Saturday afternoon Creature Features. His tastes in entertainment tend to run toward the fantastical and macabre genres and can be summed up with the expression "If I want reality, I'll look out the window".

Since he was six years old Woodruff Laputka wanted to be a filmmaker. He attended the University of Alaska. The spirit of adventure in such a vast, empty place as Alaska is a hard thing for any young man to ignore. These were the forests where Blackwood’s fabled Wendigo could be roaming. He learned about how to rely on creativity, and how to collaborate with others, with different ideas and interpretations.