Emily Hockaday is the senior managing editor for Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine and Analog Science Fiction and Fact. With Jackie Sherbow, she coedited the horror anthology Terror at the Crossroads. She is the author of the poetry collections In a Body (Harbor Editions 2023) and Naming the Ghost (Cornerstone Press 2022), along with six chapbooks. She can be found online at www.emilyhockaday.com.
Joy Brienza lives in a small shoreline town in Connecticut with her family. The cover designer of the anthology, Terror of the Crossroads: Tales of Horror, Delusion and the Unknown, Joy has been at her current job for 11 years as Manager of Design, Websites, and Digital Publishing for Penny Publications, publisher of Dell Magazines and Penny Press books and magazines. Her other creative work also includes designing print, digital, and social media ads, and websites for Asimov's Science Fiction and Analog Science Fiction and Fact magazines, among many other sites. As an artist, Joy has worked in all types of mediums, but especially loves oil painting. In her free time she enjoys spending time at the beach with family and friends.
Stewart C Baker is an academic librarian and author of speculative fiction, poetry, and interactive fiction. His fiction has appeared in Nature, Lightspeed, and Flash Fiction Online, among other places, and his poetry has appeared in Fantasy Magazine, Asimov's, and numerous haiku magazines. Stewart was born in England, has lived in South Carolina, Japan, and California, and now lives within the traditional homelands of the Luckiamute Band of Kalapuya in western Oregon, along with his family-although if anyone asks, he'll usually say he's from the Internet, where you can find him at https: //infomancy.net