CONTRIBUTORS

Mark Edward Brooks is originally from St. Louis, MO and now resides in San Marcos, Texas. He has two novels out, Basement Things, a horror novel and the short story collection Through a Darker Eye. He loves reading, writing, and all outdoor activities and is looking...

Matthew Brady is a young writer currently living in Nashville, Tennessee. He attended Belmont University in 2010, where he studied writing and literature before earning his bachelor’s degree in 2014. He has had poetry and short fiction published in his college...

Author of horror and children’s picture books, Russell J. Dorn is also co-creator of www.felipefemur.com, a free website for kids featuring games, stories, craft ideas, recipes, and more. Russell’s adult horror stories have appeared in several publications and are due...

Ali Habashi graduated from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland with a degree in English and Management, and currently works in Boston at an academic publisher. When not at work she can usually be found drinking coffee and stressing about a self-inflicted creative...

Mary Fancher is an artist and writer living in Baldwinsville, New York with her husband and four cats. She possesses a degree in studio art from the State University of New York at Binghamton, and has displayed her artwork in a number of galleries and juried...

Patrick Berry has been creating and editing puzzles for nearly twenty years. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Harper's, The New Yorker, U.S. News & World Report, and numerous other publications.The Asterisk Anthology: Volume 2 “The Ring”1. What was...

Too goody-two-shoes for the rebels and too rebellious for the good girls and boys, Christa Miller writes fiction which, like herself, doesn’t quite fit in. A professional writer for 15+ years, Christa has written in a variety of genres ranging from crime fiction to...

C.W. Blackwell was born and raised in Santa Cruz, California where he still lives today with his wife and two children. His passion is to blend poetic narratives with pulp dialogue to create strange and rhythmic genre fiction. He writes mostly crime fiction, dark...

The Asterisk Anthology: Volume 2 “GUARDIANS”1. What's your all-time favorite creature, and why? Medusa. Her tragedy calls to my soul, the unjust punishment inflicted on her by the goddess Athena, for no other reason except getting raped by the god, Poseidon, inside...