Ink Heist Creators & Guests

Matthew Hayward is a guitarist, songwriter, and horror fiction writer.Hayward has written and recorded with Nick Pollock, Ciaran Brennan, Edie Brickell, and Kevin Wood. His own band, Lace Weeper, is well known in the Irish music scene and has released four albums.Hayward's stories have appeared in Tales to Terrify, Dark Moon Digest, The Horror Zine, and anthologies. His first book, the collection "Brain Dead Blues," was published in 2017.

Horror Enthusiast. Bram Stoker Award-winning author. CLOWN IN A CORNFIELD, VIDEO NIGHT, SUMMER JOB, and more. Please buy a book.

John C. Foster is a horror fiction author.Foster's stories have appeared in Shock Totem, Dark Moon Digest, Strange Aeons, and Unnerving Magazine, as well as in anthologies. His first novel, "Dead Men," was published in 2015.

Christopher Golden is an author and editor of horror, fantasy, and suspense fiction. He also founded the Merrimack Valley Halloween Book Festival.Golden has published dozens of books, including novels for adults, novels for and young adults, series, and franchise tie-in series for Hellboy and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He has also written and co-written comic books, video games, screenplays, and a network television pilot.Golden's work has been nominated for the British Fantasy Award, the Eisner Award, and multiple Shirley Jackson Awards. His work has been nominated tor the Bram Stoker Awards ten times in eight different categories, and won twice.

Damien Angelica Walters is a horror fiction and dark science fiction author. Until the magazine’s closing in 2013, she was an Associate Editor of Electric Velocipede.Walters's stories have appeared in Murky Depths, Black Static, Fireside, Stupefying Stories, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Strange Horizons, Interzone, Apex Magazine, and Lightspeed, and in several anthologies. Her first book, "Ink," was published in 2012. She has published three novels and two collections.

Tim Waggoner is an author of numerous novels, over one hundred short stories in the Fantasy Horror, and Thriller genres.

Jeffrey Ford is an author, primarily of fantasy fiction. He also teaches writing and literature at Brookdale Community College.Ford's stories have appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, MAD Magazine, Weird Tales, Clarkesworld Magazine, Tor.com, Lightspeed, Subterranean, Fantasy Magazine, and have been in collected in anthologies such as The Oxford Book of American Short Stories, Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Year’s Best Weird Fiction, Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, New Jersey Noir, Stories, The Living Dead, The Faery Reel, After, The Dark, and The Doll Collection. His first novel, "Vanitas," was published in 1988.

Kathe Koja is an author. She became known for her intense speculative fiction for adults, and has since written young adult novels and historical fiction. Her work often focuses on characters who have been marginalized by society, often focusing on the transcendence and/or disintegration which proceeds from this social isolation.Koja's short stories, including some she wrote in collaboration with Barry N. Malzberg, have appeared in many publications. She won the Bram Stoker Award and the Locus Award for her first novel, "The Cipher," and a Deathrealm Award for "Strange Angels."Koja began writing when very young, but only became serious about it after attending the Clarion Workshop.

Laird Samuel Barron is an author and poet, mostly of horror, noir, and dark fantasy fiction.In Alaska, Barron raced the Iditarod three times in the 1990s and worked as a fisherman on the Bering Sea. He began writing professionally in 1994. He was the Managing Editor of the online literary magazine Melic Review.He has stated his affection for pulp fiction, westerns, and noir, and his work typically combines one or more of these elements with a horrific or weird supernatural intrusion. Barron has referred to the Bible and the Necronomicon as "the greatest horror stories ever told."[6]Barron's fiction has appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, SCI FICTION, Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural, Lovecraft Unbound, Black Wings: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror, and The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy, as well as in numerous year's best anthologies.Barron received the 2007 and 2010 Shirley Jackson Awards for his collections "The Imago Sequence and Other Stories" and "Occultation and Other Stories." His first novel, "The Light is the Darkness," was published in 2011.

Max Booth III is an author, screenwriter, publisher, and podcast of horror fiction and criticism. He co-owns and operates the independent publishing house Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing. He is also the managing editor of "Dark Moon Digest," a horror fiction quarterly.Booth's nonfiction writing has appeared in LitReactor, CrimeReads, the San Antonio Current, Fangoria, and Film-14. His novella "We Need to Do Something" was made into a film. His first book, "Toxicity," was published in 2014.

Alan Baxer is an author of horror fiction, supernatural thrillers, and dark fantasy with crime, mystery, and noir. He’s also a martial arts expert.