Authors: Kat Rocha (Editor)

Whispers From The Abyss (23 page)

Lee Finney
A former employee of high-tech Taiwanese pirates, Lee Finney has retreated to a life of luxury in the hills of North County, California. He spends his days writing and avoiding a cat named Sweetie.

Chad
Fifer
Chad Fifer is a writer, actor, musician, sound editor, radio host, and literary scholar. He co-hosts the popular HP Lovecraft literary podcast, and is the author of the coming-of-age novel
Children in Heat
. He has penned the short story
The Hound
for Selfmadehero's forthcoming
The Lovecraft Anthology: Vol. II
.

Nicholas Almand
Nicholas Almand has been writing fiction since 2006. He is the creator of the independent comic book
Razor Kid
, and was a contributor to the Harvey Award-nominated
Uniques Tales
anthology. Nick is the co-creator and writer of an upcoming trilogy of graphic novels from Oni Press. Oddly enough, Nick's first inspiration to write as a child came from the
Mortal Kombat II
video game. Make of that what you will. You can find Nicholas online as: http://www.sonsofnowhere.com.

Kat Rocha
After deciding the life of an adventuring archeologist was just too dangerous, Katapult “Kat” Rocha took up a career in creating history rather than digging it up. Since then she has collaborated with her husband, Josh Finney, on such project as
Utopiates
, the
Awesome Anthology
, a
Batman 80pg Giant
and
Titanium Rain
. Kat has also produced numerous concept designs for game companies, has had her work featured in
Interzone
magazine, and has started her own comic series entitled
LD30: The Adventures of a Swinging Robot.

Jeff Provine
Jeff Provine is a Composition professor in Oklahoma. His works include steampunk, alternate history, web comics, and founding the ghost tour at the University of Oklahoma. He lives with his wife in a home they remodeled.

Dennis Detwiller
Detwiller was a founding member
of Pagan Publishing
with John Tynes as art director where he co-created the Origins Award winning
Delta Green
in 1997 with Tynes and Adam Scott Glancy. He is known for his work in the collectible card game
Magic: The Gathering
, to which he was a regular contributor. In the gaming world, he created
Godlike: Superhero Roleplaying in a World on Fire
,
Wild Talents
, and the free horror setting game
NEMESIS
. He also participated in many other projects at Wizards of the Coast.

Sarena Ulibarri
Sarena Ulibarri studied writing at the University of Colorado, Boulder and University of New Mexico. Her fiction has appeared in
Lightspeed
,
The Coachella Review
,
Birkensnake
and elsewhere.

Erika Satifka
Hello, my name is Erica and I hate writing introductions. But hey, when in Rome. I used to live in Pittsburgh, PA, and now live in the quirky Hampden neighborhood of Baltimore, MD, in an awesome old row house with colorful walls and a tree in the backyard. I have three cats and a husband named Rob, who writes the review blog Panel Patter. My short stories have been published in a few different venues including
Clarkesworld Magazine
,
Ideomancer
, and PodCastle. E-mail: satifka at gmail.com.

Josh Finney
Author and occasional artist, Josh Finney follows in the fine tradition of sci-fi novelists in that he’s a prickly, opinionated son-of-a-bitch who will tell you exactly what’s on his mind. He currently has two graphic novels on the shelf: a sci-fi war epic entitled
Titanium Rain
, and a biotech noir tale,
Utopiates
. His work has also appeared in
Interzone Magazine
,
Batman 80 Page Giant
, and the
Awesome Anthology
. He also drinks too much coffee, obsesses over his music collection, and denies that his first sexual experience involved an alien abduction. He also writes a regular column at
BrokenFrontier.com
. More information about Josh can be found at www.JoshFinney.com.