Return of the Horror Queers

Join us for Return of the Horror Queers, a mini book festival celebrating horror! We have four amazing authors coming and three great panels planned! Check out the authors were excited to host:

Gwendolyn Kiste

Gwendolyn Kiste is the four-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Rust Maidens, Reluctant Immortals, The Haunting of Velkwood, And Her Smile Will Untether the Universe, Pretty Marys All in a Row, The Invention of Ghosts, and Boneset & Feathers. Her short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in outlets including Lit Hub, Nightmare, Tor Nightfire, Titan Books, Vastarien, Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, and The Dark among others. She's a Lambda Literary Award winner, and her fiction has also received the This Is Horror award for Novel of the Year as well as nominations for the Shirley Jackson, Premios Kelvin, Ignotus, Dragon, and Ohio Book Awards.

Originally from Ohio, she now resides on an abandoned horse farm outside of Pittsburgh with her husband, their calico cat, and not nearly enough ghosts.

Hailey Piper

Hailey Piper is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Queen of Teeth, A Game in Yellow, A Light Most Hateful, The Worm and His Kings series, and other books of dark fiction. She is also the author of over 120 short stories appearing in Weird Tales, Pseudopod, NYT-Bestselling anthology The End of the World As We Know It, and many other publications. Her non-fiction appears in Writer’s Digest, Library Journal, CrimeReads, and elsewhere.

TT Madden

TT Madden is a trans, mixed-race author who refuses to keep "politics" out of her writing and to put AI in. Her work writing weird fiction often deals with the intersections of her various identities.

M. Jane Worma

M. Jane Worma is a queer horror writer with a fascination for the sadistic and horrifying. After escaping from their birthplace of San Antonio, Texas, and spending a decade in the haunted desert of New Mexico before making the move to the colder northeast, they now happily reside in Brooklyn.