Ellen Datlow has been editing science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction for four decades. She currently acquires short stories and novellas for Tor.com and Nightfire. She has edited numerous anthologies for adults, young adults, and children, including The Best Horror of the Year annual series, When Things Get Dark: Stories Inspired by Shirley Jackson, Body Shocks, and Screams from the Dark: 19 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous. She's won multiple Locus, Hugo, Bram Stoker, International Horror Guild, Shirley Jackson, and World Fantasy Awards. Datlow was recipient of the 2007 Karl Edward Wagner Award, given at the British Fantasy Convention for outstanding contribution to the genre, and was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award given by the Horror Writers Association in acknowledgment of superior achievement over an entire career. She was honored with the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award at the 2014 World Fantasy Convention. She runs the Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series in the East Village, New York City, with Matthew Kressel.

Nick Mamatas is the author of several novels, including The Second Shooter and I Am Providence. His short fiction has appeared in Best American Mystery Stories, Tor.com, Weird Tales, Asimov's Science Fiction, and many other venues. Nick is also an anthologist; his most recent title is Wonder and Glory Forever: Awe-Inspiring Lovecraftian Fiction. Mamatas's fiction and editorial work have been nominated for the Hugo, Bram Stoker, Shirley Jackson, Locus, and World Fantasy Awards. Forthcoming is his first critical monograph, The Way to Higher Ground: Anarchism and Daoism in the Work of Ursula K.Le Guin.