Joe DeMarco lives and writes in Philadelphia and Montréal.

Before devoting his time more fully to fiction and non-fiction projects he was Editor-in-Chief of The Weekly Gayzette (Philadelphia); Editor-in-Chief of NGL, a national magazine; and has been an editor or contributing editor for a number of publications including Il Don Gennaro, a national Italian-American magazine.

Currently a columnist for X-Factor magazine online (www.xxfactor.com), he has also been a columnist for The Advocate, In Touch, and Gaysweek (NY). His writing has appeared in PGN, The New York Native,GCN, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Welcomat, and a number of others publications.

Several of his stories have been anthologized in the Quickies series published by Arsenal Pulp Press and in Men Seeking Men (Painted Leaf Press), Charmed Lives (Lethe) Heat of the Moment (Echelon Press). His essays have been published in anthologies including Gay Life (Doubleday), and Hey Paisan! (Guernica),We Are Everywhere (Routledge), BlackMen WhiteMen (Gay Sunshine), and Men's Lives (Macmillan), Paws and Reflect (Alyson).

A number of his plays have been produced in Philadelphia, NY, and elsewhere around the U.S.

A serious student of sociological issues, his work has been published in The International Encyclopedia of Marriage and Family (Macmillan); and two of his articles appear in the Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinites (ABC CLIO)

He won "Best Magazine Editor" Reader's Choice Poll Award for 2007 and 2005 from Preditors & Editors.

One of his greatest loves is mystery (all kinds); he has written a number of mystery stories and and the first book in his new mystery series, MURDER ON CAMAC has just been published by Lethe Press. He also has an abiding interest in alternate history, speculative fiction, young adult fiction, vampires, werewolves, science fiction, the supernatural, mythology, and more. You can learn more at www.josephdemarco.com

Jason was in on the redesign of the site from the very beginning. He has given his advice and fixed problems as the arose and continues to do so. Though he is extremely busy with two other major facets of his life, he never fails to lend a hand when needed. He is currently working on revamping the archives and that should be up and working some time on 2006 which will make readers and writers happy. Jason is also creative in his own right and loves writing stories of his own as well as working on translations of Chinese literature. Jason is also an artist and some of his work can be seen at www.goldenfleecegallery.com

Barry Ergang is shown here holding Duncan, the West Highland White Terror Terrier with whom he shares quarters. (The photo was taken the day he brought Duncan home--the day before the pup turned 3 months old.) Barry was the recipient of the 2007 Derringer Award in the Flash Fiction category for "Vigilante," which appeared in the Summer 2006 Mysterical-E. Former Managing Editor of Futures Mystery Anthology Magazine, his fiction, poetry, and non-fiction have appeared in numerous publications, print and electronic. These include Apollo's Lyre, Coffee Cramp eZine, The Cortland Review, Crime and Suspense, Flashquake, Flashshot, The Listening Eye, Maelstrom, Mind Fire Renewed, Mouth Full of Bullets, Mystery*File, The Mystery Readers Journal, Nefarious, The Pedestal Magazine, Stereophile, and Web Mystery Magazine .

His website is: http://writetrack.yolasite. com/

It all began with Nancy Drew. Many a mystery writer can point at Nancy as the beginning of their obsession with mystery. Pam Skochinski is no different. An life-long reader of mysteries, in 1997 she tried her hand at writing one. Since then, she has had over thirty short stories published in various e-zines and print publications. She currently lives in Southern California with her husband and three children. You can find out more about her at www.pamskochinski.com

Assistant Editor

Larry Marshall

Larry Marshall lives with is wife Chantal and daughter Jodie in Quebec City, Quebec.   He holds a doctorate in Biological Sciences, is semi-retired and, when he feels like it,  works as a copywriter and editor.  Over the years he has written over 200 non-fiction articles for magazines.  He's been editor-in-chief for Air Age Publishing, worked as an editor for Blinding Force Productions and for Wildcat Books.  Larry can be reached at larry@larrymarshall.name

Assistant Editor

Charles Mossop

Retired after a thirty-two year academic career, Charles now lives on Vancouver Island on Canada 's west coast where he writes historical fiction, works in his garden and continues his study of classical guitar.  A lover of mystery stories, his flash fiction has appeared in Flashshot, and his short stories in Over My Dead Body, Futures Mystery Anthology Magazine, and in the Amazon Shorts Program.  He also contributed to the Anthology Aleatory's Junction, published by Double Dragon Publishing in 2006, and to the writer's resource book The Muse on Writing ( Double Dragon, 2005).  His novel Jade Hunter will appear in 2007 from Double Dragon.  Charles is also a monthly contributor to the online resource magazine The Muse Marquee where he writes on historical fiction and manages the historical fiction department.   Charles's stories are usually set in fifteenth century China or eighteenth century Europe , and in the latter case he specializes in maritime history and life aboard wooden-walled ships of war.  As he says, “Murder and intrigue can be found everywhere and in any time period. All you have to do as a writer is select a time and place to put them.” http://cmossop0.tripod.com

Assistant Editor/Columnist

Tim Matson

Tim Matson lives with his wife Susan, and their two miniature schnauzers Asta and Archie, in a suburb of St. Paul, MN. When he isn't toiling away at his day job, Tim spoils his wife and dogs mercilessly, and finds time to write when they take naps on the couch. His stories have been accepted at Mysterical-E and Futures Mystery Anthology Magazine. He is currently working on his second novel. Tim can be reached at: matsonatmystericale@gmail.com

Columnist

Jim Doherty

A police officer for more than ten years like his character Dan Sullivan, began his law enforcement career as a reserve cop in Berkeley , California , while simultaneously working on his bachelor's degree at Cal . Sullivan stories have previously appeared in Writers' Journal , Blue Murder , Hand Held Crime , Over My Dead Body! , and the upcoming anthology The Race Is On . Sullivan is also the protagonist of Jim's first (and still unpublished) novel, An Obscure Grave , which was a finalist in the 2004 Debut Dagger competition conducted by the British Crime Writers Association. In addition to his fiction, Jim is also the author of two non-fiction books. Just the Facts – True Tales of Cops & Criminals is a collection of true-crime articles, one of which, “Blood for Oil,” won the 2005 Western Writers of America Spur Award in the Short Non-Fiction Category. Raymond Chandler – A Master of American Noir is a series of lectures on Chandler 's early work available as an e-book on the Barnes & Noble website, and used in conjunction with an on-line course about Chandler that Jim teaches. A native San Franciscan, Jim currently lives in Chicago with his lovely wife, Katy. His website can be found here: http://www.deadlyserious.com/JimDoherty

Columnist

Gerald So

Fiction Editor for The Thrilling Detective Web Site, Gerald is also a reviewer for Crimespree Cinema and moderator of the crime TV and film forum CrimeSeen.  He's always looking for more to read or watch.
E-mail him at g_so@yahoo.com or visit his blog at http://geraldso.blogspot.com .

Columnist

Christine A. Verstraete

Christine A. Verstraete is an award-winning journalist whose nonfiction and fiction has been published in various newspapers and magazines. She is working on a mystery novel and has had short fiction published in Mysterical-E, Orchard Press Mysteries, Mouth Full of Bullets, Flashshot, Flashquake, and Futures Mysterious Anthology. Her story, "The Witch Tree" was a recent contest winner at Echelon Press. Contact her at http://cverstraete.com

Columnist

Byron McAllister

Always intrigued by whatever he construed as basic, Byron's interests moved through several sciences then through mathematics, philosophy, and now--inevitably--to the most basic of all, mystery writing, which he does mostly in conjunction with his spouse.  Ignoring some technical and historical papers written in his former career, his writing credits include a couple of dozen “mainstream” (i.e. non-mystery) poems, half a dozen mystery short stories, another six mystery-oriented poems, and three novels, Undercover Nudist , Runaway Nudist, and To Kill a Nudist, all of which appeared first as ebooks and can be found here and there on the web, e.g. at http://www.writewordsinc.com and, in fact your local bookstore can order it, although they may not be willing to simply stock it. Byron assumes that this wee bit of writing experience plus his considerable age give him the right to have strong but variable opinions on whatever crosses his mind.  He lives in a cold climate, as do many of his faithful readers.

Columnist

Jan

Christensen

Jan Christensen's main interests are reading and writing, mostly mysteries.  She's had over fifty short stories published, several right here in Mysterical-e, including the premier issue, and has been nominated twice for a Derringer Award.  Several of the now-unfortunately-defunct magazines who have published her work are:  Red Herring Mystery Magazine, Whispering Willows Mystery Magazine, Nefarious - Tales of Mystery, Detective Mystery Stories, Hardluck Stories, EWG Presents, and Vacant Funhouse.  But others are still in existence such as Long Story Short, Orchard Press, Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine, Spinetingler, Crime and Suspense, and several others.  She's also had stories in anthologies, one in last year's Wolfmont Publishing's Carols and Crimes, Gifts and Grifters, all proceeds going to Toys for Tots, and two in Whortleberry Press's, Strange Mysteries and It Was A Dark and Stormy Halloween.  Her first novel, Sara's Search came out in 2004.  Jan's office is a lounge chair and a laptop in the 40-foot motorhome she and her husband live in fulltime.  She is beginning to call herself a minimalist because of her love of short stories and an uncluttered life.  More about Jan:   www.janchristensen.com

Columnist

Nicholas Fuller

Staff

Montiese Mckenzie

Montiese McKenzie is a thirty something Philadelphia native who loves city life.  She is a writer in her spare time and part of the proleteriat by default.  She loves blogging, photography, reading mysteries, and anything that involves coffee.  Making a living as a full time writer and possible documentary filmmaker is still on her list of things to-do.  She is the mother of two rambunctious felines and the owner of an ever-growing shoe collection.

Staff

Lance Zarimba

Bill Bernico is the author of more than 150 short stories and one novel.  For four years he wrote a weekly humor column for his hometown newspaper, The Sheboygan Press.  Bill's advice columns for computer enthusiasts have appeared in various magazines around the world.  These days Bill writes an online advice column for musicians. Bill is a songwriter and has won several songwriting contests. He is also a working musician and has been playing live shows since 1966.

John M. Floyd's short stories, articles, and humor pieces have appeared in more than 200 publications, including The Strand Magazine , Murderous Intent , Grit , Woman's World , Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine , and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine . A 2007 Derringer Award winner, he has been nominated three times for the Pushcart Prize and writes a weekly column at Criminalbrief.com. John is also the author of three collections of short fiction: Rainbow's End (2006), Midnight (2008), and Clockwork (coming in October 2010).

David Siddall is from Liverpool , England . In February 2004, 23 illegal Chinese immigrants were swept to their deaths by the rising tide in Morcambe Bay . Working for little more than slave wages and held in thrall to "gangmasters' and ‘snakeheads', their deaths were inevitable. Two bodies were never recovered. I would hope the story is not disrespectful.

Peter Swanson Ever since reading his parents' copy of Jaws at the age of ten, Peter Swanson has been in love with mysteries and thrillers, anything that gets him to turn the page. He is a graduate from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and from the MFA program at Emerson College in Boston. He has recently appeared or will appear in Asimov's Science Fiction, The Atlantic Online, Epoch, Measure, Orchard Press Mysteries, and The Wisconsin

Gloria Watts a retired Further Education College lecturer, lives in a small Market Town in Northamptonshire , England . She spends her time writing poetry, flash fiction, and short stories; many of her stories and poems are published online. When not scribbling Gloria likes to paint, preferably watercolours, enjoys cycling, gardening, playing piano and her regular yoga classes – as you can see, she likes to keep busy.  An active participant in many writing forums including WUV, she also meets monthly with her local Writing Circle . Married, she has two grown children, and four grandchildren. 

Charles Schaeffer's short mysteries have appeared in Mysterical-E Woman's World, Futures Magazine, Detective Mystery Stories, Mouth Full of  Bullets, Crrime and Suspense, Blazing Adventures, A Twist of Noir, New England Writers's Network, Dana Literary Society's On-Line Journal, Great Mystery and Suspense, Magazine, Burst. He is back-to-back winner of Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine's “Mysterious Photo” Contest

Neil Grimmett has had over sixty short stories published in the UK by among others: London Magazine, Stand, Panurge, Iron, Ambit, Penpusher, etc. Australia , Quadrant , South Africa , New Contrast. Plus stories in the leading journals of Singapore, India, France, Canada, and the USA, where he has appeared in Fiction, The Yale Review, DoubleTake, The southern Humanities Review, Green Mountains Review, Descant, The Southern Review and Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. He has appeared online in Blackbird, Tatlin's Tower, Web Del Sol, In Posse Review, m.a.g., Word Riot, Blue Moon Review, 3AM, Gangway, Eclectica,The Cortland Review, Segue, The Dublin Quarterly and over twenty others. He has made the storySouth Million Writers Notable Short Story list for the last three years. In addition, he has won the Write On poetry award, the Oppenheim John Downes Award four times, two major British Arts Council bursaries and a Royal Society of Authors award. He is a member of the US branch of PEN. His mystery/thriller novel has just been signed by Josh Getzler at Writers House in New York .

Chris Rhatigan's short fiction has been published at A TWIST OF NOIR and will be in the December issue of YELLOW MAMA. He lives in Iowa City and runs a blog on short crime fiction, DEATH BY KILLING (http://death-by-killing.blogspot.com )

Aaron Philip Clark, a native of Los Angeles , CA , is a novelist and poet. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Otis College of Art and Design. A crime and existential fiction enthusiast, Aaron's debut novel The Science of Paul: A Novel of Crime (New Pulp Press) will be available Jan 2011. He currently teaches English and Creative Writing in North Carolina

Curt Jeffreys has been writing since 1996. His list of credits include; Mysterical-e, Aoife's Kiss, The Absent Willow Review and Dark Fire Fiction. He lives in Arvada, Colorado with his wife and son, who can only shake their heads and wonder where he gets his ideas. www.curtjeffreys.com

VR Barkowski grew up in Northern California, the youngest of five kids. Smaller and quieter then the rest, VR was better at putting thoughts on paper than being heard. That's when VR began to write. When VR is not writing, VR is reading. A graduate of UC Berkeley with a background in sociology, VR lives with a partner of twenty-five years and their dog and cat. VR is researching her second novel.

Catherine A. Winn is a former elementary teacher living, blogging, and writing in Texas . She began writing seriously six years ago and writes fiction and non-fiction for all ages. Her credits include online magazine, Stories for Children , and national print magazine, Pack-o-Fun . Her current project is a cozy mystery set in San Antonio

Elizabeth Zelvin is a New York City psychotherapist whose mystery series, featuring recovering alcoholic Bruce Kohler, includes two novels, Death Will Get You Sober and Death Will Help You Leave Him , and three short stories, two of them nominated for the Agatha Award for Best Short Story and the third published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. “The Saxon Hoard” is her first flash fiction. Liz's author website is www.elizabethzelvin.com . She blogs on Poe's Deadly Daughters. .

Vero G. Caravetta has been a film buff and a mystery fan since he can remember. He has reviewed film for a number of small publications in the Midwest. Since his move East to New York, he has thrown himself into his work Off-Off Broadway. He would eventually like to try his hand at fiction.

Gin E. L. Fenton -- see bio above

Founder

Eva Batonne

Eva Batonne began writing professionally when she was hired as researcher for a small production company in Santa Monica.The position evolved into writer/producer on the project, The Shaping Of America, a series of historical spots on American history. A forerunner to the popular Ken Burns style of dramatic portrayals of historical figures and events, The Shaping Of America featured narrators Sally Kellerman, Robert Guillaume, Dennis Weaver and was voted Favorite Series. Eva has worked for Brentwood News and Venice Art Magazine interviewing and reviewing the work of personalities such as Dizzy Gillespie and Chris Connelly, editor of Premiere Magazine. Co-Editor of Techno Noir with Jeffrey Marks, her story "Mixo-Matic" appears in its pages. "The Ticket," Eva's first short story, was featured as Publisher's Choice in Futures magazine. Eva has a strong background in film and theatre. She left Mysterical-E in early 2004 to pursue her own writing and other interests. Her book RESSURECTION DIVA, a literary crime novel, came out in August 2007 from ZUMAYA PUBLICATIONS.