Blood Sweat & Queers: Vampiric Love Stories

Margaret Hall is a scholar of vampire literature, author, teacher, director, producer, and theatre historian. Margaret is currently a writer for Playbill Magazine, the pre-eminent theatre publication in the United States, as well as a professor at New York University, where she helps students orient themselves within musical theatre history as members of its newest generation. She is the youngest known nominator in the history of the Drama Desk Awards. Margaret has dedicated her career to honoring the human beings at the core of the art they create. An unflinching advocate for the societally marginalized, Margaret is an autistic woman, and the founder of the non-profit Autistic Theatremakers Alliance. She has received both a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama, and Masters in Musical Theatre History from New York University.

Visit her at www.margaret-hall.com

Jamie Ryu worked for Big 5 powerhouse publishing companies like Macmillan and HarperCollins before forging her own path as the founder of Contrarian Publishing. With ample editing experience, she is well-equipped to help writers unlock the full potential of the stories they’re meant to tell and aid them in pursuing their goals, whether that be traditional publishing or indie publishing. She graduated from New York University with a degree in Comparative Literature. Find her at jamieisreading.com

Lyndall Clipstone writes dark tales of flower-threaded horror. She is the critically acclaimed author of The World at the Lake’s Edge duology, Unholy Terrors, and the upcoming Tenderly, I am Devoured. She currently lives in Adelaide, Australia, in a hundred-year-old cottage with her partner, two children, and a shy black cat.

Mae Murray is a writer and editor hailing from Arkansas, now living in eerie New England. She occasionally contributes essays and film criticism to Fangoria.com and Dread Central. She is the recipient of the 2022 Brave New Weird Award for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction. The Book of Queer Saints Volume I was her editing debut and a 2023 British Fantasy Award nominee in the Best Anthology category. Her debut novel, I’m Sorry If I Scared You, released in 2024. 

A lifelong bookworm and performer, Anna McG always knew she wanted to pursue a career in the arts. She has performed at the Forever Twilight in Forks Festival and immersive events for M.B. Thurman’s Summoned Series. Her debut story, When the Day Met the Night, is an ode to her eternal love for vampirism and literature.

She lives in Colorado with her high school sweetheart and their four cats.

L.A. Barron finds sanctuary in the soft underbelly of horror and speculative fiction. Whether it’s online or in their collection of hard cover journals, their work orbits themes of devotion, the physicality of emotions, and the rot that lives inside us all. 

They live in the Pacific Northwest with their partner and small menagerie of pets.