C.R. Langille - Organizer
C.R. Langille spent many a Saturday afternoon watching monster movies with his mother. It wasn't long before he started crafting nightmares to share with his readers. An avid hunter and amateur survivalist, C.R. Langille incorporates the Utah outdoors in many of his tales. He is an affiliate member of the Horror Writer's Association (organizer for the Utah Chapter), and received his MFA: Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University. His stories are featured in Dark Moon Books’ anthologies, and Fictionvale. Additionally, his stories and flash fiction have appeared online via the Word Wood blog, Books of the Dead Press website, and on Fear Knocks.
R.L. Weston - Co-Organizer
R.L. Weston is a freelance writer in northern Utah. When she isn't writing for local newspapers and online media, she writes horror, science fiction, and dark fantasy. She credits her mother--born on Halloween--for her love of monsters and madmen.
R.L. Weston lives with her husband amid what her husband refers to as "a refugee camp for stray animals."
C. H. Lindsay - Event Organizer
Charlie has been writing off and on for longer than she cares to mention. However, she has a nasty habit of getting involved in musical theatre and organizing science fiction, fantasy and horror conventions.. Five years ago she gave up musical theatre and replaced it with running an online text-based RPG -- which satisfies her inner gamer geek.
Among her writing credits she includes two anthologies “Washed by a Wave of Wind: Science Fiction from the Corridor” and “Wandering Weeds: Tales of Rabid Vegetation.” Her poetry has been published in various magazines including “The Leading Edge,” “Amazing Stories,” and “Moonletters.”
Charlie is a member of SFWA, HWA, and SFPA. She Is a founding member of the Utah Chapter of the Horror Writers Association.
She currently resides in Utah with her husband, youngest son, two cats and a library of books.
She is chair of the 2016 World Horror Convention in Provo, Utah.
D.K. Godard - Secretary
Daniel is a writer, editor, and publisher of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction. His first novel was published in 2009. He received his MFA in Writing Popular Fiction through Seton Hill University in 2014. When not working on the non-fiction From Dude to Dad series with co/author Skyler Jones, he writes Mystery, SciFi, Fantasy, Horror, and Middle-grade. He’s a member of the Horror Writers Association and the Steampunk Writers and Artists Guild. He's a father of two beautiful girls and husband to a gorgeous wife and lives in Utah.
Johnny Worthen
Johnny Worthen grew up in the high desert snows and warm summer winds of the Wasatch Mountains. He graduated with a B.A. in English, minor in Classics and a Master's in American Studies from the University of Utah. Trained in modern literary criticism and cultural studies, Johnny writes upmarket multi-genre fiction — thriller, horror, young adult, comedy and mystery so far. “I write what I like to read,” he says. “That guarantees me at least one fan and a hard time for my publicist.”
Johnny is the tie-dye wearing author of the nationally acclaimed young adult paranormal ELEANOR, THE UNSEEN and the adult occult thriller, BEATRYSEL and DR. STUART’S HEART. His short story, THE POINT, appears in the Dark Fiction anthology LITTLE VISIBLE DELIGHT. Look for his genre-bending comedy noire, THE FINGER TRAP in 2015 along with the continuation of THE UNSEEN trilogy with CELESTE and DAVID.
K. Scott Forman
K. Scott Forman is a graduate of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, the University of Phoenix, and the University of Maryland. In his spare time, he has delusions of becoming a rock star. He has dabbled in the dark arts (Fear Knocks, Fast Forward Press, Western Literature Association), and currently teaches English Comp at Weber State University where he makes his home on the front side of the Rocky Mountains. His most recent work has appeared in Morpheus Tales. He is a member of the Horror Writers Association and the League of Utah Writers.
Michaelbrent Collings
Michaelbrent Collings is a bestselling novelist, produced screenwriter and WGA member, martial artist, and has a killer backhand on the badminton court ('cause he's macho like that).
He published his first "paying" work - a short story for a local paper - at the age of 15. He won numerous awards and scholarships for creative writing while at college, and subsequently became the person who had more screenplays advance to quarterfinals and semifinals in the prestigious Nicholl Fellowship screenwriting competition in a single year than anyone else in the history of the competition.
His first produced script, Barricade, was made into a movie starring Eric McCormack of TV's Will & Grace and Perception, and was released in 2012. Michaelbrent also wrote the screenplay for Darkroom, a movie starring Kaylee DeFer (Gossip Girl, Red State) and Elisabeth Rohm (Angel, Law & Order, Heroes). Darkroom is currently set for a 2013 release.
As a novelist, Michaelbrent has written numerous bestsellers, including The Colony Saga, Apparition, The Haunted, The Billy Saga, The Loon, Rising Fears, and others. In addition, he has also written dozens of non-fiction articles which have appeared in periodicals on several continents.
