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Maura McHugh Author & Editor

Michael Carroll is the author of over forty books, including the award-winning New Heroes series of Young Adult superhero novels and the #1 Amazon best-selling cult graphic novel Judge Dredd: Every Empire Falls. He currently writes Proteus Vex and Judge Dredd for 2000 AD and Judge Dredd Megazine. Other works include Jennifer Blood for Dynamite Entertainment, Razorjack for Titan Books (co-written with artist John Higgins), and the Rico Dredd trilogy for Abaddon Books, for whom he has also created the acclaimed JUDGES series which explores the genesis of the world of Judge Dredd. He can be found on www.michaelowencarroll.com

Maura McHugh lives in Galway, Ireland and has written three collections: Twisted Fairy Tales and Twisted Myths—published in the USA—and The Boughs Withered (When I Told Them My Dreams) from NewCon Press in England. In 2019 her short story ‘Bone Mother’ was adapted into a stop-motion animated short film, and her science fiction rom-com radio play, The Love of Small Appliances, was broadcast in June 2019. She’s written comics for Dark Horse, Atomic Diner Comics, and 2000 AD, and her monograph about David Lynch’s iconic film, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, was nominated for a British Fantasy Award for Best Non Fiction.

Joseph Elliott-Coleman has been writing and telling stories since he was a child, with science fiction being his wheelhouse. Enduring and overcoming countless barriers, his work first saw print in the Not So Stories anthology. He lives in Croydon, London.