Publisher Info:"Writer's Muse" is a writer's group on Facebook. The Writer's Muse Group publishes the Writer's Muse Magazine. Author Info:Sumiko Saulson is a horror novelist, published poet and writer of short stories and editorials. Her novels include "Solitude, " "Warmth", and "The Moon Cried Blood". A native Californian, she was born and spent her early childhood in Los Angeles, moving to Hawaii, where she spent her teen years, at the age of 12.
She has spent most of her adult life living in the San Francisco Bay Area. An early interest in writing and advanced reading skills eventually lead to her becoming a staff writer for her high school paper, the Daily Bugle (McKinley High, Honolulu, HI) one of the nation's only four such daily High School papers at the time. By the time she moved to San Francisco at age 19, she had two self-published books of poetry and was a frequently published poet in local community newspapers and reading poetry around town.
Sumiko Saulson is a science-fiction, fantasy and horror writer and graphic novelist.
She was the 2016 recipient of the Horror Writer Association's "Scholarship from Hell." She is best known for her non-fiction reference guide "60 Black Women in Horror Fiction." Her novels include "Solitude", " The Moon Cried Blood, "Happiness and Other Diseases", "Somnalia", "Insatiable" and the Amazon bestselling horror comedy "Warmth." She has written several short stories for collections and anthologies, including the Carry the Light award winning science-fiction story "Agrippa." She writes for the Oakland Art Scene for the Examiner.com, SEARCH Magazine and horror blogs HorrorAddicts.net and SumikoSaulson.com, which featured a 2013 Women in Horror Month interview series.
The child of African American and Russian-Jewish American parents, she is a native Californian who grew up in Los Angeles and Hawaii. She is an Oakland resident who has spent most of her adult life in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Sara the Black is an introverted California native hermiting deep in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Proudly multicultural, this primarily Sephardic Jew/Kalderash Romani was raised in Southern California.
A Gender Queer, Asexual, Intersex disabled adult living with multiple chronic illnesses, Sara opted for retirement off-grid with a fiercely independent private contractor/writer companion and neurotic female feline minions.-She- is an unapologetically voracious reader with a healthy appetite for street tacos, good beer and Hello Kitty.
Carolyn Saulson, a Bay Area African American and Disability Rights community activist who was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a rare blood cancer affecting African Americans at a rate twice that of the general population, on August 10, 2009.
Author of Living A Lie. Mother of Sumiko Saulson, Co-Author of the play Strange Tales of Henriette Jekyll. Co-Founder of Iconoclast Productions. Lead singer of the band Stagefright. Poet. Co-author of Profiles in Black with Joyce Duran. Subject and co-author of Tales of an Iconoclast.
Author, gamer, cat dad
Karen Junker is widely regarded as the Most Powerful Witch on the West Coast. Having published in a professional capacity since she was 8, Bloodstock in the Iconoclast Productions anthology Wickedly Abled is her first pro published short story.
She lives in the Pacific Northwest, where she is the administrative assistant for Readerfest.org. She amuses herself by getting writers into a room with other publishing professionals who will help them with their work and their careers. So far, it's working.
Serena Toxicat (author Ghosts in Bones) is a neurodivergent cat priestess in Oakland whose latest projects are a short film titled System Malfunction, which addresses mental health, an album called Winter of Twenty, by Protea, her main music project, a cat-focused virtual show and music video called Art in Quarantine, and various Medium articles about goth subculture, paganism, the kink scene, and more.
She loves manuls, advocacy, tattoos, the Bay Area LGBTQ community, music open mics and poetry readings, and something she forgot.
