Lindy Ryan is a USA Today bestselling and award-winning author and anthologist whose books have received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and Library Journal. Author-in-residence at Rue Morgue and a columnist at BookTrib, Ryan was a Publishers Weekly Star Watch Honoree in 2020 and has been declared a "champion for women's voices in horror" and one of horror's most masterful anthology curators. She is an award-winning professor at Rutgers University, and a guest faculty mentor in Western Connecticut State University's Creative Writing MFA program. Find her on Instagram and Substack @lindyryanwrites.