Laura Joyce has published a novella, The Museum of Atheism (Salt, 2012), and a horror-experiment in prose poetry The Luminol Reels (Calamari Press, 2014). Her book Luminol Theory (Punctum, 2017), examined images of violent death in literature using the metaphor of crime scene investigation. Her short fiction, poetry, and criticism have appeared in Spork, PLINTH, The New Gothic, Murmurations, 3am, Entropy, Succour, Metazen, Montevidayo, Common Salt, and Tarpaulin Sky, and on BBC Radio 3. She works as a freelance editor at Occult Writers.
Honor Gavin is a writer from Birmingham whose work moves between fiction, theory, and forms of creative criticism. Funny Queer, a hand-sewn limited edition collection of stories and short texts, was published by the Aleph Press in 2021. Their novel Midland: A Novel Out of Time (Penned in the Margins, 2014) was shortlisted for the 2015 Gordon Burn Prize and their short story, ‘Home Death’, was longlisted for the Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize 2019/20. They are also the author of a critical monograph on the encounter between early twentieth-century literature and silent film, Literature and Film, Dispositioned: Thought, Location, World (Palgrave, 2014), and currently teach in the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester.