Desmond White is a high school teacher who writes when his students aren’t looking. While the Writing Coordinator of HBU’s Academic Success Center, he founded Writ in Water, a student literary magazine. Rune Bear will be his second magazine, with its focus less on Literature with a capital L and more on the weird and wonderful. Des lives with his wife and two cats and the thousand howling strays she feeds by the cars. He tweets and blogs.
J. Motoki is the Short Story Editor of Coffin Bell Journal, the Strange Editor of Rune Bear, and an advocate of all things dark and disturbing. Her works have been published in Blood Song Books, The Other Stories Podcast (Hawk & Cleaver), Black Hare Press, and others. She tweets and blogs.
Jenny is a former sales account executive turned full-time Animal Crossing Villager. Her favorite genre is fantasy written for children. Her second favorite is Slice of Life. Her street cred includes winning an essay contest in 6th grade once. Or was it 7th grade? In her spare time, Jenny draws dumb comics and vigorously watches TV.
Giuliano Jones is a poet, perfumist, and culinary enthusiast with a BFA in creative writing and a day job as a brewer. High fantasy, surrealism, experimental poetry, science fiction, and contemporary philosophy of mind and AI get him excited. Born in San Jose, he now resides in Wheat Ridge, Colorado, breathing in the crisp mountain air.
Denise Landreth is a poet, photographer, and painter, with a BFA in Creative Writing. Horror, psychological thrillers, and Magical Girls are genres that get her heart beating faster. Originally from California’s Bay Area, she has lived and worked in Boston before calling Colorado her present home. She lives with her partner and two cats, Nemo and Newton. She tweets.
Alyssa Warren is actually a hobbit in disguise. She enjoys the comforts of hearth and home, cooking and crocheting. When adventuring is impractical, she settles for burrowing into a good book or taking a walk beside the ocean with her husband and daughter. Good fun aside, Alyssa is the former marketing coordinator of Authentic Publishers and currently provides contracted editing and proofreading services for BroadStreet Publishing. She tweets.
Jenny Phengdara is a librarian living in the rain-soaked Pacific Northwest. From public librarianship to corporate librarianship, Jenny knows a thing or two about information. She spends her time reading, playing video games, making music, and is the founder of The Dead Tree Society Bookshop. She attributes much of her love for librarianship from her idols Rupert Giles and Evelyn O’Connell and has a special collection of occult & esoteric materials along with an array of classic novels in her private library. She makes music and instagrams.
Robin Stranahan is an artist in Portland, Oregon. Her passions include culinary adventures, beverages, and her dog. She instagrams.
Brandon Patterson is the Web Developer of Rune Bear. He’s interested in new technology, video games, travel, and music. Patterson currently resides in Houston with his fiancée, one-year-old son, and cuddly cat Lexie Grey. The boy tweets.