John Darnielle’s first novel, Wolf in White Van, was a New York Times bestseller, a National Book Award nominee, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for first fiction, and widely hailed as one of the best novels of the year. His second novel, Universal Harvester, was released in 2017. Additionally, Darnielle is the author of the “South Pole Dispatch” column in Decibel Magazine; in 2012, he was guest poetry editor for The Mays anthology; and he co-hosts the podcast I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats. Darnielle is the writer, composer, guitarist, and vocalist for the band The Mountain Goats.
Amparo Dávila is a Mexican author who has been acknowledged as one of Mexico’s finest masters of the short story. The Houseguest: And Other Stories, published in 2017, is Dávila’s first collection to be published in English. She has been honored with the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize and the Medalla Bellas Artes, among other awards.
Dennis Etchison is a three-time winner of the British Fantasy Award for writing and editing. His works include the novels The Fog, Halloween, Videodrome, Shadowman, and California Gothic, and the short story collections Red Dreams, The Dark Country, Blood Kiss, and The Death Artist, and his stories have been featured in numerous anthologies. Etchison edited the anthologies MetaHorror and The Museum of Horrors. In 2016, he was honored with the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement.
Peter Jay Fernandez has recently been featured in Netflix’s Luke Cage. Additional film and television credits include Superboy, Law & Order, Damages, The Good Wife, House of Cards, Gotham, Elementary, Shades of Blue, Royal Pains, The Irishman, New Amsterdam, and For Life. He has appeared on Broadway in Julius Caesar, Cyrano de Bergerac, Jelly’s Last Jam, The Merchant of Venice, Henry IV, and All The Way, and off-Broadway in numerous productions, including Red Speedo, Father Comes Home From the Wars, Seven Spots on the Sun, Othello, and most recently, Socrates at the Public Theatre. Fernandez has narrated dozens of audiobooks, including John Henry Days, Juneteenth, Known and Strange Things, and numerous thrillers by James Patterson. Fernandez recently reprised his role as W.E.B. Dubois in the New Federal Theatre’s production of Dr. DuBois and Miss Ovington. He currently serves as a Professor of Theatre in the graduate acting program at Columbia University.
Michael Shannon has earned accolades for his performances on screen, stage, and television. He is known for his roles in Revolutionary Road and Nocturnal Animals, for which he was nominated for Academy Awards, Boardwalk Empire, for which he was nominated for three Screen Actors Guild Awards, Take Shelter (Saturn Award), Elvis & Nixon, Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Loving, The Shape of Water, Waco, Fahrenheit 451, Knives Out, the miniseries The Little Drummer Girl, The Quarry, At Home with Amy Sedaris, and Hank the Cowdog, among others. His stage credits include Bug, The Killer, and Uncle Vanya, the Roundabout Theatre’s production of A Long Day’s Journey Into Night, for which he received the Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk awards, Simpatico, Traitor, and Victims of Duty. Shannon will appear in the forthcoming TV miniseries Nine Perfect Strangers, as well as the films Swing, Shriver, and Bullet Train.
