Lindy Miller Ryan is an award-winning and Bram Stoker Awards®-nominated author, editor, professor, and short-film director. She was recently named one of horror’s six most masterful anthology curators and dubbed a “champion for women’s voices in horror” by Shelf Awareness for her work in INTO THE FOREST: TALES OF THE BABA YAGA, which received a starred book review from BOOKLIST and been featured in BBC Culture, NPR, and others. A 2020 Publishers Weekly Star Watch Honoree and previous board member for the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), Lindy is a long-time advocate for women-in-horror and an active member of the HWA, ITW, and the Brothers Grimm Society of North America. The author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, Lindy’s work has been adapted for film. Her debut horror-thriller novel, BLESS YOUR HEART, is forthcoming from St. Martin’s Press/Minotaur Books. On social @LindyRyanWrites and at LindyRyanWrites.com.