Alex Segura is an acclaimed, award-winning writer of novels, comic books, short stories, and podcasts. He is the author of the upcoming noir novel, Secret Identity (Flatiron Books), Star Wars Poe Dameron- Free Fall , and the Pete Fernandez Mystery series (including the Anthony Award-nominated crime novels Dangerous Ends , Blackout , and Miami Midnight ). His short story "Red Zone" won the 2020 Anthony Award for Best Short Story, and his border noir short story, "90 Miles" will be included in The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2021. "90 Miles" also won the Best Short Story Anthony Award for 2021. Alex has also written a number of comic books, most notably the superhero noir The Black Ghost , the YA music series The Archies , and the "Archie Meets" collection of crossovers, featuring real-life cameos from the Ramones, B-52s, the upcoming all-ages superhero adventure The Dusk , and more. He is also the co-creator/co-writer of the Lethal Lit crime/YA podcast from iHeart Radio, which was named one of the best podcasts of 2018 by The New York Times . By day he is the Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Oni Press, with previous stints at Archie Comics and DC Comics. A Miami native, he lives in New York with his wife and children.
Rob Hart is the author of The Paradox Hotel , as well as The Warehouse , which sold in more than 20 languages and was optioned for film by Ron Howard. He is also the author of the Ash McKenna crime series, which wrapped in July 2018 with Potter's Field . Other entries include- New Yorked , which was nominated for an Anthony Award for Best First Novel, as well as City of Rose, South Village , and The Woman from Prague. He also wrote the short story collection Take-Out , and co-wrote Scott Free with James Patterson. Rob is the former publisher for MysteriousPress.com and the current class director at LitReactor. He has also worked as a political reporter and the communications director for a politician, and was a commissioner for the city of New York. Rob's short stories have appeared in publications like Shotgun Honey, Crime Factory, All Due Respect, Thuglit, Needle, Helix Literary Magazine, Mystery Tribune, and Joyland.
He received a Derringer Award nomination for best flash fiction story for "Foodies", and his short story "Take-Out" appeared in Best American Mystery Stories 2018 . He received honourable mention in both Best American Mystery Stories 2015, 2017, and 2022. He also wrote "Due on Batuu", a short story set in the Star Wars universe, as part of From a Certain Point of View- The Empire Strikes Back . Non-fiction articles have been featured at sites like LitReactor, Salon, The Daily Beast, Criminal Element, The Literary Hub, Birth.Movies.Death, and Electric Literature. He is currently working on his next solo novel, as well as Dark Space , a sci-fi novel he is co-writing with Alex Segura. He lives in Staten Island, N.
Y.