SEAN REDLITZ is the co-writer of the 2023 Christmas horror film THE SACRIFICE GAME as well as a former head of Brand & Audience development at AMC Networks' Shudder streaming service. His career in film and television includes roles at Warner Bros Discovery's CNN and Food Network, NBC Universal's Bravo and Syfy, and Lionsgate's FEARnet and Tribeca Shortlist. His producing credits include TALES FROM BEYOND THE PALE and SEEING EAR THEATRE audio dramas, and the web series CHOPPED: AFTER HOURS, NEXT IRON CHEF: ROAD TO REDEMPTION, JOBS OF THE DAMNED, FEAR NEWS, and THE ADVENTURES OF EDWARD THE LESS.

JAMAL HODGE is a 2x Bram Stoker Award-nominated writer and an award-winning director. And a co-producer in the Oscar-nominated short film Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud. He has directed for Investigation Discovery’s Primal Instinct and PBS’s Southern Storytellers, while producing credits include the forthcoming animated feature Pierre the Pigeon Hawk. In literature, he is an Elgin Award winner, a Dwarf Stars Award winner, and a Rhysling Award finalist whose work appears consistently in anthologies and magazines, such as Chiral Mad 5, The Big Bad Book of Kaiju, Weird Tales Magazine, and Space & Time Magazine. His anthology Bestiary

of Blood debuted as Amazon’s #1 New Horror Anthology Release, and his forthcoming books, I’m Not a Good Person, I’m a New Yorker, to be released July 7, 2026, by Crystal Lake Publishing; and the anthology Shards of Gotham

from Ruadán Press, to be released in 2028, continue his exploration of pain, identity, and redemption.

LISA MORTON is a screenwriter, author, and editor whose work was described by the American Library Association’s Readers’ Advisory Guide to Horror as “consistently dark, unsettling, and frightening." Her screenwriting credits include Meet the Hollowheads, Adventures in Dinosaur City, and Blood Angels. Lisa lives in Los Angeles and online at www.lisamorton.com.

JENN WEXLER is a writer and director whose directorial debut, THE RANGER, world premiered at the SXSW Film Festival, screened at the Museum of Modern Art, and was released by AMC Networks’ Shudder. Her second feature, THE SACRIFICE GAME, world premiered at Fantasia and is now on Shudder and AMC+. Her latest film, THE LAST TEMPTATION OF BECKY, the third film in the BECKY franchise, is set for release this summer. In television, she’s directed for The CW’s PANDORA and TruTV’s LATE NIGHT SNACK. Wexler has also produced acclaimed and award-winning genre films including DEPRAVED, DARLING, LIKE ME, and MOST BEAUTIFUL ISLAND.

L. MARIE WOOD is an International Impact, Golden Stake, and two-time Bookfest Award-winner, as well as an Ignyte and four-time Bram Stoker Award® nominated author. She has won over 50 national and international screenplay and film awards. Wood is also the Vice President of the Horror Writers Association, founder of the Speculative Fiction Academy, an English/Creative Writing professor, and a horror scholar. Learn more at www.lmariewood.com.