Horror fantasist E.M. Markoff writes about damaged heroes and imperfect villains; she is also an inkblot artist. She is the creator of The Ellderet Series, a diverse dark fantasy epic exploring how family bonds are tested in a violent world. Her works include The Deadbringer, To Nurture & Kill, The Faceless God-Part One: Spirits & Ash, “Leaving the #9”, and the death positive essay “The Day It Snowed in Prague.” Under her imprint Tomes & Coffee Press, she published Tales for the Camp Fire, a charity anthology to raise money for California wildfire recovery and relief efforts. She has been on a number of panels speaking about topics including horror cinema, as well as the importance of diversity and decolonization in speculative fiction. She is a member of the Horror Writers Association and is mostly made up of coffee, cat hair, and whiskey.