Assemble Artifacts Short Story Magazine: Fall 2021 (Issue #1)

Emmeline Clein is a writer MFA candidate at Columbia University. Her work has been published in The Yale Review, The Nation, Buzzfeed News, and other outlets. She grew up in Washington, DC, and is now based in Brooklyn. She is working on a book of essays about capitalism’s demands on the female body and the cultural production of eating disorders.

Philip Fracassi is the author of the award-winning story collection Behold the Void, which was named “Best Collection of the Year” from both This Is Horror and Strange Aeons magazine. His short stories have been published in numerous magazines and anthologies, including Best Horror of the Year, Nightmare magazine, Black Static, and Cemetery Dance. The New York Times called his work “terrifically scary.”

John Goodrich is the author of Hag and I Do Terrible Things, two very different horror novels. He has lived in New England, New Mexico, and California, finally settling down in the vicinity of Shirley Jackson’s house. His first story was published in 2004, and in 2020 he became a member of SFWA. If you want to talk about swamp monsters in comics, kaiju film, Icelandic sagas, or biplanes, good luck getting a word in edgewise.

Alexis Nedd is a pop culture writer based in Brooklyn, New York. By day she writes about movies, television, and video games as a reporter for Mashable.com, and by night she does the exact same thing, except for free and on Twitter. Alexis is a graduate of Columbia University, where she studied cultural anthropology and psychology, two subjects that actually did end up being useful in her career. Her debut novel, Don’t Hate the Player, released in 2021.

Rachel Rutherford developed a passion for writing throughout her time attending comic conventions and diving into the world of graphic novels later in life. An Executive Legal Assistant by day, she found a creative outlet through fiction. Rachel was born and raised in Flint, Michigan, and now calls Detroit her home.

Max Winter is the pen name of producer Chris Goldberg, founder of Winterlight Pictures. A former literary scout for 20th Century Fox, Chris was involved in the rights deals on Gone Girl, The Martian, and The Fault in Our Stars, all of which were #1 New York Times bestsellers and #1 at the box office. Since founding his own company, he has set up feature films and series at Netflix, Amazon, Universal, Lionsgate, Showtime, MGM, and others. He wrote “Retro” one night on his phone when he couldn’t sleep.