Lindy Ryan is an award-winning author, anthologist, and short-film director whose books and anthologies have received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and Library Journal. Several of her projects have been adapted for the screen. Ryan is the current author-in-residence at Rue Morgue. Declared a "champion for women's voices in horror" by Shelf Awareness, Ryan was named a Publishers Weekly Star Watch Honoree in 2020 and, in 2022, was named one of horror's most masterful anthology curators. She previously served on the Board of Directors for the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) and currently sits on the Board of Directors for the Brothers Grimm Society of North America. Born and raised in southeast Texas, Ryan currently resides on the East Coast. She is a professor at Rutgers University and a guest faculty mentor in Western Connecticut State University's Creative Writing MFA program.