Writer, anthropologist, and former international English teacher, Amanda R. Woomer (she/her) was born and raised in Buffalo, NY. She is a featured writer for the award-winning Haunted Magazine and The Morbid Curious, as well as the owner of Spook-Eats. She is the author of ten books for kids and adults, including Harlots & Hauntings, A Very Frightful Victorian Christmas, America's Haunted Breweries, Distilleries, and Wineries, and A Haunted Atlas of Western New York. She is also proud to be the creator of The Feminine Macabre. Follow her spooky adventures at spookeats.com and on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter @spookeats. You can also follow The Feminine Macabre’s journey on Facebook and Instagram @the.feminine.macabre

Cassandra Snow is a now a three-time Weiser author, having previously penned Queering the Tarot and Queering Your Craft: Witchcraft From the Margins. Professionally Cassandra is a tarot reader & teacher who has taught students how to read cards in their own unique, personalized way everywhere from college campuses to burlesque studios. In their other life, Cassandra makes theatre happen, dabbles in storytelling and obsesses over tabletop roleplaying games, going hiking and devouring books and movies. You can find out more about them at www.cassandra-snow.com or follow them in Instagram at mx.cassandra.snow

Siri Vincent Plouff is a Nordic witch, writer, and teacher. They are a professional rune and tarot reader and are the host of the Heathen's Journey Podcast. Their podcast is dedicated to creating space to learn about heathenry from an antiracist, queer perspective. Siri also teaches a wide variety of classes frequently - from classes about witchcraft, to classes on runes. Their two signature courses are the Witchcraft Immersion and Radical Runes. For more information about when these classes will run and any current offerings, please visit Siri's website at www.northernlightswitch.com. In their free time, Siri devours fiction, hangs out with their cats and spouse, and obsessively listens to podcasts.

Alisha Landreth, known in this community as Aleigh, is a practicing witch, a self-described weirdo, historian, archivist intern, and is currently studying for her Masters in Library Science; specializing in archives and reference librarianship at Valdosta State University. Her ultimate career would be helping people research family and local history and to understand the world of resources that don't reside behind a paywall. She is the co-creator and designer of Tidy Tarot: Daily Tarot Journals. Aleigh is always working creativity into every aspect of her life, whether it's fixing up her house with her family, or designing logos and digital images for friends and fellow weirdos. She is a lifelong paranormal experiencer and curious about the different aspects of the unknown. Aleigh has been a guest on the podcasts Personal Pans and Two Witches. You can also catch her on IG lives with Courtney talking about the paranormal. She also recounts her weird experiences on Twitter, @historicaleigh, especially during the month of October. Aleigh's goal is to make more people feel like they aren't alone in their ghostly encounters by sharing hers.

Courtney M. Block is the Instruction, Reference, and User Engagement Librarian at Indiana University Southeast. She is also the author of The Encyclopedia of Parapsychology (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022) and Researching the Paranormal: How to Find Reliable Information about Parapsychology, Ghosts, Astrology, Cryptozoology, Near-Death Experiences, and More (Rowman & Littlefield: 2020). Her work is also featured in volume 3 of The Feminine Macabre and you can find an upcoming article of hers in volume 35 of Haunted magazine. One of the things Courtney enjoys most is combining her librarian and paranormal interests and teaching people how to locate free, credible resources on a wide range of paranormal topics. To see what Courtney does when she’s not staying up all night to meet writing deadlines, follow her on Instagram @liminal.librarian.

Irisanya Moon (she/they) is an author, witch, international teacher, and Reclaiming initiate who has practiced magick for 20+ years. She wrote 7 books (so far), including Pagan Portals (Reclaiming Witchcraft - 2020, Aphrodite - 2020, Iris - 2020, Norns - 2023), Earth Spirit (Honoring the Wild - 2023, Gaia - 2023), and Practically Pagan: An Alternative Guide to Health & Well-being - 2020. Irisanya cultivates spaces of self-care/devotion, divine relationship (whatever that means to you), and community service as part of her heart magick and activism.

Spooky things happen every day all around us! Instead of brushing these peculiar moments and bizarre encounters off as chance, or mere coincidence, what if we talked about them, mapped them, and tried to decode the message?

Liminal Earth (originally Liminal Seattle) was started by Garrett Kelly, co-founder of Hollow Earth Radio, and Jeremy Puma, local Seattle author and animist. In 2017, we started tracking our weirdnesses — dreams, ‘coincidences’, strange encounters, etc. — on a personal level. One day, we kind of simultaneously had the idea to start putting our experiences on a map, and Garrett suggested we open it up to anyone. In 2021, we welcomed Bex Atwood, Kitsap Peninsula witch and horticulturalist to the team, and now we spend our time going on adventures and investigating strange locations.

Mortellus is the High Priestex of the Coven of Leaves in Western North Carolina, a Gardnerian Coven operating an Outer Court training group who like to say that they are a bubbling cauldron of bitter esoterica slithering their way through Western North Carolina. Additionally, Mortellus is a Mortician, Medium, Necromancer, and author of Do I Have To Wear Black? Rituals, Customs & Funerary Etiquette for Modern Pagans, with The Bones Fall in a Spiral: An Introduction to Necromancy and the Magic of Death currently slated for October 8th of 2022. Currently, they reside on three acres that are hastily becoming overgrown with their spouse, four-year-old twins, and one really, really ridiculous dog.

Nick AKA The Melaninated Magickian (They/Them) is a Thelemite and explorer of the Paraweird. They write observations about High Strangeness, Occultisms, and how those things intersect with race, gender, disability, and other social identities on their blog (https://t.co/OWWJuCkmsA) and on Twitter (@melaninatedmag2). In their normie work, they are a professional DEI practitioner, avid film watcher, and home cook. They live in central Florida with their partner Leslie (@wildhornsberry) and hellbeast cat Marcy.

Psychic Friendz is the only podcast where two dorks wade knee-deep into the wasteland that is "Free Psychic Advice Facebook.” Dash Kwiatkowski (they/them) and Rosa Escandón (she/her) are east-coast based friends, weirdos, and paranormal investigators, and some have even called them twin-flames (Mostly them. They call themselves that), and together they use what powers they can muster to find the people on psychic facebook with the funniest questions, and answer those questions for the benefit of the listening audience at home. Walking a tight-rope between the deeply earnest and the irreverently tongue-in-cheek, Psychic Friendz has something for skeptics, believers, and everyone in between.

Dash Kwiatkowski will be participating in the Friday panel as well

Alex Matsuo (she/they) is a paranormal researcher and author. They are the founder of the Association of Paranormal Study and runs “The Spooky Stuff.”

Alex was recently seen on the third season of Haunted Hospitals plus Travel Channel’s Most Terrifying Places in America. They have written several books about the paranormal and have contributed to publications like The Feminine Macabre, Haunted Magazine and Troy Taylor’s The Morbid Curious. Alex has also presented for prestigious research institutions such as the Rhine Research Center in Durham, North Carolina as well as the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena in the UK.

Alex holds an MA in theatre from San Diego State University and currently resides in Arlington, Virginia. They have been featured on KPBS – San Diego, Fox News, and The Washington Post for their various endeavors. Finally, Alex is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution through their ancestor, Joseph Toler.

Leslie Hornsberry (she/her) is a portrait artist who uses her work to explore The Weird Stuff™ from blasphemy to sexy goblins. As a lifelong paraweirdo and sufferer of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, much of Leslie’s work is inspired by her interest in ghosts and cryptids, as well as processing her experiences with Religious OCD through the use of blasphemy and subverted Christian imagery. For the last year, her work has been part of a greater magickal working and initiation. She is currently halfway through her Hellier tarot project and is working on a drawing series of pinup goblins because why not?

As someone who lives with mental illness, Leslie is dedicated to addressing the rampant ableism in the magickal/paranormal world in hopes of creating a more welcoming environment to those who have historically been discouraged from engaging, or flat-out excluded. She lives in Florida with her partner Nick and their cat Marcy who thinks she’s people and needs to repent for her crimes.

Tanino Minneci is a proud weirdo, eccentric artist, and if he weren’t balding, he would probably make a good treasure troll doll. Tanino completed one year of Art and Design at the University of Illinois before changing majors and graduating in Communication/Cinema Studies. In the years since, he’s lived in NYC, earned his Master’s in Social Work, worked in local theater and improv, and now lives in Urbana, IL working as an academic coach and advisor. Tanino hosts a daily drawing challenge every December called Santa Draus and is partnering with Leslie Hornsberry for a new November drawing challenge: Gnomevember. He currently has several projects in development, including a limited-series podcast. He also weird dreams sometimes. Tanino wants to be your friend. He is @weirdtanino on Instagram and Twitter.

(Maggie) Adler Cooper is a current graduate student at Florida State University working toward their PhD in Physical Chemistry. Their research involves analyzing deep sea geochemical processes in order to gain insight into the potential origins of life both here on Earth and elsewhere

Erica Lukes was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. Professionally, she has been a Pilates instructor for over 20 years but also is an accomplished singer, having performed with successful Utah bands like "The Groove," "Straight, No Chaser" and "Zion Tribe." As a result of this background, Erica performed with "Straight, No Chaser" at the 2002 Olympic Games in Salt Lake City. Following a family trait, she is a skilled artist, specializing in figure and landscape paintings. Her work has been exhibited and sold. Her father, R. Jeffrey Blackburn, specializes in spectacular southwestern and western landscape art for which he is well-known in the art world.

Erica Lukes also has an undying passion for the mysteries of the universe, particularly UFO reports and other strange aerial phenomena. Since childhood, she has been fascinated with imagery of how vehicles and beings from space might appear and she pursued this interest quietly but with determination. Due to her already established abilities with singing and some voice-over production, she was approached to perform media broadcasting work. This, coupled with her long-term interest in strange phenomena of nature, led her to take her first steps into radio in 2014 by developing her own programming and interview techniques of known figures in this topic.