Since 1994 Michelle Scalise's work has appeared in such anthologies as UNSPEAKABLE HORROR, DARKER SIDE, MORTIS OPERENDI, DARK ARTS, THE BIG BOOK OF EROTIC GHOST STORIES and such magazines as Cemetery Dance, Crimewave and Dark Discoveries. She was nominated for the 2010 Spectrum Award which honors outstanding works of fantasy and horror that include positive gay characters and the 2000 Rhysling Award for poetry. Her fiction has received honorable mention in YEARS BEST FANTASY AND HORROR. Contributing Editor for SFSite and Black Gate Magazine choose her first collection, INTERVALS OF HORRIBLE SANITY, as one of the top ten books of 2003. Her collection of short stories, COLLECTIVE SUICIDE, was published by Crossroad Press in 2012. EldritchPress has just published her dark poetry collection, THE MANUFACTURER OF SORROWS. MS.Scalise is married to bestselling author Tom Piccirilli.