Not Worth Living

Donyae Coles is the author of Midnight Rooms, has a variety of puffy princess dresses and one cat but she wants more of both. She has traveled the world four times over and may do so again. Her short work has been published in a variety of horror and other speculative fiction anthologies and magazines such as Nightmare Magazine, Pseudopod, and All These Sunken Souls. When she's not writing, she's telling her stories with a paintbrush. Her website is www.donyaecoles.com.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ira-rat/support

Christopher Zeischegg is a writer and filmmaker who spent eight years working in the adult industry as performer, Danny Wylde. He is the author of Creation: On Art and Unbecoming, The Magician, Body to Job, The Wolves That Live in Skin and Space, and Come to My Brother. Zeischegg lives in Los Angeles. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ira-rat/support

Kris Hall (aka Barracuda Guarisco; C.C. Hannett) is the author of several collections of poetry and hybrid works published by Spuyten Duyvil, Vegetarian Alcoholic, Really Serious Literature, Feral Dove Books, Voice Lux, Alien Buddha, and Chat Rooms. Widely published in journals, online and in print, they have also been nominated for Best Microfiction and The Elgin Award. EMBARRASSED BY EVERYTHING EXCEPT FOR WHEN I PUT IT INTO POETRY (Be About It Press) is their latest book. They currently reside in Everett, WA. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ira-rat/support

Justin Lutz is a Splatterpunk Award nominated and Literary Nasty Award winning writer, musician, and screen printer living on the river in Pennsylvania with his wife and cats. He is the author of Gemini Rising, the charity novelette ACAB Includes Animal Control, the short story collection Gone To Seed, and Give Unto Us. His short work has appeared in Teenage Grave, Gravely Unusual, and Ghoulish Tales. As a member of the Void Collective he helps conjure Voidcon and is one of six to collectively summon the Void Haus. He believes in Bigfoot, strong coffee, and the healing power of Bruce Springsteen. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ira-rat/support

Robert Kloss is the author of The Genocide House (Bridge Books, 2024) and four other novels including The Alligators of Abraham (Mud Luscious Press, 2012) and The Woman Who Lived Amongst the Cannibals (Inside the Castle, 2022). He lives in Chicago with his wife, Meghan Lamb, and their cat, Daniel Day-Lewis. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ira-rat/support

Jon Steffens writes horror and dark fiction. His novelette The God in the Hills was nominated for a Splatterpunk Award, and his short story “The Bone Mother” was up for a 2021 Horror Authors Guild Award. In 2022, his collection The God in the Hills and Other Horrors won Best Collection at the inaugural Literary Nasties. Additionally, Jon was a contributor to Rue Morgue for several years, and a contributing writer for The Overstreet Guide to Collecting Horror and The Overstreet Price Guide to Star Wars Collectibles. He lives near Fort Worth, Texas. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ira-rat/support

Meghan Lamb is the author of Mirror Translation (Blamage Books, forthcoming) COWARD (Spuyten Duyvil, 2022), Failure to Thrive (Apocalypse Party, 2021) All of Your Most Private Places (Spork Press, 2020) and Silk Flowers (Birds of Lace, 2017). Her work has also appeared in Quarterly West, DIAGRAM, Redivider, and Passages North, among other publications. She served as the 2018 Philip Roth Writer-in-Residence at Bucknell University, and currently teaches creative writing through the University of Chicago, Story Studio, and GrubStreet. She is the nonfiction editor for Lover’s Eye and Nat. Brut and the fiction editor for Bridge Journal and Bridge Books. She creates music, video, and performance art under the names Iron Like Nylon and Violet.Fistula. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ira-rat/support

Lindsay Lerman is the author of I'm From Nowhere (2019) and What Are You (2022). She is also the translator of François Laruelle's first book. She holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. Her short stories, essays, and poems have been published in the Los Angeles Review of Books, New York Tyrant, and elsewhere. Through her intensive series, Climbing Down, she leads courses that combine creative writing and close reading of select philosophy texts. She lives in Berlin. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ira-rat/support

David Catalano is a Composer and Photographer based in Pennsylvania who believes in physical media --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ira-rat/support

Xavier Garcia is a writer/editor from Toronto, Canada. His short fiction has appeared in various magazines and anthologies published by Fugitives & Futurists, Cold Signal, hex, Apocalypse Confidential, Cursed Morsels, Filthy Loot, and others. You can find him walking the nightmare corpse-city of R’lyeh, or at twitter.com/xavier_agarcia. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ira-rat/support

Matthew Mitchell is a fiction and comics writer from the Ozarks. His debut novella CHAINDEVILS received the Literary Nasties Award and his short fiction has been published in various anthologies, including the award-winning VOID HAUS. Matthew’s comics have appeared in Heavy Metal Magazine and he is co-editor of the HORRORIUM comics anthology. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ira-rat/support

Derek Fisher is a writer from Toronto. He is the author of Container, a forthcoming short story collection through With an X Books. He recently published a strange little book called Night Life with Posthuman Magazine, and was a contributor to the Tragical Lizard Brain horror anthology. He's had work in X-R-A-Y, Maudlin House, Fugitives and Futurists, Heavy Feather Review, and elsewhere. To see more of his writing, check out derekafisher.com.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ira-rat/support

Michael Tichy is an author and psychiatric nurse practitioner from the gaping maw of grey America that is Ohio. His debut novel, The Winnowing Draw, was just released in February of this year. Previous works include the novella, Behind Every Tree, Beneath Every Rock and the collection, Wound of the West (Castaigne). His stories have appeared in the anthologies Shredded, Into the Crypts of Rays, and Shiver.   --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ira-rat/support

Jillian Luft is a writer and Florida apologist. Her debut novel, Scumbag Summer, is set for publication on June 20th via House of Vlad Press. You can read more of her work at jillianluft.com.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ira-rat/support

Jeff Schneider is a published writer and played guitar in the noise-rock groups Arab On RadarJeff Schneider is a published writer and played guitar in the noise-rock groups Arab On Radar and Made in Mexico. He is the author of the memoir, Psychiatric Tissues (The Arab On Radar Book), a collection of short stories titled Gallons Per Minute, and the novel Therapists Gone WIld. Jeff is editor in chief of the outsider literary press Pig Roast Publishing, LLC. and Made in Mexico. He is the author of the memoir, Psychiatric Tissues (The Arab On Radar Book), a collection of short stories titled Gallons Per Minute, and the novel Therapists Gone WIld.   Jeff is editor in chief of the outsider literary press Pig Roast Publishing, LLC. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ira-rat/support

Jon Nix is a Filmmaker, Writer and Photographer. He is the director of two feature documentaries. His previous books include Shy No More and The Right Side of Bad. He lives in Cleveland, Ohio. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ira-rat/support

B.R. Yeager is the author of Negative Space (Apocalypse Party), Burn You the Fuck Alive (Apocalypse Party), Pearl Death (Inside the Castle), and Amygdalatropolis (Schism [2]). He lives in Western Massachusetts. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ira-rat/support

Danielle Chelosky is a writer and journalist from New York. She works at Stereogum, edits for Hobart, and helps publish books on Amphetamine Sulphate. Her debut novel Pregaming Grief arrives on SF/LD soon. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ira-rat/support

Edwin Callihan resides in the foothills of Appalachia. He will probably die there. He also writes weird fiction and watches a lot of movies. You can find his work throughout the underground and his newest collection Histories Of Mgo. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ira-rat/support

Max Restaino is the author of Coyote, available from Amphetamine Sulphate. He lives in Poughkeepsie, NY.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ira-rat/support