Ross E. Lockhart, Publisher & Editor-in-Chief

ROSS E. LOCKHART is an author, anthologist, editor, and publisher. A lifelong fan of supernatural, fantastic, speculative, and weird fiction, Lockhart is a veteran of small-press publishing, having edited scores of well-regarded novels of horror, fantasy, and science fiction. Lockhart edited the anthologies The Book of Cthulhu I and II, Tales of Jack the Ripper, The Children of Old Leech: A Tribute to the Carnivorous Cosmos of Laird Barron (with Justin Steele), Giallo Fantastique, Cthulhu Fhtagn!, Eternal Frankenstein, and Tales from a Talking Board. He is the author of Chick Bassist. Lockhart lives in a state of quantum flux in Petaluma, California, with his wife Jennifer and a TBR pile that grew so large it became a TBR store.

Jennifer Lockhart, Finance & Operations

JENNIFER LOCKHART is the reason anything at Word Horde gets done. From keeping the hamster wheels spinning on our website to making sure our authors and freelancers get paid, Jennifer is the indispensable element of our organization. She even runs the Emporium. All hail Jennifer, the most awesome one of all. (And no, she won’t read your manuscript. Nor did she write this bio.)