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Saturday, June 1 • 10:00am - 10:50am
The Intersection Of Mental Health And Horror

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Trauma. Anxiety. Depression. Psychosis—the Venn Diagram where horror and mental illness meet at times seems a perfect circle. This panel will examine the role that horror can play,  both in its consumption and creation, in providing a relief from mental health stressors and the implications for writers.
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Mark Matthews

Mark Matthews is a graduate of the University of Michigan and a licensed professional counselor who has worked in behavioral health for over 20 years. He is the author of On the Lips of Children, All Smoke Rises, and Milk-Blood, as well as the editor of (and contributor to) Lullabies... Read More →

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Justin C. Key

Author
Justin C. Key is a speculative fiction writer and psychiatrist whose short stories have appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, Tor.com, Escape Pod, Lightspeed, and Jordan Peele’s Out There Screaming. A graduate of Clarion West, his debut... Read More →
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Lauren Elise (L. E.) Daniels

Editor, Author, Poet, HWA Wellness Committee, Brisbane Writers Workshop
A Rhode Islander living in Australia for 25 years, Lauren Elise Daniels (L. E. Daniels) has worked in publishing since '92. An Emerson College MFA grad, she's edited over 130+ titles, including the Aurealis Award-winning Relics, Wrecks and Ruins (2021), Aiki Flinthart's legacy anthology... Read More →
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Mo Moshaty

Writer, Lecturer, Producer and Journalist, NYX Horror Collective
Mo Moshaty is a horror writer, lecturer and producer. She has lectured with Prairie View A&M Film & TV Program as a Keynote, BAFSS Horror Studies Sig and The University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. Mo has partnered with horror giant, Shudder Channel, to co-produce the 13 Minutes... Read More →
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Mercedes M. Yardley

Senior Fiction Editor, House of Gamut
They call me Miss Murder. I'm a two-time Bram Stoker Award Winner in Long Fiction and Short Fiction, and a finalist for editing the anthology Arterial Bloom. I bake voodoo doll cookies and make darling little quilts with skulls on them. I work as the Senior Fiction Editor for Gamut... Read More →

Saturday June 1, 2024 10:00am - 10:50am PDT
Santa Fe 3
  Horror History and Culture

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