Brief Author Bio:

Sarah L. Gerhardt is a fiction writer living in Portland, Oregon with her adorable cat and her amazing boyfriend. She grew up in a small (mostly rural) town outside of Pittsburgh, where she her love for reading and writing science-fiction, strange tales and horror began. She was only 10 years old when she wrote her first scary story.

Sarah's interest in the unusual has landed her many interesting opportunities. In addition to several published poems and articles for online publications on a wide variety of topics, she also created an expansive mythos for an alien culture featured in a sci-fi board game entitled "You'n'IT". Sarah has even worked in film and television, starting as a Second Assistant Director for a zombie feature film called "Flesh Of My Flesh". Later, she worked as the Associate Producer of the local public access program "Northwest Artist Spotlight", and has contributed her talents to a smattering of short films. For several years she collaborated with Lurker Films, coordinating the "H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival" and "Zompire: The Undead Film Festival".

“Someone once asked what it was that first drew me to horror, science-fiction and strange tales. That's easy - Drive-In Theater Double Features. As a child my family and I would regularly go to the drive-in (back when they were far more prevalent). Usually they would play a "kid friendly" movie as the opener and a more adult movie later in the evening when the kids should have been sleeping. I never slept.” – Sarah L. Gerhardt