StokerCon 2025

A previous StokerCon chair, KC Grifant is an award-winning writer based in Southern California who creates internationally published horror, fantasy, science fiction, and weird west stories. Many of her short stories have appeared in podcasts, magazines, games, and Stoker-nominated anthologies. She is the author of the weird western novel, Melinda West: Monster Gunslinger (Brigids Gate Press, 2023), Melinda West and the Gremlin Queen (Brigids Gate Press, 2025), and the short story collection Shrouded Horror: Tales of the Uncanny (Dragon’s Roost Press, 2024). She is the co-chair and founder of the Horror Writers Association’s San Diego chapter, a short story instructor, and member of numerous writing organizations. Learn more at www.KCGrifant.com or the social networks at @KCGrifant.

Her short stories have appeared in Andromeda Spaceways Magazine, Unnerving Magazine, Cosmic Horror Monthly, Dark Matter Magazine, the British SF Association’s Fission Magazine, Tales to Terrify, the Lovecraft eZine, Pseudopod, the Stoker-nominated Chromophobia; Musings of the Muse; Dancing in the Shadows - A Tribute to Anne Rice; Field Notes from a Nightmare; The One That Got Away; Six Guns Straight From Hell; Shadowy Natures; Beyond the Infinite - Tales from the Outer Reaches; the Stoker-nominated Fright Mare: Women Write Horror, and many others.

For details, visit www.KCGrifant.com or @kcgrifant.