Deidre J Owen was born in Lexington, Kentucky, but aside from a stint in the Canadian Maritimes she has spent a majority of her time in the Tampa Bay area in Florida. A versatile writer, Deidre has taken joy in a variety of genres including science fiction, weird fiction, speculative fiction, horror, humor, children's books, and Christian themes. She has a published children's picture book series called "The Heaven Zoo" as well as a number of short stories, novelettes, and novellas.

In 2019, she partnered with editor and fellow indie author Ronald Linson to establish independent publishing house Mannison Press. Specializing in short-form fiction, Mannison Press publishes in a wide variety of genres of varying lengths, including flash fiction, short stories, novelettes, and novellas.

Although formerly a certified veterinary technician by trade (with a quirky history of random interests), Deidre is currently loving life with her husband in Lithia, Florida, as a writer, publisher, and work-from-home mother to the couple’s young daughter.

Born and raised in western Connecticut, Ronald Linson now lives in New York City. He earned a degree in Computer Information Systems from Baruch College of the City University of New York, and has found that he prefers writing to database management.

He writes mainly science fiction, fantasy, and horror, but has been known to dabble in other genres. Many of his short stories and poems can be found at http://www.bewilderingstories.com.

In November 2017, he won first place in the On the Premises Mini-Short Story Contest #35, under his real name, Morgan Schafer.
It can be found here: https://onthepremises.com/minis/mini_35/

He has a number of projects in the works, including a YA fantasy novel and collaborations on a children's series and a short story, "Overworked: A Legal Fiction," with Deidre J Owen.