Marc Ruvolo (he/him) is a queer writer and musician living in Portland, Oregon who once considered himself a punk. He founded the seminal Bucket O’ Blood book store in Chicago, and his poetry and fiction have appeared in Baffling Magazine (Neon Hemlock), Slay and Slay Again: A Queer Horror Anthology, Cynthia Pelayo’s “Gothic Blue Book” series, and many others. He’s published three horror novellas, “SLOE,” in 2023 by Unnerving Books, “Waste Ground” by Slashic Horror Press in 2025, and “Pieties: Expanded Edition,” by Slashic Horror in 2026.