Marcos Donnelly

Marcos Donnelly is a member of the Disturbing Frequencies editorial board. His publications include three novels and multiple short stories and novelettes. He currently works as a Spanish teacher in an alternative high school setting in Upstate NY.

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Meredith Powell

Meredith Powell is an award-winning actor and director who has been working in Rochester theatre and film for almost 20 years. She has received awards for excellence in both ensemble and solo acting work and excellence in directing. She’s been cast in a wide variety of roles over the years, including Honey in Who’s Afraid…

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Nick DiChario

Nick DiChario’s short stories have appeared in many magazines and anthologies since the 1990s. He has been nominated for the Hugo and World Fantasy Awards, and his first two novels, A Small and Remarkable Life and Valley of Day-Glo, both received nominations for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel of the Year.

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R. Emmett Michie

R. Emmett Michie is an actor, playwright, and poet. He is one of the founders of the Liquid Theater Festival and the Pure Kona Poetry Series, which recently celebrated it’s 25th year. He has been a member of The Protean Theatre, The Horseradish Factory, Helmet Theatre, and The Magical Mystery Troupe. He was a professional…

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Rob Tyler

Rob Tyler writes short fiction on themes of love, loss, and transformation. Elements of science, fantasy, and the absurd leaven his work. He doubles as a marketing writer with a software company to pay the mortgage on his crooked Victorian house in Fairport, New York. When he’s not pounding the keyboard, you might find him…

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Ron Dufort

Ron Dufort is an actor, singer, trombonist, and engineer based in Western New York. He has appeared recently on the Rochester stage in productions of Mastrosimone’s The Wooolgatherer, Hamilton’s Rope, and Mann’s Judgment at Nuremberg. On film, he’s played supporting roles in independent features such as Brendan Nagle’s action-comedy spy thriller The Essentials and Joshua…

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Sean Michael Smith

Sean Michael Smith is a voice actor and producer at Hearing Damage Studios in Rochester, New York. He is also a vocalist for the London-based group Azedia. In 2015, Smith was awarded the Theatre Association of New York State Award for outstanding achievement in acting.

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Steven Donner

Steven Donner has been scribbling down words ever since he could hold a pencil. He especially likes to write plays, poems, novels, and short stories. He also helps lead Finger Lakes Writers for Literacy, a group devoted to creating low-level materials to aid adults who are learning to read.

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Ted Wenskus

Ted Wenskus is a freelance writer, president of the Rochester Speculative Literature Association, and heads the Disturbing Frequencies editorial board. He is an award-winning playwright and has written numerous short plays which have been produced in England, Australia, Dubai, the Philippines, and throughout New York. His fiction has appeared in anthologies including Strangely Funny, Rom Zom…

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