Marc L Abbott is the co-author of Hell at Brooklyn Tea and the two-time African American Literary Award-winning horror anthology, Hell at the Way Station. His horror short stories are featured in the anthologies Blackened Roots, The Chaos Clock, and the Bram Stoker Nominated horror anthologies New York State of Fright & Under Twin Suns: Alternate Histories of the Yellow Sign. His new horror novel, Sinister Ascension from Mocha Memoirs Press, is out now. He is a Moth Story Slam and Grand Slam Storyteller winner and an award-winning actor. When he is not curating workshops for the Center for Fiction, he teaches writing to students at Dr. Izquierdo Health and Science Charter School.