Whether she 's searching for the right steer skull to give her sister for Christmas, or snuggling up with her Cthulhu plushie on a dark and stormy night, Kelly Winters has a soft spot for the weird and creepy.
Kelly has contributed to previous issues of Imitation Fruit, as well as to the very real No. 1 Fake Magazine, the paperback collection, Xangans: Stories From the World's Greatest Blogging Community, Author MM's 2009 Halloween Contest ebook, and in various incarnations of Capital University 's arts magazine.
Diana Blackwell is a self-taught artist in Berkeley, California. She works in charcoal, acrylics, collage, block printing, and monoprinting. She belongs to the East Bay Figure Painters. Her work is a regular feature at Mignonne Décor in Berkeley. She has shown work all over the Bay Area and illustrated books and stories. Her online gallery is www.zhibit.org/diana_blackwell.