Lindy Miller Ryan is a Bram Stoker Award-nominated author-editor, director, and professor at Rutgers University. She is the founder of Black Spot Books, a small press with a mission to amplify the voices of women-in-horror. She previously served on the Board of Directors for the Independent Book Publishers Association and is the co-chair of the Horror Writers Association Publishers Council. Ryan was named one of Publishers Weekly's 2020 Star Watch Honorees. She also writes clean romance under the name Lindy Miller, where her books have been adapted for screen.