Founder of Whisper House Press, whose Costs of Living and Dread Mondays horror anthologies are due in September and October 2025, respectively, Steve Capone Jr. is an HWA member and award-winning Utah-based writer hailing from the Rust Belt. He released Max in the Capital of Spies in 2024, and Jimmy vs. Communism is due out from Gibbs Smith in 2027. Find his short fiction in This Isn’t the Place (Timber Ghost Press, 2024) and elsewhere. His “Cure for Creativity” won Best Short Screenplay in 2024 at the Bloody Mirror Film Festival. You can find his incorporeal footprint at linktr.ee/stevecaponejr.