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Mercedes M. Yardley
Mystery/Thriller PanelMercedes M. Yardley is a dark fantasist who wears red lipstick and poisonous flowers in her hair. She is the author of, Beautiful Sorrows, the Stabby Award-winning, Apocalyptic Montessa and Nuclear Lulu: A Tale of Atomic Love, Pretty Little Dead Girls, and Nameless. She won the Bram Stoker Award for her story, Little Dead Red and was a Bram Stoker Award nominee for her short story, Loving You Darkly and the, Arterial Bloom anthology. Mercedes lives and works in Las Vegas with her family and strange menagerie.