The first book in The Vineart War trilogy, Flesh and Fire (Pocket), was published in October 2009. The second book, Weight of Stone, will be available October 2010. She is also the author of the Grail Quest YA trilogy for HarperCollins (2006), and as “Anna Leonard” writes paranormal romances (The Night Serpent and the forthcoming The Hunted). She also writes short fiction, and as part of Book View Café (www.bookviewcafe.com), is involved in expanding the definition of publishing beyond traditional models. More information available at lauraannegilman.net
GEOFFREY H. GOODWIN is a writer who lives near Boston, Massachusetts. He has two degrees in literature and has spent most of his life working in bookstores and comic book shops. Geoffrey’s fiction has appeared in Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, Rabid Transit, and Prime’s Phantom anthology, among others. He has also contributed nonfiction to Bookslut, Weird Tales, and Tor.com.
After traveling the world in search of the perfect Bunco group, SAMANTHA HENDERSON settled down in Southern California. Her short fiction has been published in Realms of Fantasy, Strange Horizons, Fantasy, and Chizine, and her 2008 dark Victorian fantasy Heaven’s Bones was nominated for the Scribe Award. She is currently the treasurer of the Science Fiction Poetry Association.
N.K. JEMISIN’s work has appeared in Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, and Postscripts, and ranges across science fiction, fantasy, erotica, and sometimes a bit of all three. Her first novel, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, first of the Inheritance Trilogy, is out now from Orbit Books. She lives and writes in Brooklyn, NY.
C.E. MURPHY is a writer, mostly of novels, but sometimes of comic books and short stories. Born and raised in Alaska, she now lives with her family in her ancestral homeland of Ireland, a magical land where winter never arrives. More information about her writing and witty banter with the author are available at her web site, www.cemurphy.net.
SUSAN PALWICK is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno, where she teaches literature and writing. She has published three novels, all with Tor, and a story collection with Tachyon Publications. She is currently working on a mainstream novel under contract with Tor. Susan’s writing has been honored with the Crawford Award from the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, with an Alex Award from the American Library Association, and with a Silver Pen Award from the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame. She has also been a finalist for the World Fantasy Award and the Mythopoeic Award.
MIKE RESNICK is, according to Locus, the all-time leading award winner, living or dead, for short science fiction. He has won five Hugos, a Nebula, and other major awards in the USA, France, Spain, Poland, Croatia, and Japan, and has been short-listed in England, Italy and Australia. He is the author of sixty-one novels, over 250 short stories, and two screenplays, and has edited more than forty anthologies. His work has been translated into twenty-three languages. In his spare time, he sleeps.
LAWRENCE SCHIMEL has published over one hundred books as author or anthologist, including The Drag Queen of Elfland (Circlet), The Future is Queer (Arsenal Pulp), Things Invisible to See: Lesbian and Gay Tales of Magic Realism (Circlet), Two Boys in Love (Seventh Window), and Fairy Tales for Writers (A Midsummer Night’s Press). He has twice won the Lambda Literary Award, for First Person Queer (Arsenal Pulp) and PoMoSexuals (Cleis), and has also won the Spectrum, the Independent Publisher Book Award, the Rhysling, and other awards. He lives in Madrid, Spain, where he works as a Spanish-to-English translator.
MARIA V. SNYDER switched careers from meteorologist to novelist when she began writing the New York Times best-selling Study Series (Poison Study, Magic Study and Fire Study) about a young woman who becomes a poison taster. Born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Maria dreamed of chasing tornados, but lacked the skills to forecast their location. Writing, however, lets Maria control the weather. Her new Glass Series (Storm Glass, Sea Glass, and Spy Glass) combines two out of the three things Maria loves: the weather and glass. The third is dogs. Readers are invited to read more of Maria’s short stories on her web site at www.MariaVSnyder.com.
MOLLY TANZER is the assistant editor of Fantasy Magazine. Her interview with Garth Nix appeared on the Fantasy Magazine site, and her nonfiction article “On Books and Animals” appeared in Herbivore Magazine. You are always welcome to visit her at www.mollytanzer.com. She knits, but never with wool.
GENEVIEVE VALENTINE’s fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Clarkesworld Magazine, Strange Horizons, Fantasy Magazine, and in anthologies Federations, The Living Dead II, and Teeth. Her first novel, about a mechanical circus troupe, is coming in 2011 from Prime. She has an insatiable appetite for bad movies, a tragedy she tracks on her blog at www.genevievevalentine.com.
CARRIE VAUGHN is the bestselling author of a series of novels about a werewolf named Kitty who hosts a talk radio advice show for the supernaturally disadvantaged. The seventh installment, Kitty’s House of Horrors, was released in 2010. T.J. in “Wild Ride” is a character from the series. Carrie’s first young adult novel, Voices of Dragons, is also due to be released in 2010. An Air Force brat, she grew up all over the U.S. but has managed to put down roots in Boulder, Colorado. Please visit her at www.carrievaughn.com for more information.
ERZEBET YELLOWBOY is the editor of Cabinet des Fées, a journal of fairy tale fiction, and the founder of Papaveria Press, a private press specializing in handbound limited editions of mythic poetry and prose. Her stories and poems have appeared in Fantasy Magazine, Jabberwocky, Goblin Fruit, Mythic Delirium, Electric Velocipede and others. Her second novel, Sleeping Helena, is scheduled for release in 2010. Visit her web site at www.erzebet.com.
