Kiernan, vol. 1. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island, with her partner Kathryn. She is currently working on her next two novels, Blood Oranges and Blue Canary.
Matthew Kressel’s fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld magazine, Interzone, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Electric Velocipede, Apex magazine, GUD magazine, and the anthologies The People of the Book, Naked City, and Steam-Powered: Lesbian Steampunk Stories, as well as other markets. He runs Senses Five Press, which publishes the magazine Sybil’s Garage and published the World Fantasy Award-winning Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy. He cohosts the long-running Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series in Manhattan. And he has been a longtime member of the Altered Fluid writers group, where he regularly builds and shatters worlds. His Web site is www.matthewkressel.net.
Katherine Langrish is the author of several young adult fantasy novels inspired by folklore and legends, including a trio of historical fantasies set in the Viking age: Troll Fell, Troll Mill, and Troll Blood (republished in 2011 in an omnibus version as West of the Moon), and The Shadow Hunt (UK title: Dark Angels), a tale of ghosts and faeries on the Welsh border in the twelfth century. Her latest book, Forsaken, is a short reimagining of Matthew Arnold’s classic poem “The Forsaken Merman.” Katherine lives in Oxfordshire, England, and is at work on a YA dystopian fantasy featuring the characters and world of “Visiting Nelson.” You can visit her Web site at www.katherinelangrish.co.uk or join the chat about fairy tales on her blog, Seven Miles of Steel Thistles, at http://steelthistles.blogspot.com.
Gregory Maguire is the author of several dozen books for adults and children. His best known titles for children include What-the-Dickens and Leaping Beauty. His adult novel, Wicked, inspired the Broadway musical of the same name, and was followed by two New York Times best-selling sequels in the Wicked Years sequence, Son of a Witch and A Lion Among Men. The final volume in the series, Out of Oz, was published in November 2011. He has also written and performed pieces for NPR’s “All Things Considered” and “Selected Shorts.” Gregory lives in New England and in France with his husband, the painter Andy Newman, and their three children.
Garth Nix is the award-winning author of fantasy novels beloved by young adult readers (including the Old Kingdom series, the Seventh Tower series, and the Keys to the Kingdom series), and the YA dystopian science fiction novel Shade’s Children. His story for this anthology is set in the universe of Shade’s Children, and takes place about ten years prior to the events in the novel. Garth’s books have appeared on the bestseller lists of The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, and The Australian, and his work has been translated into thirty- eight languages. He lives in a Sydney beach suburb with his wife and two children. Visit him online at garthnix.com.
Before writing her New York Times best-selling novel, Life as We Knew It, Susan Beth Pfeffer didn’t know what a dystopian novel was. She still doesn’t know how to spell dystopian, but that hasn’t prevented her from writing two more novels, The Dead and the Gone and This World We Live In in the same genre. Her most recent book, Blood Wounds, is a realistic YA novel, perhaps because she has no trouble spelling realistic. She lives in New York State, and you can fine her online at http://susanbethpfeffer.blogspot.com.
Beth Revis’s debut novel, Across the Universe, is the first book in a science fiction trilogy for young adult readers. Like her story for this anthology, the novel explores life on the spaceship Godspeed under Eldest rule. The second book of the trilogy, A Million Suns, is forthcoming. Beth lives in rural North Carolina with her husband and dog, and believes space is nowhere near the final frontier. You’ll find her online at www.bethrevis.com, and on the dystopian blog, The League of Extraordinary Writers http://leaguewriters.blogspot.com
Carrie Ryan is the New York Times best-selling author of several critically acclaimed short stories and novels, including The Forest of Hands and Teeth, The Dead Tossed Waves, and The Dark and Hollow Places. Her first novel was chosen as a Best Books for Young Adults by the American Library Association, named to the 2010 New York Public Library Stuff for the Teen Age List, and selected as a Best of the Best Books by the Chicago Public Library. A former litigator, Carrie now writes full-time and lives with her husband, two fat cats, and one large dog in Charlotte, North Carolina. You can find her online at www.carrieryan.com.
Genevieve Valentine is the author of Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti. Her short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, Fantasy Magazine, Lightspeed, and others, and in the anthologies Teeth, The Living Dead 2, Running with the Pack, Armored, The New Adventures of John Carter of Mars, and more. Her nonfiction has appeared in Lightspeed, Tor.com, and Fantasy Magazine, and she is the coauthor of the pop-culture book Geek Wisdom. Her appetite for bad movies is insatiable, a tragedy she tracks on her Web site, genevievevalentine.com.
Jane Yolen, winner of two Nebulas and a bunch of other awards, just counted up her books published—and under contract to be published—and the astonishing number is over 330. Of course if you counted her single poems, the count would be much higher. Her first love has always been poetry. The poem in this book was written on a gray day in Scotland (or as they write it there, “grey”), about the aftermath of some unnamed worldwide disaster. Though of course, even on extremely gray/grey days in Scotland, everything is green. Jane lives in Massachusetts and Scotland, and can be found online at www.janeyolen.com.
Ellen Datlow has been editing science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction for over thirty years. She was fiction editor of OMNI magazine and SCIFICTION and has edited more than fifty science fiction, fantasy, and horror anthologies for adults, teenagers, and children, many of them with Terri Windling. She has won multiple Locus Awards, Hugo Awards, Stoker Awards, International Horror Guild Awards, World Fantasy Awards, and the Shirley Jackson Award for her editing. She was named recipient of the 2007 Karl Edward Wagner Award, given at the British Fantasy Convention for “outstanding contribution to the genre,” and in 2010 she was given the Life Achievement Award by the Horror Writers Association.
Ellen lives in New York City, where she co-hosts the long-running reading series Fantastic Fiction at KGB. More information can be found at www.datlow.com or at her blog, http://ellen-datlow.livejournal.com.
Terri Windling is an editor, artist, essayist, and the author of books for both children and adults. She has won nine World Fantasy awards, the Mythopoeic Award, the Bram Stoker award, and the SFWA Solstice Award for outstanding contributions to the speculative fiction field. She has edited more than thirty
