Dreadnought and 2009’s Boneshaker. Boneshaker was nominated for both the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award, and it won the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. Cherie’s other books include Four and Twenty Blackbirds, Fathom, Wings to the Kingdom, and the Endeavour-nominated book Not Flesh Nor Feathers from Tor (Macmillan). Her short novels Dreadful Skin, Clementine, and Those Who Went Remain There Still are published by Subterranean Press. She lives in Seattle, Washington, with her husband and a fat black cat.
Vandana Singh was born and raised in India and now lives in the United States where she teaches physics and writes. Her fiction has been published in Strange Horizons and numerous anthologies and reprinted in several Year’s Best volumes. Her novella Distances (Aqueduct Press) is a 2008 Carl Brandon Parallax Award winner and a Tiptree Honor book. The story “Thirst” first appeared in The Third Alternative (now Black Static) and is also to be found in her collection, The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet and Other Stories (Zubaan/Penguin India). Her website is http://users.rcn.com/singhvan/.
Maria V. Snyder switched careers from meteorologist to fantasy 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 in Philadelphia, Maria dreamed of chasing tornados and even earned a BS degree in Meteorology from Penn State University. Unfortunately, she lacked the necessary forecasting skills. Writing, however, lets Maria control the weather, which she gleefully does in her Glass Series (Storm Glass, Sea Glass, and Spy Glass). Readers are invited to read more of Maria’s short stories on her website at www.MariaVSnyder.com.
Aaron Sterns’ “Watchmen” originally appeared in the tri-country anthology Gathering the Bones edited by Jack Dann, Ramsey Campbell, and Dennis Etchison, receiving an honourable mention in the The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. Sterns’ first story “The Third Rail” appeared in the World Fantasy Award-winning collection Dreaming Down- Under and was shortlisted for the 1998 Aurealis Award for Best Horror Short Story. Subsequent stories appeared in Orb: Speculative Fiction and the recent follow-up to DDU, Dreaming Again. Sterns served as script-editor for the film Rogue, and appeared in Greg McLean’s earlier Wolf Creek as a nasty truck driver. A former editor of The Journal of the Australian Horror Writers, he has also presented papers on American Psycho and Crash at ICFA (as part of PhD work on postmodern horror), written non-fiction articles for Bloodsongs: The Australian Horror Magazine and other publications, and was the Australian correspondent for Hellnotes: The Insider’s Guide to the Horror Field. Sterns is currently working on a novel based on the dark world of “Watchmen”—Blood—and a number of screenplays. He lives in Melbourne, Australia.
Lavie Tidhar grew up on a kibbutz in Israel and has since lived in South Africa, the UK, Vanuatu, and Laos. He is the author of steampunk novels The Bookman (2010) and Camera Obscura, literary novel Osama, and weird SF novel Martian Sands (all three in 2011). He is also the author of linked-story-collection HebrewPunk (2007), novellas Cloud Permutations (2010) and An Occupation of Angels (2005 UK; 2010 US), and is a prolific short story writer.
Genevieve Valentine’s short fiction has appeared in magazines such as Clarkesworld, Fantasy, and Lightspeed, and the anthologies Running with the Pack, The Way of the Wizard, Teeth, and others. Her first novel, Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti, will be published in spring 2011. She has terrible taste in movies, a tragedy she tracks on her blog, genevievevalentine.com.
Kaaron Warren’s short story collection The Grinding House (CSFG Publishing) won the ACT Writers’ and Publishers’ Fiction Award and two Ditmar Awards. Her second collection, Dead Sea Fruit is published by Ticonderoga Books. Her critically acclaimed novel Slights (Angry Robot Books) was nominated for an Aurealis Award, made the preliminary ballot for the Stoker Awards, was shortlisted for the Ned Kelly First Novel Award, and won the Australian Shadows Award fiction, the Ditmar Award and the Canberra Critics’ Award for Fiction.
Jen White is an Australian writer of speculative fiction. She lived for many years in the Northern Territory and, although she has now moved to gentler climes, she still finds inspiration in the vibrancy and mystery of Australia’s north. Her fiction has been published in various anthologies and magazines, and has recently appeared in the anthology The Tangled Bank: Love, Wonder and Evolution. She has a story in the upcoming anthology Dead Red Heart.
A.C. Wise was born and raised in Montreal, and currently lives in the Philadelphia area with her husband, two cats, and a very short dog. Her fiction has appeared in publications such as Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, Realms of Fantasy, and ChiZine, among others. Along with Bernie Mojzes, she is co-editor of The Journal of Unlikely Entomology. For more information, please visit the author’s website at www.acwise.net.
Melissa Yuan-Innes likes werewolves (warm, furry) better than vampires (cold, dead). Her fiction has appeared in Indian Country Noir, Nature, The Dragon and the Stars, and other fine venues. She practices emergency medicine and dotes on her son and infant daughter outside of Montreal, Canada. Her website is www.melissayuaninnes.net.
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“The Poison Eaters” by Holly Black. © 2010 Holly Black. Originally published in The Poison Eaters: And Other Stories, Big Mouth House, 2010. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“A Song to the Moon” by Richard Bowes. © 2011 Richard Bowes. Original to this volume.
“Coyotaje” by Marie Brennan. © 2011 Marie Brennan. Original to this volume.
“Infested” by Nadia Bulkin. © 2011 Nadia Bulkin. Original to this volume.
“Blue Joe” by Stephanie Burgis. © 2009 Stephanie Burgis. Originally published in Shimmer Magazine, No. 10, March 2009. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Extra Credit” by Seth Cadin. © 2011 Seth Cadin. Original to this volume.
“Grotesque Angels” by Gwendolyn Clare. © 2011 Gwendolyn Clare. Original to this volume.
“Seven Year Itch” by Leah Cutter. © 2011 Leah Cutter. Original to this volume.
“Swear Not By the Moon” by Renee Carter Hall. © 2008 Renee Carter Hall. Originally published in A Fly in Amber, November 2008. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Snow on Sugar Mountain” by Elizabeth Hand. © 1991 Elizabeth Hand. Originally published in Full Spectrum 3, 1991. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Aphotic Ghost” by Carlos Hernandez. © 2011 Carlos Hernandez. Original to this volume.
“In the Seeonee Hills” by Erica Hildebrand. © 2009 Erica Hildebrand. Originally published in Queer Wolf (ed. James EM Rasmussen), Queered Fiction Press, 2009. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Go Home Stranger” by Justin Howe. © 2011 Justin Howe. Original to this volume.
“And Neither Have I Wings to Fly” by Carrie Laben. © 2011 Carrie Laben. Original to this volume.
“Tusk and Skin” by Marissa Lingen. © 2011 Marissa Lingen. Original to this volume.
“(Nothing But) Flowers” by Nick Mamatas. © 2011 Nick Mamatas. Original to this volume.
