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Richard Bowes has published five novels, two collections of short fiction, and fifty stories. He has won two World Fantasy Awards and the Lambda, International Horror Guild, and Million Writers Awards. Recent and forthcoming stories appear in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and the anthologies Digital Domains, Beastly Bride, Wilde Stories 2011, Haunted Legends, Naked City, Best Gay Stories, Nebula Awards Showcase 2011, Supernatural Noir, and Blood and Other Cravings.
Marie Brennan is the author of the Onyx Court series of London-based historical faerie fantasies: Midnight Never Come, In Ashes Lie, A Star Shall Fall, and the forthcoming With Fate Conspire. She has published more than thirty short stories in venues such as On Spec, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and the acclaimed anthology series Clockwork Phoenix. More information can be found on her website: www.swantower.com.
Nadia Bulkin is a writer and political science student. Her short fiction has appeared in ChiZine, Strange Horizons, Fantasy Magazine, and elsewhere; more information is available at nadiabulkin.wordpress.com. When she lived in a dorm in New York City not long ago she was her apartment’s designated exterminator, but a very bad one.
Stephanie Burgis listened obsessively to 1940s recordings of her own grandpa and great-uncles’ Youngstown family band while writing “Blue Joe.” She’s taken the family immigrant tradition along one more step by moving to Wales, where she lives with her husband, fellow writer Patrick Samphire, their son, and their crazy-sweet dog. Her fun Regency fantasy adventure for kids, Kat, Incorrigible, was published by Atheneum Books in April, 2011. To find out more, please visit her website: www.stephanieburgis.com.
Seth Cadin lives in Berkeley. He has one daughter, one partner, and sixteen pet mice.
Gwendolyn Clare has a BA in Ecology, a BS in Geophysics, and is currently working to add another acronym to her collection. Away from the laboratory, she enjoys practicing martial arts, adopting feral cats, and writing speculative fiction. Her short stories have appeared in Asimov’s, the Warrior Wisewoman 3 anthology, Abyss and Apex, and Bull Spec, among others. She can be found online at gwendolynclare.com.
Leah R. Cutter is the author of three historical fantasy novels as well as several fantasy, science fiction, and horror short stories. Her most recent published novel, The Jaguar and the Wolf (Roc 2005) is about what happens when a group of Vikings encounter the Mayans. Her first novel, Paper Mage (Roc 2003) is set in Tang dynasty China, and her second novel, Caves of Buda (Roc 2004) is set in Budapest, Hungary. Leah has had odd jobs all over the world, including an working on an archaeological dig in England, teaching English in Taiwan, and tending bar in Thailand. She temporarily lives in New Orleans, doing research for more novels. Her permanent home is in Seattle. She works as a technical writer for a California software firm. Her hobbies include walking, hiking, yoga, reading, drinking single-malt scotch, dancing and goofing off.
Renee Carter Hall works as a medical transcriptionist by day and as a writer, poet, and artist all the time. Her short fiction has appeared in a variety of print and electronic publications, including The Summerset Review, A Fly in Amber, New Fables, and the Different Worlds, Different Skins anthologies. She lives in West Virginia with her husband and her cat, both of whom serve diligently as beta readers. (If the cat falls asleep on the printout, it’s good.) Readers can find her online at www.reneecarterhall.com.
Elizabeth Hand is the multiple-award-winning author of numerous novels and three collections of short fiction. She is also a longtime reviewer for the Washington Post, among many other publications. A revised edition of Glimmering, her 1997 cult novel of environmental collapse, will be published this year. Available Dark, sequel to Shirley Jackson Award winner Generation Loss, and Radiant Days, a YA novel about the French poet Arthur Rimbaud, will both appear in 2012. She lives on the coast of Maine.
Carlos Hernandez is currently serving as the Deputy Chair of the Department of English at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY. He earned his PhD in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing from Binghamton University, and is the author of numerous works of fiction, a novella, and the coauthor of Abecedarium, an experimental novel published by Chiasmus Media in 2007. He has so thoroughly failed as a blogger he no longer gives out his web address, hoping it might magically disappear on its own. But he will gladly friend you on Facebook. Search for “Carlos A. Hernandez,” and good luck. It’s a very common name.
Erica Hildebrand loves storytelling and works on illustrated projects in addition to her writing. She has a soft spot in her heart for superheroes, dinosaurs, and the conquerors of antiquity. A graduate of the Odyssey Writing Workshop, her fiction has appeared in M-Brane SF, The Edge of Propinquity, and Everyday Weirdness. Her comics have appeared in Space Squid and Kaleidotrope. She lives in Pennsylvania.
Justin Howe’s fiction has appeared in various online and print publications including Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Crossed Genres, Brain Harvest, and the anthology Fast Ships, Black Sails. Born in Boston, he now lives with his wife in South Korea where he teaches English to elementary school students.
Carrie Laben, formerly a lifelong New Yorker, is currently studying for her MFA at the University of Montana. Her work has previously appeared in Clarkesworld and ChiZine as well as anthologies Haunted Legends and anthology Phantom. She looks at birds.
Marissa Lingen lives in the Minneapolis suburbs with two large men and one small dog. She loves lakes, snow, hockey, and just about every stereotypical Minnesota thing you can name except mosquitoes. She writes short stories and is working on (surprise!) a fantasy novel.
Nick Mamatas is the author of three and a half novels, including Sensation (PM Press) and, with Brian Keene, The Damned Highway (Dark Horse). He has also published over seventy short stories in venues such as Tor.com, Asimov’s Science Fiction and the anthologies Supernatural Noir and Lovecraft Unbound. His fiction has thrice been nominated for the Bram Stoker award, and as an editor for Clarkesworld Magazine, Nick has been nominated for both the Hugo and World Fantasy awards.
Sandra McDonald’s debut collection, Diana Comet and Other Improbable Stories, received a starred review in Booklist and is an American Library Association Over the Rainbow book. Her short fiction about enchanted firemen, sexy cowboy robots, and more has appeared in more than forty venues. Her science fiction novels follow an Australian military lieutenant and her handsome sergeant. She earned an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Southern Maine and teaches college in northeast Florida. Visit her at www.sandramcdonald.com.
Mario Milosevic lives in the Pacific Northwest of the United States in a county which once passed a law making it illegal to kill Bigfoot. His fiction and poetry has appeared in many publications, both print and online. Learn more at mariowrites.com.
Michelle Muenzler was born in the broken pines of East Texas where she fought boys with concrete-sharpened pine spears and mastered squeezing through rabbit trails for quick escapes in the games of childhood war. This particular short story was first published in the third issue of Shroud Magazine where the surrounding gore made it seem quite tame in comparison. The rest of her short fiction can be found in publications such as Daily Science Fiction, Electric Velocipede, and Space & Time Magazine.
Cherie Priest is the author of ten novels, including 2010’s
