STEPHANIE BURGIS is an American writer who lives in Wales with her husband, fellow writer Patrick Samphire, their son, and their dog. Her YA Regency fantasy novel The Unladylike Adventures of Kat Stephenson, Book One: A Most Improper Magick will be published in 2010. Her short fiction has appeared in several magazines, including Strange Horizons, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Fantasy Magazine. To find out more, please visit her web site: www.stephanieburgis.com
AMANDA DOWNUM lives near Austin, Texas, in a house with a spooky attic, and works at a bookstore in addition to writing, cat-herding, and falling off rocks. Her short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Realms of Fantasy, and Weird Tales. The Drowning City, first of the Necromancer Chronicles, is available from Orbit Books; the second volume, The Bone Palace, is forthcoming in 2010. For more information on Amanda or her writing, visit www.amandadownum.com.
STEVE DUFFY’s stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies in Europe and North America. Two new collections of his short fiction, The Moment of Panic (which includes the International Horror Guild award-winning tale, “The Rag-and-Bone Men”) and Tragic Life Stories, will be published in 2010. He lives in North Wales.
KAREN EVERSON is a jack-of-all-arts. She has published fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Recent publications include “Support You Local Werewolf,” another Olwen story, in Esther Friesner’s anthology Strip Mauled. Her current writing projects include a fantasy novel, Crown of Shadows, and a paranormal romance centered on Olwen and her family. In addition to her writing, Karen runs Moongate Designs, a small business showcasing her art and needlework designs. She lives in Michigan with her other great passions: her husband Mark, her daughter Caitlyn, and numerous pets.
JEFFREY FORD is the author of the novels, The Physiognomy, Memoranda, The Beyond, The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque, The Girl in the Glass, and The Shadow Year. His short stories have been collected into three books—The Fantasy Writer’s Assistant, The Empire of Ice Cream, and The Drowned Life. He lives in South Jersey and teaches Writing and Literature at Brookdale Community College.
LAURA ANNE GILMAN started out on the editorial side of publishing, but went freelance in 2003. Her urban fantasy Staying Dead (Luna) came out in 2004, followed by Curse The Dark, Bring It On, Burning Bridges, Free Fall, and Blood From Stone. The first in a spinoff series, Hard Magic, was published in May 2010. 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.