S. Woodson lives in Virginia and is a graduate of the Hollins University M.A. in Children’s Literature program. She’s written a handful of Twine games, but this was her first story in print. You can find her on Twitter @Citrushistrix.
David Gerrold & Ctein are the proverbial twin brothers from different mothers. Both are obsessive-compulsive control freaks who fight ferociously with each other about getting the details right. Ctein is the author of Saturn Run (with John Sandford) and Digital Restoration, the definitive guide to digital restoration of old photos. David Gerrold wrote a script for Star Trek once, and some other stuff too. He is also the author (and the father) of “The Martian Child.”
Erin Roberts’ short fiction has appeared in publications including Asimov’s, Clarkesworld, PodCastle, and The Dark. She has an MFA from the Stonecoast program at University of Southern Maine, is a graduate of the Odyssey Writers Workshop and was the winner of the Speculative Literature Foundation’s 2017 Diverse Worlds and Diverse Writers awards and a 2019 Maryland Individual Artist Award. To learn more about her work or read her musings on writing and life, follow her on Twitter at @nirele or visit her website at writingwonder.com.
Adam-Troy Castro made his first non-fiction sale to Spy in 1987. His twenty-six books to date include four Spider-Man novels, three novels about his profoundly damaged far-future murder investigator Andrea Cort, and six middle-grade novels about the dimension-spanning adventures of young Gustav Gloom. His many works have won the Philip K. Dick Award and the Seiun (Japan), and have been nominated for eight Nebulas, three Stokers, two Hugos, and, internationally, the Ignotus (Spain), the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire (France), and the Kurd-Laßwitz Preis (Germany). Adam lives in Florida with his wife Judi and a trio of revolutionary cats.
Octavia Cade is a New Zealand writer. Her short stories have appeared in markets such as Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, and Asimov’s, and there is a poetry collection, Mary Shelley Makes A Monster, forthcoming from Aqueduct Press. She attended Clarion West 2016, and will be the 2020 writer-in-residence at Massey University.
Julie Nováková is a Czech author and translator of SF, fantasy and detective stories. She has published short fiction in Clarkesworld, Asimov’s, Analog and elsewhere. Her work in Czech includes eight novels, one anthology and over thirty short pieces. She has been translated into Chinese, Romanian, Estonian, German, Filipino and Portuguese. Julie received the Encouragement Award of the European SF and fantasy society in 2013, the Aeronautilus award for the best Czech short story of 2014 and 2015, and the best novel of 2015. Her translations appeared in Strange Horizons, Tor.com and F&SF. More at www.julienovakova.com, Twitter @Julianne_SF or patreon.com/julienovakova.
Lavie Tidhar is the author of the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize winning and Premio Roma nominee A Man Lies Dreaming (2014), the World Fantasy Award winning Osama (2011) and of the Campbell Award winning and Locus and Clarke Award nominated Central Station (2016). His latest novels are Unholy Land (2018) and first children’s novel Candy (2018). He is the author of many other novels, novellas and short stories.
Cadwell Turnbull is the author of the science fiction novel The Lesson. He is a graduate from the North Carolina State University’s Creative Writing MFA in Fiction and English MA in Linguistics. He attended Clarion West 2016. Turnbull’s short fiction has appeared in The Verge, Lightspeed, Nightmare, and Asimov’s. His short story “Loneliness is in Your Blood” was selected for The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018. His novelette “Other Worlds and This One” was also selected as notable story for the anthology.
Carolyn Ives Gilman is a Hugo and Nebula Award nominated author of science fiction and fantasy. Her books include Dark Orbit, a space exploration adventure; Isles of the Forsaken and Ison of the Isles, a two-book fantasy about culture clash and revolution; and Halfway Human, a novel about gender and oppression. Her short fiction has appeared in Lightspeed, Clarkesworld, F&SF, The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Interzone, Realms of Fantasy, and others. Her work has been translated into a dozen languages. Gilman lives in Washington, D.C., and works as a freelance writer and museum consultant.
Rick Wilber has published several novels and collections and more than fifty short stories in the usual markets. His novel, Alien Morning (Tor, 2016), was a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Best Science Fiction Novel of 2016. The sequel, Alien Day: Notes from Holmanville, will be out in 2020. He is a visiting assistant professor in the low-residency MFA genre-fiction program at Western Colorado University and is administrator of the Dell Magazines Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing. His remarkable Down syndrome son has heavily influenced the story in this collection and many others.
Kathleen Jennings is a Ditmar Award winning writer and World Fantasy and Hugo nominated illustrator in Brisbane, Australia. She has recently completed a Master of Philosophy in Creative Writing (Australian Gothic Literature) at the University of Queensland. Her short stories have appeared on Tor.com, in Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, in anthologies from Candlewick, Ticonderoga and Fablecroft Publishing, and elsewhere, and her novella Flyaway has been acquired by Tor.com, to be published in 2020. She can be found online at tanaudel.wordpress.com.
Alec Nevala-Lee is a Hugo Award finalist for the group biography Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction (Dey Street Books / HarperCollins), which was named one of the best books of 2018 by The Economist. He is the author of three suspense novels published by Penguin, and his stories have appeared in Analog, Lightspeed, and two editions of The Year’s Best Science Fiction. His nonfiction has been featured in the New York Times. He is currently at work on a biography of the architectural designer Buckminster Fuller.
P H Lee’s fiction has appeared in Uncanny Magazine and Worlds Without Master. In addition to their writing, P H Lee has worked as a game developer, tutor, graphic designer, and administrative assistant. Their hobbies include translating the Chinese classics and reading Wikipedia. They live together with several other people, far from the bells of the city.
Justina Robson (www.justinarobson.co.uk) was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1968. She sold her first novel in 1999, which also won the 2000 amazon.co.uk Writers’ Bursary Award. Her eleven books have been variously shortlisted for most of the major genre awards, including her latest novel Glorious Angels. A collection of her short fiction, Heliotrope, was published in 2012. Her novels and stories range widely over SF and fantasy, often in combination and often featuring AIs and machines who aren’t exactly what they seem. She is also the proud author of The Covenant of Primus (2013)—the Hasbro-authorised history and ‘bible’ of The Transformers. She lives in t’North of England with her partner, three children, a cat and a dog.