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Aelle Ables
Aelle Ables is a full-time writer of speculative fiction. She has published both short fiction and articles and is currently working on a Young Adult book which will be the first in a series. She lives in North Texas with her husband, daughter, two dogs and four cats.

Danielle Ackley-McPhail
Award-winning author Danielle Ackley-McPhail has worked both sides of the publishing industry for nearly fifteen years. Her novels include the urban fantasies, YESTERDAY'S DREAMS, and its sequel, TOMORROW'S MEMORIES. She is best known for editing the BAD-ASS FAERIES series and her science fiction contributions to BREACH THE HULL, SPACE PIRATES, SO IT BEGINS, and BARBARIANS AT THE JUMPGATE.

Z. S. Adani
I started writing science fiction in 2005, and recently sold two short stories. I'm currently working on a novel.

Camille Alexa
When not on ten wooded acres in Texas, Camille Alexa lives in Portland, Oregon in an Edwardian home with very crooked windows. She's Abyss & Apex's Flash Fiction Editor and she writes for The Green Man Review. Her first book, PUSH OF THE SKY, recently received a Publishers Weekly starred review.

Alma Alexander
Alma Alexander is a novelist writing for both "grown-up" and YA audiences, with her work published in fourteen languages worldwide. Her latest project is the YA Worldweavers series("Gift of the Unmage", "Spellspam", "Cybermage").She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, two cats, and assorted visiting wildlife.

Jeanne Allen
Jeanne Allen writes speculative fiction from her home in the North Woods of Minnesota. Her latest work, WHEN LIGHTNING FLASHED, is a heroic tale of love, honor, and destiny across worlds. It's available through Double Dragon Publishing.

Kori Amador
I write mostly comedies, even when I am attempting to write something serious, it will end up as a comedy. I have a few titles available through Quiet Vision Publishing, as well as a couple of youth-fiction works through Newspapers In Education. La cosa más importante a mí es la cuenta y las personajes. Y es importante presentar la diversidad de nuestro mundo.

Julie Andrews
Clarion San Diego 2007 grad. Be patient, I'll be big in 2012.

Inanna Arthen
Inanna Arthen is the author of MORTAL TOUCH, the first in The Vampires of New England Series. Book 2, THE LONGER THE FALL, will be released in 2010. Inanna is a member of Broad Universe and New England Horror Writers, and runs the independent press By Light Unseen Media.

K. S. Augustin
Writer of SF&F/romance

Sarah Avery
Sarah Avery is an escaped academic, former army brat, ambivalently entrepreneurial private tutor, and committed blogger. Two CLOSING ARGUMENTS and ATLANTIS CRANKS NEED NOT APPLY, are available from Drollerie Press. Short stories have appeared or are forthcoming from Jim Baen's Universe and Black Gate.

Lee Barwood
Lee Barwood is a longtime writer of fantasy, horror, and mystery fiction/poetry. Winner of Andre Norton's Gryphon Award for her environmental thriller A DREAM OF DROWNED HOLLOW, she has also been nominated for a Balrog Award for her fantasy poetry. Her lifelong fascination with koalas resulted in KLASSIC KOALAS: ANCIENT ABORIGINAL TALES IN NEW RETELLINGS, which donates all royalties to the Australian Wildlife Hospital, and two new koala titles due out in 2009. Under her nonpseudonym Marlene Satter, her nonfiction includes business/financial articles, reviews, book doctoring/editing, and ghostwriting.

Alicia Benson
Alicia Benson currently resides in Northern California with her husband, Robert, and their dog, Goldie. THE FIRST VAMPIRE is her debut novel. You can read more about her work at www.aliciabenson.com.

Carol Berg
Former software engineer Carol Berg's epic fantasy novels have won the Prism Award, the Geffen Award, and multiple Colorado Book Awards, and have been published in seven languages. Her duology, FLESH AND SPIRIT and BREATH AND BONE, is shortlisted for the 2009 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award. All amazing for one who majored in math and computer science to avoid writing papers.

F.J. Bergmann
F.J. Bergmann writes poetry, fantasy, science fiction, and sf poetry, often simultaneously. She rants on writing at http://fibitz.livejournal.com/. One of her pseudopodia can reach all the way from the bedroom to the refrigerator. Her hairstyle is deceptive.

Beth Bernobich
Beth Bernobich is a writer, reader, mother, and geek. Her short fiction has appeared in Asimov's, Interzone, Strange Horizons, Subterranean Online, Sex in the System, and Postscripts Magazine, among other places. Her first novels are forthcoming from Tor Books, starting in 2009. You can read more about her at her website: www.beth-bernobich.com.

Katharine Beutner
I write historical fiction and fantasy. My first novel, ALCESTIS, a retelling of the myth of a Mycenaean queen who went to the underworld in her husband's place, will be out in February from Soho Press. I'm currently a graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin.

P. L. Blair
My first book, SHADOW PATH, was published last year, followed by STORMCALLER in May this year. Book 3, DEATHTALKER, is scheduled for October release, and I'm working on book 4, SISTER HOODS, with a planned release in the spring. All are in the Portals series, which is based on the premise that the portals between our world and the realms of Magic are open.

Roxanne Bland
I was born and raised but not by dragons...(sigh).

Charlotte Boyett-Compo
I am a multi-published author in the speculative fiction genres of horror, SF, paranormal/supernatural romance, fantasy/dark fantasy, erotic dark romance, and alternate history.

Leslie Braddock
Born in the deep south, Leslie spent years learning about the history and culture of the Acadian/Cajun people of Louisiana. As an only child, much of her childhood summers were spent with her French speaking grandmother. This had a profound impact and became the catalist of inspiration for much of her writing. She is currently working on "The Red Thread", a Science Fiction book targeted at the young adult market.

Patricia Bray
Patricia Bray began her career writing historical novels set in Regency England before making the leap to epic fantasy with her Sword of Change series. A resident of Upstate New York, Patricia combines her writing with a full-time career as an I/T project manager.

Selly Breagle
Under another name, Selly Breagle is a best selling author. However publishers make it difficult for writers to change genres. Needing to get lost in a fantasy world of her own contriving, her only option was to change her name. Selly spends too much time beading.

Ada Milenkovic Brown
A Clarion West graduate, Ada Milenkovic Brown has received three Honorable Mentions from the Speculative Literature Foundation. Her stories have appeared in Intergalactic Medicine Show, PodCastle, and The Written Word and will soon appear in Fear and Trembling. She is the coordinator of the Greenville Writer's Group in North Carolina.

Jennifer Brozek
Author, editor, publisher, RPG writer. Affiliate member of SFWA. Associate member of HWA. Submissions editor for Apex Publications.

Donna Burgess
I am a writer of horror fiction and poetry, with publications in many small press genre publications including Sybil's Garage, Dark Wisdom, Weird Tales, and others.

Sue Burke
Sue Burke grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and has lived in Madrid, Spain, for the last ten years, where she writes and translates.

Emilie P. Bush
I'm a first time novelist and am looking to sell the book. I am "retired" from Public Broadcasting, where I have been a reporter and show host, and have freelanced for NPR and the BBC World Service. My daughters are almost 2- and 4-years old. I live near Atlanta.

Rachel Caine
Rachel Caine is the writer of more than 25 books in the science fiction, fantasy and horror genres, including the popular Weather Warden and Morganville Vampires series.

Brenda Carre
I am a canadian author currently working on a mythic fantasy series. I live in Vancouver and am now retired and actively working toward publication of my novels.

Ernessa T Carter
Ernessa T. Carter is a author, blogger, totally fierce nerd, and happy feminist. Her first book, 32 CANDLES, will be released in June 2010 by HarperCollins. You can also check out the her blog at 32candles.com.

Margaret Carter
Margaret L. Carter writes horror, fantasy, and paranormal romance as well as nonfiction on vampires in literature. Her vampire novel DARK CHANGELING won the 2000 Eppie Award in the horror category. Her short stories have appeared in anthologies such as Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover and "Sword and Sorceress" volumes.

Suzy McKee Charnas
I've been published in Fantasy, SF and Horror for some thirty years, garnering several awards and a lot of wonderful colleagues in the process. Best-known work is the futurist, feminist, 4-volume epic "The Holdfast Chronicles," and "The Vampire Tapestry", the best vampire novel you will ever read.

J. Kathleen Cheney
J. Kathleen Cheney is a former teacher and has taught mathematics ranging from 7th grade to Calculus, with a brief stint as a Gifted and Talented Specialist. Her works have been published or forthcoming in THE BEST OF JIM BAEN'S UNIVERSE, WRITERS OF THE FUTURE XXIV, BENEATH CEASELESS SKIES, and Fantasy Magazine, among others.

Rowena Cherry
Rowena Cherry has played chess with a Grand Master and former President of the World Chess Federation (hence the chess-pun titles of her alien romances) and generally lived on the edge of the sort of life that inspires her romances about high-living alien gods.

Joyce Chng

Barbara J. Clark
Barbara Clark’s interest in fantasy and science fiction has been the basis of her paranormal romances for Amber Quill Press. She also writes fantasy and sci-fi romantic erotica as April Reid.

Jaleta Clegg
Jaleta loves adventure, spaceships, aliens, and a good fight scene - the kind of thing you find in a B sci-fi movie, of which she owns many. She writes space opera novels, comic horror short stories, and dabbles in most other genres.

C.S. Cole
C.S. Cole is a writer of horror, dark fantasy, and speculative fiction. Her work has received honorable mention in L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future contest. She lives in Washington State with her husband an unspecified number of cats. Her blog can be found at http://cscole.livejournal.com/

Marcia Colette
Paranormal author Marcia Colette writes urban fantasy and paranormal romance for Parker Publishing and Samhain.

Helen F. Collins
In addition to her avid interest in science fiction, Helen is strongly committed to animals, to Svaroope yoga, to painting, to old houses (she continues to restore her 1740 house in Niantic, CT), and to the preservation of the natural environment (her house overlooks a threatened tidal marsh).

Tina Connolly
Tina Connolly is a writer and face painter in Portland, OR. Her fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, GUD, and Heliotrope and is forthcoming in AEon and Highlights. She is a graduate of Clarion West 2006.

Brenda Cooper
Brenda Cooper's stories have appeared in Analog, Asimov's, Nature, and in multiple anthologies. She is the author of the Endeavor award winner for 2008: THE SILVER SHIP AND THE SEA, and of the sequel, READING THE WIND. Brenda lives in Bellevue, Washington, with her partner Toni, Toni's daughter Katie, two border collies, and a golden retriever.

Elaine Corvidae
Elaine Corvidae has been telling stories about faeries, elves, and dragons since she was a small child. Her dark fantasy novels have won multiple Eppie Awards and Dream Realm Awards. When she isn't wandering the worlds of her imagination, she lives in North Carolina with her husband and several cats.

C. D. Covington

Theresa Crater
At the age of seven, Theresa Crater announced to her parents she was going to be a writer. They promptly told her no one could make a living doing that, but she just kept trying. Theresa has published short stories, poetry, and various nonfiction articles, and has a novel forthcoming from Hampton Roads, KEYS TO THE HALL. She's also edited her life partner's books, THE LAND OF OSIRIS and the forthcoming FROM LIGHT INTO DARKNESS: THE EVOLUTION OF RELIGION IN ANCIENT EGYPT. She holds a B.A. in English, an. M.A. in counseling and a Ph.D. in English. Currently she teaches writing and literature in Denver and leads tours to Egypt with her life partner, Stephen Mehler, an independent Egyptologist. Besides Egypt, she has studied Vedic philosophy and taught meditation for thirty-five years, as well as worked with varius forms of shamanism, Wicca, and Reiki. Theresa lives with Stephen, their two cats, and numerous deer, coyote, raccoons and skunks near Boulder, Colorado.

Courtney Crawford
I'm a discharge planner at a busy Central Florida hospital. But my true love is writing science-fiction and fantasy. I've loved these genres since I was in fifth grade and picked up a copy of Anne McCaffrey's "Dragonsong". I live with a roommate and my orange tabby cat, who I try to use as a muse, but she doesn't always cooperate.

Crystalwizard
I am both an author and a graphic artist. I'm also the house servant of 3 cats, all of whom believe that keyboards are for sleeping on.

Janice A. Cullum

Leah Cutter

Adrianna Dane
Adrianna Dane writes passionate stories with adventurous heart and erotic edge. Now with more than forty stories currently available across the subgenres of romantic fiction, including science fiction, fantasy, and the paranormal, Adrianna enjoys the challenge of reaching beyond the known and venturing into the unknown. Her current publishers include Amber Quill Press, Loose-Id, Phaze, and Lady Aibell Press.

S.J. Day
S. J. Day's resume includes a variety of odd jobs ranging from amusement park employee to Russian linguist/interrogator for the U.S. Army Military Intelligence. She's written over a dozen novels, including the popular Marked urban fantasy series.

Laura K. Deal
Laura K. Deal is a writer, teacher, and dreamworker. Her fiction debuted in Cricket Magazine, and she writes primarily for teens. She is active in the Rocky Mountain Chapter of SCBWI, and is a member of Pikes Peak Writers and the International Association for the Study of Dreams.

A. M. Dellamonica
A.M. Dellamonica had the kind of action-packed childhood that most people dream of, featuring actual plane crashes and the occasional really long car trip. After catching her first fish at the age of six, she realized she was ready to fend for herself in the wild, though in the end it took her eleven years to pack her books and depart. Her fiction began to appear in print in 1986 and despite repeated washings, remains in circulation in a variety of print and on-line locales.

Lori Devoti
Lori Devoti writes urban fantasy novels for Pocket Books and paranormal romance for Silhouette Nocturne. Her books have been nominated for numerous awards including the Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Award.

Beverly DeWeese
SF reader and occasional reviewer

Oz Drummond
Clarion 1996, Taos Toolbox 2007. Still submitting for first professional sale.

Lindsey Duncan
LINDSEY DUNCAN is a life-long writer and professional Celtic harp performer, with short fiction and poetry in numerous speculative fiction publications. She feels that music and language are inextricably linked. She lives, performs and teaches harp in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Julia Dvorin
Julia Dvorin is a woman of many hats and little sleep. A proud graduate of Viable Paradise, she fits her writing in around the cracks of running a web solutions business, parenting two young boys, and trying to make the world a better place.

Devon Ellington
Devon Ellington publishes under a half a dozen names in both fiction and non-fiction, with work appearing in publications as diverse as BOOKS FOR MONSTERS, NEW MYTHS, ESPRESSO FICTION, THE ROSE AND THORN, THE RANFURLY REVIEW, FEMMEFAN, HAMPTON FAMILY LIFE, THE CRAFTY TRAVELLER and THE ARMCHAIR DETECTIVE. Her plays are produced in New York, London, Edinburgh, and Australia. She writes The Jain Lazarus Adventures (as Devon Ellington), the Penny's Dreadfuls romps, the action/adventure pirate fantasy Merry's Dalliance tales (as Cerridwen Iris Shea) and children's/YA fiction as Jenny Storm. She writes "The Literary Athlete" column for THE SCRUFFY DOG REVIEW, and teaches writing workshops all over the country. Visit her blog, Ink in My Coffee.

Sarah Ettritch
Canadian writer living in Toronto, Ontario.

Rhonda Eudaly
Rhonda Eudaly lives in Arlington, Texas where she's worked in various industries to support her writing habit with her husband, elderly cat, and stepdog. She likes spending time with friends and family, swing dance, and read. Her two passions are writing and music.

Meredith K. Falley

Carrie Ferguson

Odellia Firebird
Odellia Firebird is a student and practitioner of a myriad of interconnected arts. She has studied theatre, filmmaking, and literature in various schools. Odellia has also written, directed, and produced some fine works including "The Blessed, the Cursed and the Forgotten One" and "A Page in the Saga".

Jane Fletcher
Having escaped the chaos and concrete of London, Jane Fletcher lives in southwest England. Her novels have won a GCLS award and been short-listed for the Gaylactic Spectrum and Lambda awards. She is author of two fantasy/romance series - the Lyremouth Chronicles and The Celaeno Series.

Melanie Ann Fletcher
Melanie Fletcher is a writer, quilter, fencer, herder of DBAs and partner to the Bodacious Brit.

Lynn Flewelling
Lynn Flewelling is the author of the internationally acclaimed Tamir Trilogy and the Nightrunner Series, which is currently ongoing. She lives in Southern California with her husband and three dogs of various sizes.

Leadie Jo Flowers
Currently I am studying for my MFA at Seton Hill University in Writing Popular Fiction. I lean towards Science Fiction with social implications. To supplement my writing I teach English in Moscow and get to travel to many other countries.

Deanne Fountaine

Valerie Estelle Frankel
Valerie Frankel is author of HENRY POTTY AND THE PET ROCK and its sequel, HENRY POTTY AND THE DEATHLY PAPER SHORTAGE. She is currently working on a nonfiction book about the heroine's journey.

Beth Jane Freeman
I've written and published the autobiography of my friend's Himalayan Cat, Herbie (in a cat magazine). I've written several other novels (SF), that are looking for publishers, and I'm currently writing another one about a ghost, inspired by one of our fellow members, Liz Williams.

E J Frost

Becca Furrow
I am a writer of fantasy, paranormal and futuristic romance. I'm married, have three teen age daughter, too many cats, and have a day job in customer service. Other than reading, I like to rock hunt, garden and enjoy the Wyoming Wilderness.

Samantha Gail
I am a speculative fiction writer specializing in sci-fi, paranormal and time travel romance. My husband and I are currently living on an island in southeast Alaska.

Lyn C.A. Gardner
Lyn C.A. Gardner has fiction, poetry, art, and articles in venues like Challenging Destiny, The Doom of Camelot, The Leading Edge, Legends of the Pendragon, Mythic Delirium, Strange Horizons, Talebones, and more. She coedits the journal Virginia Libraries and is a 2004 graduate of Clarion West. Visit her at www.gardnercastle.com.

Gwynne Garfinkle
Gwynne Garfinkle lives in Los Angeles. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in such publications as Strange Horizons, Goblin Fruit, Space and Time, and Aberrant Dreams.

Cynthia Gonsalves
Cynthia is a happy consumer in the literary food chain who lives in the Silicon Valley with too many books and one cat.

Tina M. Good

Alexa Grave
Alexa Grave is a fantasy writer, but she also dabbles in poetry, horror, and anything that seems to call to her. She has a Master of Arts degree in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University.

Shel Graves
Writing out of the feminist literary utopian tradition, Shel Graves has 10 years experience as a writer and editor and works as a college communications specialist. She earned her MFA in creative writing from Goddard College and is a member of the Pacific Northwest Writers Association, Clarion West, and the Society for Utopian Studies.

Justine Graykin
Justine Graykin writes Speculative Fiction when she is not otherwise occupied shepherding her husband, two kids, three dogs, seven cats and flock of chickens. She is the author of AWAKE CHIMERA, "Archimedes Nesselrode", and assorted short stories.

Laurie Green

Roberta Gregory
Roberta Gregory is well known for her comics and graphic novels, and is currently working on several projects: Mother Mountain book series and graphic novel, True Cat Toons, a graphic novel starring her notorious Bitchy character, etc. Visit her web site.

April Grey
Lives in NYC with her husband and son. Writes spec fic and is trying to sell her novel, CHASING THE TRICKSTER.

Jeremy H. Griffith

Kas Hagen

Amy Axt Hanson
I'm one of the founding members of Broad Universe who discovered that working BU tables is one of my greatest joys. I've edited most of the BU-members'-books booklets, and love the group to bits. My fiction-writing zeal seems to be on sabbatical still, though I've written a bit of nonfiction lately and re-discovered my love writing. I seem to be in a time of change now, so stay tuned for future developments.

Kelly Harmon
Kelly A. Harmon used to write truthful, honest stories about authors and thespians, senators and statesmen, movie stars and murderers. Now she writes lies, which is infinitely more satisfying, but lacks the convenience of doorstep delivery, especially on rainy days....which is to say: Ms. Harmon is a former magazine and newspaper reporter and editor and the Senior Articles Editor for the defunct NFG magazine. Her publication credits include articles at the SciFi Channel's on-line magazine, SciFi Weekly and short fiction published in BLACK DRAGON, WHITE DRAGON and TRIANGULATION: DARK GLASS. Her award-winning novella, "Blood Soup", is slated for publication in September 2009.

Sheri Fresonke Harper
Sheri Fresonke Harper is a former systems analyst with the Boeing Company and the Port of Seattle, now she's a writer of articles, poems, short stories and novels. She's completed two novels and is about to start a third novel - a trilogy. She's a student at the University of Central Florida.

Anne Harris
Anne Harris writes science fiction and fantasy. Under the name Pearl North, she is publishing a young adult sf trilogy, the first volume of which is entitled LIBYRINTH.

Jed Hartman
Jed is a fiction editor for Strange Horizons.

Howard V. Hendrix
Author of six novels (so far) and many stories - so of course I'm still teaching

KW Herndon
Growing writer currently working on an urban fantasy for completion in 2008.

Anne L Hess

Carol Hightshoe
Born in 1964, Carol grew up in San Antonio, Texas. An avid reader at a young age, her strong desire to write came from her love of (her husband calls it her obsession with) Star Trek. It was this early love of Trek that led her to the Science Fiction and Fantasy genres. In addition to her own writing she is the Senior Acquisitions Editor for Flying Pen Press and also edits and publishes two e-zines: The Lorelei Signal and Sorcerous Signals.

Lynda Hilburn
Lynda Hilburn writes paranormal fiction. More specifically, she writes vampire books. After a childhood filled with invisible friends, sightings of dead relatives and a fascination with the occult, turning to the paranormal was a no-brainer. In her other reality, she makes her living as a licensed psychotherapist, hypnotherapist, professional psychic/tarot reader, university instructor and workshop presenter. Lynda writes the Kismet Knight, Vampire Psychologist series.

M. K. Hobson
M.K. Hobson's short fiction has appeared in Realms of Fantasy, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, SCI FICTION, Interzone, Strange Horizons, and many other fine publication. Her first novel, THE NATIVE STAR is coming from Bantam Spectra in Summer 2010. She lives in Oregon with her husband, daughter, yellow lab and moggy cats..

Erin Hoffman
Erin Hoffman is an author and professional game designer. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Electric Velocipede, and others. She lives in the bay area with her husband, two parrots, and an enterprising long-haired dachshund.

Lou Hoffman
Late forties woman living in Minneapolis. I've posted fanfic and am working on several original fiction projects as well as a cookbook.

Mary Holland
I live in the Santa Cruz mountains of California with my husband and three cats. I'm working on my second soft science fiction novel, The Bone Road. I earn my living in Silicon Valley and I hate Powerpoint.

K. T. Holt

Marjorie Hunt

Elaine Isaak
Elaine Isaak, author of THE SINGER'S CROWN, and THE EUNUCH'S HEIR from Eos Books, is pleased to announce that THE BASTARD QUEEN is forthcoming in January 2010! She has a column on fantasy writing at www.AlienSkinMag.com. Visit her website to find out why you do not want to be her hero.

Victoria Janssen
Author of erotic novels for Harlequin Spice.

Marlys E. Jarstfer

Pauline B. Jones
Pauline Baird Jones is the award-winning author of eight novels of SFR, action-adventure, suspense, romantic suspense and comedy-mystery. Her eighth novel, THE KEY, won the Independent Book Award Bronze Medal (IPPY) for 2008 and is a Dream Realm Awards Winner.

Rosemary Jones
Rosemary Jones writes fantastical fiction, including two novels set in the Forgotten Realms: CITY OF THE DEAD (June 2009) and CRYPT OF THE MOANING DIAMOND (2008).

Vylar Kaftan
Vylar Kaftan writes everything from hard sf to horror. Her work has appeared in Realms of Fantasy, Clarkesworld, and Strange Horizons. She lives in northern California.

Heather Kantz
I am 28 year-old aspiring writer who is working really hard to finish her first manuscript. I have a lot to learn, and I am ready for the challenge of becoming one of the published populace.

Barbara Karmazin
Barbara Karmazin utilizes a unique blend of multi-cultural knowledge for her Science Fiction and Urban Fantasy. She incorporates the same sense of adventure and wonder to her SF/Erotica and Urban Fantasy Erotica stories.

Keffy R. M. Kehrli
A science fiction, fantasy and/or whatever writer currently living in the rain-drenched Pacific Northwest. He has a B.S. in Physics and a B.A. in Linguistics and does nothing with either degree. He attended Clarion East at UCSD in 2008. He is also transgendered.

Isabo Kelly
Isabo Kelly is the award winning author of numerous science fiction, fantasy and paranormal romance novels, short stories and novellas. After finishing her Ph.D. in Zoology in Ireland, she buckled down to concentrate on writing. Isabo currently lives in New York City with her brilliant Irish husband and her mad dog.

Sylvia Kelso
Sylvia Kelso lives in North Queensland and writes fantasy, SF and mystery/time-travel, with alternate North Queensland or analogue Australian settings. Her short story "Slick" appeared in Antipodes 2004. Her novels include EVERRAN'S BANE (2005), and THE MOVING WATER and AMBERLIGHT in 2007. THE MOVING WATER was shortlisted for best Australian fantasy novel of 2007. THE RED COUNTRY and RIVERSEND will be released 2008.

Kay Kenyon
Kay Kenyon's new series is sf with fantasy overtones. The first two books, BRIGHT OF THE SKY and A WORLD TOO NEAR received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly. Called "a splendid fantasy quest" by the Washington Post, the series continues with CITY WITHOUT END in 2009. Kay lives in Wenatchee, WA.

Eileen Kernaghan
Eileen Kernaghan has published eight historical fantasy novels, most recently WILD TALENT: a Novel of the Supernatural (Thistledown Press). She lives in New Westminster BC.

Lia Keyes
Born and bred in London, Lia Keyes is now writing her first novel in California.

Debra Killeen
Debra Killeen is the author of AN UNLIKELY DUKE, A PRINCE IN NEED and the just-released third volume in The Myrridian Cycle, LEGACY OF THE ARCHBISHOP. Two more volumes will complete the series. Debra resides in North Carolina.

Mary Robinette Kowal

Debra M. Kraft
As a Wayne State University merit scholar in the early '80s, Debra Kraft studied under Detroit poet ML Liebler who inspired her creative ambitions in a variety of literary endeavors. In addition to poetry, Debra Kraft has been writing fantasy fiction and building the worlds necessary to accommodate that genre for nearly three decades. This experience, together with her background in teaching, led her to develop a "World Building for Writers" workshop, and she is in the process of developing a text or guide book on the subject. During 2008, her writing focus was given to speculative poetry, and she has made recent sales to Aberrant Dreams, Illumen, Doorways and Lorelei Signal.

Nancy Kress
Nancy Kress is the author of 26 books, including the acclaimed BEGGARS IN SPAIN. Her fiction has won four Nebulas, a Hugo, a John W. Campbell Memorial Award, and a Sturgeon. She writes often about genetic engineering and the impact of technology on society.

Jay Lake
Jay Lake lives in Portland, Oregon, where he works on numerous writing and editing projects. His 2009 novels are GREEN from Tor Books, MADNESS OF FLOWERS from Night Shade Books, and DEATH OF A STARSHIP from MonkeyBrain Books. His short fiction appears regularly in literary and genre markets worldwide. Jay is a winner of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and a multiple nominee for the Hugo and World Fantasy Awards.

Heidi Lampietti
Owner/Editor of RedJack Books, a tiny little independent publisher of speculative fiction and humor.

Sue Lange
Sue Lange's online interactive multimedia extravaganza, The Textile Planet, is available at Book View Cafe.

Alexis Glynn Latner
Alexis Glynn Latner's science fiction novel HURRICANE MOON was published by Pyr in July 2007. Her science fiction, fantasy and horror stories have appeared in the magazines Analog and Amazing and in the anthologies BENDING THE LANDSCAPE: HORROR and HORRORS BEYOND 2, and online publications. She also teaches creative writing and lives in Houston, Texas.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Dina A. Leacock
Dina Leacock writing under the name Diane Arrelle, has sold more than 125 short stories and two books. She is founding member and past president of the Garden State Horror Writers and lives on the edge of the Pine Barrens of Southern New Jersey with her husband, sons and the cat.

Stina Leicht
I write fantasy and am an assistant editor for a small press Young Adult/Teen imprint.

Shira Lipkin
Shira Lipkin lives in Boston with her husband, daughter, and three cats, most of whom also write. Her work has appeared in Interfictions 2, ChiZine, Electric Velocipede, Lone Star Stories, and more. You can track her movements at shiralipkin.com.

Kimberley Long-Ewing
Kimberley Long-Ewing is a photographer and writer. Her work focuses on fantasy themes and finding the unusual in ordinary objects. Her recent projects include writing the webcomic URBAN FEY and a series of nature photographs.

Rae Lori
Rae Lori has written comic book and film related articles throughout her writing career. Writing under various pen names, she has written books, novellas and short stories that run the genre gamut of science fiction, fantasy, short roman noir and paranormal romance and many more waiting to drip onto the page. She has published works with Freya's Bower, Wild Child Publishing, Eternal Press and The Wild Rose Press.

Catherine Lundoff
Catherine Lundoff is the author of NIGHT'S KISS (Lethe Press, 2009) and 2008 Goldie Award winner CRAVE: TALES OF LUST, LOVE AND LONGING (Lethe Press, 2007) as well as over sixty published stories. She is also the editor of HAUNTED HEARTHS AND SAPPHIC SHADES: LESBIAN GHOST STORIES (Lethe Press, 2008).

Brenna Lyons
Brenna Lyons wears many hats: president of EPIC, author of more than 75 published works, teacher, wife, mother... In the last six years, she's finaled for 7 EPPIES, 3 PEARLS (including one HM, second to NY Times Bestseller Angela Knight) and a Dream Realm Award. She's also taken Spinetingler's Book of the Year for 2007. Brenna writes milieu-heavy dark fiction, poetry, articles and essays.

C.S. MacCath
C.S. MacCath's work has appeared or is forthcoming in Strange Horizons, Clockwork Phoenix, The Pagan Anthology of Short Fiction, PanGaia, newWitch, Murky Depths, Mythic Delirium, Goblin Fruit and others. At present, she's working on the first trilogy of a nine-novel space opera entitled PETALS OF THE TWENTY THOUSAND BLOSSOM.

Elissa Malcohn
Finalist, 1985 John W. Campbell Award. Recipient, 1983 New England Science Fiction Association Short Story Award. Preliminary ballot, 1989 Nebula. Four-time Rhysling Award nominee. Star*Line editor, 1986-88. Stories in 2009 IPPY Silver Medal-winning anthology and 2009 Stoker Award-winning anthology. See website for more info and to download Deviations series.

Racheline Maltese
Racheline Maltese, the author of THE BOOK OF HARRY POTTER TRIFLES, TRIVIAS AND PARTICULARITIES, works as an actor and writer and frequently presents on pop-culture topics at academic and fan conferences. She lives in New York City with her partner.

Katherine Mankiller
I write speculative fiction short stories and screenplays, and have made a couple of short fiction sales. I live in Atlanta.

Louise Marley
Louise Marley is a former concert and opera singer who now writes science fiction, fantasy and historical fiction under her own name and the pseudonym Toby Bishop.

Gail Z. Martin
Gail Z. Martin writes The Chronicles of the Necromancer series (THE SUMMONER, THE BLOOD KING, DARK HAVEN, DARK LADY'S CHOSEN) and the Thrifty Author series (THE THRIFTY AUTHOR'S GUIDE TO LAUNCHING YOUR BOOK WITHOUT LOSING YOUR MIND).

Heidi Martinuzzi
I am the owner of Pretty/Scary, a website devoted to women in the horror genre. I am also a film journalist and filmmaker.

Stef Maruch
Stef Maruch is feminist, queer, reader, writer, science fiction fan, and fat-activist.

Phoebe Matthews
I write the urban fantasy Mudflat series for BookStrand. Titles are: TARBABY TROUBLE, Mudflat 1, BookStrand, 2009 Eppie Award for best Fantasy; WELCOME TO MUDFLAT, BABY, Mudflat 2, 2009 Eppie finalist in fantasy/paranormal romance; MUDFLAT TOY BOY, Mudflat 3, February 2009. And this is a sort-of paranormal dealing with reincarnation: DEJA VU LOVER, TheWildRosePress, October 2008

Christie Mauer
BA Goddard College, creative writing, M.P.A. California State University Hayward. Persie award--First Place--Novel First Chapter Contest "Masquerade." Member: Monterey Bay Chapter RWA.

Malka Mayer
Lifelong reader of fantasy and science fiction, with roots in both radical feminism and orthodox Judaism. (Not as weird or contradictory as it may seem.) Most of my professional life has centered on teaching and writing about science. Since retiring from the high school classroom, I'm focusing on writing, and particularly writing the stuff I love to read--fantasy and science fiction--from a Jewish feminist perspective.

M'Ellen Maynard

Sheri L. McGathy
"Born in the Buckeye state, I was uprooted in 1971 and replanted amongst sunflowers, tornadoes, and college football. It's a good life." ~ Sheri L. McGathy. During the weekdays, I'm a Graphic Arts Coordinator/Copy Editor. In the evenings and weekends, I'm a writer. Sometimes that's debatable. Oh, and I'm also Managing Editor at The Fractured Publisher (http://www.fracturedpublisher.com) online.

Karen Meng

Sarah Micklem
Sarah Micklem has published two fantasy novels, FIRETHORN and WILDFIRE, and is working on the third in the trilogy. She is a graphic designer in New York City.

Virginia M. Mohlere
My body lives in Texas. My hearts lives in a circle of birch trees in eastern Vermont. My brain lives in a country of its own devising.

Nancy Jane Moore
Nancy Jane Moore's fiction has appeared in a number of anthologies, magazines, and webzines. Her novella Changeling is one of the Conversation Pieces from Aqueduct Press (www.aqueductpress.com). She is on the Broad Universe Mother Board and a member of SFWA. In addition to writing fiction, she works as a legal editor and trains in Aikido.

Lyda Morehouse
Lyda Morehouse writes about what gets people in trouble: religion and politics. Her first novel Archangel Protocol, a cyberpunk hard-boiled detective novel with a romantic twist, won the 2001 Shamus. Fallen Host made the preliminary Nebula ballot. Lyda lives in the Saint Paul with her partner, son Mason, and four cats.

Cheryl Morgan
Cheryl Morgan is co-editor (with Kevin Standlee) of SF Awards Watch, a web site dedicated to reporting on and studying awards in the science fiction and fantasy industry. Cheryl has been nominated for several Hugo Awards, winning one in 2004. Her personal blog can be found at http://www.cheryl-morgan.com. Cheryl is also the non-fiction editor for Clarkesworld Magazine.

Kerry Morgan

T. L. Morganfield

Tracy S. Morris
Tracy S. Morris is the author of the Tranquility mysteries. The latest of which, BRIDE OF TRANQUILITY, was released in the summer of 2009.

Sara A. Mueller

Pat Murphy
Pat Murphy's novels include THE FALLING WOMAN, THE CITY NOT LONG AFTER, WILD ANGEL, and ADVENTURES IN TIME AND SPACE WITH MAX MERRIWELL. Her work has won the Nebula, the Philip K. Dick Award, and the World Fantasy Award. Her latest novel is THE WILD GIRLS, a children's novel.

Trudy V. Myers
I am one of those mild-mannered, miracle-working secretaries by day. I want to retire! So I spend every minute I can writing fiction, mostly fantasy right now, though I have plans to invade other genres, too.

Lizzie Newell

Larissa N. Niec
Larissa N. Niec is the author of the fantasy novel, SHORN, Book One of The Sky Seekers. Currently, Larissa is a clinical child psychologist in Michigan, where she teaches psychology at Central Michigan University and directs a clinic for young children with emotional and behavioral problems.

Christine Norris
Christine Norris is the author of several works for children and adults. She spends her time divided between her writing, substitute teaching, and caring for her family of one husband-creature, a son-animal, a large dog whose greatest achievement is sleeping in one position for an entire day, and a small feline who is very adept in his position as Guardian of the Bathtub. She also works at English Adaptations of novels translated from other languages.

Jody Lynn Nye
Jody Lynn Nye lists her main career activity as 'spoiling cats.' She lives near Chicago with two of the above and her husband. She has published 39 books, including THE SHIP WHO WON with Anne McCaffrey, a humorous anthology about mothers, DON'T FORGET YOUR SPACESUIT, DEAR!, and over a hundred short stories. Her latest books are A FORTHCOMING WIZARD; and MYTH-FORTUNES, with Robert Asprin.

Gloria Oliver
Gloria Oliver lives in Texas. She is the author of the four fantasy and YA fantasy novels - IN THE SERVICE OF SAMUARAI, VASSAL OF EL, WILLING SACRIFICE, and her latest CROSS-EYED DRAGON TROUBLES. PRICE OF MERCY will be her fifth and will see print in 2010. She also has a handful of short stories in several anthologies. For sample chapters and other info please visit www.gloriaoliver.com

Grace O' Malley
Reader, Member of the Motherboard and Treasurer for Broaduniverse

Renee Otis
In a long-term love relationship with horror novels, and straight up salivate over a good ghost story. I have completed my first 2 novels: SHADES and GHOSTWRITER and #3 DEAD BATTERIES is nearly complete. I am newly agented and always writing!

Jennifer Pelland
Jennifer Pelland lives just outside Boston with an Andy, three cats, and an impractical amount of books. Her short story collection UNWELCOME BODIES contains her story "Captive Girl," which was a Nebula finalist and was on the Gaylactic Spectrum Awards short list.

Patricia Perry
I was born in Germany and moved to the United States as a child. I hold a degree in biology and have been working as a Seafood Inspector for the federal government for many years. QUEST FOR THE SOURCE OF DARKNESS, my first fantasy novel, was released in August 2007 and was nominated for the 2007 Allbooks Reviewer's Choice Award. THE FORTRESS OF DARKNESS, its sequel, was released in July 2007. A short story, "Duchess' Package", is scheduled to be included in an anthology, LEGENDS AND FABLES: A FANTASY ANTHOLOGY, by Gallery Seven Books. It is scheduled for release at the end of 2007.

Lettie Prell
Lettie Prell is the author of the science fantasy novel, DRAGON RING (2008). Her stories have appeared in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, The Lorelei Signal, and elsewhere. She is also editor of the Broadsheet.

Cat Rambo
Cat Rambo lives and writes in the Pacific Northwest. Her work has appeared in such places as Asimov's, Weird Tales, and Strange Horizons. She is the managing editor of Fantasy Magazine. Her first solo collection, EYES LIKE SKY AND COAL AND MOONLIGHT, appears from Paper Golem Press this August.

Angie Lynne Reed
My first traditionally published book will be available July 1, 2009. HYBRID is a paranormal thriller. Angie Reed holds a B.A. in English from the University of Texas at Arlington. She is actively pursuing her Master of Education with a concentration in Reading from Dominican University. Mrs. Reed teaches English at a private school in Ft. Worth, Texas. She loves writing young adult fiction and hopes to publish two additional novels by the first of next year.

Laura E. Reeve
Laura Reeve grew up in Colorado. She has degrees in Chemistry and Systems Analysis, and spent nine years in the US Air Force. Her first novel, PEACEKEEPER (Roc), began a military SF series. The second novel, VIGILANTE, will be published October 2009. Laura lives in Monument, CO, with her husband.

Jessica Reisman
Jessica Reisman grew up on the east coast of the U.S., was a teenager on the west coast, and now lives in Austin, Texas. She's been a writer, animal lover, devoted reader, and movie aficionado since she was a little girl. Her first novel came out in 2004; she has stories in a wide variety of magazines and anthologies.

Eric T Reynolds
Editor/Publisher with Hadley Rille Books and freelance author.

Suzanne Reynolds-Alpert
Frustrated writer, getting into it again now that my kids are older. Published poet (Hey, I've made about $20!) I'm employed outside the home also, and spend too much time on Facebook.

Shauna Roberts
Shauna Roberts is a freelance medical writer and copyeditor. She writes science fiction and fantasy as well and has had several short stories published. She is a 2009 graduate of the Clarion Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers' Workshop. Her first novel, LIKE MAYFLIES IN A STREAM (Hadley Rille Books), was published in October 2009.

Maggie Della Rocca
I am a SF, Horror, and Fantasy writer living in a suburb of the Twin Cities, Minnesota. My work is heavily influenced by my love for animals and other non-human entities. I've been married for thirty years and have two grown sons.

Ana Cristina Rodrigues
Historian, librarian and writer, president of CLFC (Science Fiction Reader's Club), publishing her first anthology.

Roberta Rogow

Karen A. Romanko
Karen A. Romanko has seen over 100 of her poems and short stories published in venues such as Strange Horizons, Aberrant Dreams, Ideomancer, and Lone Star Stories. When she switches literary hats, she edits and publishes speculative fiction and poetry anthologies under the Raven Electrick Ink imprint, such as the recently released CINEMA SPEC: TALES OF HOLLYWOOD AND FANTASY.

Mary Rosenblum
Mary Rosenblum has been publishing speculative fiction, mainstream, and NF since 1990. She writes mysteries as Mary Freeman.

Catherine H. Schaff-Stump
Dr. Catherine Schaff-Stamp teaches English to International students, researches pop culture, and writes novels in, of all places, Iowa.

Lucy Cohen Schmeidler
Married, 1 cat, 3 grown children, 3 grandchildren. 3 published stories (1 pro) and several poems.

Janni L. Simner
Author of the YA fantasies BONES OF FAERIE and (forthcoming) THIEF EYES, as well as four children's books and more than 30 short stories.

Linnea Sinclair
Winner of the prestigious national book award, the RITA, science fiction romance author Linnea Sinclair has become a name synonymous for high-action, emotionally intense, character-driven novels. Reviewers note that Sinclair's novels "have the wow-factor in spades," earning her accolades from both the science fiction and romance communities. Sinclair's current releases are GAMES OF COMMAND (PEARL Award winner and RITA finalist) and THE DOWN HOME ZOMBIE BLUES (PEARL Award Honorable Mention), with SHADES OF DARK scheduled for July 2008. A former news reporter and retired private detective, Sinclair resides in Naples, Florida (winters) and Columbus, Ohio (summers) along with her husband, Robert Bernadino, and their two thoroughly spoiled cats. Readers can find her perched on the third barstool from the left in her Intergalactic Bar and Grille at www.linneasinclair.com.

Cindy Lynn Speer
Cindy Lynn Speer loves books more than anything, which is why she's been a librarian, editor, book reviewer and now an author. She writes fantasy with murder and romance and sometimes a bit of horror.

Ana Steuart
I'm a LGBT advocate writing alternate history/fantasy stories.

Kathryn Sullivan
Author of The Crystal Throne (Fantasy EPPIE winner), Agents & Adepts (Dream Realm Award Anthology winner) and Talking to Trees. Also short stories in anthologies published by Big Finish and Mundania Press.

Leslie Kay Swigart
Librarian, bibliographer, doctoral student (UCLA, Information Studies), reader, lisstener. (SFFLibraries-L)Librarian and bibliographer, working on a "compleat" bibliography of theses and dissertations on science fiction, fantasy, and utopian literation and media.

Rachel Swirsky
Rachel Swirsky is a fiction MFA student at the University of Iowa where she's teaching a course in how to write science fiction and fantasy (Fall, 2007). In 2005, she attended the Clarion West Writers Workshop. Her short fiction has appeared or is scheduled to appear in markets including Subterranean Magazine, Interzone, Fantasy Magazine, and Electric Velocipede.

Cecilia Tan
Writer, editor, activist. Author and anthologist of over 50 titles of erotic fantasy & science fiction, romance, short stories, etc.

Sarah Tanburn
Reader, writer and reviewer of all sorts of speculative fiction. I live on a boat and right now we're in Spain, but where we are depends on where the wind blows.

Pamela Kenza Taylor
Ms. Taylor is a freelance writer, poet and sff author. Her short stories and poems have been published in a variety of magazines and anthology. Her poem “Foreign Thoughts” was nominated for the Rhysling award in 2008.

Kaires Tevesu

Sherry Thompson
Author of SEABIRD a YA fantasy novel, published by Gryphonwood Press. I worked for 35 yrs in academia but am finally doing what I've always wanted to do --write full time.

Elizabeth Tudor
I was born in 1978. I'm a science-fiction writer and Elizabeth Tudor is my literary pseudonym. I'm a member of the Azerbaijan and International Writer Union.

Sandra M. Ulbrich
Sandra Ulbrich is an assistant scientist living in the Chicago area. Her short story "A Reptile at the Reunion" has been published in the anthology A FIRESTORM OF DRAGONS.

Catherynne M. Valente
Catherynne M. Valente is the author of The Orphan's Tales series, The LABYRINTH, YUME NO HON: THE BOOK OF DREAMS, and THE GRASS-CUTTING SWORD, as well as three books of poetry, APOCRYPHA, THE DESCENT OF INANNA, and ORACLES: A PILGRIMAGE. She currently lives in Virginia.

Cara Van Zandt

JoSelle Vanderhooft
JoSelle Vanderhooft is Bram Stoker Award-nominated poet and author based in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her books include OSSUARY, THE HANDLESS MAIDEN AND OTHER TALES TWICE-TOLD TALES, THE MEMORY PALACE, and FATHERS, DAUGHTERS, GHOSTS & MONSTERS.

Kim Vandervort
Kim Vandervort began writing at the age of eleven as an outlet for her overactive imagination. Since then, she has published a number of short stories, and her first novel, THE SONG AND THE SORCERESS, will be published in August 2009 by Hadley Rille Books. She lives with her husband Rev and two girls, Emma and Zoe, in Southern California. When she is not writing, she teaches English Composition at California State University, Fullerton, where she earned a Master's degree in Medieval Literature in 1999. She is a proud graduate of the 2007 Viable Paradise XI writer's workshop.

Martha G. Verlander
Marti Verlander lives in the Kansas City, MO area with her newly-wed daughter and her husband, a 90-pound police dog, an obnoxious and adorable puppy, a 4-foot geriatric iguana, and a psychotic cat.

PJ vonDetweiler
Writing since the dawn of time--or so it seems. Married, three grown children, two time golden heart finalist. Writing historical romance (different name) as well as Science Fiction.

Calie Voorhis
Eternal fan of the fantastic, Odyssey workshop alum, Master's in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University.

Saskia Walker
Saskia Walker is a British author of fantasy, paranormal and contemporary erotic romance. She lives in the north of England, on the beautiful, windswept Yorkshire moors. A full time writer, her work is published by Juno, Red Sage and Berkley.

Sean Wallace
Sean Wallace is the founder and senior editor of Prime Books, an imprint of Wildside Press; co-editor of the new ezine, Clarkesworld Magazine; co-editor of Fantasy Magazine; and the editor of Best New Fantasy, Horror: The Best of the Year, Jabberwocky and the forthcoming Japanese Dreams.

Janet Lane Walters
Been writing for years. Am published in novels, fantasy, romance, mystery, suspense, non-fiction, poetry and more.

Jean Marie Ward
Jean Marie Ward writes both fiction and nonfiction. Her first novel, WITH NINE YOU GET VANYR (written with the late Teri Smith), finaled in two categories of the 2008 Indie Book Awards. Her current nonfiction project, FANTASY ART TEMPLATES, will be published by Barron's in January 2010.

Rahima Warren
In my own journey and as a therapist, I explored the inner realms through dreamwork, sandplay and expressive arts. This paved the way for my protagonist Kyr to take over my life and turn me into the author of his story, a fantasy trilogy entitled The Star-Seer's Prophecy.

E. F. Watkins
E. F. Watkins specializes in paranormal thrillers and mysteries. Her novel DANCE WITH THE DRAGON won the 2004 EPPIE in Horror, and her s-f thriller BLACK FLOWERS was a 2006 EPPIE finalist in Action/Thriller. She also has published the romantic mystery RIDE A DANCING HORSE and the paranormal thrillers PARAGON and DANU'S CHILDREN.

Morven Westfield
Morven is the author of DARKSOME THIRST and THE OLD POWER RETURNS, which combine vampires and witches in modern New England. She is on the Motherboard of Broad Universe and is the webmaster for New England Horror Writers. A chronic consumer of podcasts, she now has her own, "Vampires, Witches, and Geeks."

Leslie What
Leslie What is a Nebula Award-winning writer and the author of the upcoming collection "Crazy Love." Her work has appeared in a number of places, including Parabola, Asimov's, SciFiction, The MacGuffin, Fugue, Lilith, and Midstream. She teaches at UCLA Extension.

Heather Whipple

Diane Whiteside
Diane Whiteside has created worlds ranging from Silk Road medieval, alternate Regency history, to dark urban fantasy with vampires and the crusades, publishing over ten novels, plus assorted novellas and short stories in the process. A computer geek by day, she likes being owned by Tibetan Terriers, the good luck dog of Tibetan monasteries and the Dalai Lama.

Ann Wilkes
Ann Wilkes' first book, AWESOME LAVRATT (2009, Unlimited Publishing) is a tongue-in-cheek space opera with mind control, passion and adventure. Her stories have appeared in magazines and anthologies. She also reviews books at Mostly Fiction and interviews authors at Science Fiction and Other ODDysseys.

C. June Wolf
"Wolf uses different genres, different voices, different cultures - in short whatever she needs to make the story work. What ties it all together is her sure-handed prose and a depth she brings to her writing, that indefinable element that rises up from between the lines and gives a good story its resonance" - Charles de Lint, in his introduction to FINDING CREATURES & OTHER STORIES.

Trisha J. Wooldridge
Trisha J. Wooldridge is a freelance writer, editor, and educator with experience including Dungeons & Dragons Online dialogue, animal rescue public relations, and web-based learning. Her fiction is published in BAD-ASS FAERIES 2: JUST PLAIN BAD (co-authored with Christy Tohara) and Fantasy Gazetteer.

Phoebe Wray
Phoebe Wray is a converted nonfiction writer now happily wrapped up in specfic, with stories in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Mag, Farthing, Fables.org, chizine and a novel, JEMMA7729, released from EDGE, a Top Ten Finisher ("Best New Science Fiction") in the Preditors&Editors Readers' Poll in January. A horror story is in BACKLESS, STRAPLESS AND SLIT TO THE THROAT: A FEMME FATALE ANTHOLOGY, just published. She's on the Motherboard of Broad Universe and lives in a small town outside of Boston with her cats Max and Mouse and Jenny.

Xakara
Xakara lives in Southeast Wisconsin overlooking lake Michigan with her long time sweetie and a handful of friends that are like family. As a pansexual and multicultural Black woman raised on sci-fi/fantasy, ethnic and sexual diversity in genre fiction is a personal passion Xakara realizes in her own writing.