= Founding Member!
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, TOMORROW'S MEMORIES, and THE HALFLING'S COURT. She edits the BAD-ASS FAERIES anthology series and has contributed to numerous other collections. She can be found on LiveJournal (damcphail), Facebook (Danielle Ackley-McPhail), and Twitter (DMcPhail).
Sunder Cameron Addams
Sunder Cameron Addams is an author/editor based out of Seattle. She writes SF/fantasy/horror when not editing research papers in medicine, psychology, biochemistry, etc. She also tutors English composition. Her Lovecraftian short story "Book-Learnin'" can be downloaded for free with Issue 5 of "Arkham Tales," www.arkhamtales.com. Her Website is still under construction due to an epidemic that decimated the pixel herd.
Camille Alexa
Camille Alexa lives mostly in Portland, Oregon, usually in one corner of an Edwardian house painted a dozen shades of white and possessing some very crooked windows. Her first book, PUSH OF THE SKY, received a starred review in Publishers Weekly and was a finalist for the Endeavour Award given each year for outstanding speculative fiction in the Pacific Northwest. More at http://camillealexa.com.
Alma Alexander
Alma Alexander is an internationally-published fantasy novelist ("Secrets of Jin Shei", the Worldweavers trilogy), short story writer, and anthologist. She livesi n the Pacific Northwest with her husband and two cats. Visit her at www.AlmaAlexander.com and anghara.livejournal.com
Jeanne Allen
Jeanne Allen writes speculative fiction from her home in the North Woods of Minnesota. Her latest work, WHEN LIGHTNING FLASHED, a heroic tale of love, honor, and destiny across worlds, was a 2010 EPIC Awards finalist. It can be purchased through Double Dragon Publishing.
Jennifer Allis Provost
Jennifer Allis Provost is a native New Englander who lives in a sprawling colonial along with her beautiful and precocious twins, a dog, two birds, three cats, and a wonderful husband who never forgets to buy ice cream. As a child, she read anything and everything she could get her hands on, including a set of encyclopedias, but fantasy was always her favorite. She spends her days drinking vast amounts of coffee, arguing with her computer, and avoiding any and all domestic behavior.
Sandra Ulbrich Almazan
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.
Christine Amsden
Christine Amsden has been writing science fiction and fantasy for as long as she can remember. She loves to write and it is her dream that others will be inspired by this love and by her stories. Speculative fiction is fun, magical, and imaginative but great speculative fiction is about real people defining themselves through extraordinary situations. Christine writes primarily about people and it is in this way that she strives to make science fiction and fantasy meaningful for everyone.
Julie Andrews
Clarion San Diego 2007 grad. Be patient, I'll be big in 2012.
Ann Anthony
Ann writes science fiction, urban fantasy and whatever else her brain seems to come up with.
Stacie Arellano
Stacie Arellano is a graphic novelist currently working on Tribute Waters, a nautical adventure story, at http://www.tributewaters.com. She is available for freelance illustration, and manuscript proofreading, http://www.staciearellano.com.
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
KS "Kaz" Augustin is a Malaysian-born writer of science-fiction, romance and various permutations of the two.
D. Renee Bagby
D. Renee Bagby, who also writes as Zenobia Renquist, is a multi-published author of paranormal/fantasy romances with interracial themes and a world-builder who loves torturing her characters.
Pam Bainbridge-Cowan
Pam Bainbridge-Cowan lives in Oregon with her patient husband, and several four-legged roommates. Her fiction has appeared in Alien Skin, Argus, Space and Time, Visions and has been read on OPB supported Golden Hours Radio. She is the author of Yetzirah: The Pocket Worlds, and former editor of the speculative fiction magazine, Nanobison.
Lee Barwood
Lee Barwood often writes about the plights of animals and the environment with a paranormal edge. Her environmental suspense/thriller A Dream of Drowned Hollow won Andre Norton’s Gryphon Award and garnered rave reviews. Barwood is also a long-time member of Mystery Writers of America, the Authors Guild, and Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Her Haunted Ozarks series is peopled by those whose otherworldly abilities go beyond the physical universe. She finds that mystery and the paranormal fit together perfectly, embracing the unknown and offering clues to more than one puzzle at a time.
Fi Benson
I'm a freelance writer & dramatist, writing in fiction and creative non-fiction. I write horror, fantasy, magic realism and dark comedy. Years ago, I had a short story published in an anthology called 'Necrologue' which won a US sci-fi award. More recently I had a horror-fantasy monologue performed at a large UK regional theatre. I live in the ancient Forest of Dean, UK.
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.
Lisa Bergin
F.J. Bergmann
F.J. Bergmann frequents Wisconsin and functions, so to speak, as the shadowy entity behind fibitz.com. She writes poetry and science fiction, sometimes simultaneously. A lack of literary academic credentials does not preclude benevolence to those so encumbered.
Folly Blaine
Folly Blaine is a writer living in Seattle, WA, whose work has appeared in Every Day Fiction and Flashes in the Dark. You can find her online at www.follyblaine.com and on Twitter @follyblaine.
Roxanne Bland
Roxanne Bland writes a blend of fantasy and science fiction. Alas, she was not raised by dragons.
S.A. Bolich
S. A. Bolich is a fulltime freelancer with a number of published fantasy stories as well as many nonfiction articles on a wide variety of subjects. She is a native of Washington state, where she resides again after six years in Germany as a regular army military intelligence officer. Her first published short story earned an honorable mention in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 16; other stories have earned honorable mentions from Writers of the Future and 5th place in the Preditors and Editors online poll for best fantasy short (2009). She is currently converting a degree in history into a total rewrite of American history in a 6-volume alternate history series.
Patricia S. Bowne
Patricia S. Bowne has been hanging around universities since the age of three, in every capacity from faculty brat to dean, and liked it so much that she made up her own. She's published seven novellas and two novels set in the Royal Academy of the Arcane Arts and Sciences at Osyth, a modern university whose faculty just happen to talk with animals, trap incubi, and call up demons in the basement. Her work draws compliments for humor, the accuracy of the academic setting, and the wide variety of magic in every story.
Ada Milenkovic Brown
Ada Milenkovic Brown's microbiology lectures once warped the minds of future physicians. Now she has shifted to spec fiction readers. Her work has appeared in Intergalactic Medicine Show, PodCastle, Crossed Genres, and a few anthologies and has been short-listed multiple times for an award from the Speculative Literature Foundation.
Jennifer Brozek
Jennifer Brozek is an award winning author and editor. She has been writing role-playing games and professionally publishing fiction since 2004. She has won awards for both game design and editing. With the number of edited anthologies, fiction sales, RPG books and the non-fiction articles and book under her belt, Jennifer is often considered a Renaissance woman, but she prefers to be known as a wordslinger and optimist.
Sue Burke
Sue Burke lives and writes in Madrid, Spain. One of her projects is an ongoing online translation of the Renaissance's first best-seller, Amadís de Gaula, at http://amadisofgaul.blogspot.com
Emilie P. Bush
Emilie P. Bush was born and raised in Warren, Ohio, and graduated from Ohio University with a Master of Arts in Communication. After several years in broadcasting, most recently as host of Georgia Public Broadcasting's Georgia Gazette, Emilie turned her attention to writing fiction. Chenda and the Airship Brofman is the first novel. Podcast reading of the entire book is available for free at CoalCitySteam.com, where many great Steampunk links and adventures live. For more about Emilie, read her blog at blogservations.wordpress.com.
Lisa Carreiro
Margaret L. Carter
Marked for life by reading DRACULA at the age of twelve, Margaret L. Carter writes fantasy, horror, paranormal romance, and literary criticism (mostly about vampires in literature). She received degrees in English from the College of William and Mary, the University of Hawaii, and the University of California (Irvine). Her vampire novel DARK CHANGELING won an Eppie Award in the Horror category in 2000.
Kater Cheek
Kater Cheek is a graduate of 2007 Clarion. Her work has appeared in The Living Dead anthology and Fantasy Magazine, among others. She has an artblog at www.catherinecheek.com, a webcomic about chickens at www.coopdegrace.com and writes a blog chronicling her epublishing adventures at www.katercheek.com.
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.
Maria Christine
I'm the author of supernatural romance novel Parallel: New Beginnings & Old Ghosts, fantasy novella Her Eternal Love, and two shorter titles, Interludes of Ecstasy, and Phantom Encounters. I enjoy dark castles, menacing heroes, and autonomous heroines. And I definitely consider myself a “broad”.
Vikki Ciaffone
Gwendolyn Clare
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 Clarkesworld, Asimov's, and Bewere the Night (Prime Books), among others.
Barbara Clark
Barbara Clark’s interest in fantasy and science fiction has been the basis of her paranormal romance series, Sons of Earth and Wind. She is currently writing book seven in the series. As April Reid, she writes fantasy and science fiction erotic romance.
Jaleta Clegg
Jaleta loves to play with words. She writes science fiction adventure and comic horror. You can find a complete listing of her work at http://www.jaletac.com. Her day job involves an inflatable planetarium, starship simulators, and lots of school children. She lives to tell stories about traveling between stars. If only she had a real, working Millenium Falcon...
Lillian Cohen-Moore
Lillian Cohen-Moore is a freelance writer, researcher and editor working in speculative fiction. She's published horror and science-fiction, works as a personal assistant to a variety of writers, and co-edited the role-playing game Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple. A guest author at The Edge of Propinquity and part of the Growing Dread: Biopunk Visions anthology, she lives in Seattle, Washington.
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).
Katie Ann Cord
Katie Cord lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, Anthony and their four very unhuman children. She enjoys writing about women, horror, and sci-fi. She has loved the horror genre since the age of four when she was subjected to Slumber Party Massacre and at age seven pledged her love to the zombie genre. She doesn't mess around with ghost or demons.
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 numerous awards, including multiple Eppie Awards and Dream Realm Awards for Best Fantasy Novel. When she isn’t wandering the worlds of her imagination, she lives in Harrisburg, NC, with her husband and several cats.
Theresa Crater
Theresa Crater has published two contemporary fantasies, Beneath the Hallowed Hill & Under the Stone Paw and several short stories, most recently “Bringing the Waters” in The Aether Age: Helios. She’s also published poetry and a baker’s dozen of literary criticism. Currently, she teaches writing and British lit in Denver.
Vonnie Winslow Crist
Vonnie Winslow Crist is a speculative fiction writer, poet & illustrator. Her creative work has appeared in publications in the UK, Canada, Spain, Finland, Italy, Australia, and the USA. Vonnie's book of fantasy stories, "The Greener Forest," was published in March 2011 by Cold Moon Press.
Caron Cro
Reading Ursula K. LeGuin's work in the 70's changed my understanding of literature and the power of the novel. I have read mostly female authors, mostly science fiction since that time. I promised myself upon retirement from the Texas public schools the time and space to write the novel I would want to read. My degree in Creative Writing was fairly ancient at that point, but my crafting words had been disciplined by the strictures of a dissertation and the quasi-legal documents of a school principal. Writing challenges me to wrestle with themes of betrayal, redemption, loyalty, maternal roles, and spiritual connections.
Betty Cross
I am the author of a sci-fi novel called Discarded Faces. It is now available from Double Dragon Ebooks. The same publisher has also accepted a fantasy novel from me named Mistress of the Topaz. I expect it to come out in late 2011 or early 2012.
Carrie Cuinn
Carrie Cuinn is a writer, editor, book historian, small press publisher, and raconteur. In her spare time she reads, takes pictures, and sometimes gets a new tattoo.
Mary Dally-Muenzmaier
Mary Dally-Muenzmaier was born in 1969 in Madison, Wisconsin. She began writing short stories and plays at the age of six, utilizing her father's old manual typewriter and building her finger strength for the work yet to come. During her teens and twenties, Mary broadened her interests to writing poetry, creating visual art, playing and composing music, and reading voraciously. She moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1990 and studied Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. In partnership with her husband and fellow artist, Kevin Dally-Muenzmaier, Mary launched Cerebral Bends Productions in 2003, an arts production and creative services company that encompasses numerous artistic and commercial endeavors. Five years later she launched CricketToes, an art and culture blog focused primarily on Milwaukee and the State of Wisconsin. After writing poetry exclusively for over a decade, Mary decided to return to fiction in the late 1990s,trying her hand at short stories and vignettes. These experimentations gave her the confidence to tackle a longer narrative form and she published her debut novel Artifacts in September of 2011.
Julie Ann Dawson
Julie Ann Dawson’s love for the horror genre began at the age of thirteen, when she found a copy of Stephen King’s ‘Salem’s Lot in the Bridgeton High School library. She earned her B.A. degree in English, Liberal Arts from Rowan University in 1993. Her short stories, poems, and articles have appeared in a variety of both traditional and digital publications, including Gareth Blackmore’s Unusual Tales, Black Bough, The New Jersey Review of Literature, Lucidity, Happiness, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and others.. In 2002, she founded Bards and Sages Publishing, a micro-press that publishes speculative fiction and roleplaying games.
Laura K. Deal
Laura K. Deal is a writer, teacher, and dreamworker. Her fiction debuted in Cricket Magazine, and she writes primarily for teens. Her stories have appeared in the WolfSongs anthologies and in Space Sirens. 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
Author of the Sunburst-Award winning ecofantasy INDIGO SPRINGS.
Arinn Dembo
Arinn Dembo is a professional writer with over 20 years of experience. Her short fiction has appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, H.P. Lovecraft's Magazine of Horror, Weird Tales, and various anthologies. She has designed the universe and written the background fiction for several popular games for the PC, including Homeworld, Homeworld: Cataclysm, Ground Control, Arcanum, Sword of the Stars and Fort Zombie. Her novel "The Deacon's Tale" and her short story collection "Monsoon and Other Divine Encounters" will be released in September 2011 by Kthonia Press.
Clare L. Deming
Clare L. Deming lives in New Jersey and once applied to be an astronaut. Her writing has appeared in A Fly in Amber e-zine and medical publications. Her book reviews appear periodically on Science Fiction and Other ODDysseys (http://sciencefictionmusings.blogspot.com).
Beverly DeWeese
SF reader and occasional reviewer
Moondancer Drake
Moondancer Drake is a Cherokee author of multicultural LGBT paranormal fiction. She is also a vocal advocate for civil rights and the environment. Moondancer has two paranormal fiction novels published through PD Publishing, her debut Ancestral Magic released in 2009 and her second Natural Order in 2010, as well as many short stories in various anthologies. Her third novel Worlds Collide is soon to be released.
Lindsey Duncan
LINDSEY DUNCAN is a life-long writer and professional Celtic harp performer, with short fiction and poetry in numerous speculative fiction publications. Her novel "Flow" is forthcoming from Double Dragon. She feels that music and language are inextricably linked. She lives, performs and teaches harp in Cincinnati, Ohio. She can be found on the web at http://www.LindseyDuncan.com/writing.htm
Julia Dvorin
Julia Dvorin is a woman of many hats and little sleep. A proud graduate of Viable Paradise, she fits her writing in while parenting two young boys, promoting a collaborative art project called "Fly Your Freak Flag High" (FYFFH), and trying to make the world a better place. In her extremely limited spare time, she enjoys sleeping, reading, painting, dining and, um, did someone say sleeping? She holds an MA in Sociology from UCSB and has been a lecturer in Sociology and Women's Studies. She has also worked in Licensing, sales and web design. Her novelette “Cupid For a Day” was published in 2010 in the "Renaissance Festival Tales" anthology from Hadley Rille Books.
Sarah Ettritch
Sarah Ettritch lives in Toronto, Ontario with her partner and their four cats. Sarah writes the ongoing Rymellan science fiction series and is the author of THE SALBINE SISTERS. Visit http://www.sarahettritch.com to learn more about her books and upcoming releases.
Rhea Ashley Ewing
Karina Fabian
After being a straight-A student, Karina now cultivates Fs: Family, Faith, Fiction and Fun. From and order of nuns working in space to a down-and-out faerie dragon working off a geas from St. George, her stories surprise with their twists of clichés and incorporation of modern day foibles in an otherworld setting. Her quirky twists and crazy characters have won awards, including the INDIE book award for best fantasy (Magic, Mensa and Mayhem), an EPPIE award for best sci-fi (Infinite Space, Infinite God) and a Mensa Owl for best fiction (World Gathering), and top placer in the Preditor and Editor polls. In May 2010, her writing took a right turn with a devotional, Why God Matters, which she co-wrote with her father. Mrs. Fabian is former President of the Catholic Writer’s Guild and also teaches writing and book marketing seminars online.
T.W. Fendley
T.W. Fendley writes historical fantasy and science fiction. While researching story ideas at the 1997 Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop, she fell in love with ancient Mesoamerican cultures. Her debut historical fantasy novel, Zero Time, was published in October 2011. She won the 9th NASFiC 2007 short story contest, and has a story in the Dreamspell Sci Fi Vol. 1 anthology. Fendley belongs to the St. Louis Writer's Guild.
Carrie L. Ferguson
Melanie Ann Fletcher
Melanie Fletcher is an expatriate Chicagoan who currently lives in North Dallas with her husband the Bodacious Brit™ and their two fabulous furbags JJ and Jordan. In addition to writing short stories and novels, she is also a graphic artist and co-hosts the podcast Don't Quit Your Day Job: The Podcast (http://www.dqydjpodcast.com)
Leadie Jo Flowers
Currently an ex-patriot in Moscow, Russia, I search for other misfits that occupy this or any other planet. Since childhood, I have spent much time sifting through films, books and stories that attempt to stop a person’s heart with fear, a fear that can be as subtle as society’s beliefs or the invasion of beings and sciences unknown to us. When not enjoying my passion for writing I practice my second love, teaching English.
Deanne Fountaine
Valerie Estelle Frankel
Valerie Estelle Frankel is the author of From Girl to Goddess: The Heroine’s Journey in Myth and Legend and Buffy and the Heroine’s Journey (McFarland 2010, 2012). Her project on fandom, called Harry Potter: Still Recruiting will be coming in 2012 from Zossima Press. Her shorter works have appeared in over 100 anthologies and journals including Inside Joss' Dollhouse, Illuminating Torchwood, and Rosebud Magazine. Her parody, Henry Potty and the Pet Rock, was winner of the Indie Excellence Award and was a USA Book News National Best Book. Once a lecturer at San Jose State University, she’s a frequent speaker on fantasy, myth, pop culture, and the heroine’s journey, with many fans of all ages. Come explore her latest research at www.vefrankel.com.
Beth Jane Freeman
Sophie Gale
Long-time WisCon, Broad Universe fan just getting back to fantasy writing.
Gwynne Garfinkle
Gwynne Garfinkle lives in Los Angeles. She is represented by Diana Fox (Fox Literary). Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Strange Horizons, Goblin Fruit, Shimmer, and Space & Time.
Ann Gimpel
Ann Gimpel is a clinical psychologist. She practices high in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in a remote area of California. Interests include mountaineering, skiing, backpacking and, of course, writing. A lifelong aficionado of the unusual, she began writing speculative fiction about three years ago. She's had four short stories and a novel published in the past fifteen months.
Cynthia Gonsalves
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.
Justine Graykin
Justine Graykin is a free-lance philosopher who writes undark, antidystopian SF (among other things) and is sustained by her deep and abiding faith in Science, as well as the belief that humor is the best cure for gravity. She lives with 1 husband, 2 kids, 2 dogs, too many cats and a flock of chickens on 50 acres in New Hampshire. She has had several pieces of short fiction published and anthologized, and does an occasional column for the NH Concord Monitor.
Gayle Grazen
Rosalind M. Green-Holmes
Rosalind M. Green-Holmes works in the environmental health sciences, but her first loves are reading and creating her own fantasy and science fiction worlds. A native of New Orleans, she still lives in Louisiana but finds herself being shifted farther and farther from home.
Roberta Gregory
Roberta Gregory has been well known as an indy comics creator, on topics from fantasy to urban contemporary humor, but she is also working on a four-part novel Mother Mountain, collecting and drawing folks' True Cat Toons AND has just published FOLLOW YOUR ART.
April Grey
April Grey lives in NYC with her husband and son. She enjoys writing short stories and novels. In whatever time she has left over she teaches ESL and makes art quilts.
Nicola Griffith
English novelist living in Seattle. Author of five novels (Ammonite, Slow River, The Blue Place, Stay, Always) and a multi-media memoir (And Now We Are Going to Have a Party: Liner notes to a writer's early life). Co-editor of the Bending the Landscape series of original queer f/sf/h stories. Currently working on magnum opus: triptych of novels about Hild of Whitby (7th C woman who changed the world.) Essayist. Teacher. Website builder. Blogger. Board member of Lamda Literary Foundation. Winner of the Nebula, Tiptree, World Fantasy, and 6 Lambda Literary Awards. (And a BBC poetry prize, some Gaylactic Spectrum awards, the Premio Italia, and others.) Instigator of the Russ Pledge. Partner of writer Kelley Eskridge (who is board chair of Clarion West) and together they run Sterling Editing. Drinks just the right amount of beer and takes enormous delight in everything.
S.R. Gruber
S.R. Gruber lives on the edge between the Rocky Mountains and the Great Plains and has been making things up since she was a small girl in upstate New York.
Melina Gunnett
I've had a long full life. I've traveled all over the world, I've had several carries and met many wonderful people. I'm not done yet. Currently I'm residing in Washington state with family, including a menagerie of pets, and concentrating on writing.
Amy Axt Hanson
Amy Hanson is one member of a fantastic group of people who founded Broad Universe. Although an active SF writer at the time, she's currently on a writing sabbatical, trying out new things and digesting some ideas.
Kelly A. Harmon
Award-winning author Kelly A. Harmon formerly wrote and edited for newspapers and magazines in the US and Canada. Her publication credits include articles at the SciFi Channel's on-line magazine, SciFi Weekly and short fiction published in BLACK DRAGON, WHITE DRAGON, TRIANGULATION: DARK GLASS, BAD ASS FAIRIES III and others. Her award-winning novella, "Blood Soup", is now available via Kindle, at Fictionwise.com and in print at Amazon.
Anne Harris
Award-winning author Anne Harris writes young adult science fiction under the name Pearl North and gay romance as Jessica Freely. She also mentors students in Seton Hill University's Writing Popular Fiction MFA program. Anne blogs at http://friskbiskit.com. She's also on Facebook and Twitter.
Jed Hartman
Jed is a fiction editor for Strange Horizons.
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 is the author of the Kismet Knight, Vampire Psychologist series. The revised/expanded versions of the books are being released by Quercus Books in the UK and Sterling Publishing/Silver Oak in North America. Lynda makes her living as a licensed psychotherapist and certified clinical hypnotherapist.
A.R. Hill
Laurel Anne Hill
Laurel Anne Hill is the award-winning author of the novel, "Heroes Arise," as well as sixteen published science fiction/fantasy short stories and a variety of short nonfiction pieces. She loves to inspire teens and preteens to breathe life into their creative writing. Laurel lives in California with her husband and friendly 100-pound werewolf.
Kathryn Hinds
Originally from the southern shore of Lake Ontario, Kathryn Hinds now lives in the mountains of north Georgia. Her poetry has recently appeared in Goblin Fruit, Canary, 14 by 14, and The Lyric. She has completed a fantasy novel, The Healer's Choice, and is at work on its sequel and on a steampunk novel for young adults. She is also the coauthor of a book on Celtic mythology and the author of more than fifty nonfiction books for young people. Kathryn teaches English at North Georgia College and State University and sometimes moonlights as a belly dancer, but her main job, according to certain members of her household, is to ensure that cat food is available on demand.
M.K. Hobson
M.K. Hobson's short fiction has appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, SCI FICTION, Realms of Fantasy, and many other fine publications. Her debut novel (THE NATIVE STAR) came out from Ballantine Spectra in 2010 and was nominated for a Nebula Award. The sequel (THE HIDDEN GODDESS) hit the shelves in May of 2011.
M.C.A. Hogarth
M.C.A. Hogarth has been many things--a web database architect, product manager, technical writer and massage therapist--but is currently a parent, artist, writer and anthropologist to aliens. She is the author of over thirty e-books in the genres of fantasy, science fiction, romance and humor.
Mary Holland
Mary Holland writes social fantasy and soft science fiction in the Santa Cruz mountains of California. She provides catering and support services to three ungrateful cats, and in her spare time is married to a very nice, patient husband.
Elaine Isaak
Elaine Isaak dropped out of art school to found Curious Characters, designing original stuffed animals and small-scale sculptures, and to follow her bliss: writing. She is the author of The Singer's Crown (Eos, 2005), and sequels The Eunuch's Heir (Eos, 2006), and The Bastard Queen (Swimming Kangaroo, 2010). Her new dark historical fantasy series will be starting in 2011 with DAW books under a pseudonym (shhh!) A mother of two, Elaine also enjoys rock climbing, taiko (Japanese drumming), weaving and exotic cooking—when she can scrape the time together. Visit www.ElaineIsaak.com to read sample chapters and find out why you do not want to be her hero.
Carole Jahme
I am an evolutionary psychologist specialising in evolved differences between men and women. I write for The Guardian in the UK. I also make TV programmes, perform and write fiction. "Worth Their Weight in Blood" is my first novel.
Karen Jankowski
Jemiah Jefferson
I am an author of novels, short stories, and essays. My four novels, currently known as "The Vampire Quartet", were published by Leisure Books, a part of Dorchester Publishing Co., Inc. I am exploring self-publishing and traditional publishing for my future works. My current work-in-progress is a erotic trilogy of novels set in modern-day NYC.
Robyn Johnson
I am an aspiring author of science fiction and urban fantasy. Currently, I am an MFA student with a fiction concentration. I reside in Raleigh, NC with my dog and cat.
Pauline Baird Jones
Pauline Baird Jones is the award-winning author of ten novels of science fiction romance, action-adventure, suspense, romantic suspense and comedy-mystery. She's written two non-fiction books, Adapting Your Novel for Film and Made-up Mayhem, and she co-wrote Managing Your Book Writing Business with Jamie Engle. GIRL GONE NOVA, her ninth novel, won the EPIC Book Award, a Single Titles Reviewer's Choice award and is nominated for a Romantic Times Best Books award. She also has short stories in several anthologies. Originally from Wyoming, she and her family moved from New Orleans to Texas before Katrina.
Rosemary Jones
Rosemary Jones is the author of City of the Dead and Crypt of the Moaning Diamond, two young adult novels set in the popular Forgotten Realms (Wizards of the Coast). Her short stories appear in numerous anthologies including When The Hero Comes Home (Dragon Moon Press, 2011).
Teresa Jusino
Teresa Jusino was born on the same day Skylab fell. Coincidence? She doesn't think so. Her “feminist brown person” take on pop culture has been featured on websites like ChinaShopMag.com, PinkRaygun.com, Newsarama, and PopMatters.com. Her fiction has appeared in the sci-fi literary magazine, Crossed Genres; she is the editor of Beginning of Line, the Caprica fan fiction site; and her essay “Why Joss is More Important Than His ‘Verse” is included in Whedonistas: A Celebration of the Worlds of Joss Whedon By the Women Who Love Them, which is on sale now wherever books are sold! 2012 will see Teresa’s work in an upcoming non-fiction sci-fi anthology. Get Twitterpated with Teresa (@teresajusino), “like” her on Facebook, or visit her at The Teresa Jusino Experience.
Kate Kaynak
Kate Kaynak is the author of the Ganzfield Books (Minder, Adversary, Legacy, and Accused) and an editor at Spencer Hill Press. She was born and raised in New Jersey but was able to escape. After teaching psychology around the world for the University of Maryland, she now lives in New Hampshire with her husband and three kids, where she enjoys reading, writing, and fighting crime with her amazing superpowers.
Sylvia Kelso
Sylvia Kelso lives in North Queensland Australia. She writes fantasy and SF set in analogue or alternate Australian settings. She has published six fantasy novels, two of which were finalists for best fantasy novel of the year in the Australian Aurealis genre fiction awards, and some short stories in Australian and US anthologies. Her next novel, THE SOLITAIRE GHOST, will be released in 2011.
Rachel Kenley
Erotic romance - fantasy, retold fairy tales, and contemporary.
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.
Debra Killeen
Debra Killeen is the author of the award-winning fantasy series, "The Myrridian Cycle." The concluding volume, "Kingdom in the Balance," has been released in 2011.
Catt Kingsgrave
Fanfic friendly, genre bending mytho fantastic wordsmith who is fonder of writing than of selling what she's writ. Catt will most likely still be writing when she dies.
Susan Klement
St. Louis mom who cares about the environment, good food, books, feminism, and her family (not nec. in that order) Writer for www.gamingangels.com.
K.A. Laity
K. A. Laity is the author of PELZMANTEL, UNIKIRJA and many short stories, essays and plays. A tenured English professor, she also writes historical romance as Kit Marlowe and erotic romance as C. Margery Kempe.
Sue Lange
Sue Lange's blog is suelange.wordpress.com.
Ellen Larson
Ellen Larson sold her first short story to Yankee Magazine in 1971. Since then, she has published numerous short stories, reviews, and essays in the US, Egypt, and on the Internet. Her science fiction novel, The Measure of the Universe, was described by Booklist as follows: “Studded with clever puns and double entendres, this makes an engaging read for language lovers.” Her short story, “When the Apricots Bloom” appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine (June/July 2010) and was nominated for a Barry Award for short mystery fiction.
Alexis Glynn Latner
Alexis Glynn Latner's science fiction novel Hurricane Moon was published by Pyr in 2007. Her science fiction, fantasy and horror stories have appeared in the magazines Analog and Amazing, the anthologies Bending the Landscape: Horror and Horrors Beyond 2, and online publications. She also teaches creative writing and lives in Houston, Texas.
Danielle LeFevre
Graduate of Chapman University, MFA Creative Writing and Taos Toolbox 2010.
Kimberley Long-Ewing
Kimberley Long-Ewing is a writer and photographer. Her work focuses on fantasy themes and finding the unusual in ordinary objects. She is the author of the graphic novel series Urban Fey and Revenge of the Nature Imps. Her short stories include "Brahma's Missile" in the August 2009 Crossed Genres, "Come Like a Tailor" in the anthology No Man's Land (May 2011, Dark Quest Books) and "Forensix" in issue 14 of New Myths (newmyths.com). Additional stories and work can be found at www.mysticsheepstudios.com.
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 her own company RavenFire Media.
Mary E. Lowd
Mary E. Lowd lives in Oregon with her husband, daughter, five cats, three dogs, and resurrectable fish. Her short fiction has appeared in a variety of venues, and her first novel, "Otters In Space," was nominated for an Ursa Major Award. She's a member of SFWA, the Furry Writers' Guild, and the Wordos.
Catherine Lundoff
Award-winning author and editor in various genres.
Brenna Lyons
Brenna Lyons wears many hats, sometimes all on the same day: former president of EPIC, author of more than 95 published works, Administrator for Silver Publishing, columnist, special needs teacher, wife, mother...and member in good standing of more than 60 writing advocacy groups. In her first nine years published in novel-length, she's won 3 EPIC e-Book Awards (out of 15 finalists) and finaled for 3 PEARLS (including one Honorable Mention, second to NY Times Bestseller Angela Knight), 2 CAPAS, and a Dream Realm Award. She's also taken Spinetingler's Book of the Year for 2007. Brenna writes milieu-heavy dark fiction, mainly science fiction, fantasy and horror, straight genre, romance and erotic crosses, poetry, articles, and essays. She teaches everything from marketing to choosing an indie publisher, and she's been called "one of the most deviant erotic minds in publishing today" by Fallen Angels. Find out more about Brenna at YouTube or her site!
C.S. MacCath
C.S. MacCath's work has appeared or is forthcoming in Strange Horizons, CLOCKWORK PHOENIX: TALES OF BEAUTY AND STRANGENESS, THE PAGAN ANTHOLOGY OF SHORT FICTION: 13 PRIZE WINNING TALES, Murky Depths, Mythic Delirium, Goblin Fruit and others. For more information, visit http://csmaccath.com/about.
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; guest editing in 2011. Recommended reading list in The Year's Best Science Fiction, 26th & 27th Annual Collections. Stories appear in publications that have won Hugo & Stoker Awards and an IPPY Silver Medal. See website for more info and for free downloads of Deviations series.
Racheline Maltese
Racheline Maltese is a performer and storyteller focused on themes of sex, gender, desire and mourning. She wrote The Book of Harry Potter Trifles,Trivias and Particularities (Sterling and Ross, 2007) and also works as an independent scholar focused on pop culture topics. Her poetry, non-fiction and SF/F fiction has appeared in numerous outlets, and she is a regular speaker on pop-culture topics at fan and academic conferences.
Rose Mambert
Rose Mambert is a writer and Editor-in-Chief of Pink Narcissus Press, a small publishing house that specializes in genre fiction, located in Auburn, Massachusetts.
Brit Mandelo
Brit Mandelo is a writer and occasional critic whose primary fields of interest are speculative fiction and queer literature, especially when the two coincide. Also, comics. Her work has recently been featured in places like Ideomancer, Clarkesworld Magazine and Tor.com, and she has an anthology of genderqueer speculative fiction forthcoming from Lethe Press in 2012. She is a Louisville native and lives there with her partner in an apartment that doesn't have room for all the books.
Katherine Mankiller
Katherine Mankiller lives in Atlanta with many cats. Her work has appeared in Electric Velocipede and Fictitious Force.
Gail Z. Martin
Gail Z. Martin is the author of The Summoner, The Blood King, Dark Haven and Dark Lady’s Chosen (The Chronicles of The Necromancer series). She is also the author of The Fallen Kings Cycle from Orbit Books with Book One: The Sworn and Book Two: The Dread, and the upcoming Ascendant Kingdoms Saga. For book updates, tour information and contact details, visit www.ChroniclesoftheNecromancer.com. Gail is the host of the Ghost in the Machine Fantasy Podcast, and she blogs at www.DisquietingVisions.com.
Heidi Martinuzzi
Heidi is a journalist who writes about horror, sci-fi, and fantasy film and literature, and especially about the women who create them. She is currently at work on a non-fiction book about the history of female horror film directors.
Stef Maruch
Stef Maruch is a feminist, queer, reader, writer, fan of speculative fiction, and fat-activist.
Christie Maurer
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.
K.C. May
K.C. May grew up in the mid-western USA and in Hawaii, and earned a B.A. in Russian from Florida State University. After a year in Taiwan teaching English and studying Mandarin Chinese, she lived in the Arizona desert for 24 years. In 2010, she retreated to cooler, greener Georgia. She earns her living as a full-time writer.
Mary-Ellen Maynard
Once a glass artist, I've moved over into an older love - words.
Carole McDonnell
Carole McDonnell holds a BA degree in Literature from SUNY Purchase and is a writer of Christian, speculative fiction, and multicultural stories. Her writings appear in various anthologies including "So Long Been Dreaming: Post-colonialism in science fiction," edited by Nalo Hopkinson and published by Arsenal Pulp Press; "Jigsaw Nation" published by Spyre publications; Fantastic Visions III published by Fantasist Enterprises; Griots edited by Milton Davis and Charles Saunders; Fantastic Stories of the Imagination; edited by Warren Lapine, and other publications. Her reviews appear in print and at various online sites. She is a columnist for several Christian and African-American magazines. She lives in New York's Hudson Valley with her husband, two sons, and their pets. Her first novel, Wind Follower, was published by Juno Books in September 2007.
Heather McDougal
Heather McDougal is a writer and educator living in rural Northern California, who won a Writers of the Future award in 2009. Her story Talisman is up at Pseudopod as of July, and she has been in several anthologies, including Aether Age: Helios, and Footprints, both from Hadley Rille Books. She attended Viable Paradise in 2007, and has received grants and residencies for her writing. Her blog, Cabinet of Wonders, is highly-praised for its insightful essays.
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.
C.E. McLean
My short stories have been published in anthologies and magazines both online and in hard copy in science-fiction, paranormal, and even contemporary romance.
Anne K. McMullen
I have a PhD in chemistry and work for a major, international chemical company. Most of my writing is technical and work related; however, I've always wanted to write fiction, particularly science fiction and fanatsy. I've done some fiction writing in the past and would like to get back into.
Karen Meng
Karen is an award-winning screenwriter who has sold over 300 short stories, 12 graphic novels, nine full length scripts, six books and two anime. Karen uses 5 pseudonyms (one for each genre) and owns Klosm Publishing.
Sarah Micklem
Sarah Micklem began writing after many years as an art director for children’s magazines. Her first novel, Firethorn, was a Borders Original Voices pick and a finalist for the 2005 Compton Crook Award. The sequel, Wildfire, is now available from Scribner. She is working on the third novel in the series while continuing to practice her other profession, graphic design, at Girl Scouts of the USA in New York City.
Heidi Ruby Miller
Heidi Ruby Miller is a published author and teaches creative writing at Seton Hill University, where she graduated from their renowned Writing Popular Fiction Graduate Program. Her work includes the writing guide Many Genres, One Craft, which she co-edited with Michael A. Arnzen; several short stories, poems, and articles; and the novels Ambasadora and Atomic Zion. Heidi is also a member of the Authors Guild, Pennwriters, WPF Alumnae, and the Science Fiction Poetry Association.
MeiLin Miranda
MeiLin Miranda writes the fantasy novel series "An Intimate History of the Greater Kingdom" and the online serial "Scryer's Gulch: Magic in the Wild, Wild West." She is on Ravelry as MeiLin; she knits and spins and occasionally must be cut loose from the resulting cocoon-like tangle. She has fatal addictions to BPAL perfume and fountain pen ink. MeiLin lives in Portland, OR with her family and cannot stop writing despite their pathetic begging.
Mary Anne Mohanraj
Mary Anne Mohanraj is author of Bodies in Motion (HarperCollins) and nine other titles. Bodies in Motion was a finalist for the Asian American Book Awards, a USA Today Notable Book, and has been translated into six languages. Mohanraj founded the World Fantasy Award-winning and Hugo-nominated magazine, Strange Horizons. She was Guest of Honor at WisCon 2010, received a Breaking Barriers Award from the Chicago Foundation for Women for her work in Asian American arts organizing, and won an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship. Mohanraj has taught at the Clarion SF/F workshop, and is now Clinical Assistant Professor of fiction and literature and Associate Director of Asian and Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She serves as Executive Director of both DesiLit and the Speculative Literature Foundation. Recent publications include "Talking to Elephants" (Abyss & Apex) and "Jump Space" (ThoughtExperiments). She lives in a creaky old Victorian in Oak Park, just outside Chicago, with her partner, Kevin, two small children, and a sweet dog.
Nancy Jane Moore
Nancy Jane Moore's fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies and in magazines ranging from The National Law Journal to Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet. Her book Changeling is published by Aqueduct Press and her collection Conscientious Inconsistencies is published by PS Publishing. She is a member of of the writers' co-op Book View Cafe, which publishes her work as ebooks. Moore is a founding member of Broad Universe and also a member of SFWA.
Sunny Moraine
Sunny Moraine is a graduate student and writer who has published short stories in Strange Horizons, Icarus, and M-Brane SF, among many other places. She has co-written one novel for which she is looking for a publisher, and is working on a second. Her life is a trick of light.
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Silvia Moreno-Garcia was born and raised in Mexico. She moved to Canada several years ago and now lives in beautiful British Columbia with her family and two cats. She writes speculative fiction (from magic realism to horror). Her short stories have appeared in professional publications such as Fantasy Magazine and Shine: An Anthology of Optimistic Science Fiction.
Tracy S. Morris
Tracy S. Morris is the author of the Tranquility mysteries, a series of gonzo southern speculative fiction mysteries set in the Ozark mountains. You can find her on the web at http://www.tracysmorris.com
Deirdre Murphy
Deirdre is an insatiable reader, and moved from mysteries and mythology to science fiction and fantasy back when reading speculative fiction made you Weird with a capital W. She has published both stories and poetry in venues including MZB's Fantasy Magazine, Crossed Genres, With Painted Words, and The Best of FridayFlash Volume One. In 2010, she became one of the primary creators of Torn World, a shared world science fantasy world that includes fiction, poetry, art, and worldbuilding online at www.tornworld.net. You can find her blog at wyld-dandelyon.livejournal.com.
Michelle Murrain
Michelle Murrain is a science fiction writer who has written and published a trilogy, part of the "The Casitian Universe" series. Michelle also works as a nonprofit web developer, and has been a neuroscientist and professor. She lives in Oakland, California.
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.
Larissa N. Niec
Larissa N. Niec has enjoyed writing fiction since she was very young, winning awards for her short stories. Her first novel, SHORN: Book One of The Sky Seekers, became the foundation novel for Mercury Retrograde Press in 2008 and received positive acclaim from reviewers and readers. In addition to her work as a writer, Larissa is a professor of psychology at Central Michigan University where she teaches graduate students and runs a clinic for behaviorally disordered children. Larissa enjoys speaking about her work with readers and aspiring writers and has appeared as a guest speaker at a number of fantasy and literary conventions. CAEL'S SHADOW, Book Two of The Sky Seekers, will be released in spring/summer 2011.
Elberta Ruth Nolen
Christine Norris
Christine Norris is the author of several works for children and adults, including the Library of Athena series and the Zandria duology. When she’s not out saving the world one story at a time, she is disguised as a mild mannered School Librarian, mother, and wife. She cares for her family of one husband-creature, a son-animal, and two felines who function as Guardian of the Bathtub and Official Lap Warmer, respectively. She has also done several English adaptations of novels translated from other languages. She currently resides somewhere in southern New Jersey.
Jody Lynn Nye
Jody Lynn Nye lists her career activity as 'spoiling cats.' She lives with one of the above and her husband northwest of Chicago. Since 1985, she has published more than 43 books and over 110 short stories. She has also collaborated with some of the most noted names in the field, including Anne McCaffrey, Piers Anthony and the late Robert Asprin. Along with her own work, she is currently continuing two of Asprin's series, the Myth-Adventures (on which she collaborated on 7 books) and Dragons.
Gloria Oliver
Gloria Oliver lives in Texas making sure to stay away from rolling tumbleweeds and bowing to the wishes of her feline and canine masters. She is the author of “In the Service of Samurai”, “Vassal of El”, “Cross-eyed Dragon Troubles”, and “Willing Sacrifice”, all fantasy and ya fantasy novels. Her latest, “Price of Mercy” should see release in 2011. She is a member in good standing of EPIC and BroadUniverse though she has yet to make the list for Cat Slave R Us. For free reads, sample chapters, and more info, please drop by www.gloriaoliver.com
Jessie Olson
Grace O'Malley
Avid reader of science fiction written by women (with a mystery or two thrown in), former treasurer of Broad Universe and advisor on international strategies.
Pamela O'Shaughnessy
California writer (courtroom drama, mysteries), branching out into feminist speculative fiction.
Shelby Patrick
Shelby Patrick is a virtual assistant, writer, poet, and e-book author. Born and raised in southeastern Michigan, she writes and works from her home office. She writes fantasy, science fiction, and horror/suspense. Her works have appeared in Lost Worlds, the Hauntings anthology, and Karate/Kung Fu Illustrated, and she has several self-published books out now.
Ripley Patton
Ripley Patton is an American writer of speculative fiction happily living on the South Island of New Zealand. Four of her short stories have been short-listed for the Sir Julius Vogel Award, with "Corrigan's Exchange" winning an SJV for best short story 2009. Ripley is also the founder and President of SpecFicNZ, the national association for speculative fiction writers in and from New Zealand. She is currently working on her first YA novel, an urban fantasy.
Jennifer Pelland
Jennifer Pelland is a two-time Nebula finalist. Her short story collection "Unwelcome Bodies" was released by Apex Publications in 2008, and they will be releasing her debut novel "Machine" in 2011.
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.
KT Pinto
You don't know who KT Pinto is? How is that possible? Alternate history, urban fantasy, and comedic superhero stories are among her genres in her novels, short stories, and articles. Find out more at KTPinto.com.
Lettie Prell
Lettie Prell is a science fiction and fantasy author and poet. Her first novel, Dragon Ring, blends sf and paranormal elements. Her short fiction has appeared in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Aioefe’s Kiss, The Lorelei Signal, Paranormal Underground and elsewhere. Her poetry has been published in Pangaia and Kai Han and was featured in the Iowa Drama Workshop production, Kali Ma.
Mary Jo Rabe
I come from the Midwest, have been working as a librarian in Freiburg, Germany for the past 35+ years, and write science fiction. As soon as I get my poetry collection finished, I want to branch out to short stories.
Corie Ralston
Corie Ralston's writing has been found in Strange Horizons, Clarkesworld, and Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, among others. She has a fulltime job as a staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, and is also the managing director for the Speculative Literature Foundation. In general, she works too much, daydreams too little, and always wishes she had more time.
Cat Rambo
Cat Rambo writes a lot of short stories.
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.
Suzanne Reynolds-Alpert
Suzanne Reynolds-Alpert holds down a day job and is blessed with a tolerant husband and two amazing kids. In 2009, she decided to return to her passion—writing—and has spent the past year or so working her way from “beginning writer” to “a few people who are not family members have read and liked my work.” Her poetry has appeared in newWitch, Pagan Edge, and Strong Verse. Her long poem, INTERVIEW WITH THE FAERIE (PART I) will be published by Abandoned Towers in 2011. She is quite sure she’ll have a short story published soon, also—just you wait. Suzanne is a lifelong speculative fiction fan, science geek, and observer of human motivations.
Emerian Rich
Emerian is the author of Night's Knight Vampire novel series and the Sweet Dreams Musical Romance Series. She is also a podcaster, artist, and internationally known Horror Hostess.
Julia Rios
Julia Rios is writer and podcaster. She works with the Outer Alliance to support speculative fiction with LGBTQI content and promote diversity in the field. Her work has appeared in Goblin Fruit, Reflection's Edge, and Stone Telling.
Shauna Roberts
Formerly an award-winning medical and science writer, Shauna Roberts is a 2009 graduate of the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop. She has published several fantasy and science fiction stories in anthologies and in periodicals such as Jim Baen’s Universe and Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine. She is also the author of a historical novel inspired by the "Epic of Gilgamesh," Like Mayflies in a Stream (Hadley Rille Books, 2009).
Roberta Rogow
Roberta Rogow writes Historical Mystery and SF Filk lyrics, as well as book reviews. She recently retired after a 37-year career as a Children's Librarian in New Jersey.
Karen A. Romanko
Karen A. Romanko is editor of three speculative fiction and poetry anthologies, SPORTY SPEC: GAMES OF THE FANTASTIC (2007), CINEMA SPEC: TALES OF HOLLYWOOD AND FANTASY (2009), and RETRO SPEC: TALES OF FANTASY AND NOSTALGIA (2010), all from Raven Electrick Ink. She has seen over 100 of her poems and short stories published in venues such as Strange Horizons, Ideomancer, and The Pedestal Magazine.
T.M. Roy
Artist, author, editor, spy. In addition to writing science fiction/fantasy and owning a Very Small Press, I freelance as an editor, cover artist, and book designer (print and ebook).
Sandra Saidak
Sandra Saidak graduated San Francisco State University in 1985 with a B.A. in English. She is a high school English teacher by day, author by night. Her hobbies include reading, folk music, attending SF conventions, researching prehistory, and maintaining an active fantasy life (but she warns that this last one could lead to dangerous habits such as writing). Sandra lives in San Jose, CA with her husband Tom, daughters Heather and Melissa, and cats, Cocu and Oreo.
Katherine Sanger
Katherine Sanger was a Jersey Girl before getting smart and moving to Texas. She's been published in various e-zines and print, including Baen's Universe, Black Petals, Star*Line, Anotherealm, Lost in the Dark, and RevolutionSF, among others. Her poetry has won numerous awards, including First Place in Byline's "Autumn Poem" contest and Sol Magazine's "Lucky Thirteen" contest.
Kendra L. Saunders
Kendra L. Saunders is a novelist, poet, lyricist and freelance writer. Her novel, "Inanimate Objects", was released in 2011. For more information about her writing, and for helpful writing tip and links, visit her website.
S.L. Schmitz
S.L. Schmitz lives in North Carolina, and spends her days chasing a five-year old and keeping 4 felines happy.
Kristi Petersen Schoonover
Kristi Petersen Schoonover's short fiction has appeared in Carpe Articulum, The Adirondack Review, Barbaric Yawp, New Witch Magazine, Toasted Cheese, and others, including several anthologies such as Dark Opus Press' In Poe's Shadow. She holds an MFA from Goddard College, has received two Norman Mailer Writers Colony Residencies, and is editor for Read Short Fiction. Her most recent work, Skeletons in the Swimmin' Hole, is a collection of ghost stories set in Disney Parks; her horror novel, Bad Apple, is forthcoming from Vagabondage Books. She's also a member of the New England Horror Writers Association. Her website is www.kristipetersenschoonover.com
Judy Schriebman
An author of two homeopathic texts for professionals in that field but with a few fantasy short stories and one trilogy burning a hole in my back pocket that are yet to be born. Gardener, political activist and elected official.
Lizzy Shannon
Lizzy Shannon emigrated from Northern Ireland, and has had a screenplay optioned in Hollywood, and a space opera/time travel novel, Time Twist (Dragon Moon Press). She is a board director of the Willamette Writers, and her new non-fiction book, A Celtic Yearbook will be launched in November 2011. This year Lizzy celebrates her 9th birthday as an American citizen.
Karen Shuler
Writer, Story teller, Lampworker, Chemist, Florist, Hairstylist, Jewelry designer, Crafter, Artist and my most favorite, Mom.
Maggie Slater
Maggie Slater's fiction has appeared in DARK FUTURES: TALES OF DYSTOPIAN SF, THE ZOMBIE FEED ANTHOLOGY VOL 1, and LEADING EDGE MAGAZINE, as well as several other small press publications. Her office is a closet, her readers are mostly friends, her short fiction is usually too long to be practical, and her husband is a redhead. She moonlights as a blood-starved editorial droid for Apex Publications.
Janice Sidwell Smith
Writer and screenwriter. One short publishing credit thus far. Member of Viable Paradise class XV.
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. Her works include The Chocolatier's Wife, Blue Moon, Unbalanced and the collection of short stories, But Can You Let Him Go?
Carma Spence
Carma Spence is a writer based in Long Beach, Calif. She writes both fiction and nonfiction, as well as the occasional poem. Although she's been writing fiction most of her life, she hasn't gotten around to getting much of it published. She is the founder of The Genre Traveler, the travel resource for science fiction, fantasy and horror fans.
Rebecca Stefoff
Author of about 200 YA nonfiction books and a handful of romance novels. Made first f/sf/h sale in 2001. Lives in Portland, Oregon.
Ana Steuart
Ana Steuart is the great-grand niece of Richard Shaver. She is working on a continuation of his science fiction stories, and exploring an alternate history universe with with myth and magic. Ana is a GLBT rights activist.
Catherine Stine
Catherine Stine’s new futuristic thriller, Fireseed One launched in December 2011. Her first novel, REFUGEES, earned a New York Public Library Best Book and a featured review and interview in Booklist. Middle grade novels include the END OF THE RACE in the Wild at Heart series and A GIRL'S BEST FRIEND in the Innerstar University series. She is also an illustrator and painter, whose work has been exhibited in New York, Philadelphia and Miami. Stine hails from Philadelphia, and lives in New York City. Learn more at www.catherinestine.blogspot.com and www.catherinestine.com.
Kat Stotler
I write primarily fantasy, though I also write science fiction and horror.
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 and an essay in CHICKS DIG TIME LORDS from Mad Norwegian Press.
Leslie Kay Swigart
Academic librarian & Ph.D candidate (ABD in Information Studies at UCLA) working on a dissertation about English-language SF&F scholarly publications, 1959-2009. Many projects are hanging fire because of the !@#$%^&*()_+=-! dissertation, e.g. bibliography of SF&F dissertations & theses and another on George R. R. Martin.
Tané Tachyon
A longtime science-fiction/fantasy fan who just needs to finish the things she starts writing!
Tristan J. Tarwater
Tristan J Tarwater is a longtime geek, gamer and author of 'Thieves at Heart,' 'Self-Made Scoundrel' and other books yet to be released in The Valley of Ten Crescents series. Born in NYC she migrated between various coasts and took on the mantle of wife and mother along the way. In everything she does, she tries to uphold the self-imposed title of 'Ladygeek.'
Pamela K. Taylor
Pamela Taylor is a free-lance writer by day and a sf addict by night. She has had short stories published in several anthologies and magazines. Her latest work can be found in the Nov 2010 issue of Apex magazine.
Kaires Tevesu
Sherry Thompson
Retired from the Univ of Delaware Library, fantasy writing is my 2nd career. Gryphonwood Press has published my fantasy Seabird & its sequel Earthbow. I'm working on the 3rd in the Narentan series.
M.R. Tighe
Author of Judgement on Tartarus and True Son of Tartarus. Ransom of Tartarus coming 2012.
Sandra Tooley
Sandra writes the Sam Casey Series (mystery/paranormal) and the Chase Dagger Series (mystery/fantasy/sci-fi and horror) as Lee Driver. A fan of mystery but also the "unusual", she favors combining genres in her writing. DESTINY KILLS, her 13th book, will be out in Spring 2012.
Carol Ullmann
Carol has been writing fantastical things as long as she could pick up a pencil. She has a BA in creative writing and anthropology from the University of Michigan and an MA in archaeology from Reading University in England. She won a Hopwood Award for Minor Fiction in 2000. She pays the bills as a freelance reference book writer and editor (http://writelifeeditorial.com) but her heart is in poetry and short stories.
Faith Van Horne
Faith Van Horne's short stories and nonfiction have appeared in print and online. She is also the blog editor for Loconeal Publishing, a small press publisher located in Ohio. You can see what she's up to at faithvanhorne.blogspot.com, or follow her on Twitter @fvanhorne. Also check out Loconeal Publishing at loconeal.com.
JoSelle Vanderhooft
JoSelle Vanderhooft is a poet, author, and editor with several books to her name including the Bram Stoker Award-nominated poetry collection Ossuary and the Gaylactic Spectrum Award shortlisted Sleeping Beauty, Indeed. She lives in Florida.
Kim Vandervort
Kim Vandervort began writing at the age of eleven as an outlet for her overactive imagination. Her first short story, "The Librarian of Talimbourne," appeared in the anthology Ruins Metropolis in 2008. Since then, she has published a Renaissance Faire fantasy novella entitled "Faire Aria" and the first two novels in an ongoing fantasy series: The Song and the Sorceress and The Northern Queen. Chrono Mechanics, a collaborative departure from more traditional fantasy settings into the bold new worlds of time and space, is her third novel, and will be released later this year. She currently lives in Southern California, where she spends a great deal of her spare time operating a taxi service for her two beautiful daughters. When not writing, she teaches English Composition at California State University, Fullerton, where she earned a Master’s degree in Medieval Literature in 1999.
Denise Verrico
Denise is an East Coast native. She was a member of the Oberon Theatre ensemble in NYC for seven seasons, with whom she acted, directed, wrote plays and designed. Denise currently resides in Ohio with her husband, teenaged son and flock of six parrots.
Calie Voorhis
Juliette Wade
Everything I write is inspired by my experiences living overseas and my study of anthropology and linguistics. My work has appeared in Analog magazine.
Wendy N. Wagner
Wendy N. Wagner is the Assistant Editor of FANTASY MAGAZINE. Her short fiction has appeared or will appear in BENEATH CEASELESS SKIES, CROSSED GENRES and the anthologies THE WAY OF THE WIZARD and RIGOR AMORTIS. She lives in Portland, Oregon.
Janet Lane Walters
Janet Lane Walters is a fantasy writer among other things. To date she has published 35 novels in fantasy for YA and adults, romance, paranormal romance, mystery and suspense. She has also published 4 non-fiction books.
Anna Waltz
Anna Waltz is the author of "Swedish Lutheran Vampires of Brainerd" and many science fiction short stories. She was also a script writer for the online game EverQuest II. She is seeking to publish her YA novels.
Jean Marie Ward
Jean Marie Ward writes fiction, nonfiction and everything in between. 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 newest art book is FANTASY ART TEMPLATES. Her short stories appear in numerous anthologies, including HELLEBORE & RUE.
Rahima Warren
I've written a fantasy trilogy, The Star-Seer's Prophecy. Book One: Dark Innocence will be published by Rose Press in Autumn 2011. This story emerged from a blending of my life-long love of fantasy, and my experience as a psychotherapist and spiritual seeker.
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, DANU'S CHILDREN and ONE BLOOD.
Morven Westfield
Morven writes - and loves - dark, traditional vampire novels. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband and cat. 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."
Alexandra Wells
Alexandra Wells writes fantasy fiction and poems, as well as a blog on creativity. She's working on her first YA novel and lives in Madison, Wisconsin with her husband, two sons, an ancient black lab, and the obligatory writer's cat.
Emily White
Emily White lives in NY, wedged between two of the Great Lakes and a few feet of snow and ice. She's spent most of her life running away from the cold, and even spent a year in Iraq, but now contents herself with writing her characters into warm, exotic places in faraway galaxies. When not tapping away at her computer keys, she can be found reading, reading, and reading some more. And when she's not doing that, she's usually playing video games with her husband, peek-a-boo with her kids, or walking through her garden, wondering why the bugs insist on eating all her vegetables. Emily's debut novel, Elemental, will be released through Spencer Hill Press on May 1, 2012.
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.
Linda Wichman
Linda's soldout on scifi/fantasy and is thrilled to discover Broad's Universe. She won fanfiction awards as HDorothy for Stargate SG-1. Her first published novel, 'Legend of the Emerald Rose' a historical fantasy romance won the 2005 American Christian Fiction Writers BOTY. Finalist in 2006 Christy Awards —Visionary, RWA FHL Readers Choice and Nominee for The International Retailers Choice Award.
Ann Wilkes
Ann Wilkes' fiction leans toward tragic, funny or both. Her most recently published stories are in the Dark Quest Books anthologies Beauty Has Her Way (Jan 2011) and Defending the Future IV: No Man's Land (May 2011). Her first novel, Awesome Lavratt is a tongue-in-cheek space opera full of puns and misadventure. Follow her blog, Science Fiction and Other ODDysseys for sci-fi interviews, reviews, news and her thoughts on writing and sci-fi. Wilkes lives in SF Bay Area where she's close to the beach, the redwoods and the city.
Constance H. Wilkins
Connie Wilkins began with Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Fantasy Magazine and Strange Horizons, was seduced by alter-ego Sacchi Green into writing and editing erotica, resulting in editing seven anthologies including a Lambda Literary Award winner, and recently compromised by editing Time Well Bent: Queer Alternative Histories.
Alexandra Wolfe
Alexandra Wolfe is a viviparous mammalian carbon-based biped who occasionally writes and edits for a living.
Trisha J. Wooldridge
Trisha J. Wooldridge is a freelance writer, editor and educator from Auburn, MA. Her experience ranges from Dungeons & Dragons Online to animal rescue public relations. She writes about food, wine, horses, haunted locations, education, and she interviews bands like Voltaire, Within Temptation and Nightwish. Her short story, "Party Crashers," co-authored with Christy Tohara, was in the EPIC Award winning BAD-ASS FAERIES: JUST PLAIN BAD (Marietta 2008, Mundania 2009), with a second co-authored short story in the EPIC Award winning BAD-ASS FAERIES: IN ALL THEIR GLORY (Mundania 2010). Visit her at www.anovelfriend.com
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.
Barbara Ann Wright
Barbara Ann Wright is a science fiction writer from Texas. She writes novels and short stories when not adding to her enormous book collection or ranting on her blog. She is a member of the Writers League of Texas and Writer's Ink in Houston.
Sylvia Spruck Wrigley
Sylvia Spruck Wrigley was born in Germany, spent her childhood in Los Angeles and then moved to England as an adult before settling in Spain to write full-time. Previous publications include Every Day Fiction, Boston Literary Magazine, and True Romance Magazine.
Christie Yant
Christie Yant is a fantasy writer, Assistant Editor for Lightspeed Magazine, occasional narrator for StarShipSofa, and audiobook reviewer for Audible.com. Her fiction can be found in the magazine Crossed Genres and the anthologies The Way of the Wizard and Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy (forthcoming from Prime Books in 2011). She lives on the central coast of California with her two amazing daughters, her fiance, and assorted four-legged nuisances. Follow her on twitter @inkhaven.
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