Laura Anne Gilman’s short fiction has appeared in the magazines Amazing Stories and Dreams of Decadence, and the anthologies Urban Nightmares, Lammas Night, and Blood Thirst: 100 Years of Vampire Fiction. The co-author of Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Visitors with Josepha Sherman, she also co-edited the anthologies OtherWere: Stories of Transformation, and the forthcoming Treachery & Treason. She lives in northern New Jersey with her husband, Peter, and cat, Pandora (who was the inspiration for Deep Water’s “Ariel”), and can be reached on the web at www.sff.net/people/lauraanne.gilman.
Josepha Sherman is a fantasy writer and folklorist whose books include the Highlander novel The Captive Soul; the Xena book Xena: All I Need to Know I Learned from the Warrior Princess, by Gabriell, as Translated by Josepha Sherman; and the folklore volume Merlin’s Kin: World Tales of the Hero Magician. She is a member of the Author’s Guild, SFWA, and the American Folklore Society. She is probably the first folklorist to give a paper on the changing role of the Klingon at the American Folklore Society. It goes without saying that she is a fan of Buffy! She can be reached at www.sff.net/people/Josepha.Sherman.
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