GRANIA DAVIS has lived around a lot. She has dwelled in a mountain in Mexico, on a primitive sandbar in Belize, and on a beach in Hawaii. She has taught in Tibetan refugee settlements in India, and worked as a military historian in neon-lit Tokyo.

Her extensive travels inspired a series of fantasy novels based on the myths of the Orient. The Rainbow Annals is based on Tibetan legends. Moonbird uses Balinese myths. Marco Polo and the Sleeping Beauty, written with Avram Davidson (who is himself a legend), is set in China. Her many short stories reflect her sojourns abroad.

She was married to Avram Davidson, and collaborated with him on short stories and novels, and a son. Since Avram Davidson’s passing in 1993, she has devoted herself to publishing his immortal works.

She has settled down recently, dividing her time with her family between Marin County, California, and on the north shore of Oahu, Hawaii.

RICHARD A. LUPOFF is the author of more than thirty popular books, including science fiction novels, histories of popular culture, biographies, fantasy novels, an elusive paperback penned under the name “Del Marston,” and seven Marvia Plum/Hobart Lindsey mystery novels. He is also a veteran of the radio industry: he began his broadcast career writing the evening news at WIOD, Miami, in 1955, and recently passed the twenty-year mark as a talk-show host at KPFA, in Berkeley, California.

MICHAEL KURLAND has been the editor of a magazine even more idiosyncratic than himself, a seeker of absent persons, and guest lecturer at numerous unrelated events. He has also written over thirty books straddling a variety of fields. His nonfiction works cover topics as diverse as forensic science, criminal law, espionage, amateur radio, and the history of crime in America. Currently in print are How to Solve a Murder: The Forensic Handbook and How to Try a Murder: The Handbook for Armchair Lawyers.

Kurland’s crime novels include The Infernal Device, which was nominated for an Edgar and an American Book Award, and the Alexander Brass mysteries Too Soon Dead and The Girls in the High-Heeled Shoes.