Colleen Anderson of Vancouver is a writer of fiction and poetry who has been twice nominated for the Aurora Award in poetry, and longlisted for the Stoker Award. As a freelance editor she co-edited Tesseracts Seventeen, and Playground of Lost Toys (Exile Editions) which was nominated for a 2016 Aurora Award, while Alice Unbound: Beyond Wonderland is her first solo anthology. Some of her recent works have appeared in Grievous Angel, Futuristica, Starship Sofa, Transition and Magazine. She is currently working on an alternate history dark fiction novel and a poetry collection. Black Shuck Books, U.K., will publish a collection of her dark fiction in 2018, and she has a poetry chapbook, Ancient Tales, Grand Deaths and Past Lives.
www.colleenanderson.wordpress.com
Patrick Bollivar is an air traffic controller living in Vancouver. He has previously published in Pulp Literature Magazine and Tesseracts Nineteen, and will soon be published in the WCSFA fundraising anthology Power: In the Hands of One, In the Hands of Many.
Mark Charke of Surrey, British Columbia, is an aspiring novelist with over forty-five roleplaying game publications, among them Chronomancer: Time Travel for Everyone, The Complete Guide to Vampires and DragonMech: Steam Warriors. In 2018, he will release his first novel, Blue Water Hero, on Amazon. @markcharke
Christine Daigle has had short fiction appear in Apex Magazine, Grievous Angel, the Playground of Lost Toys anthology (Exile Editions), and the Street Magick anthology. Her first novel, The Emerald Key, co-authored with Stewart Sternberg, was released in 2015.
Robert Dawson teaches mathematics at a Nova Scotia university. He has read just about everything that Lewis Carroll (or Charles Dodgson) ever wrote, and once published a paper in the Journal of Recreational Mathematics about one of Dodgson’s probability problems. Robert’s fiction has appeared in Nature Futures, AE, Compostela, Tesseracts Twenty, and many other periodicals and anthologies. Apart from mathematics and SF writing, he enjoys fencing, cycling, and hiking, and volunteers with a Scout troop.
David Day of Toronto is the author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Decoded: The Full Text of Lewis Carroll’s Novel With It’s Many Hidden Meanings Revealed.* He has written and published fifty books of poetry, history, fantasy, ecology, natural history, mythology and fiction. Day’s books – for both adults and children – have sold over three million copies worldwide and have been translated into twenty languages. * YouTube: David Day Books – Decoding Alice
Linda DeMeulemeester of Burnaby, British Columbia, has had her short fiction appear in anthologies with Exile Editions and Tesseracts, and in the magazines and zines Neo-opsis, Twilight Tales and Chizine. Her first children’s book, The Secret of Grim Hill, won the Silver Birch Award and was named one of Canadian Toy Testing Council’s best books. Her spooky middle grade series has been translated into French, Spanish and Korean. Her forthcoming autumn 2018 novel is a tween adventure, The Mystery of Croaker’s Island. www.grimhill.com
Pat Flewwelling of Oshawa, Ontario, is a part-time writer, part-time editor, part-time publisher, part-time travelling bookseller, and full-time data problem solver at a major telecommunications company. Aside from her seven full-length works, her short works have been included in the anthologies Sirens and Equus and Purgatorium, and in the magazine Pulp Literature. Find out where her Myth Hawker Travelling Bookstore, will appear next at www.mythhawker.ca
Geoff Gander of South Mountain, Ontario, was heavily involved in the role-playing community prior to writing fiction, and penned many game products. He has been published by ChiZine Publications, Metahuman Press, AE SciFi, Exile Editions, McGraw-Hill and Expeditious Retreat Press. He primarily writes horror, but is willing to give anything a whirl. geoffgander.wordpress.com @GeoffGander
Cait Gordon is originally from Verdun, Quebec, and has been living in the suburbs of Ottawa since 1998. She is the author of Life in the ’Cosm, a story about a little green guy who’s crushing on the female half of his two-headed colleague. She is currently working on its prequel called The Stealth Lovers, a rom-com military space opera. She worked for over two decades as a technical writer, publishing user guides about everything from software applications to airplane simulators. When she’s not writing, Cait edits manuscripts for indie authors and runs The Spoonie Authors Network, a blog whose contributors are writers with disabilities and/or chronic conditions.
Costi Gurgu of Toronto has had fiction published in Canada, the United States and Europe. Collectively, his three book and more than fifty stories have won twenty-four awards. His works include the anthologies Ages of Wonder, Tesseracts Seventeen, The Mammoth Book of Dieselpunk, Dark Horizons, Street Magick and Water. His novel RecipeArium was recently released. www.costigurgu.com
Kate Heartfield of North Gower (Ottawa), Ontario, is a former newspaper editor and columnist. Her first novel, a historical fantasy called Armed in Her Fashion, will be published in 2018, as well as an interactive novel for Choice of Game, inspired by The Canterbury Tales. Her short fiction has appeared in several magazines and anthologies, including Strange Horizons, Escape Pod and Lackington’s. Kate’s story “The Seven O’Clock Man,” published in the Exile anthology Clockwork Canada, was longlisted for the Sunburst Award. Her novella “The Course of True Love” was published in 2016, as part of the collection Monstrous Little Voices: New Tales from Shakespeare’s Fantasy World.
www.heartfieldfiction.com @kateheartfield
Elizabeth Hosang of Kanata, Ontario, is a computer engineer who has branched into writing fiction. She has been published in a number of mystery and science fiction anthologies, and was short-listed for the 2017 Arthur Ellis Award for Crime Writing in the Short Story category. A fan of a well-told story in any genre, she especially enjoys mystery, urban fantasy and science fiction.
Nicole Iversen of Sechelt, British Columbia, sees her first publication in these pages – something Exile Editions is recognized for in their decades-long support of emerging writers. She is currently writing a young adult High Fantasy series, and a short story will appear in the 2018 WCSFA fundraising anthology Power: In the Hands of One, In the Hands of Many.
www.nicoleiversen.wixsite.com/nicolewriter
J.Y.T. Kennedy lives in Ardossan, Alberta, and writes eclectically, with an emphasis on speculative fiction and poetry. She has been fond of Lewis Carroll, and has been easily reciting several of his poems since childhood.
sites.google.com/site/jytkennedy
Danica Lorer of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, finds adventure and inspiration in fields, forests, riverbanks, cities, and small towns (her name comes from the Slavic word “morning star” for explorers). She is a professional storyteller, freelance writer, face and body painter, poet, and the host of Shaw TV Saskatoon’s literary arts program Lit Happens.
Catherine MacLeod of Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia, has published short fiction in Nightmare, Black Static, On Spec, Tor.com, and anthologies including Fearful Symmetries, Playground of Lost Toys (Exile Editions), and Licence Expired: The Unauthorized James Bond. Her short story “Hide and Seek” (from Playground of Lost Toys) won the 2016 inaugural Sunburst Award for Short Story.
Bruce Meyer of Barrie, Ontario, is the author of some 50-plus books in all genres. He was winner of the Gwendolyn MacEwen Prize for Poetry Award in 2015 and 2016, and received the IP Medal for The Seasons for Best Book of Poems in North America in 2014. He is the editor of Exile Editions’ Cli-Fi: Canadian Tales of Climate Change and That Dammed Beaver: Canadian Humor, Laffs, and Gaffes (both 2017). He was the inaugural Poet Laureate of the City of Barrie, and teaches at Georgian College in Barrie and at Victoria College in the University of Toronto.
Dominik Parisien of Toronto is the co-editor, with Navah Wolfe, of Robots vs Fairies, and The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales, which won the Shirley Jackson Award and was a finalist for the World Fantasy Award, the British Fantasy Award, and the Locus Award. He is also the editor of Clockwork Canada: Steampunk Fiction and the co-editor, with Elsa Sjunneson-Henry, of Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction. His fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in The Fiddlehead, Uncanny Magazine, EXILE/ELQ magazine, Augur Magazine, Those Who Make Us: Canadian Creature, Myth, and Monster Stories (anthology, Exile Editions) as well as other publications. www.dominikparisien.wordpress.com @domparisien
Fiona Plunkett of South Mountain, Ontario (and partner of the co-authored story with Geoff Gander) is an editor, photographer, researcher, and high financier. Born in England and transplanted to Canada’s capital region by her Canadian parents, she has a university degree in History, and a college diploma in Interactive Media Management. In her spare time she drives a hearse, plays the bagpipes, tenor drum, and bass drum, and terrorizes local children on Halloween as The Witch of South Mountain. @FionaTheCarver
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Alexandra Renwick grew up Canadian in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Austin, Yorkshire, Copenhagen, and Toronto, but currently spends most of her time in a crumbling historic manor in downtown Ottawa. Her genre-elastic fiction has been translated into nine languages and adapted to the stage. Find her most recent stories in Asimov’s, Interzone, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, and in audio at Cabinet of Curiosities.
Andrew Robertson is an award-winning queer writer and journalist from Toronto. He has published articles in Xtra!, fab magazine, ICON, Gasoline, Samaritan Magazine, neksis, and Shameless. His fiction has appeared in literary magazines and quarterlies that include Stitched Smile Publications Magazine Vol 1, Deadman’s Tome, Sirens Call, Undertow, katalogue, Feeling Better Yet?, and in anthologies Gone with the Dead, Group Hex Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, A Tribute Anthology to Deadworld, Cuarenta y Nueve, First Hand Accounts, and Abandon. A lifelong fan of horror, he is the founder and co-host of The Great Lakes Horror Company podcast, official podcast to Library of the Damned, and a member of the Horror Writers’ Association.
Lisa Smedman of Richmond, British Columbia, is the author of more than twenty books, ranging from science fiction and fantasy novels to non-fiction histories of Vancouver. In 2004, one of her novels made the New York Times best sellers list. She is also the author of dozens of adventures for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing games, and other tabletop RPGs. She worked as a journalist for twenty-five years, and now makes her living teaching video game design and interactive fiction writing at a local college. She has also written three one-act plays, all produced by an amateur Vancouver theater group, and is the author of numerous short stories.
www.lisasmedman.wix.com/author
Sara C. Walker of Kawartha Lakes, Ontario, is a writer, editor, and library clerk. She received her first copy of Alice in Wonderland when she was eight years old, a gift from her father, a Yorkshireman. Urban fantasy is her favourite playground, and her novels and shorter works can be found online.
James Wood of Oakville, Ontario, is a high school English teacher with a passion for getting young men to turn off their video games and pick up a book. He has been published in Burning Water magazine and the anthology Circuits and Slippers.
Cover and interior art is by Maeba Scutti (aka Ellerslie) from Rimini, Italy, She is an illustrator, painter, dreamer and poet who has published three books of poetry and had her art appear on the covers of a variety of publications and books. www.shutterstock.com/g/ellerslie