Gio Clairval, after living in Paris for most of her life, moved to Scotland and then to Italy, and now from her windows she can see her pet, a giant pike, frolicking in the waters of Lake Como. Her stories have appeared in magazines such as Weird Tales, Galaxy’s Edge, Lightspeed (Fantasy), and Postscripts and in several anthologies, including The Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities (HarperCollins), Kisses by Clockwork (Ticonderoga Publications), punkPunk! (DogHorn Publishing), and Caledonia Dreamin’ (Eibonvale Press). She also translates literary classics (Kafka, Blei, Meyrink, Strobl, Flaubert, Jarry, Fréchette, Bernanos, Cortazar, Deledda, and Buzzati, among others) into English.
Minsoo Kang is the author of the history books Sublime Dreams of Living Machines: The Automaton in the European Imagination and Invincible and Righteous Outlaw: The Korean Hero Hong Gildong in Literature, History, and Culture and the short story collection Of Tales and Enigmas and is the translator of the Penguin Classics edition of the Korean novel The Story of Hong Gildong. His stories have appeared in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, Azalea, Entropy, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, and the anthologies Where the Stars Rise and Shanghai Steam. His story “A Fearful Symmetry” was included in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2007 and “The Sacrifice of the Hanged Monkey” in The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018. Originally from South Korea, he has also lived in Austria, New Zealand, Iran, Brunei, and Germany. He served in the South Korean army and earned his Ph.D. in European history at UCLA. He is currently an associate professor of history at the University of Missouri–Saint Louis.
Ekaterina Sedia resides in the Pinelands of New Jersey. Her critically acclaimed and award-nominated novels, The Secret History of Moscow, The Alchemy of Stone, The House of Discarded Dreams, and Heart of Iron, were published by Prime Books. Her short stories have appeared in Analog, Baen’s Universe, Subterranean, and Clarkesworld, as well as in numerous anthologies, including Haunted Legends and Magic in the Mirrorstone. She is also the editor of the anthologies Paper Cities (World Fantasy Award winner), Running with the Pack, Bewere the Night, and Bloody Fabulous, as well as The Mammoth Book of Gaslit Romance and Wilful Impropriety. Her short story collection, Moscow But Dreaming, was released by Prime Books in December 2012. She also cowrote a script for Yamasong: March of the Hollows, a fantasy feature-length puppet film voiced by Nathan Fillion, George Takei, Abigail Breslin, and Whoopi Goldberg, to be released by Dark Dunes Productions.
Joseph Tomaras lives in southern Maine and writes fiction, more or less speculative, some of which has been published. He is currently engaged in translating Der Nister’s full “Gedakht” collection of short stories (1922–1923). He also reads voluminously in Spanish, German, Portuguese, French, Modern Greek, Hebrew, and, of course, Yiddish.
James Womack is a translator and poet. He has translated widely from Spanish and Russian, including works by Vladimir Mayakovsky, Sergio del Molino, Roberto Arlt, Silvina Ocampo, and Boris Savinkov. He currently teaches Spanish translation at Cambridge University. His second collection of poems, On Trust: A Book of Lies, was published in 2017, and his anthology of verses of Vladimir Mayakovsky, “Vladimir Mayakovsky” and Other Poems, came out in 2016.
Marian Womack is a translator, author, and editor. She is a graduate of the Cambridge University Creative Writing Master Degree and a postgraduate researcher at the Anglia Ruskin Centre for Science Fiction and Fantasy. Her Lost Objects, a collection of tales about ghosts and nature, was published by Luna Press in 2018.