Ed Finn is the founding director of the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University, where he is an assistant professor with a joint appointment in the School of Arts, Media and Engineering and the Department of English. His research and teaching explore the ways ideas circulate through contemporary culture, especially in digital form, and he is currently working on a book about the changing nature of reading in the age of algorithms. He completed his Ph.D. in English and American literature at Stanford University. Before graduate school Ed worked as a journalist at Time, Slate, and Popular Science. He earned his bachelor’s degree at Princeton University with a comparative literature major and certificates in applications of computing, creative writing, and European cultural studies.
Kathryn Cramer is a writer, critic, and anthologist and was coeditor of the Year’s Best Fantasy and Year’s Best SF series. She has coedited approximately thirty anthologies. She was a founding editor of the New York Review of Science Fiction and has a large number of Hugo nominations in the Semiprozine category to show for it. She won a World Fantasy Award for her anthology The Architecture of Fear (1987). Her fiction has been published by Asimov’s and Nature and in anthologies. Her story “Am I Free to Go?” was recently published on Tor.com. Kathryn holds a B.A. in mathematics and a master’s degree in American Studies, both from Columbia University in New York. For five years, she taught writing at Harvard Summer School. More recently she has been a consultant for Wolfram Research, L. W. Currey, an antiquarian bookseller, and for ASU’s Center for Science and the Imagination. She lives in Westport, New York, in the Adirondack Park.