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Dominica Phetteplace is a math tutor who lives in Berkeley, CA. Her work has appeared in Asimov’s, Clarkesworld, F&SF, and EscapePod, among other venues. She has won a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from I-Park and the MacDowell Colony.
Steven Barnes is a best selling, award-winning screenwriter and novelist from Los Angeles. He has written over twenty novels, and worked on shows such as The Outer Limits, Stargate SG-1, and Baywatch. His true love is teaching balance and enhancing human performance in all forms: emotional, professional, and physical. He is a life coach, Circular Strength Training coach, and certified hypnotist, as well as a trained yoga instructor, Tai Chi instructor, and fourth-degree black belt.
Rich Larson was born in West Africa, has studied in Rhode Island and worked in Spain, and now writes from Ottawa, Canada. His short work has been nominated for the Theodore Sturgeon, featured on io9, and appears in numerous Year’s Best anthologies as well as in magazines such as Asimov’s, Analog, Clarkesworld, F&SF, Interzone, Strange Horizons, Lightspeed, and Apex. He was the most prolific author of short science fiction in 2015 and 2016. Find him at richwlarson.tumblr.com
Carrie Vaughn is best known for her New York Times bestselling series of novels about a werewolf named Kitty, who hosts a talk radio show for the supernaturally disadvantaged. She’s written several other contemporary fantasy and young adult novels, as well as upwards of eighty short stories. An Air Force brat, she survived her nomadic childhood and managed to put down roots in Boulder, Colorado. Visit her at www.carrievaugh.com.
Jason Sanford is a former archeologist and Peace Corps Volunteer who has published more than a dozen stories in the British magazine Interzone, which also devoted a special issue to his fiction. His other publications include numerous stories in magazines and anthologies such as Asimov’s Science Fiction, Year’s Best SF, Analog, InterGalactic Medicine Show, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and other places. In 2001 Jason founded the online magazine storySouth, through which he ran the Million Writer Award for online fiction for many years. His website is www.jasonsanford.com.
A.T. Greenblatt is a mechanical engineer by day and a writer by night. She lives in Philadelphia where she’s well acquainted with all four seasons and is known to frequently subject her friends to various cooking and home brewing experiments. She is a graduate of Viable Paradise XVI and her work has appeared in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Strange Horizons, and Mothership Zeta, as well as other online journals. You can find her online at atgreenblatt.com and on Twitter at @AtGreenblatt
Rahul Kanakia’s first book, Enter Title Here (Disney-Hyperion), is a contemporary young adult novel. Additionally, his stories have appeared in Apex, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, The Indiana Review, and Nature. He holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Johns Hopkins. Originally from Washington, D.C., Rahul now lives in San Francisco. If you want to know more you can visit his blog at www.blotter-paper.com or follow him on Twitter at www.twitter.com/rahkan.
Suzanne Palmer is a writer, artist, and linux system administrator who lives in western Massachusetts. She is a frequent contributor to Asimov’s Magazine, and her story “Tuesdays” won the Asimov’s Reader Award for Best Short Story of 2015. Other work of hers has appeared in Analog, Interzone, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and other excellent venues. She has never wrestled an emu, but if she had it would have made this bio much more interesting, she is certain.
Sam J. Miller is a writer and a community organizer. His fiction has appeared in Lightspeed, Asimov’s, Clarkesworld, Apex, Strange Horizons, and The Minnesota Review, among others. His first book, a young adult science fiction novel called The Art of Starving, will be published by HarperCollins in 2017. His stories have been nominated for the Nebula, World Fantasy, and Theodore Sturgeon Awards, and he’s a winner of the Shirley Jackson Award. He lives in New York City, and at www.samjmiller.com.
Cat Rambo lives and writes in the Pacific Northwest. Her two hundred plus fiction publications include appearances in Asimov’s, Clarkesworld, and Tor.com. Her second novel, Hearts of Tabat, appears in early 2017 from Wordfire Press.
Carlos Hernandez is the author of the short story collection The Assimilated Cuban’s Guide to Quantum Santeria (Rosarium, 2016). By day, he’s a CUNY Associate Professor of English, and by vocation a game designer, most recently as lead writer on the historical CRPG Meriwether. He lives in Queens, the very best borough in New York.
Karin Lowachee was born in South America, raised in Canada, and worked in the Arctic. Her first novel Warchild won the 2001 Warner Aspect First Novel Contest. Warchild and her third novel Cagebird were finalists for the Philip K. Dick Award. Cagebird won the Prix Aurora Award in 2006 for Best Long-Form Work in English and the Spectrum Award also in 2006. Her books have been translated into French, Hebrew, and Japanese, and her short stories have appeared in anthologies edited by Nalo Hopkinson, John Joseph Adams and Ann VanderMeer. Her fourth novel, The Gaslight Dogs, was published through Orbit Books.
Chaz Brenchley has been making a living as a writer since the age of eighteen. He has published thrillers, ghost stories, urban fantasy, epic fantasy and science fiction, under his own name and others. He is a past winner of the British Fantasy Award and Northern Writer of the Year, and his short story collection Bitter Waters won a Lambda Award in 2014.
Adam Roberts is the author of sixteen SF novels, including New Model Army (Gollancz, 2010), Jack Glass (2012), Bête (2014) and The Thing Itself (2015). He is also the author of various works of literary criticism and review, including the recently expanded and updated History of Science Fiction (2nd ed Palgrave, 2016).
Ian R MacLeod lives in the riverside town of Bewdley in the UK. Amongst many accolades, his work has won the World Fantasy Award (twice) and the Arthur C Clarke Award. He has a new short story collection out, Frost On Glass, and an upcoming novel, Red Snow.
Craig DeLancey is a writer and philosopher. He has published short stories in magazines like Analog, Lightspeed, Shimmer, and Nature Physics. His novel Gods of Earth is available now with 47 North Press. Born in Pittsburgh, PA, he lives now in upstate New York and, in addition to writing, teaches philosophy at Oswego State, part of the State University of New York (SUNY).
Charlotte Ashley is a writer, editor and bookseller living in Toronto, Canada. Her fantasy and science fiction short stories have appeared in F&SF, Clockwork Canada, Luna Station Quarterly, Kaleidotrope, PodCastle, and elsewhere. Her historical fantasy, “La Héron,” was nominated for both the Aurora and Sunburst Awards in 2016. You can find more about her at www.once-and-future.com or on Twitter @CharlotteAshley.
Gregory Feeley is author of The Oxygen Barons, which was nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award, as well as the historical novel Arabian Wine. His most recent book is the short novel Kentauros. His short fiction has appeared in numerous magazines, original anthologies, and year’s best volumes. “The Bridge of Dreams,” his first published story in eight years, was written as a break from a long novel that has much occupied him, about the decline of Renaissance Magic. He hopes to finish the novel this year and return to short fiction and novellas.
Helena Bell lives in Chattanooga, TN. Her stories have appeared in Clarkesworld, The Indiana Review, Lightspeed Magazine, and other publications. She is a graduate of the Clarion West Writer’s Workshop and has MFAs in Fiction and Poetry from North Carolina State University and Southern Illinois University in Carbondale respectively.
Paul McAuley worked as a research biologist and university lecturer before becoming a full-time writer. He’s the author of more than twenty novels, numerous short stories and a BFI Film Classic monograph on Terry Gilliam’s film Brazil. His latest novel, sharing the same future history as this story, is Into Everywhere.
Kameron Hurley is the author of the space opera The Stars are Legion, as well as the essay collection The Geek Feminist Revolution. She has also written the award-winning God’s War Trilogy and The Worldbreaker Saga. Hurley has won the Hugo Award, Kitschy Award, and Sydney J. Bounds Award for Best Newcomer. She was also a finalist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Nebula Award, and the Gemmell Morningstar Award. Her short fiction has appeared in Popular Science Magazine, Lightspeed Magazine, and many anthologies. Hurley has also written for The Atlantic, Entertainment Weekly, The Village Voice, LA Weekly, Bitch Magazine, Boingboing, and Locus Magazine. She posts regular articles at KameronHurley.com.
Seth Dickinson is the author of The Traitor Baru Cormorant and more than a dozen short stories. During his time in the social sciences, he worked on cocoa farming in Ghana, political rumor control, and simulations built to study racial bias in police shootings. He wrote much of the lore and flavor for Bungie Studios’ smash hit Destiny. If he were an animal, he would be a cockatoo.
Alexander Weinstein is the Director of The Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing and the author of the short story collection Children of the New World (Picador, 2016). He is the recipient of a Sustainable Arts Foundation Award, and his fiction has been awarded the Lamar York, Gail Crump, Hamlin Garland, and New Millennium Prizes. He is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Siena Heights University, and leads fiction workshops in the United States and Europe.
Charlie Jane Anders is the author of All the Birds in the Sky, which won a Nebula Award and a Crawford Award and has been shortlisted for the Hugo and Locus Awards. She organizes the Writers With Drinks reading series, and was a founding editor of io9.com. Her story “Six Months, Three Days” won a Hugo Award and her novel Choir Boy won a Lambda Literary Award.
Adrian Tchaikovsky is the author of the acclaimed ten-book Shadows of the Apt series starting with Empire in Black and Gold published by Tor UK. His other works for Tor UK include standalone novels Guns of the Dawn and Children of Time and the new series Echoes of the Fall starting with The Tiger and the Wolf. His SF novel Children of Time won the Arthur C Clarke Award and he has been shortlisted for the David Gemmell Legend Award and the British Fantasy Award.
Genevieve Valentine is the author of four novels; her latest is Icon. Several of her shorties stories have appeared in Best of the Year anthologies. She’s written Catwoman for DC Comics and Xena: Warrior Princess for Dynamite. Her nonfiction has appeared at NPR.org, The Atlantic, LA Review of Books, Interfictions, and The New York Times.
Lavie Tidhar is the author of the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize winning and Premio Roma nominee A Man Lies Dreaming (2014), the World Fantasy Award winning Osama (2011) and of the critically-acclaimed The Violent Century (2013). His latest novel is Central Station (2016). He is the author of many other novels, novellas and short stories.