Sandra Kasturi is a Bram Stoker Award-winning editor as well as a writer, book reviewer and award-winning poet. She is the co-publisher of the World Fantasy Award-nominated and British Fantasy Award-winning press, ChiZine Publications. Her work has appeared in various venues, including ON SPEC, Prairie Fire, Shadows & Tall Trees, several Tesseracts anthologies, Evolve, Evolve 2, both Chilling Tales volumes, A Verdant Green, Star*Line, Abyss & Apex, Taddle Creek, 80! Memories & Reflections on Ursula K. Le Guin, They Have to Take You In, and Stamps, Vamps and Tramps. Sandra’s two poetry collections were released by Tightrope Books: The Animal Bridegroom (with an introduction by Neil Gaiman) and Come Late to the Love of Birds. She is working on her next book, Snake Handling for Beginners, and reading for Imaginarium 4.
Helen Marshall is an award-winning Canadian author, editor, and doctor of medieval studies. Her poetry and fiction have been published in The Chiaroscuro, Abyss & Apex, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, Tor.com and have been reprinted in several “Year’s Best” anthologies. Her debut collection of short stories, Hair Side, Flesh Side (ChiZine Publications, 2012), was named one of the top ten books of 2012 by January Magazine. It won the 2013 British Fantasy Award for Best Newcomer and was shortlisted for a 2013 Aurora Award by the Canadian Society of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Her second collection, Gifts for the One Who Comes After, was released in September 2014 to rave reviews. She divides her time between Toronto and Oxford, England.