Kathryn Allan splits her time between running Academic Editing Canada and pursuing independent scholarship. Her writing appears in both academic and popular venues, and she is editor of Disability in Science Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan 2013). She writes about representations of disability, SF, and living with chronic illness on her blog and Twitter as Bleeding Chrome.
Fabian Alvarado is an illustrator, sculptor, designer, scriptwriter... born in the Republic of Glassdavoldovia a long time ago. He has been drawing, painting and sculpting since he was 5 years old, actually he hasn't been able to get any great achievements in any way and he keeps dreaming something impossible.
Djibril al-Ayad is the nom de guerre of a historian, futurist, writer and editor of The Future Fire, magazine of social-political speculative fiction. His interests span science, religion and magic; education and public engagement; diversity, inclusivity and political awareness in the arts.
L.E. Badillo is a creator whose work includes cover art, interior illustrations, independent comic books and short stories. L.E. Badillo’s latest projects and whereabouts can be followed at elbad.net, @elBadArt on Twitter and at elbad.deviantart.com. L.E. Badillo is a member of the HWA.
Jane Baker is a freelance illustrator, longer-suffering wife of a writer, and mother of two far-too-energetic sons. This is her second publication. She likes working on her future garden or hiding in her office to draw or play video games. You can see more of her art at arleea.com.
Nicolette Barischoff was born with spastic cerebral palsy, which has only made her more awesome. Her first story was published in Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction From the Margins of History. This is her second. She is very aware of how cool it is to be launching her career with two such kick-ass anthologies. She can be reached via Twitter at @NBarischoff.
A.C. Buchanan lives near Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. Their recent MA thesis examined blindness in Wells’s “The Country of the Blind” and Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids and their fiction has been published in a number of venues, including the 2012 Futurefire.net anthology Outlaw Bodies. Their website is at www.acbuchanan.org.
Born in Singapore but a global citizen, Joyce Chng writes mainly science fiction and YA fiction. She likes steampunk and tales of transformation/transfiguration. Her fiction has appeared in Crossed Genres, The Apex Book of World SF II, We See A Different Frontier and Luna Station Quarterly. Her website/blog can be found at A Wolf's Tale (awolfstale.wordpress.com) and she tweets too: @jolantru.
Comebab is an Italian artist in the Art and Science field. A former researcher in chemistry for cultural heritage, and ex-intern in digital humanities at King’s College London, she studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice. Her works are strongly influenced by stained glass imagery. Find them at comebab.it.
Pandalion Death is an illustrator and pattern-maker rumoured to be as mysterious as the dark side of the moon. Fortunately, you can get to know her better at @pandaliondeath and pandaliondeath.tumblr.com.
David Jón Fuller is a Winnipeg writer and editor, but has also lived in Edmonton, AB, and Reykjavík, Iceland. His work has been published in Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction From the Margins of History; Tesseracts 17; Kneeling in the Silver Light: Stories From the Great War; and Tesseracts 18: Wrestling With Gods.
Louise Hughes is an ancient history graduate and time traveller. When she isn’t exploring the past with a cup of tea and a knitting project, she writes speculative fiction to travel that little bit further. Her stories have appeared in Strange Horizons and Daily Science Fiction.
Rachael K. Jones grew up across Europe and North America, learned six languages, mostly forgot them, and now writes from her secret hideout in Athens, Georgia. Her work has appeared in many venues, including Crossed Genres, Strange Horizons, and PodCastle. She is a SFWA member, editor, and a secret android.
Robin E. Kaplan splits her time between picture books, comics, and genre illustration, and sells her work online and at comic cons as The Gorgonist. She is dedicated to showing diversity in sci-fi & fantasy. Her weekly fantasy web comic, Ushala at World's End, can be found at ushalacomic.com.
Rachel Keslensky writes, draws, and transforms coffee into the cyberpunk graphic novel series Last Res0rt, featuring a feline alien vampire and her adventures on a deadly, galaxy-spanning reality TV program, available to read online at lastres0rt.com. Her artwork has also been featured at multiple hacker conferences.
Margaret Killjoy is a nomadic author and editor who is, as of this writing, based in the Pacific Northwest. Margaret’s most recent book is A Country of Ghosts, an anarchist utopian novel published by Combustion Books in 2014. Margaret blogs at birdsbeforethestorm.net.
Vincent Konrad is a cartoonist, illustrator, and writer from Aotearoa. He is also a punk, a dandy, and a bore. His work can be found online by looking for it.
Petra Kuppers teaches at the University of Michigan and in Goddard College's low-residency MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts. Beyond her academic credits and a book of poetry (Cripple Poetics: A Love Story, Homofactus Press, 2008), she has published short stories in British and US journals like Visionary Tongue, Festival Writer, Wordgathering, Quietus, Cambrensis and beyond.
Jack Hollis Marr (also published as Jack H. Marr) writes speculative fiction and poetry for adults and teens. His work often tackles issues of gender, sexuality and disability, interlaced with mythic and folkloric themes and rural life past and present.
Toby MacNutt is a dis/abled, nonbinary queer/trans dancer, choreographer, textile artist, and now author. In hir day job, ze works on arts integration and universal access in secondary and post-secondary teaching environments. This is hir first professional publication. Find hir online at TobyMacNutt.com.
Derek Newman-Stille is a PhD student researching the representation of disability in Canadian speculative fiction. He is the creator of the Aurora Award-winning website Speculating Canada and runs a show on Trent Radio. Derek has been a juror for the Sunburst Awards, runs the Peterborough branch of the cross-Canada author reading series ChiSeries, and has published on Canadian SF in fora such as Quill and Quire, Mosaic and The Canadian Fantastic in Focus.
Kate O’Connor was born in Virginia in 1982. She now lives and works in the New York area. In between telling stories, she flies airplanes, digs up artifacts, and manages a kennel full of Airedales. Kate has been writing science fiction and fantasy since 2011.
Sara Patterson was born legally blind but has never let bad eyesight stop her imagination. Aside from writing, Sara spends her free time listening to audiobooks, playing The Sims, and hanging out with her two mischievous ferrets.
Sarah Pinsker is the author of the novelette “In Joy, Knowing the Abyss Behind,” winner of the 2014 Sturgeon Award and 2013 Nebula finalist. Her fiction has appeared in Asimov’s, Strange Horizons, Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Lightspeed, and in several anthologies. Find her online at sarahpinsker.com and twitter.com/sarahpinsker.
Samantha Rich is a fan of speculative fiction, chocolate-based foods, textual analysis, and history. She lives in the mid-Atlantic with a (bossy) cat and a (nervous) dog.
Anna Felicia Sanchez is a fiction writer, assistant professor at the University of the Philippines, and parent to a special child with whom she shares an obsession with animals. Sanchez's speculative fiction has appeared in the local anthologies Nine Supernatural Stories, Pinoy Amazing Adventures, and Tales of Enchantment and Fantasy.
Tostoini says: “I studied to be an anthropologist though I always wanted to be an illustrator. Born in Sardinia, living in Milan, missing the sea all the time. My proper name is Roberta Ragona but it's easier to find me as Tostoini. I draw for magazines, ebooks, advertising, websites, exhibitions and also for fun.”
JoSelle Vanderhooft is a freelance writer and editor. When not editing, she's putting together anthologies, one of which—Steam-Powered: Lesbian Steampunk Stories—was a finalist for the 2012 Lambda Literary Award. Her first novel, Ebenezer, was also a finalist for the 2014 Rainbow Reader Award. She lives in Florida.