T.S. Bazelli writes software manuals by day and novels by night. When not at a computer, you can find her making a mess in the kitchen, building things, or travelling the world in search of stories. She currently lives in Vancouver. She blogs about writing and folklore at www.tsbazelli.com.
GMB Chomichuk is a writer, teacher, mixed media artist, graphic novelist and proud Winnipegger. He won the Manitoba Young Writers Award when he was 15. He won the Manitoba Book Award for Best Illustrated Book in 2011 for his graphic novel serial The Imagination Manifesto. He has been nominated for the Michael Van Rooy Award for Genre Fiction and nominated for Canada’s Best Graphic Novel by the Canadian Science Fiction & Fantasy Association. He is the founder of Alchemical Press and is always on the lookout for literary oddities. He puts words and pictures together. Some people call that alchemy. He calls that comics. twitter.com/gmbchomichuk and his works-in-progress are at www.comicalchemy.blogspot.com.
A.M. Dellamonica has recently moved to Toronto after 22 years in Vancouver. She is a graduate of Clarion West and teaches writing through the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program. Dellamonica’s first novel, Indigo Springs (Tor, 2009), won the Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic. Her most recent book is Child of a Hidden Sea (Tor, 2014). She is the author of over 30 short stories in a variety of genres: they can be found on Tor.com, Strange Horizons, Lightspeed and in numerous print magazines and anthologies. She is online at www.alyxdellamonica.com, facebook.com/AlyxDellamonica, instagram.com/alyxdellamonica, twitter.com/alyxdellamonica and www.pinterest.com/alyxdellamonica.
dvsduncan was born in Vancouver, and now lives in New Westminster, B.C. with his wife and a generously proportioned cat. He holds degrees in English and Landscape Architecture but it is life that has taught him the most. His stories are all true, though not factual. Make of that what you will. www.dvsduncan.com
Geoff Gander is part of the authors’ group East Block Irregulars, and prior to taking up writing was heavily involved in the roleplaying community. His stories have appeared in Heroes of Mars (Meta-human Press, 2012), AE SciFi (2012) and Imaginarium (ChiZine Publications, 2013), he has twice contributed to the “retro-gaming” Advanced Adventures Line, and his first novel was The Tunnelers (Solstice Publishing, 2011). He primarily writes horror, but is willing to give anything a whirl. When he isn’t writing or toiling away in a cube farm, Geoff likes to read, watch British comedies, roleplay, and entertain his two boys. This story first appeared in AE – The Canadian Science Fiction Review (2013).
Orrin Grey is a writer, editor, amateur film scholar, and monster expert who was born on the night before Halloween. He’s the author of Never Bet the Devil & Other Warnings (Evileye Books, 2012) and co-editor of Fungi (Innsmouth Free Press, 2012), an anthology of weird fungal fiction. When not hiding out in his red room, he’s found at twitter.com/orringrey and www.orringrey.com.
David Huebert of Halifax is a PhD student at Western University. His poetry and fiction have appeared in journals such as Grain, Event, Matrix, Vallum, Dalhousie Review, and Antigonish Review. A first book of poetry, We Are No Longer the Smart Kids in Class, will be published by Guernica Editions in the spring of 2015. “@shalestate” is an excerpt from a novel-in-progress. twitter.com/davidbhuebert
John Jantunen moved to Guysborough County, NS, in 1999 – to wait out the apocalypse. When it didn’t happen he relocated to Guelph, Ontario, where he now lives with his wife and two children. He has written two dozen screenplays, 20 or so children’s books and as many short stories. He is currently writing his fourth novel, a sci-fi/horror/romance called A Many Splendour’d Thing. His first, fallingoverstandingstill, is available through Vocamus Press (www.vocamus.net) and his second, Cipher, is forthcoming from ECW Press on October 1st, 2014.
H.N. Janzen has lived all over, from Beausejour, Manitoba, to Revelstoke, B.C., and is currently attending the University of British Columbia, Okanagan. A compulsive writer, Hilary has written some of her best pieces when she was supposed to be doing something more important. She works in a used bookstore and co-manages a live action roleplay based in Kelowna.
Arun Jiwa lives in Edmonton, Alberta, where he practices at making things up and writing them down. Arun is a graduate of the 2012 Viable Paradise SFF Workshop. He is currently working on his first novel. www.arunjiwa.com
Claude Lalumière is the author of the collections Objects of Worship (ChiZine Publications, 2009) and Nocturnes and Other Nocturnes (Infinity Plus, 2013) and of the mosaic novella The Door to Lost Pages (ChiZine Publications, 2011). He’s the co-creator of the multimedia cryptomythology project Lost Myths (lostmyths.net), and he has edited 12 anthologies, the most recent of which is Super Stories of Heroes & Villains (Tachyon Publications 2013); he’s currently working on his 13th, with David Nickle, The Exile Book of New Canadian Noir (Exile Editions, forthcoming in 2015). www.claudepages.info.
Jamie Mason, author of ECHO (Drollerie Press, 2011), is a Canadian sci-fi/fantasy writer whose short stories have appeared in On Spec, Abyss & Apex, AE: The Canadian Science Fiction Review and Exile Editions’ 2013 release Dead North: Canadian Zombie Fiction. www.jamiescribbles.com
Michael Matheson is a gender fluid Toronto writer, editor, anthologist, and book reviewer, as well as a managing editor (CZP eBooks) with ChiZine Publications, and a submissions editor with Apex magazine. As an anthologist, he is putting together three books for 2015: Start a Revolution (Exile Editions), This Patchwork Flesh (Exile Editions), and The Humanity of Monsters (ChiZine Publications). Michael’s own work is published or forthcoming in Ideomancer, and the anthologies Chilling Tales 2 (EDGE, 2013), Dead North: Canadian Zombie Fiction (Exile Editions, 2013), Future Lovecraft (Innsmouth Free Press, 2011), and Masked Mosaic (Tyche, 2013). www.michaelmatheson.wordpress.com, and twitter.com/fomcontest.
Silvia Moreno-Garcia of Vancouver is a short story writer and editor and the operator of the micropress Innsmouth Free Press. Her short stories have appeared in Imaginarium 2012: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing, The Book of Cthulhu, ELQ/Exile: The Literary Quarterly, and Shine: An Anthology of Optimistic Science Fiction. She is the author of This Strange Way of Dying (Exile Editions, 2013; shortlisted for a 2014 Sunburst Award) and the editor of Dead North: Canadian Zombie Fiction (Exile Editions, 2013) and Future Lovecraft (Innsmouth Free Press, 2011).
Christine Ottoni is an emerging writer and poet living in Toronto. Her work has appeared in Canadian journals, magazines and anthologies. She completed her undergraduate education at the University of Toronto, where she studied English Literature and Philosophy. She is currently working on her first collection of short stories at the Humber School for Writers. A lover of cheese, hummus and beer, Christine spends her free time snacking in Toronto’s West End. Twitter.com/chrissiottoni.
Miriam Oudin is a teacher and avowed Hansard addict who has published academic articles about ancient economics and short stories that always end up being dystopian for some reason. Her study of marriage in computer games, “Leopards at the Wedding,” will appear in the Mad Norwegian Press anthology Chicks Dig Gaming in the fall of 2014. Miriam spends most of her time discovering creative ways to die in roguelikes and writing double dactyls about TV shows.
Michael S. Pack fled the Deep Southern U.S. after an encounter with a particularly fierce mosquito swarm. He now resides in northern B.C. with his wife and a small herd of cats. Michael writes science fiction, fantasy, and other weird stories. He is currently working on an epic fantasy novel. His stories have appeared in various anthologies including Metastasis (WolfSinger Publications, 2012) and Shapeshifters (Fox Spirit Books, 2012). www.rivenlucidity.wordpress.com
Morgan M. Page is a writer, performance + video artist, activist, and Santera in Toronto. She is the winner of two 2013 SF MOTHA awards (New/Upcoming Artist of the Year and Group Exhibition of the Year), and her video work has screened across the world. Her first novel is due out from Topside Press in late 2014. www.Odofemi.com and twitter.com/morganmpage.
Steve Stanton works as an author and book reviewer. His science fiction stories have been published in 16 countries in a dozen languages, and his psipunk trilogy, The Bloodlight Chronicles, (ECW Press, Reconciliation 2010, Retribution 2011, Redemption 2012), will be followed by a new sci-fi novel, Freenet (ECW Press, 2015). www.stevestanton.ca
Amanda M. Taylor is a speculative fiction writer and research scientist born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She was an apprentice in the 2014 Sheldon Oberman Mentorship Program with the Manitoba Writer’s Guild, and is currently pursuing a doctorate in soil science. This is her debut publication, and she is working on her first novel.
E. Catherine Tobler is a Sturgeon Award finalist and the senior editor at Shimmer Magazine. Among others, her fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Her first novel, Rings of Anubis, was published in 2014. www.ecatherine.com and twitter.com/ECthetwit
Jean-Louis Trudel was born in Toronto. He holds degrees in physics, astronomy, and the history and philosophy of science. Since 1994, he has authored (alone or in collaboration with Yves Meynard as Laurent McAllister) a trio of novels published in France, four fiction collections, and 26 young adult books published in Canada. His short stories in French have appeared in magazines like imagine… and Solaris, and in various other venues. In English, his short fiction has been published in several Canadian and U.S. anthologies, but also in magazines like ON SPEC. When time allows, he also translates and reviews science fiction. This story, in its original French version, was published as “Le dôme de saint Macaire” in Solaris (2008). www.culturedesfuturs.blogspot.ca
Frank Westcott lives in Alliston, Ontario. He has published prose, poetry, short stories and book-length non-fiction for both children and adults. In 2011, his short story “The Poet” was a co-winner of Exile’s inaugural Carter V. Cooper Short Fiction Competition; the story appeared in the CVC Short Fiction Anthology, Book One (Exile Editions, 2011). Frank is also a singer, writes lyrics and composes music. In 1984, McMaster University selected him for their Alumni Gallery in recognition of his music and writing. www.frankwestcottpoet.com
A.C. Wise was born and raised in the land of poutine, and while she currently lives in the land of cheesesteaks, her passport is still firmly Canadian. Her work has appeared in publications such as Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, Shimmer, and anthologies including Future Lovecraft (Innsmouth Free Press, 2011), Fungi (Innsmouth Free Press, 2012), and Imaginarium 2012: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing (ChiZine Publications,) , among others. In addition to her writing, she co-edits Unlikely Story. www.acwise.net and twitter.com/ac_wise