J. T. Glover has published fiction, non-fiction, and poetry in Dark Recesses and Underground Voices, among other venues. Born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, he currently resides in Richmond, Virginia with his wife and a not inconsiderable number of aquatic friends. By day he is an academic reference librarian specializing in the Humanities.

Wendy N. Wagner’s short fiction has appeared in The Way of the Wizard, Rigor Amortis, and Crossed Genres magazine; her interviews and poetry have run in Lightspeed, Fantasy Magazine, Horror-web.com, and Abyss and Apex. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her very understanding family.

Paul Goat Allen has been reviewing science fiction, fantasy and genre fiction in general for almost two decades and has written more than 6,000 reviews for companies like The Chicago Tribune, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, BookPage, and Barnes & Noble. He is also a moderator for BarnesandNoble.com’s Paranormal/Urban Fantasy and Fantasy/Science Fiction online book forums [...]

Heather Shaw is a writer, editor, gardener and aikidoka living in Berkeley, California with her husband and son. She’s had her work appear in Strange Horizons, Polyphony, The Year’s Best Fantasy, Escape Pod and other nice places. She just finished her first middle-grade novel, Keaton T., Junior Gene Hacker, and is looking for representation. For [...]

Orson Scott Card is the best-selling author of more than forty novels, including Ender’s Game, which was a winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. The sequel, Speaker for the Dead, also won both awards, making Card the only author to have captured science fiction’s two most coveted prizes in consecutive years. His most [...]

Hannah Strom-Martin’s fiction has appeared in Realms of Fantasy, OnSpec, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, and the anthology Amazons: Sexy Tales of Strong Women.  Her non-fiction has made frequent appearances in Strange Horizons, The North Bay Bohemian, and The Sacramento News and Review.  She is a graduate of Bennington College (BA), The University of Southern Maine’s [...]

Stephen A. Watkins lives, works, plays and writes in Atlanta, Georgia, where he recently completed his Master’s degree. He’s been an avid reader and writer of fantasy literature since he could count his age in the single digits, and he still can’t get enough. Day-to-day he precariously balances the demands of his day job, loving [...]

M. Rickert’s stories have been appearing regularly in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction for several years, starting in 1999 with her first publication, “The Girl Who Ate Butterflies.” Her work has also appeared in SCI FICTION and the anthologies Wastelands, Poe, and Feeling Very Strange. A new collection of her short fiction, Holiday, came out in 2010. [...]

Alex Irvine’s most recent novels are Buyout, The Seal of Karga Kul, and Transformers: Exodus. He also writes comics (Iron Man: Rapture, Daredevil Noir, Dark Sun: Ianto’s Tomb). Currently, in addition to three different novels, he is working on a Sekrit Project just like everyone else, only his is cooler. He lives in Maine and [...]