Mike Allen works as a newspaper reporter in Roanoke, Va., and writes many poems in his spare time. His previous collaborations with Charles Saplak include the Rhysling Award-winning poem "Epochs in Exile: A Fantasy Trilogy," and the story "Strange Wisdoms of the Dead," which appeared in H.P. Lovecraft's Magazine of Horror. Charles Saplak lives in Roanoke, Virginia and works as a utility lineman. He is a Navy veteran and dabbles in woodworking (especially woodturning) as well as writing. Photo by Karen Saplak. |
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Greg Beatty is recently married. He and his wife live in Bellingham, Washington. Greg has a BA from University of Washington and a PhD from the University of Iowa, both in English, and attended Clarion West 2000. Greg's work has appeared in 3SF, Absolute Magnitude, Abyss & Apex, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Asimov's, Fortean Bureau, HP Lovecraft's Magazine of Horror, The Internet Review of Science Fiction, Ideomancer, Oceans of the Mind, Paradox, SCI FICTION, Shadowed Realms, Strange Horizons, Star*Line, and The New York Review of Science Fiction, among other venues. Greg won the Rhysling Award in 2005 for his short poem, "No Ruined Lunar City." Photo by Kathy Beatty. |
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Serena Fusek is a member of the SFWA. She has appeared in Starline and Mythic Delirium. She's been part of the small press magazine movement for over 20 years. She lives with her husband, John, who is another SF fan, and varying numbers of cats (currently three). Photo by John Fusek. |
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Sara Genge studies Medicine in Madrid, Spain. She writes speculative fiction aided and abetted by a coven of friends and female relatives. "Pretty Little Thing" was written in Paris, where she lived for a year as a foreign exchange student and where she got her intimate knowledge of the Parisian Metro system. Her work has appeared in Strange Horizons. You can contact her through artemisin.blogspot.com. Photo by Leyre Goikolea. |
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Samantha Henderson lives in Southern California with her family, which includes various corgis and rabbits. Her fiction and poetry has been published in Strange Horizons, Weird Tales, Chizine and Lone Star Stories and is upcoming in Realms of Fantasy and Fantasy. By day, and occasionally by night, she works as a church secretary. Photo by Don Meadows. |
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As a child, Mary Horton used to amuse herself by memorizing poetry. Mercifully, she has forgotten most of it, although she can still recite large chunks of "The Walrus and the Carpenter" on demand. This is her first publication. Photo by Hee-Ja Freeman. |
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James Killus has been appearing in various science fiction and fantasy magazines for over twenty years, with appearances in Asimov's, Omni, Artemis, Amazing, Realms of Fantasy, Twilight Zone Magazine, and the anthology, Full Spectrum. He has also published two novels, Book of Shadows and Sunsmoke. The latter is a computer voodoo killer photochemical smog science fantasy, reflecting his professional career as an atmospheric scientist and photochemist. It is a cult favorite among smog scientists, so it was naturally out of print for many years. It is now available in electronic form from Hidden-Knowledge.com. James now works as a technical writer and resides in Pinole, CA with his wife Amy. Photo by B. Sano. |
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Drew Morse received his Ph.D. from the University of Oregon in 2003; his dissertation examined the role of science in speculative verse throughout the latter-half of the 20th century. His poetry, essays, and reviews have appeared in a variety of genre and non-genre publications. Currently, he lives in Lakewood, Ohio, with his wife, Marcy Hunt-Morse; they are expecting their first child any day now. When not reading, writing, and communing with Nature, Drew directs the Writing Center at John Carroll University. Photo by Marcy Hunt-Morse. |
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Jennifer Pelland lives just outside Boston with an Andy and three cats. Her stories have appeared in places such as Strange Horizons, Apex Digest, Electric Velocipede, and Abyss & Apex, among others. Because life doesn't offer enough chances to make funny voices, she does radio theater with The Post-Meridian Radio Players, Silicon Theatre and Wyrd Enterprises. Photo by Andy Benson. |
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Due to a lack of job possibilities as well a thick-headed persistence, Robert Reed has written and sold more than a gross of SF stories. He has been nominated for several Hugos, one Nebula and one World Fantasy Award. HIs most recent book is a novella from PS Publishing, The Flavors of My Genius. He lives and works in Lincoln, Nebraska, with his wife, Leslie, and their opinionated five year-old, Jessie. Photo by Leslie Reed. |
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Pras Stillman shares a Northern California hillside with a couple of dogs and cats, a peahen, a herd of wild turkeys, and a semi-house-trained archaeologist. Her fiction has been published in The Third Alternative, Aeon Speculative Fiction, Aberrations, Thirteenth Moon, and Pulphouse. In addition to writing, and working in medicine, she assembles sculptures out of junk, including a drivable Rat car and the Kuru-Mobile. She is currently working on a novel about the U.S.’s great political divide. Photo by Kendall Schinke. |
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Mikal Trimm has sold a plethora of stories and poems to various markets in the US, Canada, Great Britain, and Australia. He has recent or upcoming work in Polyphony 6, Postscripts, Weird Tales, Black Gate, Electric Velocipede, and Interfictions, to name a few. Photo by Christa Trimm. |
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