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Bruce Boston holds the distinctions of having appeared in more issues of Asimov's than any other author, of coining the word "cybertext," and of receiving the first Grand Master Award of the Science Fiction Poetry Association. He is the author of forty books and chapbooks, most recently the poetry collection Shades Fantastic. For more information, please visit his website. Photo by Kim Mazzilli. |
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Eugie Foster calls home a mildly-haunted, fey-infested house in Metro Atlanta that she shares with her husband, Matthew, and her pet skunk, Hobkin. Her fiction has been translated into Greek, Hungarian, Polish, and French, and her publication credits include stories in Realms of Fantasy, The Third Alternative, Paradox, Cricket, Fantasy Magazine, Cicada, and anthologies Best New Fantasy: 2005, edited by Sean Wallace; and Heroes in Training, edited by Jim C. Hines and Martin H. Greenberg (DAW Books, forthcoming). She also pens a monthly column, Writing for Young Readers, for Writing-World.com. Visit her online at www.eugiefoster.com. Photo by E. Foster. |
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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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When not traveling the world in search of (inexpensive) adventure, N. K. Jemisin lives an ascetic existence in a quaint little New England town called Boston. Her work has appeared in Ideomancer, Strange Horizons, and Fishnet among others; she has received an Honorable Mention in the 18th Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, and is on the Recommended Shortlist for the 2006 Carl Brandon Society awards. She is currently finishing up the second novel of a trilogy set in the world of "The Narcomancer". Photo by K. Somers. |
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Every house Michael H. Payne has ever lived in, every job he's ever held, every school he's ever attended, they've all been located within 7 miles of the hospital where he was born: you might say he's the stationary type. In addition to his regular writing, he also puts together two webcomics: Terebinth, five times a fortnight and Daily Grind every weekday. He doesn't own a camera, but, well, if you lay your face down on your flatbed scanner, see... Photo by M.H. Payne. |
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Lawrence Schimel (New York, 1971) is a full-time author and anthologist, who's published over 80 books, including The Future is Queer (with Richard Labonté; Arsenal Pulp Press), and the forthcoming poetry collection Fairy Tales For Writers (A Midsummer Night's Press, March 2007), among others. His PoMosexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality (with Carol Queen; Cleis Press) won a Lambda Literary Award, and his poem "How to Make a Human" won a Rhysling Award for Best SF Long Poem. He lives in Madrid, Spain. Photo by Lawrence Schimel. |
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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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JoSelle Vanderhooft is the author of over forty published stories, poems and essays which have appeared in such publications as MYTHIC, Mythic Delirium, Star*Line and several others. She is the author of two novels, The Tale of the Miller's Daughter and the forthcoming Owl Skin (both from Papaveria Press) and the editor of Sleeping Beauty, Indeed and the forthcoming Tiresias Revisited: Magical Tales for Transfolk, two collections of queer-themed speculative fiction. By day she sells ads, writes newspaper articles and lives in Salt Lake City among the mountains and the Mormons. Photo by JoSelle Vanderhooft. |
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Author of the Screen Story for Spielberg's A.I. Artificial Intelligence, based on nine months spent eyeball to eyeball with Stanley Kubrick, Ian Watson (www.ianwatson.info) is no stranger to collaborations. Back in 1980 he and Michael Bishop wrote the first ever transatlantic SF novel collaboration, Under Heaven's Bridge, quaintly using typewriters and the postal service. Ian's 10th story collection, The Butterflies of Memory, appeared in July 2006 from PS Publishing, and his previous collection, The Great Escape (from Golden Gryphon) was a Washington Post "Book of the Year." He lives with a black cat in a cottage in a tiny village in the south-east Midlands of rural England. His most recent novel is Mockymen (Golden Gryphon, 2003). He and his Spanish translator and Hungarian publisher maintain a web-site (www.ajeno.intelmedia.co.uk) to honour the almost unknown Colombian poet Miguel Ajeno. Like Christopher Columbus, Roberto Quaglia (www.robertoquaglia.com) hails from Genoa, where he was a barman and city councillor before becoming an explorer, in his case of Eastern Europe and of Surrealism. Now he has a home in Bucharest. Robert Sheckley several times lived with Roberto in Italy and Romania, and in Roberto's big old white Mercedes, and prefaced his surreal satirical SF double-novel Bread, Butter and Paradoxine (published by Delos international). Roberto and Ian first began collaborating on a series of "My Beloved" stories in a mysteriously empty hotel on a forested hillside near the Hungary/Slovakia border in 2003. A former prize-winning photographer, Roberto continues to take thousands of photos. His uncle lives in Munich, so he has to talk to him in German; but learning Romanian destroyed Roberto's French, so it's a good thing he has no uncle in Paris. Photo by Roberto Quaglia. |
