Mike Allen lives in Roanoke, Va. with his wife Anita, a demonic cat and a comical dog. Things are looking large for him this year, with a poem upcoming in Nebula Awards Showcase 2008; a short story due out in Weird Tales; a dark fantasy novelette called "Follow the Wounded One" tapped to appear as a limited edition chapbook; and plans by Norilana Books to release both a new poetry collection, The Journey to Kailash, and the anthology he's in the midst of editing, Clockwork Phoenix: Tales of Beauty and Strangeness. By day, he's a newspaper reporter; he has twice interviewed the inventor of The World's Only Ass-Kicking Machine, and written an in-depth profile of the late great SFWA Author Emeritus Nelson Bond. Photo by Theodore Allen. |
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Charlie Anders blogs about science fiction and futurism for Gawker Media. She wrote the Lambda-winning novel Choir Boy and co-edited the anthology She's Such A Geek. Her writing has appeared in Mother Jones, Salon.com, SF Chronicle, Strange Horizons, Paraspheres, McSweeney's.net, and the forthcoming Sex For America anthology from Harper Collins. She hosts the Writers With Drinks reading series in San Francisco. Photo by Kirk Brooks. |
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F.J. Bergmann lives in Wisconsin for the 4th or 5th time, and claims to have an MFA from the School of the Americas. She works as a used-book seller, riding instructor, book designer, editor and poetry submitter. Previous jobs included rural postal carrier and illustrator for a manual of interesting diseases. At heart a blocked visual artist, she is to blame for madpoetry.org and her own site, fibitz.com, where more of her dubious achievements may be perused. One of her pseudopodia can reach all the way from the bedroom to the refrigerator. Photo by F. J. Bergmann. |
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Anthony G. Bernstein is a freelance writer from Providence, Rhode Island who is an active member of the SFPA. He has contributed his poems, tales, and reviews to many fine publications, including Abyss & Apex, Poesy, Star Line, Hungur Magazine, Tales of the Talisman, Cthulhu Sex Magazine and several others. You can visit him at My Space: http://www.myspace.com/tonybernstein, as well as at his website: www.anthonybernstein.net. Bernstein shares his home with several housecats. Photo by A. G. Bernstein. |
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Maya's fascination with speculative fiction dates from the night her dad let her stay up to watch The Day the Earth Stood Still. Her short fiction has been published in, among other places, Analog, Amazing Stories, Interzone, Paradox, and Jim Baen's Universe, and have been finalists for the Nebula, Sidewise and British Science Fiction awards. Maya is the author of six fantasy novels, most recently Mr. Twilight from Del Rey, a collaboration with Michael Reaves. She is also a musician/singer/songwriter and, with husband Jeff, has produced a trio of original and parody CDs and a trio of children. Their website is http://www.mysticfig.com. Photo by Mike Maginot. |
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Adam-Troy Castro's short fiction has been nominated once for the Stoker, two times for the Hugo, and five times for the Nebula. His most recent book is My Ox is Broken!, a companion to the tv series The Amazing Race, which will be out from BenBella Books this fall. Others still available from the usual online booksellers include his short story collections An Alien Darkness, Tangled Strings, and Vossof and Nimmitz. Irregular updates, including a large collection of Adam's artwork, is available on www.sff.net/people/adam-troy. Adam lives in Miami with his long-suffering wife Judi and a rotating assortment of insane cats that currently includes Meow Farrow and Uma Furman. Photo by Arlene Ambrose. |
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David W. Goldman finished paying off his loans from a well-known Boston trade school by moving to the Pacific Northwest, abandoning his trade, and becoming a software company. Eventually he wised up and found himself a day job. Now living in Portland, Oregon with his multi-talented wife and the obligate pair of feline distractions, he finally has time to pursue his childhood dream of writing the Great American SF Novelette. His attempts have so far appeared in Writers of the Future XXI, Analog, and Prime Codex. Photo by Merilee D. Karr. |
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Selina Rosen’s short fiction has appeared in several magazines and anthologies. Some of her eleven published novels are Queen of Denial, Chains of Freedom, Strange Robby, Fire & Ice, Hammer Town, and Reruns. She created the Bubbas of the Apocalypse universe for Yard Dog Press. Photo by Lynn Stranathan. |
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By day, Vaughan Stanger works as a research project manager for a major engineering company. This is less interesting than it sounds, which may explain why, ten years ago, he started setting himself homework. The resulting short stories have been published in Postscripts, Interzone, Hub, 3SF, Oceans of the Mind and Neo-opsis, amongst others. One day, real soon, he intends to write a novel; "real soon" meaning sometime before 2017. He maintains a blog at http://vaughan-stanger.livejournal.com. Photo by Ken Tackitt. |
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Laura J. Underwood was not raised by wolves in spite of all the rumors. Her fiction has appeared in too many sources to list here, but most recently, her novel The Lunari Mask appeared from Yard Dog Press, and a collection of short fiction titled Song of Silver has just been released by Dark Regions Press. She coauthored Bad Lands with Selina Rosen (yes, they are working on a sequel) and has a novella coming out from Sams Dot Publishing titled The Green Women. You can find out all the gory details about her on her webpage at http://www.sff.net/people/keltora. Photo by Laura J. Underwood. |
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Gene van Troyer is a past editor of Portland Review and Star*Line. His poetry and fiction has appeared in Amazing Stories, Asimov’s SF Magazine, The Umbral Anthology of Science Fiction Poetry, The Rhysling Anthology, Snow Monkey, Strange Horizons, and other books and journals. He also edited with Grania Davis a collection of Japanese science fiction and fantasy stories in translation, Speculative Japan: Outstanding Tales of Japanese SF/F from Kurodahan Press, and Collaborations: A Collection of Collaborative Poetry from Ravenna Press. He is a native Oregonian transplanted to semi-tropical Okinawa, Japan. Photo by Gene van Troyer. |
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Jane Yolen is the author of almost 300 books, ranging from rhymed picture books up to novels and story collections for young adults and adults. Her books and stories have won an assortment of awards, including two Nebulas, a World Fantasy Award, a Caldecott, the Golden Kite, three Mythopoeic awards, two Christopher Medals, a nomination for the National Book Award, and the Jewish Book Award. Six colleges and universities have given her honorary doctorates. If you need to know more about her, visit her website at www.janeyolen.com Photo by Jason Stemple. |
