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Elizabeth Barrette writes poetry, fiction, and nonfiction in the fields of speculative fiction, gender studies, and alternative spirituality. She serves as Managing Editor of PanGaia magazine (www.pangaia.com), Dean of Studies for the Grey School of Wizardry (www.greyschool.com), and a judge for the Pagan Fiction Award contest (http://www.pangaia.com/Fiction.htm). Her poem "Beach Climbing" was just nominated for the Rhysling Award, and her book Composing Magic: How to Write Rituals, Spells, and Magical Poetry is due out in July 2007. She enjoys suspension-of-disbelief bungee-jumping and spelunking in other people's reality tunnels. Visit her website at: http://www.worthlink.net/~ysabet/sitemap.html. Photo by Doug Edwards. |
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Brenda W. Clough has been writing all her life. She has had seven novels published, including The Crystal Crown and How Like a God, plus many short stories and nonfiction articles. Her novella, "May Be Some Time," was a finalist for both the Hugo and the Nebula Awards. She teaches the occasional workshop at the Writer's Center in Bethesda, MD, and is a fixture at science fiction conventions on the East Coast. She lives in a cottage at the edge of a forest with four trained attack cats. Photo by Lance Loszko. |
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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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Esther M. Friesner has won the Nebula Award twice and lost it more times than that, which is darned careless of her. She has published over 30 novels and 150 short stories. She is extremely married. Photo by Glamour Shots. |
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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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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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Author's identity removed by request. |
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Marge Ballif Simon freelances as a writer-poet-illustrator for genre and mainstream publications such as From the Asylum, The Pedestal Magazine, Strange Horizons, and others. She has three collections coming out in 2007, and her self-illustrated poetry collection, Artist of Antithesis, was nominated for a Bram Stoker award in 2004. Marge is former president of the Science Fiction Poetry Association and now serves as editor of Star*Line. Photo by Michael Ambrose. |
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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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Barbara Walsh says of herself: "I started writing years ago using my interests in science, especially astronomy. Now that I'm a grandmother, I try to encourage them with that joy of writing and love of science. Getting published is a thrill." COMET H is her first appearance. Photo by John Walsh. |
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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. |
