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Mike Allen lives in Roanoke, Va. with his wife Anita, a demonic cat and two comical dogs. His recent books include a retrospective of 10 years of his poetry and fiction, Strange Wisdoms of the Dead, and a cycle of dark fantasy poems titled Disturbing Muses. His short stories have turned up recently in Interzone and Cabinet des Fées, his poetry in Asimov's Science Fiction, Strange Horizons and Nebula Awards Showcase 2005. He also edits and publishes the poetry journal Mythic Delirium and the fantasy fiction anthology series Mythic. Mike won the Rhysling Award this year for his short poem, "The Strip Search." By day, he's a newspaper reporter; his favorite assignment to date remains his interview with the inventor of The World's Only Ass-Kicking Machine. Photo by Theodore Allen. |
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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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Terry Bisson is the pen name of one of North America's most highly disregarded authors. In addition to science fiction, he has written SF, speculative fiction, and sci-fi. This is his first appearance in a magazine named after an industrial cleaning product. Photo by Welcome Bisson. |
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Jay Lake lives in Portland, Oregon with his books and two inept cats, where he works on numerous writing and editing projects, including the World Fantasy Award-nominated Polyphony anthology series from Wheatland Press. His current project is Trial of Flowers from Night Shade Books, followed by Mainspring, coming summer, 2007 from Tor. Jay is the winner of the 2004 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and a multiple nominee for the Hugo and World Fantasy Awards. Photo by Briant Nierstedt. |
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Vera Nazarian immigrated to the USA from the former USSR as a kid, sold her first story at the age of 17, and since then has published numerous works in anthologies and magazines, has seen her work on Preliminary Nebula Awards® Ballots, honorably mentioned in Year's Best volumes, and translated into eight languages. She made her novelist debut with the critically acclaimed Dreams of the Compass Rose, followed by epic fantasy about a world without color, Lords of Rainbow. Her novella The Clock King and the Queen of the Hourglass with an introduction by Charles de Lint from PS Publishing made the Locus Recommended Reading List for 2005. Her latest work includes The Duke in His Castle, a lush dark fairy tale novella in the vein of the early conte des fées, from Papaveria Press, and first collection Salt of the Air, with an introduction by Gene Wolfe, from Prime Books. Photo by Zinaida Nazarian. |
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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 and Wyrd Enterprises, and was recently cast in a small role in a local independent film. Photo by Andy Benson. |
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Peg Robinson is 48, in mid-divorce, has a 13 year old daughter, two cats (one surly and one non-surly), attends the University of California at Santa Barbara, is exploring the possibility of priesthood in the Episcopal Church, and speaks a limited amount of Mandarin. She was breech-born, and seems to have been fated to live her life bass-ackwards. She is delighted that "Tonino and the Incubus" has finally found a home, as she has loved the story (and Tonino) for a very long time. Photo by Nora Robinson. |
