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Danny Adams is the co-author, with Philip Jose Farmer, of the short novel The City Beyond Play, forthcoming from PS Publishing. Some of his shorter work has appeared or is forthcoming in Abyss & Apex, Appalachian Heritage, Fictitious Force, Ideomancer, Mythic Delirium, Not One Of Us, Paradox, Star*Line, Strange Horizons, and Weird Tales. He and his wife Laurie live deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains with however many animals come to them for rescuing at any given time. Photo by Laurie Adams. |
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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. Mike is a three-time winner of the Rhysling Award for speculative poetry. He's also editor of the poetry journal Mythic Delirium and the upcoming fiction anthology Clockwork Phoenix. 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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Jayme Lynn Blaschke's fiction has appeared in Interzone and assorted anthologies. He’s the former fiction editor of RevolutionSF.com, and is currently the media director for Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America. A collected volume of his SF-themed interviews, Voices of Vision: Creators of Science Fiction and Fantasy Speak, is available from the University of Nebraska Press. Blaschke lives in Texas and maintains a blog at http://jlbgibberish.blogspot.com. Photo by TBA. |
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Sarah K. Castle recently started writing after years of working as a geologist and environmental scientist in oil fields, landfills and, most recently, Native American reservations. Her novelette "Kukulkan” will appear soon in Analog. She lives in Flagstaff, Arizona with her husband, Mike. Photo by Michael Kelly. |
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More than two hundred poems by Kendall Evans, including numerous collaborations with David C. Kopaska-Merkel, have appeared in various science fiction, fantasy and horror magazines, anthologies, and chapbooks. He and David also collaborated on "The Tin Men", which received the SFPA 2006 Rhysling Award for best science fiction poem (long poem category), and the chapbook Separate Destinations. Photo by Denise Romero. |
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Vylar Kaftan writes science fiction, fantasy, horror, slipstream, and cleverly-phrased Post-It notes on the fridge. Her stories have appeared in Strange Horizons, ChiZine, and Clarkesworld, among other places. She lives in northern California and has a standard issue tie-dyed T-shirt to prove it. A graduate of Clarion West, she volunteers as a mentor for teenaged writers with the online group Absynthe Muse. Her hobbies include modern-day temple dancing and preparing for a major earthquake. She blogs at http://www.vylarkaftan.net. Photo by Tasha Kelter. |
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David Kopaska-Merkel edits and publishes Dreams and Nightmares, a magazine of science fiction and fantasy poetry. By day he describes rocks for the state of Alabama and by night tries to avoid tubes of paint and brushes left around the house by three resident artists. His magazine, and some of his writing, can be found at places like www.dailycabal.com, genremall.com, and spechouseofpoetry.com. Photo by Andrew K. Rindsberg. |
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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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Ann Leckie is a graduate of Clarion West. Her fiction has appeared in Subterranean Magazine, Son and Foe, and TQR Stories. She has worked as a waitress, a receptionist, a rodman on a land-surveying crew, and a recording engineer. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri with her husband, children, and cats. Photo by Aidan Leckie-Harre. |
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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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W. Gregory Stewart is 4-time Rhysling award winner and past Nebula nominee who commits poetry between computer outages in Los Angeles, California — it is one way of keeping global communications in perspective. If one picture is worth a thousand words, Greg says, it is the business of poetry to close that gap. And in an embarrassingly self-serving plug, he encourages everyone to submit a sonnet to the SFPA's contest at http://www.sfpoetry.com/2007poetrycontest.html — terrific prizes and no entry fee! Photo by Helen M. Schoenfeld. |
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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. She also has several chapbooks of poetry to her name including The Minotaur's Last Letter to His Mother and Ossuary (Sam's Dot - forthcoming). By day she sells ads, writes newspaper articles, designs necklaces and lives in Salt Lake City among the mountains and the Mormons. Photo by Amy DeLong. |
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Scott Virtes has had 350+ stories & poems published since 1986, most recently in the July/Aug 2007 Analog. He has two story collections and five poetry chapbooks available, and recently edited a collection of twisted limericks. You can watch him die in "Master and Commander", but he has directed some short films of his own since then. http://tales.scvs.com Photo by Scott Virtes. |
