About John Joseph Adams
John Joseph Adams is the bestselling editor of many
anthologies, including Wastelands, The Living Dead, and The Way of the Wizard. A six-time Hugo finalist and five-time World Fantasy Award nominee, he is also the editor
and publisher of the magazines Lightspeed and Nightmare as well as the cohost of the Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast.
About Jack McDevitt
Jack McDevitt is an American science fiction author who won the 2006 Nebula Award for his novel Seeker. He has served as an officer in the US Navy, taught English and literature, and worked for the United States Customs Service. He lives with his wife, Maureen, in Georgia.
About Carrie Vaughn
Carrie Vaughn is the author of many novels of science fiction and fantasy, including the Kitty Norville urban werewolf series and five others series. Bannerless won the Philip K. Dick Award.
About Genevieve Valentine
Genevieve Valentine’s first novel, Mechanique: A Tale of the
Circus Tresaulti , won the 2012 Crawford Award and was nominated for the
Nebula. Her short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons,
Journal of Mythic Arts, Lightspeed, and elsewhere; and have been
nominated for the World Fantasy Award and the Shirley Jackson Award. Her appetite for bad movies
is insatiable, a tragedy she tracks on her blog.
About Carol Emshwiller
Carol Emshwiller is the author of many acclaimed novels and story collections, including Carmen Dog, The Start of the End of It All (winner of the World Fantasy Award), Report to the Men’s Club and Other Stories, I Live with You and You Dont’ Know It, and The Mount (winner of the Philip K. Dick Award and a Nebula Award finalist). She teaches in the NYU Continuing Education program, and divides her time between homes in New York City and California. Visit Carol online at www.sfwa.org/members/emshwiller.
About Joe Haldeman
Joe Haldeman is an American author of award-winning science fiction and nonfiction works and a part-time professor at MIT. He earned a BS in physics and astronomy, as well as an MFA in writing. Drafted into the military, he served in Vietnam as a combat engineer in 1968 and 1969, was severely wounded, and earned a Purple Heart. His experience in war and in returning to civilian life are themes he uses in much of his writing. He is the author of numerous novels and several series, including the Forever War series. His science fiction has earned many awards, including five Hugo Awards, five Nebula Awards, a John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, a Locus Award, three Rhysling Awards, a World Fantasy Award, and a James Tiptree Jr. Award. Haldeman was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America in 2009, received the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award for lifetime achievement in 2010, and was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2012.
About Catherynne M. Valente
Catherynne M. Valente has been nominated for the Hugo Award, Nebula Award, Locus Award, World Fantasy Award, and the James Tiptree Jr. Award.
About Cat Rambo
Cat Rambo (they/them) is an American fantasy and science fiction writer whose work has appeared in, among others, Asimov's, Weird Tales, Chiaroscuro, Talebones, and Strange Horizons. They live and write in Washington State.
About Yoon Ha Lee
Yoon Ha Lee is a Korean American who was born in Texas, went to high school in South Korea, and received a BA degree in mathematics from Cornell University in New York state. Among his books are Ninefox Gambit, which won the Locus Award, and Dragon Pearl, a New York Times bestseller, which won the Locus Award and the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award.
About John R. Fultz
John R. Fultz lives in the Bay Area, California, but is originally from Kentucky. His fiction has appeared in Black Gate, Weird Tales, Space & Time, Lightspeed, Way of the Wizard, and Cthulhu’s Reign, and his comic book work includes Primordia, Zombie Tales, and Cthulhu Tales. He has many literary heroes, including Tanith Lee, Thomas Ligotti, Clark Ashton Smith, Lord Dunsany, William Gibson, Robert Silverberg, and Darrell Schweitzer, not to mention Howard, Poe, and Shakespeare. When not writing novels, stories, or comics, John teaches English literature at the high school level and plays a mean guitar.
About Joe R. Lansdale
Joe R. Lansdale is the author of over fifty novels, winning the Edgar Award, nine Bram Stoker Awards, a Critics’ Choice Award, and others.