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 Jonathan Maberry
Jonathan Maberry is a New York Times bestselling author, five-time Bram Stoker Award winner, four-time Scribe Award winner, Inkpot Award winner, and comic book writer. His vampire apocalypse book series, V-Wars, became a Netflix original series. He writes horror, science fiction, epic fantasy, thrillers, and more. He is the president of the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers and the editor of Weird Tales magazine.
About Elizabeth Moon
Elizabeth Moon, a former marine, is the author of many novels, including the Vatta’s War and Vatta’s Peace series and the Deed of Paksenarrion, as well as the Nebula Award winner The Speed of Dark and Remnant Population, a Hugo Award finalist. After earning a degree in history from Rice University, she went on to obtain a degree in biology from the University of Texas, Austin.
About Myke Cole
Myke Cole is a security contractor, government civilian, and military officer. In addition to writing military sci-fi novels, his career has run the gamut from counterterrorism to cyberwarfare to federal law enforcement. He’s done three tours in Iraq and was recalled to serve during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
About Tanya Huff
Tanya Huff spent three years in the Canadian Naval Reserve then earned a degree in radio and television arts from Ryerson Polytechnical Institute. She is the author of numerous short stories and more than twenty novels, including the bestselling Blood books, the Smoke series, and the Keeper’s Chronicles. She has been the guest of honor at numerous American and Canadian conventions, and her work has been nominated for several awards, including winning the Aurora Award for Best Novel. She lives in Ontario, Canada.
About Tobias S. Buckell
Tobias Buckell is the New York Times bestselling author of The Tangled Lands, Crystal Rain, and Halo: The Cole Protocol. His other novels and more than fifty short stories have been translated into seventeen languages. Bucknell has been nominated for the Hugo, the Nebula, the Prometheus, and the Campbell Award for Best New Author. He lives with his family in Ohio.
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 Django Wexler
Django Wexler graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh with degrees in creative writing and computer science and worked for the university in artificial intelligence research. He is a self-proclaimed computer/fantasy/sci-fi geek and full-time fantasy
writer. He is the author of the Shadow Campaign series and The Forbidden Library is his first novel for children.
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 Weston Ochse
Weston Ochse (1965–2023) won the Bram Stoker Award for First Novel with Scarecrow Gods and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for Appalachian Galapagos. He is a retired Army intelligence officer and works for the Defense Intelligence Agency.
About Ari Marmell
Ari Marmell is the author of the Mick Oberon urban fantasy series, the Widdershins YA fantasy series, and many others, alongside novels in Magic: the Gathering and the video game Darksiders, as well as writing for several roleplaying games.
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 T. C. McCarthy
T. C. McCarthy earned a PhD from the University of Georgia before embarking on a career that gave him a unique perspective as a science fiction author. From his time as a patent examiner in complex biotechnology to his tenure with the CIA, he has studied and analyzed foreign militaries and weapons systems. He was at the CIA on September 11 and was still there when US forces invaded Afghanistan and Iraq.
About Glen Cook
Glen Cook is the author of dozens of novels of fantasy and science fiction, including The Black Company series, The Garrett Files, and The Tyranny of the Night. Cook was born in 1944 in New York City. He attended the Clarion Writers Workshop in 1970, where he met his wife, Carol. He lives in St. Louis, Missouri.
About Simon R. Green
Simon Green is a British author of more than seventy novels in twelve series of science fiction, fantasy, mystery and horror, which have made the New York Times bestsellers list and have sold more than four million copies worldwide. He holds a degree in modern English and American literature from the University of Leicester.
About Seanan McGuire
Seanan McGuire is the author of the Hugo, Nebula, Alex and Locus Award-winning Wayward Children series, the October Daye series, the InCryptid series, and other works. She also writes darker fiction as Mira Grant. She won the 2010 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and in 2013 became the first person to appear five times on the same ballot for the Hugo Award. In 2022, she managed the same feat again.
About Linda Nagata
Linda Nagata is the author of high-tech science fiction, including the near-future thriller, The Last Good Man, and the Red trilogy, an intersection of artificial intelligence and military fiction. The first book in the trilogy, First Light, was named as a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2015. She has won the Nebula and is a two-time winner of the Locus award. Her work has also been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, John W. Campbell Memorial, and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial awards.
Linda has lived most of her life in Hawaii, where she's been a writer, a mom, a programmer of database-driven websites, and an independent publisher. She lives with her husband in their long-time home on the island of Maui.
About Paul Boehmer
Paul Boehmer attended his first Shakespearean play while in high school; he knew then that he was destined to become the classically trained actor he is today. Graduating with a master's degree, Paul was cast as Hamlet by the very stage actor who inspired his career path. A nod from the Universe he'd chosen aright! Paul has worked on Broadway and extensively in regional theater. Coinciding with another of his passions, sci-fi, Paul has been cast in various roles in many episodes of Star Trek. Paul's love of literature and learning led him by nature to his work as a narrator for audiobooks, his latest endeavour. Paul is married to the love of his life, Offir, and they live in Los Angeles with their two midnight-rambling tomcats, Dread and David.
About Gabrielle de Cuir
Gabrielle de Cuir is a Grammy-nominated and Audie Award-winning producer whose narration credits include the voice of Valentine in Orson Scott Card’s Ender novels, Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Tombs of Atuan, and Natalie Angier’s Woman, for which she was awarded AudioFile magazine’s Golden Earphones Award. She lives in Los Angeles where she also directs theatre and presently has several projects in various stages of development for film.
About Sunil Malhotra
Sunil Malhotra is an actor and voice artist. His film credits include Dude, Where’s the Party?, Call Center, 24, ER, Cold Case, and The West Wing. On stage, he has performed on Broadway and at East West Players. He has also worked as a writer, producer, and director, and his audiobook narrations have won three AudioFile Earphones Awards.
About Arthur Morey
Arthur Morey’s work has garnered numerous AudioFile Earphones Awards and placed him as a finalist for two Audie Awards. He has won awards for his fiction and drama, worked as an editor with several book publishers, and taught literature and writing at Northwestern University. His plays and songs have been produced in New York, Chicago, and Milan, where he has also performed.
About Stefan Rudnicki
Stefan Rudnicki is a Grammy-winning audiobook producer and an award-winning narrator who has won several Audie Awards and been named one of AudioFile’s Golden Voices. A longtime fan of Weird fiction, and of Robert W. Chambers in particular, Stefan’s dramatic adaptation of The King in Yellow received the Madolin Cervantes Award from the Society of Stage Directors & Choreographers and was staged by him at the Donnell Library Center in New York City.
