Aelle Ables
Born in Oklahoma City, I'm a transplant to North Texas. I have an B.B.A. from the University of Texas and work as a database administrator before becoming a full-time writer.

Danielle Ackley-McPhail
Genre author Danielle Ackley-McPhail would rather read than eat, and her fanciful writing is the by-product. She has two novels, one chapbook, and numerous anthologies to her credit as editor and contributor for both her fiction and her poetry, including BAD-ASS FAERIES, NO LONGER DREAMS, and DARK FURIES.

Z. S. Adani
I started writing science fiction in 2005, and recently sold two short stories. I'm currently working on a novel.

Camille Alexa
Camille Alexa is a full member of Broad Universe and of the Science Fiction Poetry Association. An updated bibliography can be found at camillealexa.wordpress.com. Camille currently serves as poetry editor for Diet Soap and writes for The Green Man Review.

Alma A. Alexander
Alma Alexander is an internationally published novelist, with books published in more than 15 countries and 8 languages. She is a world traveller who has lived and worked on four continents, and currently makes her home in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and two cats.

Robyn Alezanders
Made my debut in Nemonymous 5, where my story "Soul Stains," also garnered an Honorable Mention in Ellen Datlow's Best Fantasy & Horror.......

Jeanne Allen
Jeanne Allen draws from her interest in science and nature to write thought-provoking science fiction and fantasy romance. She's the author of the novel OPHILION DREAMS, and two novellas in the critically acclaimed TWILIGHT CROSSINGS anthologies. Her time travel tale WHEN LIGHTNING FLASHED will be released in late 2008.

Patricia Altner
I am a writer, researcher, and bibliographer with a special interest in paranormal fiction especially any pertaining to vampires.

Kori Amador
I write mostly comedies, even when I am attempting to write something serious, it will end up as a comedy. I have a few titles available through Quiet Vision Publishing, as well as a couple of youth-fiction works through Newspapers In Education. La cosa más importante a mí es la cuenta y las personajes. Y es importante presentar la diversidad de nuestro mundo.

Cornelia Amiri
Cornelia Amiri draws on her love of history and fifteen years of research on the ancient Celts, to write tales of long swords, hot heroes, and warrior women. Ms. Amiri is the author of five Celtic/Romance novels, DRUID QUEST, THE FOX PRINCE, THE VIXEN PRINCESS, DANGER IS SWEET, and ONE HEART ONE WAY, published with Awe-Struck e-books. And a funny vampire novella, A FINE CAULDRON OF FISH with Eternal Press. In addition to "Dead End Job" in A DEATH IN TEXAS, she has short stories in three other, soon to be released, anthologies with L & L Dreamspell: "Rhiannan" in MOON GODDESS MYSTERIES, "Night of Enchantment" in ROMANCE OF MY DREAMS, and "Vampire Dancer" in SLEEPING WITH THE UNDEAD.

Linda Andrews
Linda Andrews lives with her husband and three children in Phoenix, Arizona. When she announced to her family that her paranormal romance was to be published, her sister pronounce: "What else would she write? She's never been normal." So just how did a scientist start to write paranormal romances? What other option is there when you're married to romantic man and live in a haunted house?

Inanna Arthen
Inanna Arthen is the author of MORTAL TOUCH and the forthcoming THE LONGER THE FALL, the first two novels in The Vampires of New England Series. She owns By Light Unseen Media, an independent press devoted to vampire literature.

K. S. Augustin
I am a writer of space opera and science-fiction and fantasy romance.

Sarah Avery
Sarah Avery is an escaped academic, a grown-up army brat, a writer, an ambivalently entrepreneurial private tutor, a new mother, a longtime wife, an initiated Wiccan priestess, and a committed blogger. CLOSING ARGUMENTS, the first volume of her Rugosa Coven series, is available from Drollerie Press.

Beth Barany
Writer, coach, and consultant, Beth Barany splits her day between writing, reading and helping other writers. When she isn't working, you can find her training for a sprint triathlon, watching movies, or reading, of course. Her current novel is about how Henrietta, the Dragon Slayer lays down her sword to become a diplomat only to find she must fight for her life at every turn.

Sandra Barret
Sandra Barret grew up in New England, where she lives with her partner, two children, and more pets than are probably legal to own. Her first SF novel, FACE OF THE ENEMY, is due in November, 2007.

Laura Louise Baumbach
Laura Baumbach is the author of sci-fi, paranormal, horror, contemporary, thriller novels and m/m erotic romances, as well as screenplays of all genres.

M. D. Benoit
M. D. Benoit is the author of the SF Mystery Series, the Jack Meter Case Files and the SF Thriller SYNERGY.

Carol Berg
Carol Berg is a former software engineer whose late acquired hobby of writing novels got out of hand. By January 2008, Carol will have published ten epic fantasy novels and one novella in less than ten years. She has won the Geffen Award, the Prism Award, and the Colorado Book Award, and counts her readers on five continents and in submarines. Pretty strange for someone who majored in math and computer science so she wouldn't have to write papers.

F.J. Bergmann
F.J. Bergmann writes poetry, fantasy, science fiction, and sf poetry. She rants on writing at http://fibitz.livejournal.com/. One of her pseudopodia can reach all the way from the bedroom to the refrigerator. Her hairstyle is deceptive.

Beth Bernobich
Beth Bernobich is a writer, reader, mother, and geek. Her short fiction has appeared in Asimov's, Interzone, Strange Horizons, Subterranean Online, Sex in the System, and Postscripts Magazine, among other places. Her first novels are forthcoming from Tor Books, starting in 2009. You can read more about her at her website: www.beth-bernobich.com.

Roxanne Bland
I was born and raised but not by dragons...(sigh).

Melodie Bolt
Melodie Bolt is a poet and writer of urban fantasy. Her works have appeared in Kiss Machine, TOTU, and Pan Gaia. Her short story "Selk River" will appear in the Pagan Fiction Anthology forthcoming from LLewellyn.

Wendy Bradley
Wendy Bradley is the editor and publisher of Farthing magazine

Patricia Bray
Patricia Bray began her career writing historical novels set in Regency England before making the leap to epic fantasy with her Sword of Change series. A resident of Upstate New York, Patricia combines her writing with a full-time career as an I/T project manager.

Selly Breagle
Under another name, Selly Breagle is a best selling author. However publishers make it difficult for writers to change genres. Needing to get lost in a fantasy world of her own contriving, her only option was to change her name. Selly spends too much time beading.

Marie Brennan
Marie Brennan is an anthropologist and folklorist who shamelessly pillages her academic fields for material. Her short stories have sold to more than a dozen venues. Her first two novels, DOPPELGANGER and WARRIOR AND WITCH, came out from Warner Books in 2006; MIDNIGHT NEVER COME, will be out in 2008.

Sue Burke
Born in Milwaukee, Wis., Clarion class of 1996, currently living in Madrid, Spain. I've published a variety of short stories, poems, and non-fiction works.

Elizabeth K. Burton
Elizabeth Burton has had three novels published as well as three erotic romance ebook novellas. After a brief career as a journalist and newspaper editor, she took advantage of a job hiatus to work on fiction, publishing the first novel, DREAMS OF DARKNESS, as an ebook in 2000. She also became a much-in-demand freelance book editor and reviewer, publishing the online review zine The Blue Iris Journal from 1999 to 2003. She was a finalist in the 1999 Writers of the Future, and is a member of the Fandom Association of Central Texas (FACT) where she is on the board of directors and serves as board secretary. In 2003, she became a partner in Zumaya Publications as executive editor. She now oversees operations in Austin, Texas, while trying--again--to find time to write.

Rachel Caine
Rachel Caine is the writer of more than 25 books in the science fiction, fantasy and horror genres, including the popular Weather Warden and Morganville Vampires series.

Mayra Calvani
Puerto Rican author Mayra Calvani writes in a variety of genres - children’s, young adult, humor/satire, mystery, dark romantic fantasy, dark fiction, horror, as well as nonfiction. Her stories, articles, and book reviews have appeared in many online and print publications in the States, England and Puerto Rico. She is co-editor of “Voice in the Dark” ezine, where she writes a monthly column.

Brenda Carre
I am a canadian author currently working on a mythic fantasy series. I live in Vancouver and am now retired and actively working toward publication of my novels.

Margaret Carter
Writer of horror, fantasy, and paranormal romance, specializing in vampires. Margaret L. Carter received a Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Irvine, and included a chapter on DRACULA in her dissertation. Her vampire novel DARK CHANGELING won the 2000 Eppie Award in the horror category. She lives in Maryland and works part time as a legislative proofreader for the General Assembly.

Amy Sterling Casil
Amy Sterling Casil's fiction can be found in the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction among other publications. A 2002 Nebula Award nominee, she has authored three novels and more than a dozen nonfiction books for young adults and children.

Suzy McKee Charnas
I've been published in Fantasy, SF and Horror for some thirty years, garnering several awards and a lot of wonderful colleagues in the process. Best-known work is the futurist, feminist, 4-volume epic "The Holdfast Chronicles," and "The Vampire Tapestry", the best vampire novel you will ever read.

J. Kathleen Cheney
An associate member of SFWA and a founding member of the Oklahoma Spec-fic Syndicate.

Barbara J. Clark
Barbara Clark’s interest in fantasy and science fiction has been the basis of her paranormal romances for Amber Quill Press. She also writes fantasy and sci-fi romantic erotica as April Reid.

C.S. Cole
C.S. Cole is a writer of horror, dark fantasy, and speculative fiction. Her work has received honorable mention in L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future contest. She lives in Washington State with her husband and a finicky computer named Krakatoa that, as one might expect, blows up frequently. Her blog can be found at http://cscole.livejournal.com/

Helen F. Collins
I taught SF in community college for several years. Two books: MUTAGENESIS, Tor; EGRET, The Haworth Press. Latest, NEUROGENESIS, is on internet, SpeculativeFiction Review. I live with 3 cats, 1 dog-lab, in a very old house on a tidal marsh.

Brenda Jean Cooper
Brenda Cooper writes science fiction and fantasy, and her short fiction with collaborator Larry Niven has appeared in Asimov’s and Analog. Solo, she has primarily published short fiction and poetry in journals that pay in contributor’s copies, and has sold a science fiction story to Analog and a fantasy story to an anthology set in Mercedes Lackey’s Valdemar. Brenda works closely with Seattle Futurist Glen Hiemstra. Occasionally she can found doing keynote speeches about the future for business audiences. She is the Information Technology Director for the City of Kirkland, and lives in Bellevue, Washington.

Elaine Corvidae
Elaine Corvidae has been telling stories about faeries, elves, and dragons since she was a small child. Her dark fantasy novels have won multiple Eppie Awards and Dream Realm Awards. When she isn't wandering the worlds of her imagination, she lives in North Carolina with her husband and several cats.

Theresa Crater
At the age of seven, Theresa Crater announced to her parents she was going to be a writer. They promptly told her no one could make a living doing that, but she just kept trying. Theresa has published short stories, poetry, and various nonfiction articles, and has a novel forthcoming from Hampton Roads, KEYS TO THE HALL. She's also edited her life partner's books, THE LAND OF OSIRIS and the forthcoming FROM LIGHT INTO DARKNESS: THE EVOLUTION OF RELIGION IN ANCIENT EGYPT. She holds a B.A. in English, an. M.A. in counseling and a Ph.D. in English. Currently she teaches writing and literature in Denver and leads tours to Egypt with her life partner, Stephen Mehler, an independent Egyptologist. Besides Egypt, she has studied Vedic philosophy and taught meditation for thirty-five years, as well as worked with varius forms of shamanism, Wicca, and Reiki. Theresa lives with Stephen, their two cats, and numerous deer, coyote, raccoons and skunks near Boulder, Colorado.

Leah Cutter

Adrianna Dane
Adrianna Dane writes passionate stories with adventurous heart and erotic edge. Now with more than forty stories currently available across the subgenres of romantic fiction, including science fiction, fantasy, and the paranormal, Adrianna enjoys the challenge of reaching beyond the known and venturing into the unknown. Her current publishers include Amber Quill Press, Loose-Id, Phaze, and Lady Aibell Press.

Linda A. B. Davis
Linda A. B. Davis is a science fiction and fantasy short story author currently living in Pensacola, FL with her husband, daughter, three dogs, cat and rabbit. The rabbit rules.

Rebecca W. Day
Rebecca (R.W.) Day has had about a dozen stories published or accepted for publication. Her first novel, A STRONG AND SUDDEN THAW, was shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award in the SF/Fantasy/Horror category. Becky works reference at a public law library, and is a member of the Society for Creative Anachronism.

Sylvia Day
Sylvia Day is the bestselling, award-winning author of over a dozen novels. A wife and mother of two, she is a former Russian linguist for the U.S. Army Military Intelligence. Her work has won the EPPIE and been a finalist for Romance Writers of America's RITA Award of Excellence. Also see S. J. Day

A. M. Dellamonica
A.M. Dellamonica had the kind of action-packed childhood that most people dream of, featuring actual plane crashes and the occasional really long car trip. After catching her first fish at the age of six, she realized she was ready to fend for herself in the wild, though in the end it took her eleven years to pack her books and depart. Her fiction began to appear in print in 1986 and despite repeated washings, remains in circulation in a variety of print and on-line locales.

Lori Devoti
Lori Devoti writes dark paranormal romances for Silhouette Nocturne and urban fantasy novels for Juno Books.

Beverly DeWeese
SF reader and occasional reviewer

Madeleine Reardon Dimond
Sold 3 sf stories, written a boatload more plus a couple of novels. Veteran of Clarion, Viable Paradise, Turkey City.

Moondancer Drake
Mother of two and hopeful author. Spent over 10 years supporting my hubby's writing, its my turn now.

Diana L. Driver
Diana L. Driver lives in Texas with her husband and three cats. her novel NINTH LORD OF THE NIGHT is a thriller set in the Mayan ruins of Tikal Guatemala and has been optioned for film. She is a volunteer for the University of Texas MAYA Meetings. She also writes short stories for L&L Dreamspell anthologies.

Oz Drummond
Clarion 1996, Taos Toolbox 2007. Still submitting for first professional sale.

L. Timmel Duchamp

Lindsey Duncan
Lindsey Duncan is a life-long writer and professional Celtic harp performer, with short fiction and poetry in several speculative fiction publications. She feels that music and language are inextricably linked. She lives and performs in Cincinnati, Ohio and is a student at Indiana University, working on a self-designed major.

Jennifer Dunne
Jennifer Dunne is the author of over a dozen novels and novellas, primarily romance for Ellora's Cave and fantasy/science fiction for Cerridwen Press.

Sarah Beth Durst
Sarah Beth Durst is a writer of children's and young adult fantasy. She holds a degree in English from Princeton University and has been writing fantasy stories since she was ten years old. Her debut novel, a middle grade fantasy adventure called INTO THE WILD, will be published in June 2007 by Razorbill/Penguin.

Ellen Eades
Japanese American, SF reader since about 1973, musician, artist, and now parent to two SF readers. Born in southern CA, living in Seattle.

Sylvia Engdahl
Author of 6 Young Adult science fiction novels including the award-winning ENCHANTRESS FROM THE STARS (all originally published between 1970-1981 and republished in the 21st century) plus a new adult science fiction novel, STEWARDS OF THE FLAME.

Rhonda Eudaly
Rhonda Eudaly lives in Arlington, Texas where she's worked in various industries to support her writing habit with her husband, elderly cat, and stepdog. She likes spending time with friends and family, swing dance, and read. Her two passions are writing and music.

Meredith K. Falley

Carrie Ferguson

Lyta Odellia Firebird
Enthusiast writer with a love for filmmaking. Her passion is drawn by her vivid imagination which has a tendency to seek magic in everything. After erring between her film, acting, and other passions, she finally realized that behind everything she does is her writing. Her philosophy is to write only if you have something to say.

Jane Fletcher
Having escaped the chaos and concrete of London, Jane Fletcher lives in southwest England. Her novels have won a GCLS award and been short-listed for the Gaylactic Spectrum and Lambda awards. She is author of two fantasy/romance series - the Lyremouth Chronicles and The Celaeno Series.

Melanie Ann Fletcher
Melanie Fletcher is a writer, quilter, fencer, herder of DBAs and partner to the Bodacious Brit.

Lynn Flewelling
Lynn Flewelling is the author of the Nightrunner and Tamir Triad Series, both of which have been nominated for various awards. Her novels appear around the world in over a dozen languages. She has published short fiction and several popular articles on writing and publishing. She also teaches writing workshops whenever she gets the chance and enjoys working with new writers. Her interests include writing (duh!), hiking, knitting, history, the Tarot, anime, naughty manga, papillions, and koi keeping. She enjoys holding forth and chatting on her livejournal at otterdance.livejournal.com far too much. Born and raised in Maine, she's lived all over America, most recently fetching up in Redlands, California.

Deanne Fountaine

Valerie Estelle Frankel
Valerie Estelle Frankel teaches Composition at San Jose State University. Her many short stories appeared in over seventy magazines and anthologies including Legends of the Pendragon, Rosebud Magazine, and The Oklahoma Review. Valerie's very excited about her new book, Henry Potty and the Pet Rock: An Unauthorized Harry Potter Parody, available through Wingspan Press, bookstores, and www.HarryPotterParody.com.

Beth Jane Freeman
I've written and published the autobiography of my friend's Himalayan Cat, Herbie (in a cat magazine). I've written several other novels (SF), that are looking for publishers, and I'm currently writing another one about a ghost, inspired by one of our fellow members, Liz Williams.

E J Frost

Becca Furrow
I am a writer of fantasy, paranormal and futuristic romance. I'm married, have three teen age daughter, too many cats, and have a day job in customer service. Other than reading, I like to rock hunt, garden and enjoy the Wyoming Wilderness.

Lyn C.A. Gardner
Lyn C.A. Gardner has fiction, poetry, art, and articles in venues like Challenging Destiny, The Doom of Camelot, The Leading Edge, Legends of the Pendragon, Mythic Delirium, Strange Horizons, Talebones, and more. She coedits the journal Virginia Libraries and is a 2004 graduate of Clarion West. Visit her at www.gardnercastle.com.

Terry Garey
Terry A. Garey is a poet, writer and artist who lives in Minneapolis with a librarian and two cats. She is the winner of the 1996 Rhysling Long poem, has edited two speculative poetry anthologies TIME FRAMES and TIME GUM, is a former poetry editor of TOTU. She is a member of the Lady Poetess From Hell and Bag Person Press. Someone once told her she was the most normal weird person he had ever met.

Gwynne Garfinkle
Gwynne Garfinkle's fiction and poetry appear or will soon appear in such publications as Strange Horizons, Goblin Fruit, Aberrant Dreams, Space & Time, Thaneros, and A Fly in Amber.

Linda Beltz Glaser

Cynthia Gonsalves
Cynthia is a happy consumer in the literary food chain who lives in the Silicon Valley with too many books and one cat.

Tina M. Good

Alicia E. Goranson
Alicia E. Goranson is a Boston novelist who writes whacky tales for women. Her first novel SUPERVILLAINZ won the 2004 Project Queerlit award and is a finalist for the 2006 Lambda Literary award.

Justine Graykin
Writer of Speculative Fiction, Assistant Librarian, Historical Society Archivist, editor of the award-winning web-based newspaper The Forum, chicken farmer, doing the married/two kids/two dogs/five cats thing. Philosophy/English major with a Religious Studies minor. 'Nuff said.

Laurie Green

Rosalind M. Green
Rosalind's curiosity has led her to a career in environmental health science and a continuing interest in the way the world works and why people are who they are, but her first loves have always been reading and writing. She is a native of New Orleans, LA, USA.

Roberta Gregory
Roberta has many comics and graphic novels out, (WINGING IT, SHEILA AND THE UNICORN), and book collections in several languages of her Naughty Bits series from Fantagraphics. She is now working on her Mother Mountain novels and graphic novel and drawing true cat comics, among many other things.

April Grey
Lives in NYC with her husband and son. Writes spec fic and is trying to sell her novel, CHASING THE TRICKSTER.

Jeremy H. Griffith

Magenta Griffith
Magenta's non-fiction has appeared in several Llewellyn publications, and in a variety of neo-Pagan magazines. She has temporarily given up on fiction because, being a true feminist, she hates conflict and most plot requires conflict.

S. R. Gruber
S.R. Gruber lives on the edge between the mountains and the prairie and have been making things up since she was a small girl in upstate New York. Her first sale was a short story, "The Sin-Eater," to Fantasist Enterprises' Blood and Devotion anthology.

Paula Guran
www.juno-books.com / www.darkecho.com

Susan K. Hamilton
Susan K. Hamilton first became interested in writing fiction while a student at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She published her first novel, Darkstar Rising, in 2003 through POD publisher Xlibris. Currently she is working on a new manuscript. Susan resides southwest of Boston, MA, with her husband and two cats.

Stephanie Hammer
Published 20 short stories, with futurist, magical, feminist and post-feminist, bisexual, cyber-punk themes in RED ROCK REVIEW, NYC BIG CITY LIT, and CRATE among other places. 2-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize, 3rd place Mark Twain fiction award. Hammer teaches writing and lit at UC Riverside.

Amy Axt Hanson
Amy Hanson used to write science fiction, but is taking an extended sabbatical. She worked a granite-cutting machine for two years, and is planning to go to massage school next.

Kelly Harmon
Kelly Harmon is a scribbler, a scrawler, a jotter, a noter...a writer. Her non-fiction has been published in several newspapers on the East coast and in Science-Fiction Weekly. She holds degrees in computer science and journalism and has interviewed authors and thespians, senators and statesmen, movie stars and murderers. And she found it rather interesting. But really, she just wants to write fiction.

Sheri Fresonke Harper
I'm a science fiction writer, poet and former systems analyst. I've had poems and articles published, but still waiting for my first fiction publication.

Anne Harris
Anne Harris is the author of Inventing Memory, Accidental Creatures and The Nature of Smoke.

Jed Hartman
Jed is a fiction editor for Strange Horizons.

Bethany Harvey
Bethany Harvey writes science fiction, fantasy, and literary fiction and takes great joy in crossing the lines between them. Her work has appeared in Blithe House Quarterly and Best Lesbian Erotica 2004. She lives in Florida and works outdoors whenever possible.

Susan R. Hastings

Patty G. Henderson
Patty G. Henderson has been published since the 1970s in magazines such as Paragon and Dale C. Donaldson's Moonbroth. She is the author of the Brenda Strange supernatural suspense series. Her short fiction has appeared in online magazines as well anthologies such as CALL OF THE DARK and upcoming CITY CRIMES, COUNTRY CRIMES and CHILLING TALES OF TERROR AND THE SUPERNATURAL.

Samantha Henderson
Samantha Henderson lives in Southern California. Her fiction and poetry has been published in Realms of Fantasy, Strange Horizons, Chizine, Helix, Lone Star Stories, and Fantasy. Her novel, HEAVEN'S BONES, is being released by Wizards of the Coast in September of 2008. She is the treasurer of the Science Fiction Poetry Association.

Liz Henry
Writer, poet, translator, blogger, reader of lots of books.

KW Herndon
Growing writer currently working on an urban fantasy for completion in 2008.

Carol Denise Hightshoe
Born in 1964, Carol grew up in San Antonio, Texas. An avid reader at a young age, her strong desire to write came from her love of (her husband calls it her obsession with) Star Trek. It was this early love of Trek that led her to the Science Fiction and Fantasy genres. In addition to her own writing she is the Senior Acquisitions Editor for Flying Pen Press and also edits and publishes two e-zines: The Lorelei Signal and Sorcerous Signals.

M. K. Hobson
M.K. Hobson's fiction has appeared in SCI FICTION, Realms of Fantasy, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Black Static, Strange Horizons, and many other fine publications. She is the art director of the anarchist-surrealist 'zine Diet Soap (www.dietsoap.org) She has a blog (mkhobson.livejournal.com), a website (www.demimonde.com), and a wonderfully tolerant family.

Barbara M. Hodges
Barbara M. Hodges has written or co-written 4 published fantasy novels and 1 science fiction novel. Her sixth fantasy novel, Stones Enchanted, co-written with JR Muisck, is due for release in December 2007. Barbara shares her life with her husband Jeff, two basset hounds, Ophelia and Hamlet and a ginger-striped tabby, Wallace.

Lou Hoffman
Late forties woman living in Minneapolis. I've posted fanfic and am working on several original fiction projects as well as a cookbook.

Nancy Holder
USA TODAY bestselling author, ALA, ARA, and NY Books for the Teen Age lists; writes paranormal dark fantasy for Silhouette; tie-ins for BUFFY, SMALLVILLE, and others; adult, YA and children's fantasy and horror. Titles include PRETTY LITTLE DEVILS and the WICKED series.

Elaine Isaak
Elaine Isaak is the author of THE SINGER'S CROWN, and THE EUNUCH'S HEIR from Eos Books. She has a column on fantasy writing at www.AlienSkinMag.com. Visit her website to find out why you do not want to be her hero.

Marlys E. Jarstfer

Jules Jones
I'm a materials scientist in the day job, with a collection of non-fiction credits that are undoubtedly exciting to someone. I also write science fiction, m/m romance and erotica, usually all at the same time. I have several novels and novellas published by Loose Id.

Pauline Baird Jones
Award-winning author of eight novels of suspense, mystery, comedy, SFR and non-fiction.

Rosemary Jones
Rosemary Jones has fantasy or science fiction stories published in the anthologies REALMS OF DRAGONS II (Wizards of the Coast) and HITTING THE SKIDS IN PIXELTOWN (Phobos). Her first novel, CRYPT OF THE MOANING DIAMOND (ISBN 978-0786947140), will be available in 2008. She also has had five nonfiction books published.

Vylar Kaftan
Vylar Kaftan writes everything from hard sf to horror. Her work has appeared in Realms of Fantasy, Clarkesworld, and Strange Horizons. She lives in northern California.

Gayle Kaplan

Barbara Theresa Karmazin
Award winning author Barbara Karmazin's Science Fiction books are published by Loose Id, Liquid Silver Books, Changeling Press and Atlantic Bridge Publishing and her books are available for order at Amazon.com.

Isabo Kelly
Isabo Kelly is the award winning author of numerous science fiction, fantasy and paranormal romance novels, short stories and novellas. After finishing her Ph.D. in Zoology in Ireland, she buckled down to concentrate on writing. Isabo currently lives in New York City with her brilliant Irish husband and her mad dog.

Sylvia Kelso
Sylvia Kelso lives in North Queensland and writes fantasy, SF and mystery/time-travel, with alternate North Queensland or analogue Australian settings. Her short story "Slick" appeared in Antipodes 2004. Her novels include EVERRAN'S BANE (2005), and THE MOVING WATER and AMBERLIGHT in 2007. THE MOVING WATER was shortlisted for best Australian fantasy novel of 2007. THE RED COUNTRY and RIVERSEND will be released 2008.

Debra A. Kemp
Debra Kemp currently resides in South Dakota with her husband. They have two grown children and one toddling granddaughter. Debra writes about her life-long passion, the Arthurian legends.

Kay Kenyon
Kay Kenyon's new series is sf with fantasy overtones. The first two books, BRIGHT OF THE SKY and A WORLD TOO NEAR received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly. Called "a splendid fantasy quest" by the Washington Post, the series continues with CITY WITHOUT END in 2009. Kay lives in Wenatchee, WA.

Eileen Kernaghan
Eileen Kernaghan is the author of eight historical fantasy novels. Her most recent titles are THE SNOW QUEEN, THE ALCHEMIST'S DAUGHTER, and WINTER ON THE PLAIN OF GHOSTS. WILD TALENT: a novel of the supernatural is forthcoming from Thistledown Press in September 2008. She lives in New Westminster, BC..

Debra Killeen
Debra Killeen is the author of AN UNLIKELY DUKE, the first novel in a fantasy series for teen readers. Her second book, A PRINCE IN NEED, will be published in June 2008.

Paige K. Kimble
Paige Kimble is an aspiring SF filmmaker and writer with credits in a few smaller press publications. She has a BA in American Studies from Smith College and tries to combine her love of American history and culture with a combined voice from the Midwest, New England, and the UK.

Deborah P Kolodji
Deborah P Kolodji is the president of the Science Fiction Poetry Association and a member of the Haiku Society of America. She moderates speculative poetry and haiku workshops in Los Angeles. She has published four chapbooks of poetry. Her poetry has appeared in Strange Horizons, Dreams & Nightmares, The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Tales of the Unanticipated, Star*Line, bottle rockets, Modern Haiku, Tales of the Talisman, Scifaikuest, Illumen and many other places. Her short stories have appeared in Thema and (upcoming)the Futuristic Motherhood Anthology.

Debra M. Kraft
Writer of poetry, speculative fiction and paranormal romance. Not yet published. Background includes teaching from the junior high level to adults. Established World Building for Writers course at the Long Story Short School of Writing.

Ellen Kushner
Author of World Fantasy and Mythopoeic Award-winning novel THOMAS THE RHYMER, SWORDSPOINT, and THE FALL OF THE KINGS; radio producer and host of nationally-syndicated SOUND & SPIRIT; and award-winning performer. Member of the Endicott Studio of Mythic Arts and co-founder of the Interstitial Arts Foundation.

Jay Lake
Jay Lake lives in Portland, Oregon, where he works on numerous writing and editing projects. His 2008 novels are ESCAPEMENT from Tor Books and MADNESS OF FLOWERS from Night Shade Books, while his short fiction appears regularly in literary and genre markets worldwide.

Heidi Lampietti
Owner/Editor of RedJack Books, a tiny little independent publisher of speculative fiction and humor.

Sue Lange
Sue Lange's books, WE, ROBOTS and TRITCHEON HASH are available at amazon.com.

Alexis Glynn Latner
Alexis Glynn Latner's science fiction novel HURRICANE MOON (Pyr) was published in July 2007. Her stories have appeared in the magazines Analog and Amazing and in the anthologies BENDING THE LANDSCAPE: HORROR and HORRORS BEYOND 2 - STORIES OF STRANGE CREATIONS. She teaches and coaches creative writing and lives in Houston, Texas.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Norma Lehr
A multi-genre author of short stories and a middle-grade ghost series, Norma Lehr is a former nurse and health food store owner from the Bay area. She now lives in Auburn, California in the beautiful Sierra Foothills--where DARK MAIDEN is set.

Stina Leicht
I write fantasy and am an assistant editor for a small press Young Adult/Teen imprint.

Maria Lima
Maria Lima writes dead people - no, really. Author of the Keira Kelly Blood books (Juno Books) and Agatha-nominated short story, "The Butler Didn't Do It" (Chesapeake Crimes), Maria has one foot in the real world and one in the make believe. Her role models include Joss Whedon and Russell T. Davies.

Natalia Lincoln
Natalia Lincoln's breakthrough short story "Revival" received Odyssey Fantasy Workshop's highest Gandalf Grant, as well as publication in Weird Tales. Her first novel, THE MIRROR, a dark fantasy set in modern New York and medieval Eastern Europe, also took an Honorable Mention in the 2008 London Book Festival. A second novel, AMBASSADOR ORANGE, set in dystopic near-future London, is on the way.

Rachel Lindley
Rachel "Rae" Lindley was born in Southern California. She has been writing since her early youth and practicing art since as long as she can remember. Her first novel, a futuristic sci-fi story is coming out in August 2007. She strives to tell stories that motivate empathy from the audience and helps them reflect upon the world around them.

Linda Lindsey
Thanks to my husband, I'm pursuing my dream of writing full time. I have two short stories published under a pen name that don't count for anything but encouragement. I'm working on two novels and too many short stories, right now.

Heather Lindsley
Heather Lindsley is a geographically conflicted Southern Californian who keeps most of her stuff in Seattle while living in London. Her work has been published in F&SF, Strange Horizons, and Escape Pod. Her story "Just Do It" appears in YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION 12.

Susan Urbanek Linville
I have a ph.D. in biology and work at the Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior, Indiana University. I have sold several short stories to markets including: MZB SWORD AND SORCERESS anthologies, ON SPEC, Writers of the Future, Parageography (ezine) and Triangulation

Livia Llewellyn
Livia Llewellyn is a writer of horror, dark fantasy and erotica. She was born in Anchorage, Alaska, and currently lives in New Jersey. Her fiction has appeared in ChiZine, Subterranean Magazine, Sybil's Garage, PseudoPod, and a number of anthologies in print and forthcoming. She's a 2006 graduate of Clarion.

Kimberley Long-Ewing
I do a number of things for a living, have a PhD in experimental psychology, and am a mother of two talented children. I love to write and have stories and characters floating around in my head all the time. If I don't write them down, my muse explodes (or so he likes to tell me).

Pamela A. Lord
I'm a damnedyankee from Connecticut turned carpetbagger in Virginia for 4 years. In 2004 I moved to Israel to be with my partner, bringing my stories and my cats.

Janet Lorimer
I've had 3 chidren's novels published by Scholastic, Inc., as well as numerous articles and short stories for both children and adults published in magazines such as Highlights for Children, Eldritch Tales, Woman's World, Analog, 2 AM Publications and Bestways Magazine. I taught writing classes at a community college in Hawaii and worked for 2 years as an associate editor and staff writer for Hawaii Parent Newsmagazine. MASTER OF SHADOWS, published by Juno Books, is my first novel for adults.

Barbara Lucas
Barbara Lucas is a Division Head for the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts and Vice President of the International Association for Audience and Fan Studies. She has sold poetry to several small press magazines and academic non-fiction to the anthology FAN FICTION AND FAN COMMUNITITES IN THE AGE OF THE INTERNET and WOMEN IN SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA (forthcoming in Fall 2008). During 2008, she will be pursuing a first fiction sale. Barbara lives in the suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio, and is owned by a terribly possessive dachshund.

Catherine Lundoff
Catherine Lundoff is the editor of the fantasy and horror anthology HAUNTED HEARTHS AND SAPPHIC SHADES: LESBIAN GHOST STORIES (Lethe Press, 2008). She is also the author of CRAVE: TALES OF LUST, LOVE AND LONGING (Lethe Press, 2007) as well as over sixty published short stories.

Brenna Lyons
Brenna Lyons is an award-winning indie author of fantasy and horror, straight genre through romance and erotic mixes. She's a six-time EPPIE finalist, DREAM REALM FINALIST, two-time CAPA finalist and three-time PEARL finalist, taking HM second to Angela Knight.

C. R. MacPhadrick
Published author of female warrior saga

Rebecca Maines
Rebecca Maines lives somewhere in suburbia with her husband, cats, books, and baseball action figures in a house just like all the other houses except a lot messier. She has a day job in the glamorous world of publishing to support her writing habit.

Elissa Malcohn
I live in central Florida with my partner Mary C. Russell, and can sometimes be found striking weird poses in public while photographing bugs. My web site includes publication and other details.

Racheline Maltese
Racheline is a working actor, dancer and writer, as well as a serious student of classical fencing. Her fiction has appeared in Cthulhu Sex Magazine (and its anthology); she is currently working on her first novel.

Katherine Mankiller
I write speculative fiction short stories and screenplays, and have made a couple of short fiction sales. I live in Atlanta.

Mary Pat Mann
Mary Pat continues to write essays, poems and short fiction, and hopes to spend more time writing in the coming year.

Lisa Mantchev

Juliet Marillier
Juliet Marillier is a New Zealand-born writer of historical fantasy for adults and young adults. Her novels are published internationally and have won a number of awards. In 2008 she has two new books out in the USA: CYBELE'S SECRET (Sept, from Knopf) and HEIR TO SEVENWATERS (Nov, from Roc.)

Louise Marley
Louise Marley is a former concert and opera singer who now writes science fiction and fantasy under her own name and the pseudonym Toby Bishop.

Gail Z. Martin
Gail Z. Martin is the author of The Chronicles of the Necromancer fantasy series which includes THE SUMMONER (2007), THE BLOOD KING (2008) and DARK HAVEN (2009). She's had a lifelong fascination with vampires, ghosts, magic and haunted houses, and enjoys attending conventions, Renaissance festivals and other gatherings of writers and readers. She's also the host of Ghost in the Machine podcast featuring authors from science fiction, fantasy and the paranormal.

Heidi Martinuzzi
I am the owner of Pretty/Scary, a website devoted to women in the horror genre. I am also a film journalist and filmmaker.

Stef Maruch

Christie Mauer
BA Goddard College, creative writing, M.F.A. California State University Hayward. Persie award--First Place--Novel First Chapter Contest "Masquerade." Member: Monterey Bay Fiction Writers and Worldspinners, RWA.

Miranda Lee Matthews
I am a poet and play writer who has always done some kind of story writing. I am also a mother, wife, and student. I have 1 husband, 1 son, 1 drum kit, 5 guitars, 257 karaoke CD's, and 3 cats in my house. I do musical reviews for seniors and patients in rehabs. I love drama, music, and movies. I work with children and the disabled, and I review because I love books.

M'Ellen Maynard

K G McAbee
Published author of fantasy, science fiction, horror, pulp, mystery and suspense.

Sandra McDonald
Sandra McDonald is the author of the Australian sf/military/romance series THE OUTBACK STARS (Tor, 2007), THE STARS DOWN UNDER (Tor, 2008) and THE STARS BLUE YONDER (Tor, 2009). Her short fiction has appeared in numerous markets including Realms of Fantasy, Strange Horizons, Fantasy, Talebones, Lone Star Stories, and more. She has an MFA in Creative Writing and was short-listed for the James A. Tiptree award in 2003. She lives in Florida.

Carole McDonnell
Born in Jamaica, West Indies. Citizen of the United States. Wife of more than twenty years to illustrator Luke McDonnell. Mother of two sons.

Sheri L. McGathy
"Born in the Buckeye state, I was uprooted in 1971 and replanted amongst sunflowers, tornadoes, and college football. It's a good life." ~ Sheri L. McGathy. During the weekdays, I'm a Graphic Arts Coordinator/Copy Editor. In the evenings and weekends, I'm a writer. Sometimes that's debatable. Oh, and I'm also Managing Editor at The Fractured Publisher (http://www.fracturedpublisher.com) online.

Patricia McKillip

Victoria Dawn McManus
Victoria McManus majored in Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology and completed her Master's in Anthropology, both extremely useful for writing sf/f. Her nonfiction includes author interviews for Strange Horizons; she is the former reviews editor for The Broadsheet. She currently serves on the jury for the Andre Norton Award.

Kelli McMillin
Kelli McMillin lives in Missouri with her family. She enjoys reading and playing with her children when she is not writing. She is an active member of several writing groups, including a group dedicated to dark fantasy and horror. She has been published in various small presses and has several finished works ranging from flash fiction to novels.

Virginia G. McMorrow
Born in New York City, Virginia McMorrow has worked as an editor/writer for sixteen years. She freelanced as a manuscript reader for a science fiction/fantasy imprint, where she first began to enjoy fantasy fiction. Over the years, Ginny has worked for business publishers as an editor of books, journals, and newsletters, and now works as a manager of client publications for a New York City consulting company. In her spare time, which includes writing fantasy, mystery, and mainstream fiction, she also writes feature articles on behalf of a Long Island nonprofit organization. She has had several ystery short stories published, and teaches an adult education short story writing course. Ginny lives with her husband on Long Island. Her two fantasy novels, MAGE CONFUSION, and MAGE RESOLUTION, have been published by Archebooks (Archebooks.com) Book Three of the trilogy, MAGE REVOLUTION, will be published in Spring 2005. FIREWING'S JOURNEY, a young adult fantasy, is scheduled for release in December 2004.

Karen Meng

Kelli D. Meyer

Sarah Micklem
Sarah Micklem worked for many years as a graphic designer before she published her first novel, FIRETHORN, in 2004. The second book of the trilogy, WILDFIRE, will be out in 2009. She finds writing fantasy a perfect avocation for a generalist who is curious about everything.

Kamila Z. Miller
Kami lives on small acreage in the PacNW with her family, goats, dogs, cats, etc. She writes fantasy novels and the occasional speculative short. She's a member of Lucky Labs, INK, and when she grows up she wants to be a member of SFWA too.

Madge E. Miller
Madge E. Miller is a writer who divides her time between San Francisco and the fifth dimension (the one without the snakes). Her short stories have been published on EscapePod, Whispering Spirits and The Deepening. She's currently writing a novel involving gypsies, Romans and libraries. Her writing space is inhabited by fierce, computer-loving dustbunnies and two swashbuckling cats, Aramis and D'Artagnan. When she's not writing, she's flacking with the best of them.

Judith Moffett
JM is the author of 11 books, including 4 SF novels and a collection of stories. The final volume in her Holy Ground trilogy--THE BIRD SHAMAN--will be published in June 2008 by Mill City Press. Ecological issues dominate all her fiction.

Devon Monk
Devon Monk lives in Oregon. She has sold over fifty short stories to fantasy, science fiction, horror, humor, and young adult magazines and anthologies. Her stories have been published in five countries and included in a Year's Best Fantasy collection. The Allie Beckstrom urban fantasy series (Penguin Group, USA) is her first foray into published noveldom.

Leslie Ann Moore
Leslie Ann Moore is a native of Los Angeles. She obtained her professional degree in Veterinary Medicine from the University Of California, Davis in 1988 and in addition to writing fantasy and science fiction, she practices the ancient and beautiful art of belly dancing.

Nancy Jane Moore
Nancy Jane Moore's fiction has appeared in a number of anthologies, magazines, and webzines. Her novella Changeling is one of the Conversation Pieces from Aqueduct Press (www.aqueductpress.com). She is on the Broad Universe Mother Board and a member of SFWA. In addition to writing fiction, she works as a legal editor and trains in Aikido.

Lyda Morehouse
Lyda Morehouse writes about what gets people in trouble: religion and politics. Her first novel Archangel Protocol, a cyberpunk hard-boiled detective novel with a romantic twist, won the 2001 Shamus. Fallen Host made the preliminary Nebula ballot. Lyda lives in the Saint Paul with her partner, son Mason, and four cats.

Miriam Moss

Natasha Mostert
Natasha Mostert is the author of four paranormal novels. Her latest, SEASON OF THE WITCH, received starred reviews in Kirkus and PW and is a modern gothic thriller about techgnosis and the Art of Memory. Future goals include executing a perfect spinning backkick and coming face to face with a ghost. She lives in London.

Nina Munteanu
Nina Munteanu is a Canadian SF author and ecologist. Her short stories have been published all over the planet with translations into Polish, Greek, Hebrew and Romanian. Several of her stories were nominated for the Aurora Prix and the SLR Fountain Award and selected for "Best of" anthologies. Nina's novels include two ebooks (COLLISION WITH PARADISE by Liquid Silver [nominated for the Gaylactic Spectrum Award] and THE CYPOL by eXtasy Books [nominated for the eCataromance Reviewers Choice Award]). Her latest book is DARWIN':S PARADOX by Dragon Moon Press (on sale November 2007). She lives in the rural outskirts of Vancouver with her family and dog-eating cat. For more information on Nina and her writing visit her blogs Darwin's Paradox or The Alien Next Door.

Pat Murphy

Eugene Charles Myers
I'm a NYC-based writer, a survivor of the 2005 Clarion West Writers Workshop, and a member of several excellent writing groups.

Melanie Nilles
Melanie Nilles always had a fascination with science fiction and fantasy. She currently resides in central North Dakota with her family and horses. Her works include the Legend of the White Dragon series and DARK ANGEL from Mundania Press starting in 2008.

Christine Norris
Christine Norris is the author of several works for children and adults. She spends her time divided between her writing, substitute teaching, and caring for her family of one husband-creature, a son-animal, a large dog whose greatest achievement is sleeping in one position for an entire day, and a small feline who is very adept in his position as Guardian of the Bathtub. She also works at English Adaptations of novels translated from other languages.

Jody Lynn Nye
Jody Lynn Nye lives and writes in Illinois. Since 1985 she has published over 30 books and 90 short stories, mostly science fiction and fantasy. She is interested in history, photography, calligraphy, gourmet cooking and has traveled widely. She and husband Bill Fawcett have two well-pampered cats, Jeremy and Miles.

Grace O' Malley
Reader, Member of the Motherboard and Treasurer for Broaduniverse

Gloria Isabel Oliver
Gloria Oliver lives in Texas with her husband and daughter. She is the author of the novels "In the Service of Samurai", and "Vassal of El", both fantasy novels. Coming soon are "Cross-eyed Dragon Troubles" and "Willing Sacrifice". To find out more please visit www.gloriaoliver.com

Suzanne Palmer

Jennifer Pelland
Jennifer Pelland lives and writes just outside Boston. Her short fiction has appeared in a number of venues, including Helix, Strange Horizons, and Apex Digest. She's a member of the BRAWL writing group, a graduate of the Viable Paradise writing workshop, a SFWA web volunteer, and was an SLF online mentor for their pilot program. Her other creative outlet is radio theater, because life doesn't offer her enough opportunities to make funny voices in front of an audience.

Patricia Perry
I was born in Germany and moved to the United States as a child. I hold a degree in biology and have been working as a Seafood Inspector for the federal government for many years. QUEST FOR THE SOURCE OF DARKNESS, my first fantasy novel, was released in August 2007 and was nominated for the 2007 Allbooks Reviewer's Choice Award. THE FORTRESS OF DARKNESS, its sequel, was released in July 2007. A short story, "Duchess' Package", is scheduled to be included in an anthology, LEGENDS AND FABLES: A FANTASY ANTHOLOGY, by Gallery Seven Books. It is scheduled for release at the end of 2007.

Piper Perry

Ursula M Pflug
Ursula Pflug is author of the novel, GREEN MUSIC. (Tesseract Books, 2002) Born in Tunis, she attended the Ontario College of Art and the University of Toronto after travelling widely. An internationally published, award winning short story writer, Pflug has published over fifty stories in journals and anthologies including Leviathan 1 and 4, Album Zutique, The Nine Muses, On Spec, Now Magazine, Quarry, Herizons, The Best Of Strange Horizons, The Best of Leviathan and Album Zutique and many more. She writes about books regularly for The Peterborough Examiner, the New York Review of Science Fiction and other publications. Her experience in professional theatre includes several productions of her plays, either solo-authored or collectively written. Recipient of an Ontario Arts Council Works In Progress Award in 2005 to complete her new novel, THIN WEDNESDAY, Pflug was short-listed for the KM Hunter Award the following year. She received a Canada Council grant in the current year for a novel length flash fiction project. She teaches short fiction via the Continuing Education Program of Loyalist College. Her blog is here.

Lori Phillips
Lori Phillips writes under the pseudonym Alexa Grave. She has a Master of Arts degree in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University. Please visit her website and blog for further information.

KT Pinto
KT Pinto couldn't stand where her family had moved once they left Brooklyn, so she started killing people. Once she ran out of room for the bodies, she decided she had to find another outlet for her frustration. That's when she started writing...

Willow Polson
Writer with 17 years of varied non-fiction writing experience (including 5 metaphysical books), now moving into fantasy/scifi work.

Lettie Prell
Lettie Prell's first novel, DRAGON RING, is new in May 2008 through Flying Pen Press. She has stories in The Lorelei Signal and Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine. Her poetry has appeared in Pangaia and Kai Han, and was featured in the Iowa Drama Workshop production, "Kali Ma."

Jessica E. Price

Cat Rambo
Cat Rambo's work has appeared in such places as Strange Horizons, Fantasy Magazine, and Chiaroscuro. She is a graduate of Clarion West and the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars.

Jessica Reisman
Jessica Reisman grew up on the east coast of the U.S., was a teenager on the west coast, and now lives in Austin, Texas. She dropped out of high school and now has a master's degree. She's been a writer, animal lover, devoted reader, and movie aficionado since she was a little girl. Her first novel came out in 2004; she has stories in a wide variety of magazines and anthologies.

Tansy Rayner Roberts
Tansy Rayner Roberts is a fantasy writer based in Tasmania, Australia.

Dindy Robinson
Mari Atherton is the pseudonym for Dindy Robinson, publisher of Swimming Kangaroo Books. She lives in the DFW Metroplex with her six cats, one dog and husband. She fell in love with Science Fiction when she read THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES by Ray Bradbury at the age of ten. She promptly wrote her own science fiction novel that, mercifully, has long since been consigned to the recycling bin.

Maggie Della Rocca
I am a SF, Horror, and Fantasy writer living in a suburb of the Twin Cities, Minnesota. My work is heavily influenced by my love for animals and other non-human entities. I've been married for thirty years and have two grown sons.

Karen A. Romanko
Karen A. Romanko has seen over 100 of her poems and short stories published in venues such as Strange Horizons, Ideomancer, and Lone Star Stories. She also edits and publishes the speculative fiction e-zine Raven Electrick and recently released the 42-author flash fiction and poetry anthology SPORTY SPEC: GAMES OF THE FANTASTIC.

Julie K. Rose
I am an author of speculative literature: magical realism, historical fiction, and historical fantasy/timeslip.

Mary Rosenblum
Mary Rosenblum writes SF mostly, with some Mystery and mainstream. She has published eight novels and more than 60 short stories in all genres, with major publishers.

Rebecca K. Rowe
Rebecca K. Rowe is a science fiction author and freelance writer living and working in Colorado. Her debut science fiction novel, FORBIDDEN CARGO, has recently been published in the United States and Canada. It has received critical acclaim from The Washington Post, the Rocky Mountain News and The Denver Post.

Katherine Sanger
Katherine Sanger was a Jersey Girl before getting smart and moving to Texas. She's been published in various e-zines, including Another Realm, Lost in the Dark, Deathbug, Aphelion and Revolution SF. She has a story scheduled for publication in the upcoming Baen's Universe. She also edits an online fiction and poetry zine, From the Asylum.

Justine Saracen
Author of fan fiction "Lao Ma's Kiss," "The Pappas Journals," "Women in Prison," "In the Reich." Published book: Salvation in the Secular (Herbert Lang Verlag, Bern) and unpublished novels: The 100th Generation and Sistine Faces.

Marlene Y. Satter
Marlene Satter, writing as Lee Barwood, is a longtime writer of fantasy, horror, and mystery fiction/poetry and winner of Andre Norton's Gryphon Award; nonfiction includes business/financial articles, reviews, book doctoring/editing.

Lacey Savage
Award-winning author Lacey Savage loves to write about her dreams -- or more specifically, she loves to breathe life into her steamy fantasies (and she's got plenty!). A hopeless romantic, Lacey loves writing about the intimate, sensual side of relationships. She currently resides in Ottawa, Canada, with her loving husband and their mischievous cat.

Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
I'm a fantasy/science fiction writer with 20 solo novels and one Nebula (1989 best novel THE HEALER'S WAR) on my own plus 14 co-written with Anne McCaffrey. I'm an in-country Vietnam Army Nurse Corps veteran, love beads, folk music and folklore and cats. I do most of my writing in an ice cream parlor.

Catherine H. Schaff-Stump
Dr. Catherine Schaff-Stamp teaches English to International students, researches pop culture, and writes novels in, of all places, Iowa.

Lucy Cohen Schmeidler
Married, 1 cat, 3 grown children, 3 grandchildren. 3 published stories (1 pro) and several poems.

Judy A. Schriebman
Aspiring writer with one Fantasy book trilogy about to be shopped around. Co-author of Birds: Homeopathic Remedies from the Avian Realm by my professional alter-ego.

Jan Schubert

Ekaterina Sedia
Ekaterina Sedia's first novel, ACCORDING TO CROW, was published by Five Star Books (Thomson/Gale). Her second, SECRET HISTORY OF MOSCOW, is coming in early 2008 from Prime Books. Her short stories sold to Analog, Baen's Universe, Fantasy Magazine, and Dark Wisdom, and JAPANESE DREAMS (Prime Books) and MAGIC IN THE MIRRORSTONE (Mirrorstone Books) anthologies.

Lorelei Shannon
Lorelei Shannon is a horror and dark fantasy writer, sculptor, and computer game designer. She is the author of numerous short stories, novels, and a game that was banned from three countries and Sears stores everywhere.

Lisa Shearin
Lisa Shearin currently works as the editor at an advertising agency. She has been a magazine editor and writer of corporate marketing materials of every description. She lives in North Carolina with her husband, two cats, a spoiled-rotten retired racing greyhound, and a Jack Russell Terrier who rules them all.

Anne Lane Sheldon
Clarion '97, poet-in-the-schools; instructor, U of MD; appeared in Poet Lore, Weird Tales, L.C.R.W., Antietam Review, Black Gate

Delia Sherman
Delia Sherman is the author of three novels (the latest written with partner Ellen Kusher) and numerous short stories, many of which have appeared in YEAR'S BEST FANTASY AND HORROR. She is also a founder of the Interstitial Arts Foundation, and a firm believer in blending and bending genres whenever possible.

Diane Silver

Janni L. Simner
Janni Lee Simner's YA fantasy BONES OF FAERIE (working title) will be published by Random House in Spring 2009. Her fourth children's book, SECRET OF THE THREE TREASURES, was recently published by Holiday House. She's also published more than 30 short stories for kids, teens, and adults, including appearances in GOTHIC! TEN ORIGINAL DARK TALES, Realms of Fantasy and Cricket magazine.

Marge Simon
Marge Ballif Simon free lances as a writer-poet-illustrator for genre and mainstream publications such as Strange Horizons, Flashquake, Flash Me Magazine, Dreams & Nightmares, The Pedestal Magazine, Vestal Review. Marge is former president of the Science Fiction Poetry Association and now serves as editor of Star*Line.

Ruth Sims
Full-time writer with one husband, two kids, three granddaughters, one cat. My books are historical, not fantasy or sf, but my short stories are definitely on the weird side.

Linnea Sinclair
Winner of the prestigious national book award, the RITA, science fiction romance author Linnea Sinclair has become a name synonymous for high-action, emotionally intense, character-driven novels. Reviewers note that Sinclair's novels "have the wow-factor in spades," earning her accolades from both the science fiction and romance communities. Sinclair's current releases are GAMES OF COMMAND (PEARL Award winner and RITA finalist) and THE DOWN HOME ZOMBIE BLUES (PEARL Award Honorable Mention), with SHADES OF DARK scheduled for July 2008. A former news reporter and retired private detective, Sinclair resides in Naples, Florida (winters) and Columbus, Ohio (summers) along with her husband, Robert Bernadino, and their two thoroughly spoiled cats. Readers can find her perched on the third barstool from the left in her Intergalactic Bar and Grille at www.linneasinclair.com.

Lee Singer
As Shelley Singer I've had two mystery series published, and I'm now returning to my first love, science fiction, with the novel Blackjack, due out in June of 2007, starring mercenary Rica Marin.

Deborah L. Smith
Debbie has spent the last fifteen years writing and producing such television shows as MURDER, SHE WROTE; DR. QUINN, MEDICINE WOMAN; and TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL. She is a graduate of Clarion West and has recently sold short stories to PanGaia and the Dark Delicacies Anthology.

Janice S. Smith
Screenwriter and novelist. Writer of speculative fiction.

Kristine Smith
Born in Buffalo. Lived in the South and Midwest, and currently reside in northern Illinois. Trained as a chemist, and write spec fic on the side. Won the Best New Writer Campbell in 2001.

Jeri Smith-Ready
Award-winning fantasy author Jeri Smith-Ready has been writing fiction since the night she had her first double espresso. She holds a master's degree in environmental policy and lives in Maryland with her husband, cat, and the world's goofiest greyhound.

Lucy A. Snyder
Lucy A. Snyder is the author of SPARKS AND SHADOWS. She lives in Worthington, Ohio where she writes by day and does tech support by night. Her work has appeared in Strange Horizons, Doctor Who Short Trips: Destination Prague, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Chiaroscuro, Masques V, and Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet.

Ruth A. Souther
Have written for 25 years, got serious 6 years ago and finally published first novel,a mythic fantasy series based on Greek mythology. Love to network, love to talk shop with other writers.

Sara Stamey
4th generation Pacific Northwest, Sara has published SF and suspense novels, teaches creative writing at WWU, and offers editing services. Life is an adventure - she's taught Scuba in the Caribbean, trekked in wilderness around the globe, owned a farm in Southern Chile.

Schelly Renee Steelman

Jennifer Stevenson
Jennifer Stevenson swims, rides horses, skates in recreational roller derby, and writes sexy, funny paranormal romance. Look for THE BRASS BED, THE VELVET CHAIR, AND THE BEARSKIN RUG (Ballantine 2008) in stores near you! TRASH SEX MAGIC is still available from Small Beer Press (2004).

J G Stinson
I've been reading SF/F/H for more than 35 years, and since 1999 I've been writing reviews and essays about books and ideas in these genres. I was also a contributor to the first book-length author study of C. J. Cherryh, THE CHERRYH ODYSSEY (Borgo Press, 2004).

Kathryn Sullivan
Author of The Crystal Throne (Fantasy EPPIE winner), Agents & Adepts (Dream Realm Award Anthology winner) and Talking to Trees. Also short stories in anthologies published by Big Finish and Mundania Press.

Karen Swanberg
Karen Swanberg's first memory was of sitting with her two sisters, listening to Dad reading The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy, in their entirety, before she turned four. She hasn't been the same since.

Leslie Kay Swigart
Librarian, bibliographer, doctoral student (UCLA, Information Studies), reader, lisstener. (SFFLibraries-L)Librarian and bibliographer, working on a "compleat" bibliography of theses and dissertations on science fiction, fantasy, and utopian literation and media.

Rachel Swirsky
Rachel Swirsky is a fiction MFA student at the University of Iowa where she's teaching a course in how to write science fiction and fantasy (Fall, 2007). In 2005, she attended the Clarion West Writers Workshop. Her short fiction has appeared or is scheduled to appear in markets including Subterranean Magazine, Interzone, Fantasy Magazine, and Electric Velocipede.

Cecilia Tan
Author of WHITE FLAMES, BLACK FEATHERS, THE VELDERET, and TELEPATHS DON'T NEED SAFEWORDS. Editor of SEX IN THE SYSTEM, BEST FANTASTIC EROTICA, and 40+ other anthologies. Founder of Circlet Press.

Sarah Tanburn
Reader, writer and reviewer of all sorts of speculative fiction. I live on a boat and right now we're in Spain, but where we are depends on where the wind blows.

Pamela Kay Taylor
American Muslim SF writer, secretary of Islamic Writer's Alliance, Member, Radius of Arabic-American writers.

Kaires Tevesu

Sherry Thompson
I'm the author of the YA fantasy, SEABIRD, and a total of nearly a million words of narrative. For the details, please go to my blog: "Scribblings"

Amy Thomson
Amy Thomson is the author of VIRTUAL GIRL, THE COLOR OF DISTANCE, THROUGH ALIEN EYES, and STORYTELLER. Her travels, from the Aleutians to Zanzibar, have inspired much of her writing. Her most recent research trip was to Mongolia. She is the winner of the John W. Campbell Award, and a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award and the Endeavour Awards.

Claire Todd

Christy E. Tohara
Christy E. Tohara is a middle school English teacher from South Jordan, Utah. Graduated from Brigham Young University with a bachelor's degree in Secondary Education, she's currently working on her first novel with Trisha Wooldridge. Again co-authoring with Wooldridge, Christy has completed a short story called "Party Crashers." She has also published a few poems in chap books.

Elizabeth Tudor
I was born in 1978. I'm a science-fiction writer and Elizabeth Tudor is my literary pseudonym. I'm a member of the Azerbaijan and International Writer Union.

Mary A. Turzillo
Mary A. Turzillo's novelette "Mars Is no Place for Children" won the 1999 Nebula, and her story "Eat or Be Eaten" was finalist for the British Science Fiction Association award. Her first novel, An Old-Fashioned Martian Girl was serialized in Analog magazine. Her work has appeared in Asimov's, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Interzone, Science Fiction Age, Weird Tales, Oceans of the Mind, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet and anthologies and magazines in the US, Germany, Italy, Czechoslovakia, China, and Japan. She has published over fifty poems, is an Emeritus Professor of English of Kent State University, founded the Cajun Sushi Hamsters from Hell, a Cleveland fiction workshop.

Xina Marie Uhl
Xina Marie Uhl lives in sunny Southern California with her husband, daughter, and assorted furry and scaly pets. The setting of her first novel NECROPOLIS has been heavily influenced by her interest in Ancient History. Currently, she is looking for a home for two novel series and several screenplays.

Sandra M. Ulbrich
Sandra Ulbrich is an assistant scientist living in the Chicago area. Her short story "A Reptile at the Reunion" has been published in the anthology A FIRESTORM OF DRAGONS.

Carol Irene Ullmann

Greg van Eekhout

JoSelle Vanderhooft
JoSelle Vanderhooft is a Salt Lake City poet and author. Her books include THE TALE OF THE MILLER'S DAUGHTER, OSSUARY, THE MINOTAUR'S LAST LETTER TO HIS MOTHER, DEATH MASKS, FATHERS, DAUGHTERS, GHOSTS AND MONSTERS and THE HANDLESS MAIDEN AND OTHER TWICE-TOLD TALES.

Martha G. Verlander
I have been a writer all my life, passing around the latest installments of a never-finished novel in junior high science class, long before earning a B.A. in English. My first byline was Consumer's Digest, followed by more martial arts articles in other publications. I have a few short-story creds and am shopping a completed fantasy novel.

Calie Voorhis
Self-avowed geek, struggling writer, and Odyssey 2006 graduate.

Martine Votvik
I was born, and so on and so on...

Saskia Walker
Saskia Walker is a British author of fantasy, paranormal and contemporary erotic romance. She lives in the north of England, on the beautiful, windswept Yorkshire moors. A full time writer, her work is published by Juno, Red Sage and Berkley.

Sean Wallace
Sean Wallace is the founder and senior editor of Prime Books, an imprint of Wildside Press; co-editor of the new ezine, Clarkesworld Magazine; co-editor of Fantasy Magazine; and the editor of Best New Fantasy, Horror: The Best of the Year, Jabberwocky and the forthcoming Japanese Dreams.

Christine M. Wallish

Janet Lane Walters

Cynthia Ward
Cynthia Ward has published stories in Asimov's SF Magazine, Front Lines, and other anthologies and magazines. She reviews for Kobold Quarterly, SF Weekly, and other websites and publications. She also publishes the monthly "Market Maven" market-news e'newsletter (subscribe at http://www.speculations.com/). With Nisi Shawl, she wrote diversity fiction-writing handbook WRITING THE OTHER (Aqueduct Press, 2005), based on their acclaimed workshop Writing the Other: Bridging Cultural Differences for Successful Fiction (http://www.writingtheother.com/). She is completing her first novel, a futuristic mystery tentatively titled STONE RAIN.

Jean Marie Ward
Jean Marie Ward is the author of WITH NINE YOU GET VANYR and ILLUMINA: THE ART OF J.P. TARGETE. She edited CRESCENT BLUES for eight years, and her articles have appeared in publications as diverse as THE ASFA JOURNAL, ROMANCE WRITERS REPORT and SCIENCE FICTION WEEKLY.

Eileen E. Watkins
Eileen F. Watkins is a member of Garden State Horror Writers and Sisters in Crime. Her novel DANCE WITH THE DRAGON won the 2004 EPPIE in Horror, and her s-f thriller BLACK FLOWERS was a 2006 EPPIE finalist in Action/Thriller. She also has published RIDE A DANCING HORSE and PARAGON.

Rina B. Weisman

Martha Wells
Has published seven novels, including "The Wizard Hunters," "The Ships of Air," and "The Gate of Gods" from HarperCollin Eos.

Morven Westfield
A computer professional, Morven is the author of DARKSOME THIRST (2003) and the sequel, THE OLD POWER RETURNS (June 2007). Married with one cat, she lives in Massachusetts with her husband, a pragmatist who is mildly amused by his wife's interest in things that go bump in the night.

Leslie What
Leslie What is a Nebula Award-winning writer and the author of the upcoming collection "Crazy Love." Her work has appeared in a number of places, including Parabola, Asimov's, SciFiction, The MacGuffin, Fugue, Lilith, and Midstream. She teaches at UCLA Extension.

Heather Whipple

Diane Whiteside
Diane Whiteside has created worlds ranging from Silk Road medieval, alternate Regency history, to dark urban fantasy with vampires and the crusades, publishing over ten novels, plus assorted novellas and short stories in the process. A computer geek by day, she likes being owned by Tibetan Terriers, the good luck dog of Tibetan monasteries and the Dalai Lama.

Ann Wilkes
Ann Wilkes' short fiction has appeared in online magazines and print anthologies. Her first book, AWESOME LAVRATT, released Feb. 2008, is a punny ride through the galaxy filled with mind control, passion & adventure. Her prose tends towards first contact and humorous SF.

Lynda Williams
Author of the Okal Rel Saga (some books co-authored by Alison Sinclair) published by Edge SF and Fantasy Publishing and integrity editor of additional works of cannon published by Windstorm Creative.

Alette J. Willis
Published SF writer and academic narrative environmental ethicist.

Trisha J. Wooldridge
Trisha J. Wooldridge is a freelance writer and editor with experience ranging from Dungeons & Dragons Online to animal rescue public relations. She rounds out her non-fiction career with articles on food, wine, and teaching, along with interviews with bands like Voltaire, Within Temptation and Nightwish. Her fiction career is just beginning with her first co-authored publication, "Party Crashers" in the anthology BAD-ASS FAERIES 2 and two completed novels being shopped to agents.

Phoebe Wray
Phoebe Wray’s first sf novel, JEMMA7729 came out in March 2008. She has short stories in Farthing, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Fables.org, PanGaia, Doorknobs & Body Paint, and (2008) Backless, Strapless and Slit to the Throat: A Femme Fatale Anthology. She has had four plays produced professionally, poetry in Cat's Magazine, chizine, Gatherings, Quartet and elsewhere. She teaches in the Theatre Division of The Boston Conservatory, and is on the Broad Universe Motherboard.

Xakara
Xakara lives in Southeast Wisconsin overlooking lake Michigan with her long time sweetie and a handful of friends that are like family. As a pansexual and multicultural Black woman raised on sci-fi/fantasy, ethnic and sexual diversity in genre fiction is a personal passion Xakara realizes in her own writing.

Maria Zannini
Maria started a writing career just to prove there was actually something more thankless than being a graphic designer. By day she saves the world from bad advertising. The rest of the time she writes SFF, humor and nonfiction. Visit her at www.mariazannini.blogspot.com for posts on the business of writing.

Kim Zimring
Kim Zimring is a graduate of the Clarion 2005 workshop. Her short fiction has recently appeared in Analog. Future stories will soon appear in the 2007 Writers of the Future anthology, as well as Asimov's.