The Best of Electric Velocipede
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Sandra McDonald’s first collection was a Booklist Editor’s Choice, an American Library Association Over the Rainbow Book and winner of a Lambda Literary Award. She is the published author of several novels and more than seventy short stories for adults and teens, including the award-winning Fisher Key Adventures. She holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing and teaches college in Florida.
Sam J. Miller is a writer and a community organizer. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Lightspeed Magazine, Shimmer, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Strange Horizons, Interzone, The Minnesota Review, and The Rumpus, among others. He is a winner of the Shirley Jackson Award and a graduate of the Clarion Writer’s Workshop. Visit him at www.samjmiller.com.
Val Nolan’s stories have appeared in The Year’s Best Science Fiction (31st edition), Interzone, Cosmos, on the ‘Futures’ page of Nature, and he has been shortlisted for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (2014). He is a literary critic for the Irish Examiner and he lectures at National University of Ireland, Galway.
Patrick O’Leary is poet, novelist, and songwriter. His novels are Door Number Three, The Gift, and The Impossible Bird (TOR). Other Voices, Other Doors (Fairwood Press) and The Black Heart (PS PUBLISHING) collect his shorter work. He has two Ibook poetry collections and one album: Every Waking Hour. https://www.tumblr.com/blog/paddybono
While finishing two nonfiction books to follow his 2010 work, C.M. Kornbluth (McFarland & Co.) Mark Rich has continued working on essays, poetry, and short fiction, some of which have appeared in The New York Review of Science Fiction, Cascadia Subduction Zone, and Missing Links and Secret Histories (Aqueduct Press).
Chris Roberson is a New York Times Bestselling writer best known for the Eisner-nominated series iZOMBIE, co-created with artist Mike Allred; for multiple Cinderella mini-series set in the world of Bill Willingham’s Fables; and his creator-owned series Edison Rex with artist Dennis Culver, and his work on Superman, Star Trek/Legion of Super-Heroes, and Elric: The Balance Lost, among others. He has written more than a dozen novels, three dozen short stories, and numerous comic projects. Chris and his wife, Allison Baker, are the co-publishers of Monkeybrain Comics, and the couple lives with their daughter in Portland, Oregon.
William Shunn is the author of over thirty works of short fiction, which have appeared everywhere from Asimov’s to Salon. He has been shortlisted for the Hugo, Nebula, and Sturgeon Awards. He lives in New York City with his wife Laura Chavoen.
Cyril Simsa is originally from London, but has lived in Prague since the 1990s. He has contributed translations and non-fiction to a wide variety of genre publications (Foundation, Locus, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, Wormwood). His stories have appeared in Darkness Rising, Here & Now, StarShipSofa, Music for Another World, and on the World SF Blog. His collection, Lost Cartographies, was recently published by Invocations Press in Brighton.
Cislyn Smith likes playing pretend, playing games, and playing with words. She calls Madison, WI her home. She has been known to crochet tentacles, write stories at odd hours, and gallivant. She is occasionally dismayed by the lack of secret passages in her house.
Rachel Swirsky holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop and graduated from Clarion West in 2005. She lives in Bakersfield with her husband and too many cats. So many cats. So, so many cats. Her short fiction has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies including Tor.com and Clarkesworld Magazine, and been nominated for the Hugo, the Locus Award, and the World Fantasy Award, and won the Nebula Award twice. Her second collection, How the World Became Quiet: Myths of the Past, Present, and Future, came out from Subterranean Press in 2013. She has not yet lived through an apocalypse.
Mark Teppo is the author of Rudolph!, The Potemkin Mosaic, Lightbreaker, Heartland, and Earth Thirst. His latest effort at subverting genre conventions is to build his own publishing company called Resurrection House. He is a synthesist, a trouble-shooter (and -maker), a cat herder, and an idea man. His favorite Tarot card is the Moon.
Catherynne M. Valente is the New York Times bestselling author of over twenty works of fiction and poetry, including Palimpsest, the Orphan’s Tales series, Deathless, and the crowdfunded phenomenon The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Own Making. She is the winner of the Andre Norton, Tiptree, Mythopoeic, Rhysling, Lambda, Locus and Hugo awards. She has been a finalist for the Nebula and World Fantasy Awards. She lives on an island off the coast of Maine with a small but growing menagerie of beasts, some of which are human.
Damien Angelica Walters’ work has appeared or is forthcoming in various magazines and anthologies, including Nightmare, Year’s Best Weird Fiction Volume One, Strange Horizons, Lightspeed Magazine, Shimmer, Apex, and Glitter & Mayhem. Sing Me Your Scars and Other Stories, a collection of her short fiction, is forthcoming from Apex Publications.
Liz Williams is a science fiction and fantasy writer living in Glastonbury, England, where she is co-director of a witchcraft supply business. She is currently published by Bantam Spectra (US), Tor Macmillan (UK), and Night Shade Press and appears regularly in Realms of Fantasy, Asimov’s and other magazines. She is the secretary of the Milford SF Writers’ Workshop, and also teaches creative writing and the history of Science Fiction.
Jonathan Wood is an Englishman in New York. There’s a story in there involving falling in love and flunking out of med school, but in the end it all worked out all right, and, quite frankly, the medical community is far better off without him, so we won’t go into it here. His debut novel, No Hero was described by Publisher’s Weekly as “a funny, dark, rip-roaring adventure with a lot of heart, highly recommended for urban fantasy and light science fiction readers alike.” Barnesandnoble.com listed it has one of the 20 best paranormal fantasies of the past decade, and Charlaine Harris, author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels described it as, “so funny I laughed out loud.” His short fiction has appeared in Weird Tales, Chizine, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies, as well as anthologies such as The Book of Cthulhu 2 and The Best of Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Year One.
Caroline M. Yoachim lives in Seattle and loves cold cloudy weather. She is the author of over two dozen short stories, appearing in Lightspeed Magazine, Asimov’s, and Clarkesworld Magazine, among other places. For more about Caroline, check out her website at http://carolineyoachim.com.
E. Lily Yu was the recipient of the 2012 Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Her short stories have been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, Sturgeon, and World Fantasy Awards.
About the Editor
John Klima is the editor of The Bulletin, the professional publication of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. From 2001 to 2013 he edited the Hugo-Award winning magazine Electric Velocipede. Klima has also edited several anthologies including Logorrhea: Good Words Make Good Stories—an anthology of stories inspired by spelling-bee winning words—and Happily Ever After, a reprint anthology of retold fairy tales. With the help of Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damien Thomas, Klima ran a successful Kickstarter campaign for their speculative fiction roller disco, nightclub party anthology Glitter & Mayhem.
He is currently at work on several short stories and a young adult fantasy series.
When not writing or editing, Klima works as the assistant director for a large public library in Wisconsin where he lives with his wife and two children.