WILLIAM F. WU has had over sixty short stories published in the science fiction and fantasy fields and thirteen novels by major New York houses. He adapted his novel Hong on the Range for a three-issue, closed-end comic book from Image Comics in the 1990s.
Wu’s short story “Goin’ Down to Anglotown” was a 2011 finalist for Canada’s Aurora Award, for best short science fiction of the year, and for the Sidewise Award for Alternate History. His story “Wong’s Lost and Found Emporium,” a multiple award nominee, was adapted into an episode of the Twilight Zone in 1985, available on DVD.
A six-time nominee for the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards, Wu is a news editor in Palmdale, California. He was born and raised in the Kansas City area, and educated at the University of Michigan. He lives in Palmdale, California.
After found as an infant crawling among books in an abandoned library, KIMBERLY RICHARDSON grew up to become an eccentric woman with a taste for jazz, drinking tea and writing stories that cause people to make the strangest faces. Her first book, Tales From a Goth Librarian, was published through Dark Oak Press and named a Finalist in both the USA Book News Awards for Fiction: Short Story for 2009 and the International Book Awards for Fiction: Short Story in 2010. Ms. Richardson is also the author of The Decembrists (Dark Oak Press), Tales From a Goth Librarian II (Dark Oak Press) and Mabon/Pomegranate (Dark Oak Press), the upcoming book Open A, as well as the editor of Realms of Imagination: An Urban Fantasy Anthology and the award winning Steampunk anthology Dreams of Steam and the award winning sequels Dreams of Steam II: Of Brass and Bolts, Dreams of Steam III: Gadgets and Dreams of Steam IV: Gizmos, and the upcoming Dreams of Steam V, all published through Dark Oak Press. Ms. Richardson is also a contributor to the anthologies Black Pulp and Asian Pulp, both published through ProSe Press, Garbanzo Literary Journal Volume III, published through Seraphemera Books, and Luna’s Children: Stranger Worlds, published through Dark Oak Press. Ms. Richardson is the Programming Director for Memphis Comic and Fantasy Convention. Ms. Richardson is also the 2015 David McCrosky Volunteer Photographer in Residence for Elmwood Cemetery located in Memphis, Tennessee.
NAOMI HIRAHARA is the award-winning author of two mystery series. The third in her Mas Arai mysteries, Snakeskin Shamisen, won an Edgar Allan Poe for Best Paperback Original, while the first in her Officer Ellie Rush bicycle cop series, Murder on Bamboo Lane, received a T. Jefferson Parker mystery award from the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association. Her novels have been translated in Japanese, Korean and French. Her five Mas Arai mysteries are available as audio books.
A former editor of The Rafu Shimpo newspaper in Los Angeles, she also has written several nonfiction books and noir short stories. Her book for young readers, 1001 Cranes, received Honorable Mention in Youth Literature from the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association. Her second Officer Ellie Rush mystery, Grave on Grand Avenue, will be released in April 2015, while another short story, “Jigoku,” will be included in the fantastical collection of crime stories related to Japan, Hanzai Japan (VIZ Media’s Haikasoru), to be published in October 2015.
CALVIN MCMILLIN is a writer, teacher, and scholar. Born in Singapore and raised in rural Oklahoma, he went on to earn bachelors’ degrees in English and secondary education from Oklahoma State University. After teaching junior high for a year, he obtained a master’s degree in English from the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa and a doctorate in literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz. His dissertation-turned-book project, The Hardboiled and the Haunted: Race, Masculinity, and the Asian American Detective, examines an emerging genre of detective fiction and film noir created by Asian American writers and filmmakers.
For nine years, McMillin worked as a film critic for LoveHKFilm.com, a Hong Kong cinema website. More recently, he taught literature and composition classes at the University of Michigan-Dearborn and Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor.
McMillin also served as the editor of Frank Chin’s The Confessions of a Number One Son (2015), a lost novel written in the 1970s that he discovered and restored for publication. Pro Se Productions is slated to publish McMillin’s first short story collection, The Sushi Bar at the Edge of Forever in early 2016.
DON LEE’s latest book is the novel The Collective, which won the 2013 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature. He is also the author of the novels Wrack and Ruin and Country of Origin, and the story collection Yellow—all published by W. W. Norton. He has received an American Book Award, the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction, the Edgar Award for Best First Novel, an O. Henry Award, a Pushcart Prize, and the Fred R. Brown Literary Award. His stories have appeared in The Kenyon Review, GQ, American Short Fiction, and elsewhere. He teaches in the M.F.A. program in creative writing at Temple University in Philadelphia.
Writer, and award-winning editor ALAN J. PORTER has written adventures featuring Sherlock Holmes, Allan Quatermain, Houdini, and private eye Rick Ruby; as well as his own New Pulp adventurers, The Raven and The Lotus Ronin.
His pop-culture non-fiction work has featured properties such as Batman, Star Trek, The Beatles, and James Bond.
He has also written comics for Tokyopop, BOOM Studios, Marvel, Disney, and Kid Domino.
LEONARD CHANG is the author of seven novels, including the recently published Triplines, and the bestselling Over the Shoulder. His newest novel, The Lockpicker, is scheduled for publication in 2016. He is also a writer and co-producer for the TV crime drama Justified. He studied philosophy and religion at Dartmouth College and Harvard University, and received his MFA from UC Irvine. He currently lives in Los Angeles.
Growing up on a steady diet of comic books and action movies, PERCIVAL CONSTANTINE began writing at the age of ten and never really stopped. Since 2005, he’s worked in publishing in various capacities—author, editor, formatter, comic book letterer—and has written books, short stories, comics, articles and more.
Percival has four ongoing series—the globe-trotting adventure series The Myth Hunter, the espionage/action series Infernum, the superhero serial Vanguard, and the occult investigator Pro Se Single Shot, Luther Cross. He’s also a contributor to several websites, including WhatCulture and The Jet Coaster.
Currently, Percival lives in Japan’s Kagoshima prefecture where he works as a literature and writing instructor at the Minami Academy when he’s not writing. You can find him online at PercivalConstantine.com.
SEAN TAYLOR is an award-winning writer of stories. He grew up telling lies, and he got pretty good at it, so now he writes them into full-blown adventures for comic books, graphic novels, magazines, book anthologies and novels. He makes stuff up for money, and he writes it down for fun. He’s a lucky fellow that way.
He’s best known for his work on the best-selling Gene Simmons Dominatrix comic book series from IDW Publishing and Simmons Comics Group. He has also written comics for TV properties such as the top-rated Oxygen Network series The Bad Girls Club. His other forays into fiction include such realms as steampunk, pulp, young adult, fantasy, super heroes, sci-fi, and even samurai frogs on horseback (seriously, don’t laugh). However, his favorite contribution to the world will be as the writer/editor who invented the genre and coined the term “Hookerpunk.” For more information (and mug shots) visit www.taylorverse.comand his writer’s blog at seanhtaylor.blogspot.com.
GARY PHILLIPS has written several novels including Only the Wicked and Warlord of Willow Ridge. He edited the linked anthology Day of the Destroyers featuring 1930s super spy Jimmie Flint, conceived, co-edited and contributed to Pro Se’s Black Pulp anthology as well as Hollis, P.I.—prose stories of a character he first created in comics. Occupied Earth, a linked sci-fi anthology he co-edited is out soon, and he has short stories in the upcoming Black Pulp II and Jewish Noir anthologies. His graphic novel The Rinse about a money launderer was recently optioned for TV. His website is: www.gdphillips.com.
DAVID C. SMITH is the author of two dozen novels, including Dark Muse, Call of Shadows, S
easons of the Moon, the epic trilogy The Fall of the First World, a series of sword-and-sorcery novels featuring his character Oron, and the Red Sonja series (coauthored with Richard L. Tierney). Ten of his novels, including the Oron series and his occult thrillers The Fair Rules of Evil and The Eyes of Night, are being reprinted by Wildside Press, which has already released revised editions of the three books of The Fall of the First World. His most recently published fiction is “Coven House” in the Spring 2014 issue of Weird Tales. Smith lives outside Chicago with his wife, Janine, and his daughter, Lilia. His website is at www.blog.davidcsmith.net, and his Wikipedia page is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_C._Smith_(author)
LOUISE HERRING-JONES writes mainstream, historical, and speculative fiction as well as non-fiction. Her science fiction, dark fantasy, steampunk, and light horror stories have appeared in anthologies. Her website is at http://www.louiseherring-jones.com.
DALE FURUTANI is the first Asian-American to win major mystery writing awards. His books have appeared on several bestseller lists. He has spoken at the US Library of Congress, the Japanese-American National Museum, The Pacific Asia Museum, and numerous conferences and universities. The City of Los Angeles named him as one of its “Forty Faces of Diversity” and Publisher’s Weekly called him “a master craftsman.” He has lived in Japan and traveled extensively in Japan and Europe.
MARK FINN is an author, an actor, and a playwright. His biography, Blood and Thunder: The Life and Art of Robert E. Howard, was nominated for a World Fantasy award in 2007 and he is a nationally recognized authority on the Texas author. His articles, essays, and introductions about Robert E. Howard and his works have appeared in publications for the Robert E. Howard Foundation, Dark Horse Comics, Boom! Comics, The Cimmerian, REH: Two-Gun Raconteur, The Howard Review, Wildside Press, and he has presented papers about Robert E. Howard to the PCA/ACA National conference, the AWC, and lectures and performs readings regularly. When not writing about Robert E. Howard, he writes short stories, reviews movies, and pens the occasional novel, both sold and unsold.
HENRY CHANG is a New Yorker, a native son of Chinatown and the Lower East Side. He has written for Yellow Pearl, Bridge Magazine, and his fiction has appeared in On a Bed of Rice and in the NuYorAsian Anthology. His debut novel Chinatown Beat garnered high praise from the New York Times Book Review, the Boston Globe, and the Washington Post, among others. His Chinese-American NYPD Detective Jack Yu series—Chinatown Beat, Year of the Dog, Red Jade, and Death Money—is being developed for television and movies. He is a graduate of CCNY (City College of New York) and resides in Manhattan.
STEPH CHA is the author of Follow Her Home, Beware Beware, and the forthcoming Dead Soon Enough, all published by St. Martin’s Minotaur. She’s a regular contributor to the L.A. Times and the L.A. Review of Books. She lives in her native city of Los Angeles with her husband and basset hound.
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