Karen Joy Fowler is the author of six novels, including Sarah Canary, which won the Commonwealth medal for best first novel by a Californian and The Jane Austen Book Club, a New York Times bestseller. Also three short-story collections, two of which won the World Fantasy Award in their respective years. Her most recent novel We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves was published by Putnam in May 2013. She currently lives in Santa Cruz.
Alice Sola Kim currently lives in Brooklyn. Her fiction has appeared in Lightspeed, Asimov’s Science Fiction, The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy and elsewhere. She is a recipient of a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation and a MacDowell Colony residency, and has been honor-listed twice for the James Tiptree, Jr. Award.
Elizabeth Bear was born on the same day as Frodo and Bilbo Baggins, but in a different year. When coupled with a childhood tendency to read the dictionary for fun, this led her inevitably to penury, intransigence and the writing of speculative fiction. She is the Hugo, Sturgeon, and Campbell Award winning author of twenty-five novels and almost a hundred short stories. Her most recent novel is Steles of the Sky (Tor, 2014). Her dog lives in Massachusetts; her partner, writer Scott Lynch, lives in Wisconsin. She spends a lot of time on planes.
Sarah Monette grew up in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, one of the three secret cities of the Manhattan Project, and now lives in a 108-year-old house in the Upper Midwest with a great many books, two cats, one grand piano, and one husband. Her Ph.D. diploma (English Literature, 2004) hangs in the kitchen. She has published more than fifty short stories and has two short story collections out: The Bone Key (Prime Books 2007 – with a shiny second edition in 2011) and Somewhere Beneath Those Waves (Prime Books, 2011). She has written two novels (A Companion to Wolves, Tor Books, 2007, The Tempering of Men, Tor Books, 2011) and four short stories with Elizabeth Bear, and hopes to write more. Her first four novels (Mélusine, The Virtu, the Mirador, Corambis) were published by Ace. Her latest novel, The Goblin Emperor (written under the pen name Katherine Addison), came out from Tor in April 2014. Visit her online at www.sarahmonette.com or www.katherineaddison.com.
Natalia Theodoridou is a UK-based media and theatre scholar, currently focusing on representations of culture in Balinese performance. Originally from Greece, she has lived and studied in the USA, UK, and Indonesia for several years. Her writing has appeared in Clarkesworld Magazine, Strange Horizons, The Dark, and elsewhere. Her poem “Blackmare” has been nominated for a Rhysling Award. Natalia is a first reader for Goldfish Grimm’s Spicy Fiction Sushi. Her personal website is www.natalia-theodoridou.com.
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin was born in 1929 in Berkeley, and lives in Portland, Oregon. As of 2013, she has published twenty-one novels, eleven volumes of short stories, four collections of essays, twelve books for children, six volumes of poetry, and four of translation, and has received many honors and awards including Hugo, Nebula, National Book Award, PENMalamud. Her most recent publications are Finding My Elegy (New and Selected Poems, 1960–2010) and The Unreal and the Real (Selected Short Stories), 2012.
Nalo Hopkinson is a Jamaican-born Canadian writer of science fiction and fantasy. She is a recipient of the Campbell Award, the Ontario Arts Council Foundation Award, the Locus Award, and the World Fantasy Award. Her novel Midnight Robber was an Honourable Mention in Cuba’s Casa de las Americas Prize for writing in creole. She was a co-founder of the Carl Brandon Society, which exists to further the conversation on race and ethnicity in speculative fiction. She is a professor of Creative Writing at the University of California Riverside. Sister Mine, her eighth book of fiction, appeared in 2013 from Grand Central Publishing. Her website: http://nalohopkinson.com
Zen Cho is a Malaysian writer of fantasy and romance. Her short stories have appeared in publications in the USA, UK, Malaysia, Singapore, and Australia. She was a finalist for the 2013 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.
Élisabeth Vonarburg was born to life in 1947 (France), and to science fiction in 1964. Taught French Literature and Creative Writing on and off at various universities in Quebec (since immigration, in 1973). “Full-time writer” since 1990 (despite a PhD. in Creative Writing, 1987), i.e. singer-songwriter, translator, SF convention organizer, literary editor (Solaris magazine), essayist. Still managed to publish some fiction, among which nineteen novels, some translated into English (The Silent City, The Maerlande Chronicles, Reluctant Voyagers, Tyranaël, Book I and II); nine short story collections in French, two in English (Slow Engine of Time, Blood Out of a Stone); also three poetry collections, and four books for children and young adults. More than thirty awards in France, Canada, Quebec, and the United States. Her five-book series Reine de Mémoire (2005–2007), received four major awards in Quebec.
Carrie Vaughn is the author of the New York Times bestselling series of novels about a werewolf named Kitty, the most recent installment of which is Kitty in the Underworld. She’s written several other contemporary fantasy and young adult novels, as well as upwards of seventy short stories. She’s a contributor to the Wild Cards series of shared-world superhero books edited by George R. R. Martin and a graduate of the Odyssey Fantasy Writing Workshop. An Air Force brat, she survived her nomadic childhood and managed to put down roots in Boulder, Colorado. Visit her at www.carrievaughn.com.
Hao Jingfang (jessica-hjf.blog.163.com/) is the author of two novels and numerous short stories published in a variety of Chinese venues such as Science Fiction World, Mengya, New Science Fiction, and New Realms of Fantasy and Science Fiction. She has been nominated for the Galaxy Award, China’s highest honor for science fiction. Currently, Ms. Hao is pursuing a Ph.D. in Economics at Tsinghua University in China.
Nicole Kornher-Stace was born in Philadelphia in 1983, moved from the East Coast to the West Coast and back again by the time she was five, and currently lives in New Paltz, New York, with one husband, three ferrets, one Changeling, and many, many books. Her short fiction and poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in a number of magazines and anthologies, including Best American Fantasy, Clockwork Phoenix 3 and 4, The Mammoth Book of Steampunk, Apex, and Fantasy Magazine. Her poem “The Changeling Always Wins” placed second in the 2010 short form Rhysling Award, and her short fiction has been longlisted for the British Fantasy Awards and nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She is the author of Desideria, Demon Lovers and Other Difficulties, and The Winter Triptych. Her latest novel, Archivist Wasp, is forthcoming from Big Mouth House, Small Beer Press’s young adult imprint, in late 2014. She can be found online at www.nicolekornherstace.com or wirewalking.livejournal.com.
Shira Lipkin has managed to convince Strange Horizons, Apex Magazine, Stone Telling, Clockwork Phoenix 4, and other otherwise-sensible magazines and anthologies to publish her work; two of her stories have been recognized as Million Writers Award Notable Stories, and she has won the Rhysling Award for best short poem. She lives in Boston and, in her spare time, fights crime with the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center. Her cat is bigger than her dog.
Rochita Loenen-Ruiz is an Octavia Butler Scholar. She was also the first Filipina writer to attend Clarion West. Her work has appeared in publications such as Apex Magazine, Fantasy Magazine, Weird Tales, Interzone, Clarkesworld Magazine, Philippine Genre Stories, and Philippine Speculative Fiction. She writes the Movements column for Strange Horizons where she looks at genre from the perspective of someone who has grown up outside the West and who now lives in the diaspora. Visit her website at rcloenenruiz.com or find her on twitter @rcloenenruiz
Nancy Kress is the author of thirty-two books, including twenty-five novels, four collections of short stories, three books about writing. Her work has won two Hugos (“Beggars in Spain” and “The Erdmann Nexus”), four Nebulas (all for short fiction), a Sturgeon (“The Flowers of Aulit Prison”), and a John W. Campbell Memorial award (for Probability Space). The novels include science fiction, fantasy, and thrillers; many concern genetic engineering. Her most recent work is the Nebula-winning and Hugo-nominated After the Fall, Befo
re the Fall, During the Fall (Tachyon, 2012), a long novella of ecodisaster, time travel, and human resiliency. Intermittently, she teaches writing workshops at various venues around the country, including Clarion and Taos Toolbox (yearly, with Walter Jon Williams). A few years ago she taught at the University of Leipzig as the visiting Picador professor. She is currently working on a long, as-yet-untitled SF novel. Nancy lives in Seattle with her husband, writer Jack Skillingstead, and Cosette, the world’s most spoiled toy poodle.
E. Lily Yu was the 2012 recipient of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer and a 2012 Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award nominee. In 2012 she attended the Sewanee Writers’ Conference as a Stanley Elkin Scholar, and in 2013 she attended Clarion West. Her stories have appeared in McSweeney’s, Clarkesworld Magazine, Boston Review, Kenyon Review Online, Apex, and The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year. She is working on a novel, a video game, and a PhD.
Wearing several hats, Toiya Kristen Finley is a writer, editor, game designer, and narrative designer/game writer from Nashville, Tennessee. She holds a Ph.D. in literature and creative writing from Binghamton University and has published over sixty pieces of fiction and non-fiction. She has worked as a game designer, narrative designer, and game writer (or some combination of the three) on several unreleased social and mobile games for both children and general audiences. She currently serves as an executive board member on the International Game Developers Association’s Game Writing Special Interest Group. Her current projects include a graphic novel, an animated children’s YouTube series, and a couple of her own mobile games. A co-authored book on narrative design will be published by Focal Press in 2015.
Kameron Hurley is the author of the novels God’s War, Infidel, and Rapture, a science-fantasy noir series which earned her the Sydney J. Bounds Award for Best Newcomer and the Kitschy Award for Best Debut Novel. She has been a finalist for the Nebula Award, the Locus Award, and the BSFA Award for Best Novel. Her short fiction has appeared in Lightspeed Magazine, Escape Pod, and Strange Horizons. Hurley’s latest novel, The Mirror Empire, is available from Angry Robot Books in September 2014.
Genevieve Valentine’s first novel, Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti, won the 2012 Crawford Award. The Girls at the Kingfisher Club, a 1920s retelling of ‘‘The Twelve Dancing Princesses,’’ is out from Atria in 2014. Her short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld Magazine, Strange Horizons, Journal of Mythic Arts, Lightspeed, and others, and the anthologies Federations, After, Teeth, and more. Her nonfiction and reviews have appeared at NPR.org, The A.V. Club, Strange Horizons, io9, and more, and she is a co-author of Geek Wisdom (Quirk Books). Her appetite for bad movies is insatiable, a tragedy she tracks at genevievevalentine.com.
Aliette de Bodard lives and works in Paris, where she has a day job as a System Engineer. In her spare time she writes speculative fiction: her Aztec noir trilogy Obsidian and Blood is published by Angry Robot. Her short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Gardner Dozois’s Year’s Best Science Fiction, and garnered her a Locus Award, a Nebula Award and a British Science Fiction Association Award. She blogs her thoughts on writing and her recipes of Vietnamese food at aliettedebodard.com.
Greer Gilman’s mythic fictions Moonwise and Cloud & Ashes: Three Winter’s Tales have (between them) won the Tiptree, World Fantasy, and Crawford Awards, and have been shortlisted for the Nebula and Mythopoeic awards. “Down the Wall” is a thought-experiment: a vision of a city under godblitz, in a post-apocalyptic Cloud. Her latest chapbook, Cry Murder! In a Small Voice, is a Jacobean noir detective story. Someone is murdering boy players; Ben Jonson investigates. A second mystery, Exit, Pursued by a Bear, is forthcoming from Small Beer Press. Besides her three books, she has published other short work, poetry, and criticism. Her essay on “The Languages of the Fantastic” appears in The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature. For many years a librarian at Harvard, she lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She likes to quip that she does everything James Joyce ever did, only backward and in high heels.
Karin Tidbeck is the award-winning author of Jagannath. She lives in Malmö, Sweden, where she works as a creative-writing teacher, translator, and consultant of all things fictional and interactive. She has published short stories and poetry in Swedish since 2002 and English since 2010. Her short fiction has appeared in publications like Weird Tales, Tor.com, Lightspeed Magazine and numerous anthologies including The Time-Travelers Almanac, Steampunk Revolution and Aliens: Recent Encounters.
Nisi Shawl’s collection Filter House, one of two winners of the 2009 James Tiptree, Jr. Award, was a finalist for the 2009 World Fantasy Award; the story selected from that collection, “Good Boy,” was also nominated for the award. Shawl’s other stories have been published at Strange Horizons, in Asimov’s SF Magazine, and in numerous anthologies including The Moment of Change, The Other Half of the Sky, and both volumes of Dark Matter. She was WisCon 35’s Guest of Honor, and she has spoken at Smith and Spelman Colleges. With Dr. Rebecca J. Holden she co-edited Strange Matings: Science Fiction, Feminism, African American Voices, and Octavia E. Butler. She edited The WisCon Chronicles 5: Writing and Racial Identity and currently edits book reviews for The Cascadia Subduction Zone, Aqueduct Press’s feminist literary quarterly. With Cynthia Ward, Shawl co-authored Writing the Other: A Practical Approach. In the 1970s, Shawl discovered and read many books of feminist science fiction, and she credits Suzy McKee Charnas’s Walk to the End of the World with giving her the idea that not only could she get away with saying audacious things, but that people would pay her for it. Currently she’s working on revisions to Everfair, a Belgian Congo steampunk novel forthcoming from Tor in 2015. Her website is www.nisishawl.com.
Thoraiya Dyer is a three-time Aurealis Award-winning, three-time Ditmar Award-winning Australian writer based in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales. Her short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld Magazine, Apex, Cosmos and Analog. It is forthcoming in the anthologies Long Hidden and War Stories. Her award-shortlisted collection of four original stories, Asymmetry, is available from Twelfth Planet Press. Dyer is represented by the Ethan Ellenberg Literary Agency. She is a member of SFWA. A lapsed veterinarian, her other interests include bushwalking, archery and travel. Find her online at Goodreads, Twitter @ThoraiyaDyer or www.thoraiyadyer.com.
Ekaterina Sedia resides in the Pinelands of New Jersey. Her critically acclaimed and award-nominated novels, The Secret History of Moscow, The Alchemy of Stone, The House of Discarded Dreams, and Heart of Iron, were published by Prime Books. Her short stories have sold to Analog, Baen’s Universe, Subterranean, and Clarkesworld Magazine, as well as numerous anthologies, including Haunted Legends and Magic in the Mirrorstone. She is also the editor of the anthologies Paper Cities (World Fantasy Award winner), Running with the Pack, Bewere the Night, and Bloody Fabulous, as well as The Mammoth Book of Gaslit Romance (forthcoming) and Wilful Impropriety. Her short-story collection, Moscow But Dreaming, was released by Prime Books in December 2012. Visit her fashion blog at fishmonkey.blogspot.com
Benjanun Sriduangkaew enjoys writing love letters to cities real and speculative, and space opera when she can get away with it. Her work can be found in Clarkesworld Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Jonathan Strahan’s The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year and Rich Horton’s The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy.
Angélica Gorodischer, daughter of the writer Angélica de Arcal, was born in 1929 in Buenos Aires and has lived most of her life in Rosario, Argentina. From her first book of stories, she has displayed a mastery of science-fiction themes, handled with her own personal slant, and exemplary of the South American fantasy tradition. Oral narrative techniques are a strong influence in her work, most notably in Kalpa Imperial, which since its publication has been considered a major work of modern fantasy narrative. Her second book translated into English is Trafalgar. Her books have also been translated into French, German, Italian, and Czech. She has receive
d many awards for her work, in her country and abroad, including the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Catherynne M. Valente is the New York Times bestselling author of over a dozen 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.
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