S. A. Bolich
Faling to Eternity
S. A. Bolich is a former Regular Army military intelligence officer who, as a young communications exploitation platoon leader, spent significant amounts of time running around Germany in a jeep at the height of the Cold War, when American forces trained in expectation that “Ivan” (the Russians) might someday come bursting through the Fulda Gap. She remembers clearly the looks on the faces of her young men and women the first time they saw the minefields on the East German border and the border guards in their towers ready to machine gun their own people rather than let them cross into West Germany. She has met people who braved—and survived—that crossing. Her stories are often colored by that experience of seeing up close what oppression looks like. Since leaving the Army, she has worked as a teacher, a tech writer, a communications specialist for global IT corporations, and a riding instructor. Having staged a successful escape from corporate world in 2008, she is now a full-time freelancer. Her stories have appeared in On Spec, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Damnation Books, Science Fiction Trails, and several other publications, and have to date garnered an Honorable Mention in the Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror #16, an Honorable Mention from Writers of the Future, and 5th place in the 2009 Preditors and Editors’ Readers Poll for Best Fantasy Short Story.
Lee C. Hillman
Under Pressure
Lee C. Hillman has a diverse background, from theatre performance to conference and event planning, project management, podcasting, project management, and even a little editing now and then. While she looks for work, she has been working on a CD of her songs, learning the guitar and harp, and a few other projects. She is also active in the Organization for Transformative Works and online in several fandoms. She currently lives in the Boston area.
Deborah Teramis Christian
Live Fire
Deborah Teramis Christian wrote her first book when she was 9. Her path to professional writing has been circuitous and shoehorned in between such eclectica as the Army, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, rpg design, librarianship, sociology research, and consulting in business automation. She has authored three books published by Tor Books, the first of which was the science fiction novel Mainline. The Sa’adani Empire setting of Mainline is the same backdrop used in the short story Live Fire in this anthology. Teramis does not generally write short works of fiction, and Live Fire is the first work of hers ever to appear in an anthology.
A long-time resident of San Francisco, Teramis is presently doing an extended writing retreat on a farm so she can better complete works in progress and undertake some new creative endeavors. She is currently finishing the novel Splintegrate, a science fiction tale that takes place in the same setting as Mainline, a few years after that story’s events. Interested readers can learn more about the status of Splintegrate and Teramis’ other projects at her website, http://www.deborahteramischristian.com.
Lisanne Norman
Valkyries
Lisanne Norman is the author of the Sholan Alliance novel series, from DAW Books. Her battlefield days—28 years as a skirmisher with the Scottish Reenactment Society—are over now, and she has moved again, hopefully for the last time, to America, where she lives in California with her son and daughter in law. She continues to write down her dreams of magic, and warriors, and alien worlds, her writing obviously enriched by the many varied experiences she has had and the skills she has learned along the way. These skills have brought her many readers who write to her, among them serving members of the American Military. To find out more about her work, please visit http://www.sff.net/people/lisanne/.
Judi Fleming
Endings
Judi Fleming works as a training specialist and instructional designer for the federal government in her day job and thus much of her writing is of the non-exciting technical sort. She is a graduate of Seton Hill University Writing Popular Fiction Master’s Program.
Jennifer Brozek
M.O.V.E.
Jennifer Brozek is a freelance author for many RPG companies including Margaret Weis Productions, Savage Mojo, Rogue Games, and Catalyst Game Labs. Winner of the 2010 Origins Award for Best Roleplaying Game Supplement, her contributions to RPG sourcebooks include Dragonlance, Colonial Gothic, Shadowrun, Serenity, Savage Worlds, and White Wolf SAS. Winner of the 2009 Australian Shadows Award for edited publication, Jennifer has edited several anthologies with more on the way. Author of In a Gilded Light and The Little Finance Book That Could, she has more than 25 published short stories, is the creator and editor of the webzine, The Edge of Propinquity, and is an assistant editor for the Apex Book Company. She also writes the monthly gaming column Dice & Deadlines. Jennifer is a member of Broad Universe, SFWA, and HWA. Read more about her at www.jenniferbrozek.com
Phoebe Wray
Trashing
Phoebe Wray’s first novel, JEMMA7729, futurist science fiction, was published by EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing. She has a piece in All About Eve, an anthology recently released by Wolfsinger Pubications, and a story forthcoming in May in No Man;s Land, Volume 4 of the Defending the Future series. A horror story, “Names,” is in Backless, Strapless, and Slit to the Throat: A Femme Fatale Anthology, from Inkspotter Press. She’s had short stories in Farthing, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, fables, and The Garden. Her poetry has been published in Fiddlehead, Cat’s Magazine, Chronogram, Snow Monkey and chizine.org. She’s the President of Broad Universe, lives in an old farmhouse in Massachusetts and teaches in the Theatre Division of The Boston Conservatory.
Mike McPhail
Series Editor
Author and Editor Mike McPhail, a member of the Military Writers Society of America, is the administrator for the Dark Quest, LLC imprint DTF Publications, which includes the award-winning Defending The Future military science fiction anthology series: Breach The Hull (2007/2009), So It Begins (2009), By Other Means (2011), and No Man’s Land (2011), as well as David Sherman’s DemonTech novella, Get Her Back!. http://www.defendingthefuture.com.
He is the creator of the science fiction universe, the Alliance Archives (All’Arc), and its related Martial Role-Playing Game (MRPG) system. http://www.allianceacrhives.net, as well as webmaster for the Military Science Fiction review site, MilSciFi.com. http://www.milscifi.com. To learn more about his work, visit http://www.mcp-concepts.com.
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