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Nina’s young adult novel Spirits That Walk in Shadow was published in 2006. Her short science fiction novel Catalyst was published in 2006. Fall of Light, a fantasy novel, will be published in the future.
She lives in Eugene, Oregon, with several cats, a mannequin, and many strange toys.
Fiona Patton was born in Calgary, Canada, and grew up in the United States. In 1975 she returned to Canada and now lives on seventy-five acres of scrubland in rural Ontario with her partner Tanya Huff, six and a half cats, and a tiny little Chihuahua that thinks he’s a great dane. She has written five fantasy novels for DAW Books; the latest, The Silver Lake, came out in hardcover in November 2005. She is currently working on her sixth book, a continuation of The Silver Lake entitled The Golden Tower. She has written over two-dozen short stories. “Revenge Is a Dish Best Served with Beers,” is her sixth story set in The County.
Chris Pierson was born in Canada, and now lives in Boston, Massachusetts, with his wife Rebekah. He works as a writer and designer of online games, including Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar, and is the author of eight novels set in the Dragonlance world, including the Kingpriest Trilogy and the Taladas Trilogy. His short fiction has recently appeared in the anthologies Time Twisters and Pandora’s Closet.
Alexander B. Potter resides in the wilds of Vermont, editing and writing both fiction and nonfiction. His short stories have appeared in a wide variety of anthologies including the award-winning Bending the Landscape: Horror volume and a number of DAW anthologies. He edited Assassin Fantastic, the award-winning Sirius: The Dog Star, and coedited Women of War with Tanya Huff, all for DAW Books.
Jody Lynn Nye lists her main career activity as “spoiling cats.” She lives northwest of Chicago with two of the above and her husband, author and packager Bill Fawcett. She has written over thirty books, including The Ship Who Won with Anne McCaffrey, a humorous anthology about mothers, Don’t Forget Your Spacesuit, Dear!, and over ninety short stories. Her latest books are Strong Arm Tactics and Myth-Gotten Gains, cowritten with Robert Asprin.
Born in Wisconsin in 1967, Steven Schend fell into the world of fantasy quite quickly, growing up on L. Frank Baum’s Oz books, Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan and Barsoom novels, and Ray Harryhausen movies. For the past seventeen years, Steven worked full-time or freelance as an editor, developer, designer, writer, or assistant manager for TSR, Inc., Wizards of the Coast, Bastion Press, Green Ronin, and the Sebranek Group. Steven has written scores of magazine articles and role-playing game products, though he hopes to match that track record with his current stint as a fiction author and freelance novelist. Steven now hangs his hat in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he teaches writing at a local college and works feverishly on novels and stories of his own.
S. Andrew Swann is the pen name of Steven Swiniarski. He’s married and lives in the greater Cleveland area where he has lived all of his adult life. He has a background in mechanical engineering and—besides writing—works as a computer systems analyst for one of the largest private child services agencies in the Cleveland area. He has published seventeen novels with DAW Books over the past fourteen years, which include science fiction, fantasy, horror, and thrillers. His latest novel is The Dwarves of Whiskey Island, a fantasy set in Cleveland, published in October 2005. He is currently working on a sequel to the Hostile Takeover Trilogy, an epic space opera.