JONATHAN MABERRY (jonathanmaberry.com) is a New York Times bestselling author, multiple Bram Stoker Award winner, and comic book writer. He’s the author of many novels, including Code Zero, Fire & Ash, The Nightsiders, Dead of Night, and Rot & Ruin; and the editor of the V-Wars shared-world anthologies. His nonfiction books are on topics ranging from martial arts to zombie pop culture. Jonathan writes V-Wars and Rot & Ruin for IDW Comics, and Bad Blood for Dark Horse, as well as multiple projects for Marvel. Since 1978, he has sold more than 1,200 magazine feature articles, 3,000 columns, two plays, greeting cards, song lyrics, poetry, and textbooks. Jonathan continues to teach the celebrated Experimental Writing for Teens class, which he created. He founded the Writers Coffeehouse and cofounded The Liars Club; and is a frequent speaker at schools and libraries, as well as a keynote speaker and guest of honor at major writers’ and genre conferences. He lives in Del Mar, California.
SEANAN MCGUIRE (seananmcguire.com) is a Californian author of speculative fiction. She was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, resulting in a fear of weather and a deep respect for the sea. Since 2009, she has released more than twenty books, under both her own name and the name “Mira Grant.” Most people believe that she doesn’t really sleep. Seanan was the 2010 winner of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, which came with a tiara. In her spare time, she enjoys Disney Parks, horror movies, and trying to summon her vegetable armada to subjugate humanity. We think she’s kidding about that last part. We hope. Keep up with Seanan on her website or on Twitter at @seananmcguire.
D. THOMAS MINTON (dthomasminton.com) recently traded a warm tropical island for the Pacific Northwest of the continental United States, where he now lives a short walk from vineyards and an alpaca farm. When not writing, he gets paid to “play” in the ocean, travel to remote places, and help communities conserve coral reefs. His fiction has been published in Asimov’s, Lightspeed, and Daily Science Fiction, and his idle ramblings hold court on his website.
AN (pronounce it “On”) OWOMOYELA (an.owomoyela.net) is a neutrois author with a background in web development, linguistics, and weaving chain maille out of stainless-steel fencing wire, whose fiction has appeared in a number of venues, including Clarkesworld, Asimov’s, Lightspeed, and a handful of Year’s Bests. An’s interests range from pulsars and Cepheid variables to gender studies and nonstandard pronouns, with a plethora of stops in between. An can be found online on her website and can be funded at patreon.com/an_owomoyela.
TIM PRATT is the author of over a dozen novels, most recently Heirs of Grace, and many short stories. His work has appeared in The Best American Short Stories, The Year’s Best Fantasy, and other nice places. He’s won a Hugo Award for short fiction, and has been a finalist for World Fantasy, Sturgeon, Stoker, Mythopoeic, and Nebula Awards, among others. He lives in Berkeley, California, and works as a senior editor at Locus, a trade magazine devoted to science fiction and fantasy publishing.
SCOTT SIGLER is the New York Times bestselling author of the Infected trilogy (Infected, Contagious, and Pandemic), Ancestor, and Nocturnal, hardcover thrillers from Crown Publishing; and the cofounder of Empty Set Entertainment, which publishes his Galactic Football League series (The Rookie, The Starter, The All-Pro, and The MVP). Before he was published, Scott built a large online following by giving away his self-recorded audiobooks as free, serialized podcasts. His loyal fans, who named themselves “Junkies,” have downloaded over eight million individual episodes of his stories and interact daily with Scott and each other in the social media space.
RACHEL SWIRSKY holds an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her short stories have been published in a number of magazines and anthologies, including Tor.com, Subterranean Online, and Clarkesworld magazine. Her work has been nominated for the Hugo Award, the World Fantasy Award, and the Locus Award, and won the Nebula Award twice. Her second short story collection, How the World Became Quiet, came out from Subterranean Press in 2013. She enjoys writing collaboratively, as she did in this collection, and would like to raise a fictive glass to her cowriter, An Owomoyela.
TERENCE TAYLOR (terencetaylor.com) is an award-winning children’s television writer whose work appeared on PBS, Nickelodeon, and Disney, among many others. As an author of fiction, his first published short story, “Plaything,” appeared in Dark Dreams, the first horror-suspense anthology of African American authors. He was one of a handful of authors to be included in the next two volumes, with “The Share” in Voices from the Other Side and “Wet Pain” in Whispers in the Night. Terence is also author of the first two books of his Vampire Testaments trilogy, Bite Marks, and Blood Pressure. After a two-year hiatus, he has returned to the conclusion of his trilogy, Past Life. Find him on Twitter at @vamptestaments.
ISABEL YAP (isalikeswords.wordpress.com) writes fiction and poetry, works in the tech industry, and drinks tea. Born and raised in Manila, she has also lived in California, Tokyo (for ninety-six days!), and London. In 2013, she attended the Clarion Writers’ Workshop. Her stories have appeared in Tor.com, Shimmer, Interfictions Online, and Nightmare; they have also been included in The Year’s Best Weird Fiction Vol. 2, Apex Book of World SF Volume 4, and The Best of Philippine Speculative Fiction 2005–2010. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Stone Telling, Uncanny, Apex Magazine, and Goblin Fruit. You can find her on her website or on Twitter at @visyap.
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JOHN JOSEPH ADAMS (johnjosephadams.com) is the series editor of the Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. He is also the bestselling editor of many other anthologies. Called “the reigning king of the anthology world” by Barnes & Noble, John is a winner of the Hugo Award (for which he has been nominated nine times) and is a six-time World Fantasy Award finalist. John is also the editor and publisher of the digital magazines Lightspeed and Nightmare and is a producer for WIRED’s podcast Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy. Find him on Twitter at @johnjosephadams.
DOUGLAS COHEN (douglascoheneditorial.com) is the coeditor of the anthology Oz Reimagined: New Tales from the Emerald City and Beyond. He is a former editor of Realms of Fantasy magazine, where he worked for six and a half years. In the magazine’s final year, it published its one hundredth issue, won a Nebula Award, and was nominated for a second one. Douglas is also a writer, and his stories have appeared in Weird Tales. Additionally, he is the author of Realms of Fantasy: A Retrospective, a book collecting his detailed blog entries on every single issue published during the magazine’s seventeen-year history.
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