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She is the two-time Goldie Award-winning author of Night’s Kiss and Crave: Tales of Lust, Love and Longing as well as her latest collection, A Day at the Inn, A Night at the Palace and Other Stories. She is the editor of Haunted Hearths and Sapphic Shades: Lesbian Ghost Stories, designated as a Best Other Work at the 2010 Gaylactic Spectrum Awards, and co-editor, with JoSelle Vanderhooft, of Hellebore and Rue: Tales of Queer Women and Magic. She periodically teaches writing classes at The Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis and elsewhere. Her website is catherinelundoff.com.
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Nora Olsen writes science fiction for teenagers. She lives in New York State with her lovely girlfriend Áine Ní Cheallaigh. Her debut novel The End was published by Prizm Books in December 2010.
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Rachel Swirsky’s short fiction has appeared in venues including Tor.com, Subterranean Magazine, Fantasy Magazine, Weird Tales, and the Konundrum Engine Literary Review, and been selected for inclusion in year’s best collections from Jonathan Strahan, Rich Horton, and the VanderMeers. Through the Drowsy Dark, a mini-collection of Swirsky’s feminist poems and short stories, was released in Aqueduct Press’s conversation pieces series in 2010.
Swirsky blogs about feminist science fiction at Ambling Along the Aqueduct, about politics at Alas, a Blog, about writing at Big Other, and about a combination of all of the above at her personal blog, That Which Deranges the Senses.
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JoSelle Vanderhooft was born in 1980 in Framingham, Massachusetts, when Leo ruled but Gemini was on the rise. By no means a young woman yet, she nonetheless migrated West to Salt Lake City just like her pioneering Mormon ancestors. She wrote her first produced play at sixteen and graduated from the University of Utah with honors bachelor degrees in English and Theatre Studies. While studying here she received the Steffenson-Cannon fellowship, which she held from 1999-2001. She also served as literary intern and/or dramaturgy intern for several theatres including New Dramatists, The Women’s Project and Productions and the Actors Theatre of Louisville.
A dramaturge and something of a lapsed playwright, Vanderhooft now works as a freelance journalist, poet and fiction writer. To date, she has published seven poetry books, numerous short stories, and a novel, The Tale of the Miller’s Daughter. She has edited the lesbian anthologies Sleeping Beauty, Indeed, Steam-Powered: Lesbian Steampunk Stories, Bitten by Moonlight, and (with Catherine Lundoff) Hellebore & Rue.
She currently lives in Florida with her partner and several boisterous cats.