by Sean Wallace
After residences in Los Angeles, San Francisco, England and Spain, K. W. Jeter and his wife, Geri, currently make their home in Ecuador. He still grieves for the now-vanished Los Angeles in which he was born. His latest publications include the novel The Kingdom of Shadows, a collaboration with Gareth Jefferson Jones titled Death’s Apprentice, and the first four books in a new thriller series – Kim Oh 1: Real Dangerous Girl, Kim Oh 2: Real Dangerous Job, Kim Oh 3: Real Dangerous People, Kim Oh 4: Real Dangerous Place and Kim Oh 5: Real Dangerous Fun. More information on his books and stories can be found online at www.kwjeter.com.
Margaret Ronald is the author of the Hunt series (Eos/Harper Voyager) as well as a number of short stories. Originally from rural Indiana, she now lives outside Boston.
Samantha Henderson lives in Covina, California, by way of England, South Africa, Illinois and Oregon. Her short fiction and poetry have been published in Realms of Fantasy, Strange Horizons, Goblin Fruit and Weird Tales, and reprinted in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Science Fiction, Steampunk II: Steampunk Reloaded, Steampunk Revolutions and the Mammoth Book of Steampunk. She is the co-winner of the 2010 Rhysling Award for speculative poetry, and is the author of the Forgotten Realms novel Dawnbringer. For more information, check out her website at www.samanthahenderson.com.
Ken Liu (www.kenliu.name) is an author and translator of speculative fiction, as well as a lawyer and programmer. His fiction has appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov’s, Analog, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed and Strange Horizons, among other places. He is a winner of the Nebula, Hugo and World Fantasy awards. He lives with his family near Boston, Massachusetts. Ken’s debut novel, A Tempest of Gold, the first in a fantasy series, will be published by Simon & Schuster’s new genre fiction imprint in 2015, along with a collection of short stories.