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Melanie Tem’s work has received the Bram Stoker, International Horror Guild, British Fantasy, and World Fantasy Awards and a nomination for the Shirley Jackson Award. She has published numerous short stories, eleven solo novels, two collaborative novels with Nancy Holder, and two with her husband, Steve Rasnic Tem. She is also a published poet, an oral storyteller, and a playwright. Her stories have recently appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine and the anthologies Supernatural Noir, Shivers VI, Portents, Blood and Other Cravings, and Werewolves and Shapeshifters. The Tems live in Denver. They have four children and four granddaughters.
Jonathan Thomas was born in Providence, R.I., and has been married since 1991 to artist and country singer Angel Dean. His books include Stories from the Big Black House (Radio Void, 1992), The Color over Occam (Arcane Wisdom, 2012), and from Hippocampus Press, Midnight Call (2008), Tempting Providence (2010), and Thirteen Conjurations (2013). Since 2010, his short fiction has appeared in Black Wings I–III (PS Publishing and Titan), A Mountain Walked (Centipede Press), Nameless, and Weird Fiction Review.
K. M. Tonso grew up in a small town on the coast of Oregon and probably should have stayed there, but did not. Currently living in the much drier Southwest, the author produces novels and short stories in a variety of genres and lengths, and occasionally finds them well-received. A significant other and two dogs round out the family.
Harry Turtledove is an escaped Byzantine historian who writes science fiction (most often, alternate history), fantasy, and historical fiction. His books include The Guns of the South (Ballantine, 1992), Ruled Britannia (New American Library, 2002), and In the Presence of Mine Enemies (New American Library, 2003). He has won a Hugo and two Sidewise Awards. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, fellow writer Laura Frankos. They have three daughters.
Donald Tyson is a Canadian writer of fiction and nonfiction dealing with all aspects of the Western esoteric tradition. He is the author of Necronomicon: The Wanderings of Alhazred (2004), Grimoire of the Necronomicon (2008), The Necronomicon Tarot (2007), and The 13 Gates of the Necronomicon (2010), as well as a biography of Lovecraft titled The Dreamworld of H. P. Lovecraft (2010) and the novel Alhazred (2006), all of which were published by Llewellyn Publications.
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