Nathan Rosen is the founder and editor of MicroHorror.com. He lives in a crumbling old Victorian in Baltimore with his wife Jenesta Matthews and three spoiled cats. A mild-mannered paralegal by day, by night he can be found singing and carousing with Pirates for Sail as the dread pirate Black Dog Nate.
Lavie Tidhar is the author of the Apex Publications’ book HebrewPunk, a collection of dark fantasy stories centered around three mystical Jewish characters.
Lavie grew up on a kibbutz in Israel, lived in Israel and South Africa, traveled widely in Africa and Asia, and lived in London for a number of years. Currently, he is living on the island nation of Vanuatu where he spends the days farming and the nights writing.
In 2003, Lavie won the Clarke-Bradbury Prize (awarded by the European Space Agency). He has edited the Michael Marshall Smith: The Annotated Bibliography (PS Publishing, 2004) and the anthology A Dick and Jane Primer for Adults (The British Fantasy Society, 2006), and is the author of the novella An Occupation of Angels (Pendragon Press, 2005). His stories have appeared in Apex Digest, Sci Fiction, Chizine, Clarkesworld, Postscripts, Nemonymous, Infinity Plus, Aeon, Book of Dark Wisdom, Fortean Bureau, and many others.
Visit him on the web at www.lavietidhar.co.uk.
Jason Heller has been writing sporadically since his epic poem about alligators appeared in Humpty Dumpty’s Magazine when he was eight. His words and comics have popped up in dozens of zines and alt-weeklies over the years, and he’s currently the Denver editor of The Onion A.V. Club. He also plays in a punk band called The Fire Drills; they do the worst Cheap Trick cover you’ve ever heard. “Behold: Skowt!” is his first published short story, but more stuff is forthcoming in Kaleidotrope and Expanded Horizons. He’s also launching a punk-skewed SF zine titled New Dawn Fades.
Find him at www.puzzledpanther.blogspot.com
William T. Vandemark can be found wandering the back roads of America in a pickup powered by vegetable oil. He chases storms, photographs weather vanes, and buries mason jars. A lock of Houdini’s hair, a fragment of Poe’s headstone, and a pair of Jackson Pollock’s shoe strings were recently laid to rest one foot below grade at a crossroads in Indiana.
When not wandering, William T. Vandemark hangs out in Maine, in Texas, or in Oregon, depending on season and inclination. His permanent e-residence can be found at www.williamtvandemark.com.
“A Splash of Color” was written at Odyssey, The Fantasy Writing Workshop, directed by the amazing Jeanne Cavelos and was Vandermark’s first sale!
Geoffrey W. Cole graduated from Simon Fraser University’s Writers Studio in 2007, and since then his work has appeared in The Ubyssey, where he won the annual science fiction rant, emerge 2007, and is forthcoming in Clarkesworld Magazine. Geoff has degrees in biology and engineering, and lives with his wonderful fiancé in Vancouver, British Columbia.
You can visit Geoff at www.geoffreywcole.com.
Jason Fischer is based in Adelaide, South Australia. He is a graduate of the 2007 Clarion South workshop, and a recent finalist in the Writers of the Future contest. He has a story in Jack Dann’s new anthology Dreaming Again, and stories in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine and Aurealis Magazine. Jason likes zombies and post-apocalyptic settings, and when he’s not writing he wishes he was. He can be found lurking online at http://jasonfischer.livejournal.com/, and is a contributing member of the Daily Cabal.
Jennifer Pelland is a Waltham, MA based writer of dark science fiction and fantasy. Her work has been nominated for the Nebula and Gaylactic Spectrum awards. In 2008, her first collection of stories, Unwelcome Bodies, was published by Apex Book Company.
Visit her blog at jenniferpelland.livejournal.com.
Joy Marchand holds a B.A. in Classical Studies from the University of the Pacific. She lives in Salem, Massachusetts, where she takes photos of odd signage, churchyards and the occasional roadside shrine. Joy’s poems and short stories have been featured in Bare Bone, Writers of the Future Volume XX, the Elastic Book of Numbers, Modern Magic, Time for Bedlam, Polyphony 5, Interfictions, Talebones, Apex Digest, and Interzone, among others. Joy has also worked as an editor for Shimmer, a small magazine packed with quality short fiction and stunning artwork. She is currently at work on a road novel set on Route 66.
Visit her website at http://www.joymarchand.com.
Jason Palmer’s published and upcoming fiction ranges from dark fantasy to high science fiction to science horror. Look for more from him in the pages of Murky Depths, Spacesuits and Sixguns, and the Terrible Beauty/Fearful Symmetry anthology from Dark Hart Press.
Ruth Nestvold’s short fiction has appeared in numerous markets, including Asimov’s, F&SF, Realms of Fantasy, Baen’s Universe, Strange Horizons, and several Year’s Best anthologies. Her novella “Looking Through Lace” made the short list for the Tiptree award and was nominated for the Sturgeon award. In 2007, the Italian translation won the “Premio Italia” award for best international work.
Ruth maintains a web page at www.ruthnestvold.com.
Gord Sellar is a Canadian living in South Korea, where he lectures at a University in the suburbs of Seoul. Since attending Clarion West in 2006, his work has appeared in various venues including Asimov’s SF, Interzone, Fantasy, and Flurb. His story “Lester Young and the Jupiter’s Moons’ Blues” appears in The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois.
Gord’s website can be found at http://gordsellar.com.
Theodora Goss lives in Boston, where she is completing a PhD in English literature, with her husband and daughter, in an apartment filled with books and cats. Her short story collection, In the Forest of Forgetting, was published by Prime Books in 2006. Her short stories and poems have been reprinted in Year’s Best Fantasy, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, and The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy for Teens. Visit her website at www.theodoragoss.com, and find out more about her short story collection at www.forestofforgetting.com.
Ekaterina Sedia resides in the Pinelands of New Jersey. Her critically acclaimed novels, The Secret History of Moscow and The Alchemy of Stone were published by Prime Books. Her next one, The House of Discarded Dreams, is coming out in 2010. Her short stories have sold to Analog, Baen’s Universe, Dark Wisdom, and Clarkesworld, as well as Japanese Dreams and Magic in the Mirrorstone anthologies. Visit her at www.ekaterinasedia.com.
Jamie Todd Rubin has been reading science fiction since he first picked up Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle In Time back in the fourth grade. He is a big fan of the Golden Age of science fiction. His influences include Isaac Asimov, Barry Malzberg, Alfred Bester, Cyril Kornbluth, and Harlan Ellison.
Jamie lives in Arlington, Virginia where he works as a software developer. His fiction has previously appeared in InterGalactic Medicine Show. His website is www.jamierubin.net.
Barbara Krasnoff’s short fiction has appeared in a wide variety of publications. Magazines: Space and Time, Electric Velocipede, Doorways, Sybil’s Garage, Behind the Wainscot, Escape Velocity, Weird Tales, Descant, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, Amazing Stories. Anthologies: Clockwork Phoenix 2, Things Aren’t What They Seem, Such A Pretty Face: Tales of Power & Abundance, Memories and Visions: Women’s Fantasy & Science Fiction. She lives in Brooklyn, NY and earns her keep as a technology writer and editor; her web site is www.brooklynwriter.com.
Peter M. Ball is a writer from Brisbane, Australia, whose work has appeared in Fantasy Magazine and the Dreaming Again anthology. He attended the Clarion South workshop in 2007 and he’s currently trying to break the habit of being a perpetual post-grad student. He can found online at www.petermball.com.
Mark Lee Pearson’s fiction has appeared in Space and Time, The Book of Tentacles, Monkeybicycle, Alienskin, Strange,Weird, and Wonderful, Liars’ League, Twisted Tongue, Susurrus Press, and Eternal Press. He lives and works in Japan, teaching English by day and writing tall tales at night. Visit his blog at markleepearson.blogspot.com
Jason B. Sizemore is
the publisher and managing editor of Apex Publications, an independent small press of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. He has been nominated for both the Hugo and Stoker Awards, and has seen over thirty short stories appear in various pro and semi-pro anthologies, zines, and digests.
Vitaly S. Alexius is a Russian-born digital artist currently working as a freelance illustrator/photographer. His work has adorned posters, CDs, book, comic covers, and more. Stop by svitart.n-tek.ca to see more of Vitaly’s work.
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