by Liz Grzyb
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D.K. Mok is a fantasy and science fiction author whose novels include Squid’s Grief and Hunt for Valamon. DK has been shortlisted for four Aurealis Awards, two Ditmars and a WSFA Small Press Award. DK graduated from UNSW with a degree in Psychology, pursuing her interests in both social justice and scientist humour. DK lives in Sydney, Australia, and her favourite fossil deposit is the Burgess Shale. Connect on Twitter @dk_mok or find out more at dkmok.com.
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Jason Nahrung grew up on a Queensland cattle property and now lives in Ballarat with his wife, the writer Kirstyn McDermott. His fiction is invariably darkly themed, perhaps reflecting his passion for classic B-grade horror films and ’80s goth rock. He most recent long fiction is the Gothic tale Salvage (Twelfth Planet Press) and his outback vampire duology Blood and Dust and The Big Smoke (Clan Destine Press). He is working on an Australian climate fiction as part of his PhD in creative writing. He lurks online at at jasonnahrung.com
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Ian Nichols was born a long time ago, and he really does remember the sixties. His first professional sale, sort of, was to a magazine aptly named Chaos. A poem, for which he received two free copies and three joints. After this stirring success he faded into anonymity for decades, until the nineties, when a book of his poetry was published and he sold a story to Dreaming Down Under. Yippee! After that, he’s had a novel published and a few short stories, enough to make him a member of SFWA. You’ll see him at conventions. Buy him a drink.
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Shauna O’Meara is an Aurealis nominated writer based in Canberra, Australia. She was a winner of the 2014 Writers of the Future contest and a finalist in the 2016 Aurealis Awards and her short stories have appeared in Interzone, Cosmos Magazine, Writers of the Future, Everything Change and several Australian anthologies including In Your Face, Next and The Never Never Land. She is on Twitter at @OMearaShauna and you can find her at theshaunacorner.wordpress.com
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Rivqa Rafael is a writer and editor based in Sydney. She started writing speculative fiction well before earning degrees in science and writing, although they have probably helped. Her previous gig as subeditor and reviews editor for Cosmos magazine likewise fueled her imagination. Her short stories have appeared in Hear Me Roar (Ticonderoga Publications), The Never Never Land (CSFG Publishing), and Defying Doomsday (Twelfth Planet Press). In 2016, she won the Ditmar Award for Best New Talent. When she’s not working, she’s most likely child-wrangling, playing video games, or practising her Brazilian Jiujitsu moves.
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Jane Rawson writes novels, novellas, stories and non-fiction, mostly about the environment. Her latest novel is From the Wreck.
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Jane Routley loves green grass and lush gardens and dreads the likelihood of desert coming to her beloved Melbourne as the climate changes. She’s working hard to promote action on climate. She has had a variety of careers, including fruit picker and Occult librarian and she’s lived in Germany and Denmark for a decade. She’s published 4 books and won two Aurealis awards. Her short stories have been widely anthologized and read on the ABC. She’s written a blog about Flinders Street Station and another called Station Stories about her life staffing a railway station.
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Andrew Sullivan grew up in Melbourne but now lives with his wife, two children and a spoilt Shih Tzu in Canberra, where he has determined that he still needs to build 30 more metres of shelving to unpack the rest of his book collection. He has published one novel (A Sunburnt Country, Ginninderra Press, 2003) and had stories appear in variety of places, including Cosmos Magazine, Potato Monkey, Daikaju! Giant Monster Tales and The Outcast. “The Butterfly Whisperer” grew out of the serendipitous discovery of the rather forward-thinking UN General Assembly convention signed in 1977.
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Janeen Webb is a multiple award-winning author, editor and critic who has written or edited ten books and over a hundred essays and stories. Her short story collection, Death At The Blue Elephant, was short listed for the 2015 World Fantasy Award. Janeen is a recipient of the World Fantasy Award, the Peter MacNamara SF Achievement Award, the Aurealis Award, and the Ditmar Award. She holds a PhD in literature from the University of Newcastle, and divides her time between Melbourne and a small farm overlooking the sea near Wilson’s Promontory, Australia. janeenwebb.com.au
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Corey J. White is a writer of science-fiction, horror, and other, harder to define stories. He studied writing at Griffith University on the Gold Coast, and is now based in Melbourne, Australia. Find him on twitter at @cjwhite. His first book, Killing Gravity, is out now through Tor.com Publishing.
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Tess Williams’ connection to science fiction is creative, intellectual and visceral. Her two novels—Map of Power and Sea as Mirror—broke ground in post apocalyptic eco-themes and animal subjectivity. Sea as Mirror was short listed for the Aurealis and the James Tiptree Jr Awards, and a number of published and awarded short stories explore similar cyborg themes of mechanical and animal hybridity, particularly through the experience of women/children. Her PhD analysed shared metaphors of change in post Neo-Darwinist evolutionary science and feminist science fiction. Beyond that, she is cyborg through renal transplantation and a dialysis machine, her constant companion. Art, life and irony, eh?
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Marian Womack is graduate of the Clarion Writer’s Workshop and of the Creative Writing MSt from Cambridge University. She grew up in Andalusia and lives in Cambridge, where she works as a librarian. Her fiction appears in Year’s Best Weird Fiction (Undertow, 2016), Barcelona Tales (NewCon Press, 2016), Spanish Women of Wonder (Palabaristas, 2016), Apex, Weird Fiction Review and SuperSonic. She has contributed non-fiction to The Times Literary Supplement, the Science-Fiction and Fantasy Network, and has written for videogames. Marian is co-editor of Ediciones Nevsky/Nevsky Books, and is a PhD researcher at The Anglia Ruskin Centre for Science Fiction and Fantasy. Her short-story collection, Lost Objects, will be published by Luna Press in 2018.
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