Ada Milenkovic Brown's poetry has appeared in Christian Reader and was read on the NPR program Here and Now. Her fiction has been seen in Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show and The Written Word and heard on PodCastle. A graduate of Clarion West, she recently received Honorable Mention from the Speculative Literature Foundation's Older Writers Grant for a dark fantasy piece she plans to expand into a novel. Photo by Frank R. Brown. |
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Tina Connolly lives in Portland, Oregon with a husband and a cat. She currently works as a face painter, turning people into sparkly tigers and glittery pirates. Appeared or forthcoming: stories in Strange Horizons and Heliotrope, and poems in Strange Horizons and Asimov's. She is a graduate of Clarion West 2006 and has a website at http://tinaconnolly.com. Photo by Eric Wilhelm. |
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Stacy Cowley is a journalist who takes breaks from covering business news to scribble speculative poetry. Her work has previously appeared in Star*Line and Goblin Fruit. Stacy lives in Brooklyn with her husband, two warring cats, and about 2,000 more books than sensibly fit into a small and oddly shaped apartment. Her writing website lives at stacycowley.com. Photo by Amy Haimerl. |
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Leah Cypess used to be a practicing attorney in New York and is now a full-time writer in Boston. She much prefers her current situation. She writes adult and young adult fantasy, and enjoys traveling, hiking, and spending time with her husband and daughter. Her fiction has been published in Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine, Odyssey, and Strange Horizons, and future tales will appear in Cat Tales 2 and Sword & Sorceress 23. You can learn more about her at www.leahcypess.com. Photo by Elissa Suslow. |
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Lyn C. A. Gardner is the catalog librarian at Hampton Public Library and coeditor of Virginia Libraries. Gardner's poems have appeared in venues like Abyss & Apex, The Leading Edge, Mythic Delirium, Raven Electrick, Sporty Spec: Games of the Fantastic, Star*Line, and Talebones, among others. In 2004, Lyn attended the Clarion West Writers Workshop. For more information, visit www.gardnercastle.com. Photo by Marc Nucup. |
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Samantha Henderson lives in Southern California with her family, which includes various corgis and rabbits. Her fiction and poetry has been published in Strange Horizons, Weird Tales, Chizine and Lone Star Stories and is upcoming in Realms of Fantasy and Fantasy. By day, and occasionally by night, she works as a church secretary. Photo by Don Meadows. |
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Vylar Kaftan writes science fiction, fantasy, horror, slipstream, and cleverly-phrased Post-It notes on the fridge. Her stories have appeared in Strange Horizons, ChiZine, and Clarkesworld, among other places. She lives in northern California and has a standard issue tie-dyed T-shirt to prove it. Her hobbies include modern-day temple dancing and preparing for a major earthquake. She blogs at http://www.vylarkaftan.net. Photo by Tasha Kelter. |
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Ruth Nestvold is an American writer living in Germany with her family, her books and no cats. Her short fiction has appeared in numerous markets, including Asimov's, F&SF, Realms of Fantasy, Baen's Universe, Strange Horizons, Gardner Dozois's Year's Best Science Fiction, and several anthologies. Her novella "Looking Through Lace" made the short list for the Tiptree award in 2003 and was nominated for the Sturgeon award. In 2007, the Italian translation won the "Premio Italia" award for best international work. Her novel Yseult will be coming out in translation from the German imprint of Random House in the winter of 2008/2009. She maintains a web site at www.ruthnestvold.com. Photo by R. Nestvold. |
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Jennifer Pelland lives just outside Boston with an Andy and three cats. Her stories have appeared in publications such as Helix, Strange Horizons, Apex Digest, and Electric Velocipede, among others. Her Helix story "Captive Girl" was a 2007 Nebula finalist and made the 2007 Gaylatcic Spectrum Awards short list. In her copious spare time, she does amateur radio theater and studies belly dance. Visit her online at www.jenniferpelland.com. Photo by Andy Benson. |
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Marcie Lynn Tentchoff is an Aurora Award winning poet/writer from the west coast of Canada. Her work has appeared in such publications as Weird Tales, On Spec, Aeon, and Mythic Delirium, as well as in various anthologies. Marcie's first poetry collection, Sometimes While Dreaming, is available through Sam's Dot publishing. Photo by Ivan Tentchoff. |
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Jane Yolen is the author of almost 300 books, ranging from rhymed picture books up to novels and story collections for young adults and adults. Her books and stories have won an assortment of awards, including two Nebulas, a World Fantasy Award, a Caldecott, the Golden Kite, three Mythopoeic awards, two Christopher Medals, a nomination for the National Book Award, and the Jewish Book Award. Six colleges and universities have given her honorary doctorates. If you need to know more about her, visit her website at www.janeyolen.com Photo by Jason Stemple. |
