K.C. Ball (1949-2018) lived in Seattle, Washington, a stone’s throw from the waters of Puget Sound. She became an addict of the written word as a child in Ohio and began writing fiction full-time when she retired. Snapshots from A Black Hole & Other Oddities was her first short-story collection. Her short fiction has appeared […]
Ellen Datlow has been editing science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction for over thirty-five years as fiction editor of OMNI Magazine and editor of Event Horizon and SCIFICTION. She currently acquires short fiction for Tor.com. In addition, she has edited more than a hundred science fiction, fantasy, and horror anthologies, including the annual The Best Horror of the Year, Lovecraft’s […]
Danika grew up in Northern California. She is an award-winning writer, spokenword artist, and educator. She earned her MFA in Writing and Poetics from Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics (founded by poets Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman). Her early writing career was built on experimental poetry and collaborative spokenword performances. While living […]
Lauren Dixon knows how to shoot a rifle. She’s written lingerie catalogs for the Army, talks a lot about vaginas, and doesn’t eat animals unless they ask her to first. She’s worked as a gutter poet record store clerk, movie studio intern, pizza slinger, disaffected video store clerk, word nerd professor and counselor, gopher-extraordinaire for the […]
M. “Huw” Evans is a sometimes writer, an increasingly frequent editor, an ex-physician pathologist, an always dad, a reluctant dog’s person, a reliable-if-uninspiring cook, and, most recently, a creator of magic wands. He’s published one story, Nine Instances of Rain (workshopped with Connie Willis and titled by Neile Graham), in Giganotosaurus. Huw has resided for […]
Tod McCoy is a Seattle-based writer whose work has appeared in Asimov’s, Starward Tales II, The People’s Apocalypse, Bronies: For the Love of Ponies, AntipodeanSF.com, Qarrtsiluni.com, and The Gloaming. A Clarion West graduate and current board member, he’s the publisher behind Hydra House Books, whose catalog includes Telling Tales, edited by Ellen Datlow, two collections […]
Sandra is a happily married mother of two teenage boys, an avid reader, compulsive writer, and rabid chocoholic. Her work has appeared in Jim Baen’s Universe, Ideomancer, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, the anthologies Fear of the Dark and Triangulation: Last Contact, and as podcasts on The Drabblecast, Pseudopod, and Tales to Terrify. She is a […]
Chinelo Onwualu is a writer, editor, and recovering journalist. She is a former co-editor of Anathema magazine, co-founder of Omenana, a magazine of African Speculative Fiction, and former chief spokesperson for the African Speculative Fiction Society. She’s a 2014 graduate of the Clarion West Writers Workshop, which she attended as the recipient of the Octavia E. Butler Scholarship. Her short […]
John Barth described Cat Rambo’s writings as “works of urban mythopoeia” — her stories take place in a universe where chickens aid the lovelorn, Death is just another face on the train, and Bigfoot gives interviews to the media on a daily basis. She has worked as a programmer-writer for Microsoft and a Tarot card […]
