Jessica Yang grew up in Silicon Valley, and then wandered off to UC Davis, where she spent three years being confused by Shakespeare and The Tale of Genji. By a strange twist of events, she went from tutoring kids in composition to writing puns for money. She will consume just about any media that can […]

Felicia Davin has been exploring possible and impossible worlds through reading and writing all her life, but this is her first published piece of fiction. When she’s not teaching and translating French, she is working on a novel. She lives in western Massachusetts with her partner and their cat. She is bilingual and bisexual, but […]

Annie Bellet is the author of The Twenty-Sided Sorceress, Pyrrh Considerable Crimes Division, and the Gryphonpike Chronicles series. She holds a BA in English and a BA in Medieval Studies and thus can speak a smattering of useful languages such as Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Welsh. Her short fiction work is available in multiple collections and […]

E. Saxey is a bi Londoner of no particular gender. Having dabbled in queer theory, and then wandered sideways into pedagogy, E. Saxey now works in universities, helping staff to teach in interesting ways. Previous short stories have appeared in Daily Science Fiction, Apex Magazine, The Future Fire, Expanded Horizons and in the anthology The Lowest […]

Paul Di Filippo sold his first short story in 1977, and since then has sold over 200 more, as well as several novels. He lives in Providence with Deborah Newton, his partner of forty years. His literary criticism appears in several places, including The Barnes & Noble Review and Locus Online.

Carmen Yiling Yan was born in China and currently attends UCLA. Since starting out as an amateur translator, her translation work has been published by Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, and Galaxy’s Edge. Her writing has been published in Daily Science Fiction. Her other interests include drawing, mineralogy, and ancient Chinese history.

In addition to Lightspeed Magazine, Naomi Kritzer’s short stories have appeared in Asimov’s, Analog, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Clarkesworld, and various Year’s Best anthologies. Her five published novels (Fires of the Faithful, Turning the Storm, Freedom’s Gate, Freedom’s Apprentice, and Freedom’s Sisters) are available from Bantam. She has also written an urban fantasy […]