Born on April 9, 1941, in Bucharest, Romania, Gheorghe Săsărman spent his childhood and attended high school in Cluj, Transylvania’s capital-city. He studied architecture in Bucharest and after graduation was employed as a journalist, authoring articles on architecture and popular science. In 1978, he received his Ph.D. in the theory of architecture with the dissertation […]

Jennifer Stevenson writes about gods and men as if the difference between them is real estate. Her first novel, Trash Sex Magic, was long-listed two years running for the Nebula Award and shortlisted for a Locus Award. She’s a founding member of Book View Café . She sticks pretty close to comedy and lives with […]

Roz Kaveney is a writer, poet, and activist living in London. Her first poetry collection Dialectic of the Flesh was short-listed for a Lambda, and her novel Rituals made the Crawford short list and the Tiptree honor roll. Rituals is the first part of the fantasy sequence RHAPSODY OF BLOOD, later volumes being Reflections and […]

Susan C. Petrey’s first fiction sale was “Spareen Among the Tartars” to The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1979, the first of her Varkela stories. All of Petrey’s short fiction is collected in Gifts of Blood. Her work has been featured in best-of-the-year annual Arthur W. Saha’s The Year’s Best Fantasy Stories, and […]

Zoran Živković (pronounced ZHEEV-ko-vitch) was born in Belgrade, former Yugoslavia, in 1948. In 1973 he graduated from the Department of General Literature with the theory of literature, Faculty of Philology of the University of Belgrade; he received his master’s degree in 1979 and his doctorate in 1982 from the same school. In 2007, Živković was made […]

Ysabeau S. Wilce was born in California and has followed the drum through Spain and most of its North American colonies. She became a lapsed historian when facts no longer compared favorably to the shining lies of her imagination. Prior to this capitulation, she researched arcane military subjects and presented educational programs on how to boil […]

Rebecca Ore is the pseudonym of science fiction writer Rebecca B. Brown. She was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1948. In 1968 she moved to New York and attended Columbia University. Rebecca Ore is known for the Becoming Alien series and her short stories. Her novel, Time’s Child, was published by Eos in February 2007. […]