Holly Schofield has been published in AE: The Canadian Science Fiction Review and Perihelion, as well as three anthologies, including Tesseracts 17.  She travels through time at the rate of one second per second, oscillating between the alternate realities of a prairie farmhouse and her writing cabin on the west coast.  For more of her […]

Saundra Mitchell has been a phone psychic, a car salesperson, a denture-deliverer and a layout waxer. She’s dodged trains, endured basic training, and hitchhiked from Montana to California. She teaches herself languages, raises children, and makes paper for fun. The author of seven young adult novels including her most recent, MISTWALKER, she was nominated for an […]

Marina J. Lostetter’s short fiction has appeared in venues such as InterGalactic Medicine Show, Galaxy’s Edge, and Writers of the Future.  Her most recent publications include a tie-in novelette for the Star Citizen game universe, which was serialized over the first four months of 2014.  Originally from Oregon, Marina now lives in Arkansas with her husband, Alex.  She tweets as @MarinaLostetter.  Please […]

Emily Fox lives in a town you’ve never heard of in Queensland, Australia, and is a graduate of The University of Queensland’s Writing, Editing, and Publishing program. When she’s not reading her way through a dragon’s hoard of books, Emily spends her free time following the adventures of bat-like superheroes and reading slush for Aurealis […]

Rhiannon Rasmussen has worked in comics scripting, illustration, graphic design, and printmaking, but no matter what else she pursues it is always alongside prose. Her interests lie in juxtaposition and layering, contrasting humanity with elements of monstrosity, phantasm, the macabre, geology, and spaceships. Her sensibilities are influenced by kimokawaii culture, her hometown in Hawaii and […]

I’ve always been an anachronism. In an age of McMansions, I’ve lived in Portland, Oregon, for thirty-six years on an acre of willows and blueberries. My husband and I measure days by the blue herons we see. A one-heron day is good; a four-heron day is sensational. When other women headed for law or medical […]