C. J. Cherryh, three-time Hugo Award winner, is one of today’s best-selling and most critically acclaimed writers of science fiction and fantasy. The author of more than fifty novels, including the popular Foreigner series, she makes her home in Spokane, Washington.  

Kim Winternheimer’s work has appeared through Tin House, Gigantic Magazine, theNewerYork, The Oregonian, The Rumpus, and was the winner of Flavorwire’s Short Fiction Contest. She is the founding editor of The Masters Review and lives in Portland, Oregon.

Ellen Denham is a multidisciplinary performing artist and writer currently teaching voice and completing a doctorate in music at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.  She is a 2006 graduate of the Odyssey Writing Workshop.  Her previous publications include stories in Daily Science Fiction, NewMyths.com, and the Sky Warrior Books anthology Gears and Levers 3.  Her written works for the stage […]

Vanessa Torline is fascinated by many storytelling mediums, but her first love is a book—the kind with pictures and without. As a journalist, she has written about comic books, theatre, animation, and film in addition to news articles. She is currently working on other short stories and a young adult fantasy novel.

Kris Millering is a linguist by training, a content manager by trade, and a writer and photographer by avocation. Her fiction has appeared in Beneath Ceaseless Skies and The Colored Lens, and she attended Clarion West in 2009. Currently, she is working on a novel and an open-source roleplaying setting, as well as managing communications […]

K. C. Norton was raised in the wilds of Pennsylvania. She is currently earning an MFA in Children’s and Young Adult Writing – she plans to subvert a good many things for the reading pleasure of the young. Norton has been a Classicist, an anthropologist, a mixologist, and a tourist by turns. She currently lives […]

Elizabeth Porter Birdsall spent much of her childhood pretending her way into Sherwood Forest and alien worlds, and transforming an overgrown backyard into a saga-worthy wilderness.  Nowadays, she does much the same thing on paper.  She divides the rest of her free time among teaching Scottish dance, studying languages and folklore and science as a […]