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Kelly Link

Kelly Link is the author of the story collections Stranger Things Happen, Magic for Beginners, and Pretty Monsters, as well as the founder, with her husband Gavin J. Grant, of Small Beer Press. Her latest collection of stories, Get in Trouble, is out from Random House.

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Sarena Ulibarri

Sarena Ulibarri teaches creative writing at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where she is also working toward her MFA.  She is on the editorial staff of Timber Journal and the panel of judges for NYC Midnight fiction and screenwriting contests.  She was a 2012 recipient of the Thompson Award for Western American Writing.  Her fiction […]

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Kevin McNeil

Kevin McNeil is a physical therapist, sports fanatic, and volunteer coach for the Special Olympics. He is a graduate of the Odyssey Writing Workshop and The Center for the Study of Science Fiction’s Intensive Novel Workshop, led by Kij Johnson. His fiction has appeared in Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, Every Day Fiction, and […]

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A.C. Wise

A.C. Wise is the author of the novels Wendy, Darling, Hooked, and Ballad of the Bone Road, along with various novellas, collections, and short stories. Her work has won the Sunburst Award, and been a finalist for the Nebula, World Fantasy, Stoker, Locus, British Fantasy, Shirley Jackson, Ignyte, and Lambda Literary Awards. In addition to […]

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Harry Harrison

Harry Harrison began writing science fiction in the 1950s and is currently one of the top-selling SF authors around the world. Best known as the creator of the cosmic thief the Stainless Steel Rat, and for his Deathworld and West of Eden series, he is also the author of Make Room! Make Room!, which was […]

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Scott Edelman

Scott Edelman has published more than 115 short stories in Analog, The Twilight Zone, Apex, Parsec, and dozens of other magazines and anthologies. Many of those stories can be found in his collections These Words Are Haunted, What Will Come After, What We Still Talk About, Tell Me Like You Done Before, and his recent […]

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Elizabeth Bear

Elizabeth Bear was born on the same day as Frodo and Bilbo Baggins, but in a different year. She is the Hugo, Sturgeon, Locus, and Campbell Award winning author of nearly 30 novels (The most recent is Ancestral Night from Gollancz and Saga) and over a hundred short stories. She lives in Massachusetts with her […]

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Richard Bowes

Richard Bowes has published six novels, four story collections and over seventy short stories. He has won two World Fantasy, a Lambda, Million Writer and International Horror Guild Awards. His novel Dust Devil On a Quiet Street was on the 2014 World Fantasy and Lambda short lists. His novelette Sleep Walking Now and Then was […]

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Peter Sursi

Peter Sursi was born on All Saint’s Day, which he likes to point out to people. His parents said he was almost a trick, but he reminds them of his “treat” potential. He lives with his long-suffering wife and completely ridiculous children outside of Washington, D.C. When he’s not writing, he does lots of boring […]

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Matthew Kressel

Matthew Kressel is a multiple Nebula and World Fantasy Award nominated author and coder. His many works of short fiction have appeared in Analog, Asimov’s, F&SF, Lightspeed, Clarkesworld, Reactor, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and many other publications and anthologies, including multiple Year’s Bests. His most recent books are: The Rainseekers (Tor.com, Feb ’26), Space Trucker Jess […]

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