Simon McCaffery writes SF, horror, and hybrids of both genres. You can blame his father, the artist James McCaffery, who bought him George R. Stewart’s Earth Abides when he was ten. His stories have appeared in Black Static, Tomorrow SF, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Mondo Zombie, Space & Time, and in a number of anthologies. […]

Nicola Griffith: English novelist living in Seattle. Author of five novels (Ammonite, Slow River, The Blue Place, Stay, Always) and a multi-media memoir (And Now We Are Going to Have a Party: Liner notes to a writer’s early life). Co-editor of the Bending the Landscape series of original queer F/SF/H stories. Essayist. Teacher. Blogger. Winner […]

M.K. Hobson’s stories have recently appeared in the Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror 2011 and Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet. Her Nebula-nominated debut novel—The Native Star—is available at fine retailers everywhere. She invites you to visit her website, www.demimonde.com.

David Langford has published over thirty books, eighty short stories and several hundred magazine columns since his 1975 debut. His awards include the Skylark, European SF Award (shared with Peter Nicholls and Brian Stableford) and 28 Hugos—some for his SF newsletter Ansible, launched in 1979 and currently appearing monthly: see news.ansible.co.uk. Langford’s most popular novel […]

Tina Connolly lives with her family in Portland, Oregon. Her stories have appeared in Lightspeed, Tor.com, Strange Horizons, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Her first fantasy novel, Ironskin (Tor 2012), was nominated for a Nebula, and the sequel Copperhead is now out from Tor. She narrates for Podcastle and Beneath Ceaseless Skies, runs the Parsec-winning flash […]

Gene Wolfe—who is perhaps best known for his multi-volume epic, The Book of the New Sun—is the author of more than 200 short stories and thirty novels, is a two-time winner of the Nebula Award, a four-time winner of the World Fantasy Award, and was once praised as “the greatest writer in the English Language […]

Born in Lynchburg, VA, raised in Daytona Beach, FL, Lucius Shepard has won the Hugo, Nebula, Word Fantasy, the Shirley Jackson, the Sturgeon, et al for his fiction.  He has lived all over the world but currently resides in Portland, OR. Forthcoming are The Dragon Griaule and a novella collection Five Autobiographies.