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Cathy Humble

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 […]

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K.J. Bishop

K.J. Bishop is the award-winning author of the surreal-Western-decadent novel The Etched City, and the collection That Book Your Mad Ancestor Wrote. She is also an artist, currently concentrating on bronze sculpture. She lives in Bangkok.

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Scott Sigler

#1 New York Times best-selling author Scott Sigler is the creator of fifteen novels, six novellas and dozens of short stories. He gives away his stories as weekly, serialized, audiobooks, with over 40 million episodes downloaded. Scott launched his career by releasing his novels as author-read podcasts. He is also is a co-founder of Empty […]

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Shale Nelson

Shale Nelson lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he writes fiction, poetry, screenplays and lots of web content. He is the author of Target Audience, a science fiction novella that explores many aspects of the near future, including its culture, entertainment, language and advertising. Shale attended the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and the Circle in the […]

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Marie Vibbert

Marie Vibbert is a software developer from Cleveland, Ohio. She is a member of the Cleveland science fiction workshop, The Cajun Sushi Hamsters, attended Clarion in 2013, and joined SFWA in 2014. She has sold over 50 short stories to markets such as Analog, F&SF, and Amazing Stories. She has ridden 17% of the roller […]

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Rachel Pollack

Rachel Pollack is the author of 36 books of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, art, and translation, along with short stories and comics.  Her novel Unquenchable Fire won the Arthur C. Clarke Award, while her novel Godmother Night won the World Fantasy Award.  Her books on Tarot cards include The Shining Tribe Tarot, designed and drawn by Rachel herself, and 78 Degrees of […]

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Gardner Dozois

Gardner Dozois is the author or editor of more than a hundred books.  He was the editor of Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine for twenty years, and still edits the annual anthology series The Year’s Best Science Fiction, now in its Thirty-First Annual Edition.  He has won fifteen Hugo Awards and thirty-two Locus Awards for his […]

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Vajra Chandrasekera

Vajra Chandrasekera lives in Colombo, Sri Lanka. His short fiction has appeared in Apex, Clarkesword and Shimmer, among others. You can follow him on Twitter at @_vajra or find more stories at vajra.me.

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Thomas Olde Heuvelt

Dutch novelist Thomas Olde Heuvelt (1983) is the author of five novels and many short stories of the fantastic. His short fiction has appeared in English, Dutch, Polish and Chinese and has been awarded the Paul Harland Prize (for best Dutch fantasy) on three occasions, received an honorable mention in the Science Fiction & Fantasy […]

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E. Catherine Tobler

E. Catherine Tobler’s short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld, F&SF, and others. Her novella, The Necessity of Stars, was a finalist for the Nebula, Utopia, and Sturgeon Awards. She currently edits The Deadlands.

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