Nik Houser’s earliest memory of writing fiction is of composing a letter to Santa as a school assignment in the Second Grade. Having never believed in Santa, you can imagine his surprise when he got a reply from Mr. Claus stating that he would not be getting what he asked for. It was his very […]

Steve Hockensmith made his first professional short-story sale to Analog way back in the late 1990s. Soon afterward, he switched his focus to the mystery genre, becoming a regular contributor to both Alfred Hitchcock and Ellery Queen magazines. His first novel, the mystery/Western hybrid Holmes on the Range, was a finalist for the Edgar, Shamus, Anthony and Dilys awards. He went […]

Terry Bisson is a science fiction writer who lives in California.

Zhao Haihong graduated from Zhejiang University with a master’s degree in English and American Literature. She currently teaches at Zhejiang Gongshang University and she has started studying Art History at China Academy of Art as a doctoral candidate since 2012. Her writings have won her many prizes in China, such as ‘Best New Talent’ at […]

William Browning Spencer is the author of 4 novels and 2 short story collections. His short stories have been reprinted in The Year’s Best Science Fiction, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, Year’s Best SF, The Best Horror of the Year, and numerous Lovecraftian anthologies. One of his stories is reprinted in The Weird, that juggernaut of a book that […]

Rosamund Hodge grew up as a homeschooler in Los Angeles, where she spent her time reading everything she could lay hands on, but especially fantasy and mythology. She got a BA in English from the University of Dallas and an MSt in Medieval English from Oxford, and she now lives in Seattle with seven toy […]

Kit Reed is the author of several novels, such as the recent Son of Destruction. Her collection, What Wolves Know and Other Stories, was a Shirley Jackson Award nominee in 2012, and two earlier collections were short-listed for the Tiptree Prize. A Guggenheim fellow and first American recipient of a literary grant from the Abraham Woursell Foundation, she is […]