David J. Schow would prefer not to be remembered solely for writing the screenplay for The Crow, assembling the exhaustive Outer Limits Companion, or coining the term “splatterpunk” (although he is perversely proud of getting that word into the Oxford English Dictionary). His  short stories have been regularly selected for over 30 volumes of “Year’s Best” […]

Lee Mandelo is a writer, critic, and editor whose primary fields of interest are speculative fiction and queer literature, especially when the two coincide. He is the senior fiction editor for Strange Horizons and has two books out, Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction and We Wuz Pushed: On Joanna Russ and Radical Truth-telling. […]

J.B. Park lives in New Mexico. He’s fond of books. After deciding to be a writer in 2010, he has intermittently pursued that goal. This is his first publication.

Sarah Pinborough is a horror, thriller, and YA author who has had more than ten novels published. Her recent novel, The Chosen Seed (Gollancz, January 2012), is the last of The Dog-Faced Gods trilogy which has now been optioned for a television series. Her urban fantasy YA novel, The London Stone, (Gollancz, June 2012) was […]

Daniel H. Wilson is the New York Times bestselling author of Robopocalypse and seven other books, including How to Survive a Robot Uprising and A Boy and His Bot. He earned a PhD in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University, as well as Masters degrees in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. In 2008, Daniel hosted The Works […]

Poppy Z. Brite, who is the author of eight novels, four short story collections, and much miscellanea, lives in New Orleans with a motley krewe of cats and reptiles. Read more at www.poppyzbrite.com.