Mike Reeves-McMillan has sold short fiction to Futuristica 2; Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores; Daily Science Fiction; and a number of other anthologies and magazines.

For someone with an English degree, he's spent a surprising amount of time wearing a hard hat. He's also studied ritualmaking, hypnotherapy and health science.

He writes strange worlds that people want to live in. He himself lives in Auckland, New Zealand - the setting of his Auckland Allies contemporary urban fantasy series - and also in his head, where the weather is better and there are a lot more wizards.

Colleen Anderson writes fiction, dark fiction, erotica, poetry, SF, fantasy, and anything of interest. She has a BFA in Creative Writing and freelances as a copyeditor and proofreader. She has co-edited Tesseracts 17 with East Coast, dark fiction writer Steve Vernon, Playground of Lost Toys with Ontario, award-winning author Ursula Pflug, and edited Alice Unbound: Beyond Wonderland published in May 2018.

Thrice nominated for the Aurora Award (twice in poetry and for Playground), as well as shortlisted for the Gaylactic Spectrum Award, the Friends of Merril short fiction contest, the Rannu competition (and placed second in poetry), the SFPA poetry contest, Colleen has also won the Jerry Jazz Musician short story contest. She has also received several honorable mentions in the Year's Best SF, Year's Best Horror and Fantasy, and the Writers of the Future.

A recent recipient of a Canada Council grant in writing, she has published over 200 pieces of fiction and poetry. Some venues include Grievous Angel, Cemetery Dance, Polu Texni, Polar Borealis, Transition magazine and many others. Her poetry chapbook "Ancient Tales, Grand Deaths and Past Lives" is available through Kelp Queen Press (part of Chizine Publishing).

Colleen has served on several award juries for the Bram Stoker awards and the British Fantasy Awards. She is a member of HWA, SFPA and SF Canada. Her fiction collection, Embers Amongst the Fallen, is available on Amazon and Smashwords. UK Black Shuck Books will publish her new collection, A Body of Work, in fall 2018. She is also working on a poetry collection, an alternate history novel, and a futuristic novel. There are always projects on the go. You can find out more on Colleen's blog: www.colleenanderson.wordpress.com

Some of the early influences on her writing were Edgar Allen Poe, Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlien and Frank Herbert.

You can see other books that contain her stories at Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/481782.Colleen_Anderson

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Abby Goldsmith has a special interest in social science fiction, telepaths, hive minds, peer pressure, cults, and odd sociology. Her forthcoming series of novels explores these issues, along with power dynamics and enslavement versus liberty.

She's an alumni of the Odyssey Fantasy Writing Workshop, and her short fiction and articles have appeared in Escape Pod, Fantasy Magazine, Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, and several anthologies.

She lives in Texas and works as a video editor and game artist, with credits on Nickelodeon and Disney titles.

I live in metro Chicago, Illinois and have spent most of my life in northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin. I have been many things, police officer, large cat sanctuary operator, C.P.A. and on again, off again writer. Lately, I am on again. I have held active membership in S.F.W.A. since 1992.

G. Scott Huggins grew up in Wichita, Kansas and now lives in Wisconsin. At a young age, he fell in love with the worlds of Pern, Tran-Ky-Ky, We Made It, and many more. He studied all around the world, and speaks both German and Russian. He is a graduate of the Clarion Writing Workshop (1997) and sold his first story in 1999.

When he is not writing science-fiction and fantasy, Huggins teaches history at The Independent School. With his wife, he is in the process of raising children and tolerating cats. His favorite authors include G.K. Chesterton, Dan Simmons, C.S. Lewis, Lois McMaster Bujold, Larry Niven, and Terry Pratchett.

Aaron Canton is a freelance writer in the Salt Lake City area who specializes in fantasy and science fiction stories as well as written content for games and other interactive works. He does work-for-hire as well as his own projects, and he is currently open for commissions. A complete list of his published works is accessible via the ‘Publications’ page on his website, AaronCanton.wordpress.com. References are available upon request. If you are interested in commissioning work from him or have other inquiries, you can reach him at AaronCantonWriter@gmail.com.

Julie Novakova is a Czech author and translator of science fiction, fantasy and detective stories. She has published short fiction in Clarkesworld, Asimov's, Fantasy Scroll and other magazines and anthologies; upcoming e.g. in Analog, GigaNotoSaurus and Persistent Visions.

Her work in Czech includes seven novels, one anthology (“Terra Nullius”) and over thirty short stories and novelettes. Some of her works have been also translated into Chinese, Romanian and Estonian.

She received the Encouragement Award of the European science fiction and fantasy society in 2013, the Aeronautilus award for the best Czech short story of 2014 and 2015, and for the best novel of 2015. Julie is an evolutionary biologist by study and also takes a keen interest in planetary science. She’s currently working on her first novel in English.

Read more at www.julienovakova.com and follow her on Twitter @Julianne_SF.

Ray Blank is one of several identities deployed by a confused cosmopolitan who splits his time between navigating the internet, wandering the countryside, and flying to exotic locations to give lectures about staying at home and using the phone instead. The other identities are responsible for a book about flawed communications, a film about losing your mind, and a website for professional risk avoiders. The Ray Blank identity writes science fiction stories, but is as troublesome as all the others.