Liam Hogan was abandoned in a library at the tender age of 3, only to emerge blinking into the sunlight many years later with a head full of words and an aversion to loud noises.

London based and with a first class degree in Physics from Oxford, Liam is an award winning (Quantum Shorts 2015 & Roswell Award 2016) short story writer, appearing in over 50 anthologies, including the Amazon chart topping Political/Sci-Fi Anthology "Alternative Truths", and NewCon Press's "Best of British Sci-Fi 2016".

His twisted fantasy collection "Happy Ending NOT Guaranteed" is published by Arachne Press.

His work has been performed at Liars' League, NoSleep Podcast, and White Rabbit's "Are You Sitting Comfortably". You can find it in print at DailyScienceFiction, Gallery of Curiosities, and OpenPen, as well as the anthologies listed here and at http://happyendingnotguaranteed.blogspot.co.uk/.

He dreams in Dewey Decimals.

RON S. FRIEDMAN is an Amazon.ca #1 Best Seller author in Time Travel, #1 Calgary Herald Best Seller Author and Best Short Fiction finalist in the 2016 Aurora Awards, Canada’s premier Science-Fiction and Fantasy awards.

Ron's debut novel, Typhoon Time, an Amazon.ca #1 Best Seller military-SF Alternate-History Techno-Thriller, was released by WordFire Press in March 2018.

Ron’s short stories have appeared in Galaxy’s Edge, Daily Science Fiction, and in other magazines and anthologies. Ron co-edited three anthologies and he received ten Honorable Mentions in Writers of the Future Contest, which have appeared in his short stories collection ESCAPE VELOCITY.

Ron is a member of SFWA and SFCanada, and a Quora most viewed author with over 2.7 million views.

Originally from Israel, Ron is living with his loving wife and two children in Calgary, Alberta.

Carrie Gessner received a BA in English from Carnegie Mellon University and an MFA in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University. She writes fantasy and science fiction and drinks a lot of tea. When she's not writing or reading, she likes to go for walks in the park with her greyhound.

Diane Morrison is a short and long-form fiction hybrid author and editor. She likes pickles and bluegrass, and hates talking about herself. An avid National Novel Writing Month participant and gaming geek, she is proudly Canadian and proudly LGBTQ. She manages the official SFWA YouTube channel, where she gets to interview some of her favourite authors and other interesting people in the SFF field. She's an Honorable Mention in the Writers of the Future competition and a student and teacher at the Rambo Academy for Wayward Writers. Under her pen name "Sable Aradia" she is a successful Pagan author, a musician, and a professional blogger. She lives with her partners and a three-legged rescue cat in Vernon, BC, where she was born and raised.

Twitter @SableAradia

Blog: http://www.dianemorrisonfiction.com

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Sara Codair teaches and tutors writing at a community college and has published over fifty short stories and poems. Their cat, Goose, edits their work by deleting entire pages. Sara’s stories appear in Broadswords and Blasters, Vulture Bones, Alternative Truths, and Drabbledark. Sara's first novel, Power Surge, was published on Oct. 1, 2018. Find Sara online at https://saracodair.com/ or @shatteredsmooth.

James Blakey lives in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley where he writes full-time (mostly short genre fiction: Crime/Mystery, SciFi, Fantasy, Horror, Western and Romance.).

His "The Bicycle Thief" won the Short Mystery Fiction Society's 2019 Derringer Award for Best Flash Story.

When he's not writing, you can find James on the hiking trail (he's climbed 40 of the 50 US high-points) or bike-camping his way up and down the East Coast.

Learn more at his website: http://jamesblakeywrites.com/

Stanley B. Webb came to be in the year 1961. He grew up in central New York State, near the shoreline of Lake Ontario. He has worked as a restaurant dishwasher, a video rental clerk, a diner cook, and in an automobile factory. He currently lives on a small homestead with his family.

Stanley thanks everyone who has read his work.

Ethan Hedman is a speculative fiction writer from South Florida, the land of heat, humidity, and hurricanes. He conjures up new stories from his home in Cutler Bay.

More than anything else, Ethan adores getting lost in creative entertainment. The joy of being absorbed in awesome books, stories, movies, games, and shows inspired him to start creating fictional works of his own. Ethan started writing short speculative fiction in late 2016 and has been tapping away at his keyboard ever since.

Writing aside, Ethan loves cats, likes to cook, and spends far too much time procrastinating. He also spent a few years wreaking havoc on mechanized combatants across Florida with ELK Robotics, a robot combat team he co-founded in 2015.

Ricardo Victoria is a Mexican writer with a Ph.D. in Design –with emphasis in sustainability- from Loughborough University, and a love of fiction, board games, comic books, and action figures. He lives in Toluca, Mexico with his wife and pets, working works as a full-time lecturer and researcher at the local university. He writes mainly science fantasy.

His first novel, Tempest Blades: The Withered King, was released in August 2019 by Shadow Dragon Press, an imprint of Artemesia Publishing. The sequel, Tempest Blades: Cursed Titans is due for publication in August 2021. He has a number of stories published by Inklings Press, and other indie outlets.

His short story Twilight of the Mesozoic Moon, jointly written with Brent A. Harris, was nominated for a Sidewise Award for short form alternative history.

You can find out more at his website, http://ricardovictoriau.com, or follow him on Twitter, @Winged_Leo

Eric Fomley is a short fiction writer from Garrett, Indiana. His fiction has been published in places like Galaxy’s Edge, Daily Science Fiction, Flame Tree Press, and The Black Library. You can follow Eric on his website ericfomley.com or on Twitter @PrinceGrimdark.

Brent A. Harris is a two-time Sidewise Award finalist of alternate history who writes about dinosaurs, fantasy, the fears of our future and the mistakes of our past.

When not writing speculative fiction, he focuses on his family, playing board games with friends, and talking nerdy. He holds a Masters degree in Creative Writing from National University as an NU Scholar. While he considers California his home, he currently resides abroad in Naples, Italy.

Speculative Fictioneer / Author of Captain Quasar, Spirits of the Earth, BackTracker, Charlie Madison P.I., The Interdimensionals, Those Who Wait, Westward Tally Ho, Coyote Cal, Vic Boyo, Dahlia & Brawnstone, Mercer the Soul Smuggler, Roadkill Joe, and a whole lot more. www.milojamesfowler.com

Jude-Marie Green's short and shorter fiction has appeared online and in print, from Perihelion SF Online through Bards And Sages Quarterly, as well as podcast, most recently by Tina Connolly of Toasted Cake. She attended Clarion West in 2010 and won the Speculative Writers Foundation's Older Writer's Grant in 2012.

Mackenzie Kincaid is the author of "The Writer's Guide to Horses," as well as short stories which have appeared in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Zooscape, and the anthologies “Gunsmoke & Dragonfire” and “Tales From The Old Black Ambulance.”

She lives in the American West with a pair of clever cats and a modest collection of bones, and in her free time she practices horseback archery and handles birds of prey. She is also a sculptor, and is currently working on a collection of extremely unusual creatures.

She blogs about writing and random research topics at mackenziekincaid.com and can be found on Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr at @mackincaid.