Jamie Lackey lives in Pittsburgh with her husband and their cats. She enjoys reading, writing, tabletop role playing games, video games, watching anime, baking, hiking, and mushroom hunting.

She has over 160 short fiction credits, and her short stories have appeared in places like Daily Science Fiction, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Apex Magazine, Escape Pod, and Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show. Her fiction has appeared on the Best Horror of the Year Honorable Mention and Tangent Online Recommended Reading Lists, and she's a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.

Her longer works include two novellas, Moving Forward: A Novella of Life After Zombies and The Forest God, as well as her debut novel, Left Hand Gods. She also has four short story collections available: One Revolution: A Year of Flash Fiction; Second Revolution: Another Year of Flash Fiction; The Blood of Four Gods and Other Stories; and A Metal Box Floating Between Stars and Other Stories.

She graduated from the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford in 2006 with a degree in Creative Writing. She studied under James Gunn at the Center for the Study of Science Fiction's Writer's Workshop in 2010 and has taken various workshops with Cat Rambo.

She read submissions for the Hugo-winning Clarkesworld Magazine for five years and was an assistant editor for the Hugo-winning Electric Velocipede from 2012-2013. She served as editor for Triangulation: Lost Voices in 2015 and Triangulation: Beneath the Surface in 2016.

Learn more about her at her website, www.jamielackey.com

Suzanne 'Xan' van Rooyen is a tattooed storyteller and genderqueer peanut-butter addict from South Africa. Xan currently lives in Finland and finds the cold, dark forests nothing if not inspiring. When not writing, Xan teaches music to elementary school kids, collects bruises on the climbing wall, and entertains their shiba inu. Pronouns: they/them. Feel free to hang out on social media as listed below:

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Books:

By the Blood of Rowans (Skolion)

I Heart Robot (Skolion)

Scardust (Entangled)

Obscura Burning (Harmony Ink)

The Other Me (Harmony Ink)