Elisabeth Waters sold her first short story in 1980 to Marion Zimmer Bradley for THE KEEPER'S PRICE, the first of the Darkover anthologies. She then went on to sell dozens of short stories to a variety of anthologies. Her first novel, a fantasy called CHANGING FATE, was awarded the 1989 Gryphon Award. MENDING FATE is the sequel to it. Elisabeth also writes short stories, and she currently edits the SWORD AND SORCERESS anthologies.

She has also worked as a supernumerary with the San Francisco Opera, where she appeared in La Gioconda, Manon Lescaut, Madama Butterfly, Khovanschina, Das Rheingold, Werther, and Idomeneo.

Robert Lowell Russell is a writer, occasional gardener, and a trophy husband. A native Texan, he now lives with his family in Ohio. He is a SFWA member and a member of the Writeshop and Codex writers' groups. He is a former librarian, a former history grad student, a former semi-professional poker player, and is now pursuing a nursing degree (when he isn't writing).

His stories have appeared in Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, Penumbra, Digital Science Fiction, Daily Science Fiction, Loconeal's Loco-Thology, and other venues.

Fort Worth writer Jonathan Shipley has never bought into "newer is better." Old houses, old furniture, and old portraits are his way of life, and like many collectors, he cohabits with more antiques than strictly fit into his house. He has had fantasy, science fiction, and horror stories published in dozens of magazines and anthologies, including SWORD & SORCERESS, volumes 25 through 31, and AFTER DEATH that won the 2014 Bram Stoker Award. However, he is actually a novel writer at heart and spends most of his writing time on a vast story arc that ranges from Nazi occultism to vampires to futuristic space opera.

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.

Susan Murrie Macdonald is a bookworm, a wordsmith, a ghostwriter of other people's blogs, and a freelance proofreader. Her first e-book is KNEE-HIGH DRUMMOND AND THE DURANGO KID, a collection of Western short stories. She is the author of a children's ABC book, R IS FOR RENAISSANCE FAIRE, available as an e-book or paperback. She has also had stories published in MORE ALTERNATIVE TRUTHS, DARK PLACES, EVIL FACES, HEROIC FANTASY SHORT STORIES, ALTERNATIVE TRUTHS, SWORD AND SORCERESS #30, COLORADO SUPERNATURAL, and BARBARIAN CROWNS. She's working on a novel (who isn't?) and a second children's book.

Like Elizabeth I and Thomas Jefferson, she is a redhead. Unlike them, she is not a head of state. She enjoys reading science fiction, fantasy, mystery, history, historical fiction, action-adventure, and romance novels. She's won first place in the Arkansas Scottish Festival's annual poetry contest twice, in 2014 for "Macbeth and Gruoch" and in 2017 for "Black Agnes." She has written over 80 articles for Krypton Radio. Susan Murrie Macdonald was an extra in the time travel movie "Time Boys."

For as long as I can remember, I've loved telling and soaking up stories. At the age of six, I was told somebody got paid for writing books and movies and television shows; I abandoned my previous ambition (beachcomber), and became a writer.

I've had stories in anthologies, on-line and print publications, including Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword & Sorceress anthologies 22 and 23, on coffee cans, and the wall of an Indian restaurant in Louisville, Kentucky.

Small town life agrees with me. I like the interconnectedness of everything and everybody. I try to remember, in my books and stories, that no one exists in isolation, but in a web of connections.

Most of my work is fantasy, science fiction and/or mystery, though I write anything else that suits the story and character.

Suzan Harden transitioned from writing information technology manuals for companies and legal articles for a law enforcement magazine to her first love, fantasy fiction in all its forms. She’s the author of the Bloodlines series, the 888-555-HERO series, and the Justice series.

As writers seem to, Julia H. West has held many arcane jobs. She's been a quality control technician for ultrasound heart machines (video recordings of ultrasound cross sections of her heart were shipped all over the world with the machines). She's been a genealogical researcher, an office manager, a secretary, a desktop publisher, a digger at an archaeological dig, a quality assurance tech, a webmaster, an aircraft electrician for the Air Force Reserves, and a keyer for the United States Post Office.

Julia loves music, and sings with the Utah Filk Organization (that's not a typo: filk is music of the science fiction and fantasy community). She was a founding member of the local chapter of the Society for Creative Anachronism and still enjoys researching medieval culture. She has been an active member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America for over ten years, and has been awarded the Service to SFWA Award.

Julia graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Utah with a BA in Anthropology. When people asked her what she was going to do with the degree, she'd tell them, "Write science fiction." Many of her stories incorporate fascinating bits of culture she discovered while studying. Julia's website is at http://juliahwest.com

Besides writing, I have three other part-time jobs: clerking at the local library; singing and playing guitar at the local Catholic church; and hosting a radio program every Sunday afternoon at the local university.

If you'd like to read some of my free stuff first, copy-n-paste the following:

http://hyniof.livejournal.com/95025.html is "Familiars," the first story about Cluny the sorceress squirrel from vol. 19 of Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress anthology. Sequels have appeared in every volume since 2008.

http://hyniof.livejournal.com/115821.html contains the science-fiction tall-tale "Why They Call Me Mr. Goddamn Happy," first published in the Winter 2007 edition of the HelixSF webzine.

http://hyniof.livejournal.com/116171.html has the "The Super Secret Origin of She-Man," also published on the HelixSF website in Fall of 2008.

http://www.fimfiction.net/user/AugieDog holds a selection of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic fanfiction that I've put together under the name AugieDog.

And http://pandora.xepher.net is the Pandora Family Comics hub site from which you can expose yourself to my two webcomics: Daily Grind, updated Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and Terebinth, updated every Monday.