Anatoly Belilovsky is a Russian-American author and translator of speculative fiction. He was born in a city that went through six or seven owners in the last century, all of whom used it to do a lot more than drive to church on Sundays; he is old enough to remember tanks rolling through it on their way to Czechoslovakia in 1968. After being traded to the US for a shipload of grain and a defector to be named later (see Wikipedia, Jackson-Vanik amendment), he learned English from Star Trek reruns and went on to become a paediatrician in an area of New York where English is only the fourth most commonly used language. His work appeared or will appear in F&SF, Year’s Best SF #32 (edited by Gardner Dozois,) Grimdark, UFO I, Ideomancer, Nature, Stupefying Stories, Daily SF, Podcastle, StarShipSofa, Genius Loci, Cast of Wonders, and Toasted Cake, among others. He blogs about writing at loldoc.net.
Ariel Bolton doesn’t get visits from Santa Claus anymore. Instead, on cold winter nights, the Toronto raccoons gnaw and scrabble at her skylight and leave gifts of gristle on her balcony. You can read more about her at https://arielbolton.com.
Gustavo Bondoni is an Argentine novelist and short story writer who writes primarily in English. He has recently released three science fiction novels: Incursion (2017), Siege (2016) and Outside (2017) His latest book is a comic fantasy novel entitled The Malakiad. He has over two hundred short stories published in fourteen countries. They have been translated into seven languages. Many of the stories are collected in Tenth Orbit and Other Faraway Places (2010) and Virtuoso and Other Stories (2011). The Curse of El Bastardo (2010) is a short fantasy novel.
Matt Colborn is a freelance writer and academic with a background in cognitive science and a concern for environmental issues. He has written nonfiction for The Guardian, SFX, and Strange Horizons, amongst others. His first fiction was published in Interzone in 2001 and his short story collection, City in the Dusk, appeared in 2013. Matt is currently completing a novel.
Robert Dawson teaches mathematics at a Nova Scotian university. His stories have appeared in Nature Futures, AE, and numerous other periodicals and anthologies. He's an alumnus of the Sage Hill and Viable Paradise writing workshops.
Wendy S. Delmater is the author of Confessions of a Female Safety Engineer, and the Better Dating Through Engineering series. She has been editor of the Hugo-nominated magazine, Abyss & Apex, since 2006. She is also the editor of The Best of Abyss & Apex, Volumes 1 and 2. Wendy’s recent publication credits include short stories and poetry in The Singularity magazine, Star *Line, Illumen, and The Silver Blade.
William Delman's work has previously appeared in many fine journals, including SciFan, Salamander, The Massachusetts Review, and Bastion. New work is forthcoming from or available in NewMyths.com, The Arcanist, and Stupefying Stories. William lives in The Witch City, Salem, Massachusetts, and can be found on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/the2417project, and occasionally on Twitter @DelmanWilliam.
John Cooper Hamilton writes humorous genre fiction, or literary fiction when thinks he can get away with it. His many interests include role playing games, board games, war games, card games, and video games. He lives in Ohio, dividing his time between games and convincing his family to play games. More of his stories can be found at https://medium.com/@JohnCHamilton.
Lara Kristin Herndon is an author and freelance writer whose byline has appeared in O, The Oprah Magazine, Entrepreneur, The Reader’s Digest, Wired, Metropolis, Think, Architecture Boston, BuzzFeed, and many other publications. Her short fiction has appeared in Silver Blade and The WiFiles. She is represented by the Emma Sweeney Agency.
Liam Hogan is an Oxford Physics graduate and award-winning London-based writer. His short story “Ana” appears in Best of British Science Fiction 2016 (NewCon Press) and his twisted fantasy collection Happy Ending Not Guaranteed is published by Arachne Press. Find out more at http://happyendingnotguaranteed.blogspot.co.uk/, or tweet @LiamJHogan
Charlotte H. Lee lives in British Columbia, Canada and has been writing for fun since her teen years. She is a retired accountant with two grown children who have inherited her love of storytelling. Charlotte’s stories have appeared in Metaphorosis, Kzine, The Lorelei Signal, and others.
Melanie Rees is an environmental consultant whose work involves playing with soil and plants. When she isn’t gallivanting in the mud or stuck up a tree she writes speculative fiction and poetry. Her work has appeared in magazines such as Aurealis, Apex, Daily Science Fiction, Persistent Visions, and The School Magazine. In the real world, she lives in a straw house with a menagerie of animals in regional South Australia.
Holly Schofield travels through time at the rate of one second per second, oscillating between the alternate realities of city and country life. She is the author of over fifty short stories, some of which are used in university curricula and have been translated into several languages. Her works have appeared in Lightspeed, Escape Pod, Analog, and many other publications throughout the world. Watch for new stories soon in Brave New Girls and The Young Explorer's Adventure Guide. For more of her work, visit hollyschofield.wordpress.com.
Alex Shvartsman is a writer, translator and game designer from Brooklyn, NY. Over 100 of his short stories have appeared in Nature, Galaxy's Edge, InterGalactic Medicine Show, and many other magazines and anthologies. He won the 2014 WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction and was a two-time finalist for the Canopus Award for Excellence in Interstellar Fiction (2015 and 2017). He is the editor of the Unidentified Funny Objects annual anthology series of humorous SF/F. His collection, Explaining Cthulhu to Grandma and Other Stories and his steampunk humor novella H. G. Wells, Secret Agent were both published in 2015. His website is www.alexshvartsman.com.
Besides selling twenty-odd short stories, a dozen poems and a few comics, Marie Vibbert has been a medieval (SCA) squire, ridden 17% of the roller coasters in the United States and has played O-line and D-line for the Cleveland Fusion women’s tackle football team.
Thomas Webb is a short story author, essayist, and novelist. He’s a prior service Marine residing in Richmond, VA, with his wife and two children. When he’s not spending time with his family or writing, Thomas enjoys lifting weights, running, and choking his friends via the fine art of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. You can learn more about Thomas at https://cobblepublishing.com (under the ‘authors’ menu), at Thomas’ website, or on Facebook.
Thomas’ first novel entitled Stalemate: A Clockwerk Thriller, will be available on Amazon in May 2018.
Darusha writes speculative fiction and poetry as M. Darusha Wehm and mainstream work as Darusha Wehm, and is the author of nine published novels, several poems and many short stories. Originally from Canada, Darusha currently lives in Wellington, New Zealand after spending the past several years sailing around the Pacific.
Alison Wilgus is a Brooklyn-based writer for comics and prose, with graphic novels both published and in the works about human spaceflight, aviation, and time travel (alas, not at the same time) from Tor and First Second Books. Her interest in short fiction lead her to attend both Clarion West and Launchpad, and her stories have previously appeared on Strange Horizons, Terraform, and Daily Science Fiction, along with an upcoming debut in Analog magazine. She tweets as @AliWilgus and you can find many of her comics and stories at alisonwilgus.com.