KAT HOWARD is a writer of fantasy, science fiction, and horror who lives and writes in New Hampshire. Her short fiction has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award, performed on NPR, and anthologized in year’s best and best-of volumes. In the past, she’s been a competitive fencer and a college professor. Her debut novel, Roses and Rot, was released in May 2016 and was followed by An Unkindness of Magicians in September 2017. These will be followed by a short fiction collection in 2018, A Cathedral of Myth and Bone, all from Saga Press.
MARY ROBINETTE KOWAL is the author of the Glamourist Histories series of fantasy novels. She has received the Campbell Award for Best New Writer, three Hugo Awards, and the RT Reviews Award for Best Fantasy Novel. Her work has been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards. Her stories appear in Asimov’s, Clarkesworld, and several year’s best anthologies. Mary, a professional puppeteer, also performs as a voice actor (SAG/AFTRA), recording fiction for authors such as Seanan McGuire, Cory Doctorow, and John Scalzi. She lives in Chicago with her husband, Rob, and over a dozen manual typewriters. Visit maryrobinettekowal.com.
KEN LIU is an author and translator of speculative fiction, as well as a lawyer and programmer. A winner of the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy Awards, he has been published in the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov’s, Analog, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, and Strange Horizons, among other places. Ken’s debut novel, The Grace of Kings, is the first volume in a silkpunk epic fantasy series, The Dandelion Dynasty. It won the Locus Best First Novel Award and was a Nebula finalist. He subsequently published the second volume in the series, The Wall of Storms, as well as a collection of short stories, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories. In addition to his original fiction, Ken is also the translator of numerous literary and genre works from Chinese to English. His translation of The Three-Body Problem, by Liu Cixin, won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2015, the first translated novel ever to receive that honor. He also translated Death’s End, the third volume in Liu Cixin’s series Remembrance of Earth’s Past, and edited the first English-language anthology of contemporary Chinese science fiction, Invisible Planets. He lives with his family near Boston, Massachusetts.
JONATHAN MABERRY is a New York Times bestselling and five-time Bram Stoker Award–winning suspense author, editor, comic book writer, magazine feature writer, playwright, content creator, and writing teacher/lecturer. He was named one of Today’s Top Ten Horror Writers by HorrorNovelReviews.com. His books have been sold to more than two dozen countries.
SEANAN MCGUIRE is the Hugo, Campbell, Alex, Locus, and Nebula Award–winning author of more than twenty-five books, both under her own name and the name Mira Grant, beginning with 2009’s Rosemary and Rue. Seanan shares her home with two enormous blue Maine Coon cats, a terrifying number of books, and a steadily growing collection of creepy dolls. Really, all she’s missing to be a horror movie is her own private corn maze. When not writing, she records albums of original science fiction folk music (called “filk”), travels, and continues in her efforts to visit every single Disney Park in the world. It’s a relatively harmless hobby, so we let her have it. You can keep up with Seanan at seananmcguire.com, or on Twitter as @seananmcguire.
ANNALEE NEWITZ divides her time between science fiction and science fact. The founding editor of io9, she is currently the tech culture editor at Ars Technica. She’s the author, most recently, of Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction (nonfiction) and Autonomous (fiction). She lives in California with several life forms, all of whom she loves.
TIM PRATT is the author of many short stories and over twenty novels, including The Deep Woods and Heirs of Grace. His work has appeared in The Best American Short Stories, The Year’s Best Fantasy, The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, and other nice places. He’s a Hugo Award winner and has been a finalist for the World Fantasy, Sturgeon, Stoker, Mythopoeic, and Nebula Awards, among others. He lives in Berkeley, California, and works as a senior editor at Locus, a trade magazine devoted to science fiction and fantasy publishing. He tweets a lot as @timpratt, and his website is timpratt.org. He publishes a new short story every month for his Patreon supporters at patreon.com/timpratt.
JOHN SCALZI is a confirmed biological human who writes.
LAVIE TIDHAR is the author of the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize winner and Premio Roma nominee A Man Lies Dreaming, the World Fantasy Award winner Osama, and of the critically acclaimed and Seiun Award nominated The Violent Century. His latest novel is the Campbell Award winner and Locus and Clarke Award nominee Central Station. He is the author of many other novels, novellas, and short stories.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE is the New York Times bestselling author of over two dozen works of fiction and poetry, including Palimpsest, the Orphan’s Tales series, Deathless, Radiance, and the crowdfunded phenomenon The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making. She is the winner of the Andre Norton, Tiptree, Mythopoeic, Rhysling, Lambda, Locus, and Hugo Awards. She has been a finalist for the Nebula and World Fantasy Awards. She lives on an island off the coast of Maine with a small but growing menagerie of beasts, some of which are human. Find her on Twitter at @catvalente.
ALYSSA WONG lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and really, really likes crows. Her fiction has won the Nebula, World Fantasy, and Locus Awards, and she was a finalist for the 2016 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Her short stories have been shortlisted for the Hugo Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the Shirley Jackson Award, and her work has been published in the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, Nightmare magazine, Black Static, and Tor.com, among others. Alyssa can be found on Twitter as @crashwong.
ALSO BY DOMINIK PARISIEN & NAVAH WOLFE
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