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NINA ALLAN was born in London and grew up in the south east of England. Her first published piece of fiction appeared in a magazine called Dark Horizons in 2002. Since then, her stories have featured in numerous magazines and anthologies including The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Best Horror of the Year and The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime. Her many awards include the British Science Fiction Award, the Novella Award, the Kitschies Red Tentacle and France’s Grand Prix de L’Imaginaire. Her most recent novel is The Good Neighbours, published in 2021.
CHARLIE JANE ANDERS is the author of Victories Greater Than Death, the first book in a new young-adult trilogy, which came out in April 2021. Up next: Never Say You Can’t Survive, a book about how to use creative writing to get through hard times; and a short story collection called Even Greater Mistakes. Her other books include The City in the Middle of the Night and All the Birds in the Sky. Her fiction and journalism have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Slate, McSweeney’s, Mother Jones, the Boston Review, Tor.com, Tin House, Teen Vogue, Conjunctions, Wired Magazine, and other places. Her TED Talk, “Go Ahead, Dream About the Future” got 700,000 views in its first week. With Annalee Newitz, she co-hosts the podcast Our Opinions Are Correct.
A visionary, fantasist, poet and painter, CLIVE BARKER has expanded the reaches of human imagination as a novelist, director, screenwriter, and dramatist. Barker’s literary works include such best-selling fantasies as Weaveworld, Imajica, and Everville, the children’s novel The Thief of Always, Sacrament, Galilee and Coldheart Canyon. The first of his quintet of children’s books, Abarat, was published in October 2002 to resounding critical acclaim, followed by Abarat II: Days of Magic, Nights of War and Abarat III: Absolute Midnight; Barker is currently completing the fourth in the series. As an artist, Barker frequently turns to the canvas to fuel his imagination with hugely successful exhibitions across America. His neo-expressionist paintings have been showcased in an eight-volume series, Imaginer. Forthcoming are a book of poetry, a short story collection and a horror novel called Deep Hill.
RAMSEY CAMPBELL has won more awards than any other living author of horror or dark fantasy, including four World Fantasy Awards, nine British Fantasy Awards, three Bram Stoker Awards, and two International Horror Guild Awards. Critically acclaimed both in the US and in England, Campbell is widely regarded as one of the genre’s literary lights for both his short fiction and his novels. His classic novels, such as The Face that Must Die, The Doll Who Ate His Mother, and The Influence, set new standards for horror as literature. His collection, Scared Stiff, virtually established the subgenre of erotic horror.
AUTUMN CHRISTIAN is a fiction writer from Texas who currently lives in Oklahoma. She is the author of several books including Girl Like a Bomb, We are Wormwood, and Ecstatic Inferno, and has written for several video-games, including Battle Nations and State of Decay 2. When not writing, she is usually practicing her side kicks and running with dogs, or posting strange and existential Instagram selfies.
Born in 1942, SAMUEL R. DELANY is the author of Babel-17, Nova, Dhalgren, Dark Reflections, Atlantis: Three Tales, the Return to Nevèrÿon series, Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders, an autobiography, The Motion of Light in Water and the paired essays Times Square Red / Times Square Blue. He is the winner of the Stonewall Book Award for 2008, the 2015 Nicolas Guillen Award for Philosophical Literature, the 1997 Kessler Award for LGBTQ Studies, and the 1993 Bill White Award for Lifetime Achievement, as well as four Nebula Awards from the Science Fiction Writers of America, and two Hugo Awards from the World Science Fiction Convention. In 2016, he was inducted Into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame.
PAUL DI FILIPPO sold his first story at the tender age of twenty-three. Since then, he’s sold over 200 more, afterwards collected, along with his many novels, into nearly fifty books. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island, in the shadow of H. P. Lovecraft, with his partner Deborah Newton, and a cocker spaniel named Moxie. His most recent novel is The Summer Thieves: A Novel of the Quinary, a picaresque science fiction adventure story evoking the styles of Gene Wolfe and Jack Vance.
Seattle-born writer, editor, and independent scholar RON DRUMMOND’s 1996 interview with novelist Steve Erickson was just reprinted in Conversations with Steve Erickson (Luter and Miley, eds., University Press of Mississippi, 2021). Other recent publications include “And Watch It Burn” in the online journal The Enneadecameron: stories from the plague year; a literary mosaic, “Sung Muhheakunnuk”, in the internet magazine The Revelator; the entries on Menstruation, Mother, Nevèrÿon, Pauline Oliveros, and Joanna Russ in the mixed-genre feminist Encyclopedia Vol. 3 L-Z; a puzzle-box story, “Planck’s Pleroma”, in Eleven Eleven 19; booklet notes for two CDs featuring World Premiere recordings of string quartets by Czech composer Anton Reicha (1770-1836); and an extended thought experiment about the future of our species, “The First Woman on Mars”, in White Fungus 13 (his reading from it is on Vimeo). Drummond edited fourteen of Samuel R. Delany’s books, published two, and packaged one for Wesleyan University Press; he also edited six of John Crowley’s books, published Antiquities: Seven Stories (1993), and is nearing completion of a new archival edition of Little, Big.
PRESTON GRASSMANN is a Shirley Jackson Award-nominated editor, writer, and translator. He was born in California and spent part of his life on the same block as Philip K. Dick. He began working for Locus in 1998, as one of the youngest reviewers to work at the magazine, and returned as a contributing editor after a hiatus in Egypt and the UK. His most recent work has been published in Nature Magazine, Strange Horizons, PS Publishing, Apex, Shoreline of Infinity, and Futures 2 (Tor). One of his short-stories – “Cael’s Continuum” – was nominated for a Reader’s Choice Award at Tor.com. His non-fiction work and various interviews have appeared in publications such as Nature Magazine, New York Review of Science Fiction, and Bull Spec. He is a regular contributor to Nature and currently lives in Japan, where he is working on several new projects, including a book of illustrated stories with Yoshika Nagata.
RUMI KANEKO is a pseudonym for a well-known film director and freelance scenarist for TV shows in Japan. Aside from her work in film & TV, she has also written screenplays and has completed a novel called Good Morning Jupiter, which is currently being translated by Preston Grassmann. Her recent translated work has appeared in The Unquiet Dreamer: A Tribute to Harlan Ellison by PS Publishing and is forthcoming from various publications in the US.
CHRIS KELSO is a British Fantasy Award-nominated genre writer, illustrator, and anthologist. His work has been published in 3AM magazine, Lit-Reactor, Black Static, Locus, Daily Science Fiction, Antipodean-SF, SF Signal, Dark Discoveries, The Scottish Poetry Library, Invert/Extant, The Lovecraft e-zine, Sensitive Skin, Evergreen Review, Verbicide, and many others. He has been translated into French and is the two-time winner of the Ginger Nuts of Horror Novel of the Year (in 2016 for Unger House Radicals and 2017 for Shrapnel Apartments). The Black Dog Eats the City made Weird Fiction Reviews Best of 2014 list. Shrapnel Apartments was endorsed by Dennis Cooper on his blog - “4 Books I read and Loved.”
CARMEN MARIA MACHADO is the author of the bestselling memoir In the Dream House and the award-winning short story collection Her Body and Other Parties. She has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the winner of the Bard Fiction Prize, the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction, the Brooklyn Public Library Literature Prize, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize. In 2018, the New York Times listed Her Body and Other Parties as a member of “The New Vanguard,” one of “15 remarkable books by women that are shaping the way we read and write fiction in the 21st century.”
NICK MAMATAS is the author of many novels, including I Am Providence, and The Second Shooter, and the novella The Planetbreaker’s Son. Mamatas’s short fiction has appeared in Best American Mystery Stories, Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, and many other ve
nues. His latest collection is The People’s Republic of Everything from Tachyon Publications. He has edited numerous anthologies, such as the Bram Stoker Award winner Haunted Legends. His fiction and editorial work have been nominated for the Bram Stoker, Hugo, World Fantasy Award, Shirley Jackson, and Locus Awards. Mamatas lives in Oakland, California.
CHINA MIÉVILLE is the multi-award-winning author of many works of fiction and non-fiction, among them the novels The City and the City and Embassytown and the novella This Census-Taker. He has won the Hugo, World Fantasy, and Arthur C. Clarke awards. His non-fiction includes the photo-illustrated essay London’s Overthrow, Between Equal Rights, and October: The Story of the Russian Revolution. He has written for various publications, including The New York Times, Guardian, Conjunctions and Granta, and he is a founding editor of the quarterly Salvage.
YOSHIKA NAGATA graduated from Tama Art University in 2000, and began working for a CM editing company. She left her job in 2003 to pursue her art full time. Her work has appeared in various galleries throughout Tokyo and the US. Her illustrations have appeared in various anthologies and children’s books. She performs in live-painting events throughout Tokyo and the US.
NIKHIL SINGH is a South African artist, writer and musician. His work has been featured in various magazines including Dazed, i-D Online, Creative Review, as well as Pictures and Words: New Comic Art and Narrative Illustration (Laurence King, 2005). His debut novel Taty Went West was published by Kwani? Trust in 2015, Jacaranda Books (UK) in 2017, and Rosarium (US) in 2018. The book was released with an accompanying soundtrack and was shortlisted for Best African Novel in the inaugural Nommo Awards. His recent short work was published in the Shirley Jackson Award nominated The Unquiet Dreamer: A Tribute to Harlan Ellison from PS Publishing in 2019. His latest novel, Club Ded, published by Luna Press, was shortlisted for the BSFA Awards and the Nommo Awards.
JOHN SKIPP is a Saturn Award-winning filmmaker (Tales of Halloween), Stoker Award-winning anthologist (Demons, Mondo Zombie), and New York Times-bestselling author (The Light at the End, The Scream) whose books have sold millions of copies in a dozen languages worldwide. His first anthology, Book of the Dead, laid the foundation in 1989 for modern zombie literature. He’s also editor-in-chief of genre-busting indie publisher Fungasm Press, and co-writer of maybe the gnarliest episode in Shudder’s Creepshow Season One. From splatterpunk founding father to bizarro elder statesman, Skipp has influenced a generation of horror and counterculture artists around the world. His latest book is Don’t Push the Button.
EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL is the author of five novels, most recently The Glass Hotel, which was selected by Barack Obama as one of his favourite books of 2020, was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and has been translated into 20 languages. Her previous novels include Station Eleven, which was a finalist for a National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, and won the 2015 Arthur C. Clarke Award among other honours, and has been translated into 33 languages. She lives in New York City with her husband and daughter.
D.R.G. SUGAWARA had been published widely throughout Japan, writing science fiction for various markets until his retirement in the late 90’s. He is often regarded as The Box Man of Ueno Station, named after a character in a novel by Kobo Abe. But unlike the eponymous character from that story, he doesn’t wander the streets of Ueno with a box over his head. Instead, he lives surrounded by books and magazines from every era of the genre. His most recent poetry – “Live Inside Your Own Sky” (PS Publishing) - was highlighted in a recent issue of Sci Fi Magazine. He is currently working on a book of poetry.
ANNA TAMBOUR is the award nominated author of Spotted Lily and Crandolin. In 2008, The Jeweler of Second-hand Roe won the Aurealis Award for best horror short story. Her 2015 collection The Finest Ass in the Universe was shortlisted for an Aurealis Award for Best Collection. Tambour lives in the Australian bush, but has lived all over the world and is, in Tambour’s words, “of no fixed nationality.” In addition to writing fiction, she also writes about and takes photographs of what she calls “magnificants —magnificent insignificants”.
JEFFREY THOMAS is the author of such horror and science fiction novels as The American, Deadstock (finalist for the John W. Campbell Award), Blue War, Monstrocity (finalist for the Bram Stoker Award), Letters from Hades, Subject 11, and Boneland. His short story collections include Punktown, Ghosts of Punktown, The Unnamed Country, Haunted Worlds, Unholy Dimensions, Thirteen Specimens, and The Endless Fall. Stories by Thomas have been reprinted in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, The Year’s Best Horror Stories, and Year’s Best Weird Fiction. Though he considers Vietnam his second home, he resides in Massachusetts.
LAVIE TIDHAR is the World Fantasy Award winning author of Osama (2011), Seiun nominated The Violent Century (2013), the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize winning A Man Lies Dreaming (2014), the Campbell Award and Neukom Prize winning Central Station (2016), and Locus and Campbell award nominated Unholy Land (2018), in addition to many other works and several other awards. His latest novels are By Force Alone (2020) and debut children’s novel Candy (2018 UK; as The Candy Mafia 2020 US). He is also the author of the comics mini-series Adler. New novels The Escapement and The Hood are forthcoming in 2021. He is the editor of The Best of World SF.
Shirley Jackson award-winner KAARON WARREN published her first short story in 1993 and has had fiction in print every year since. She was recently given the Peter McNamara Lifetime Achievement Award and was Guest of Honour at World Fantasy 2018, Stokercon 2019 and Geysercon 2019. She has published five multi-award-winning novels (Slights, Walking the Tree, Mistification, The Grief Hole and Tide of Stone) and seven short story collections, including the multi-award winning Through Splintered Walls. Her most recent short story collection is A Primer to Kaaron Warren from Dark Moon Books. Her most recent books are the re-release of her acclaimed novel, Slights, and Tool Tales, a chapbook in collaboration with Ellen Datlow. Both are from IFWG Australia.
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