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Alan DeNiro is the author of a short story collection, Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead, which was a finalist for the Crawford Award, and a novel, Total Oblivion, More or Less. His stories have appeared in many literary magazines, genre magazines, and anthologies. More of his work can be found on his website, goblinmercantileexchange.com.
Jeffrey Ford is the author of the novels The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque, The Girl in the Glass, and The Shadow Year. His short stories have been collected into three books—The Fantasy Writer's Assistant, The Empire of Ice Cream, and The Drowned Life. He lives in South Jersey and teaches writing and literature at Brookdale Community College.
Theodora Goss was born in Hungary and spent her childhood in various European countries before her family moved to the United States. Although she grew up on the classics of English literature, her writing has been influenced by an Eastern European literary tradition in which the boundaries between realism and the fantastic are often ambiguous. Her publications include the short-story collection In the Forest of Forgetting (2006); Interfictions (2007), a short-story anthology coedited with Delia Sherman; and Voices from Fairyland (2008), a poetry anthology with critical essays and a selection of her own poems. Her short stories and poems have won the World Fantasy and Rhysling Awards. Visit her website at theodoragoss.com.
Carlos Hernandez is the coauthor of Abecedarium and the author of the novella “The Last Generation to Die” and many short stories. By day, he is a professor of English at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY. He lives in Queens, which is the best borough in New York.
Alaya Dawn Johnson's short fiction has appeared in Interzone, Strange Horizons, Fantasy Magazine, Year's Best Fantasy 6, and Year's Best Science Fiction 11. Her first novel, Racing the Dark, appeared in 2007 and the sequel, The Burning City, in fall 2009. In 2010, Thomas Dunne will publish Moonshine, the first in a series of 1920s vampire novels set in New York City. You can contact her via her website, alayadawnjohnson.com.
Shira Lipkin lives in Boston with her husband, daughter, and the requisite cats, most of whom also write. Her poetry and short fiction have appeared in ChiZine, Electric Velocipede, Lone Star Stories, Polu Texni, Cabinet des Fees, and the Ravens in the Library benefit anthology. You can track her movements at shiralipkin.com. Please do. She likes the company.
Will Ludwigsen didn't know he wrote interstitial fiction, though his disparate appearances in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Asimov's Science Fiction, and Weird Tales should have given him a clue. When he isn't writing interstitial fiction, he writes interstitial nonfiction for the federal government, challenging genre boundaries with disquieting documentation and training materials. He lives in Jacksonville, Florida, with writer Aimee Payne and two greyhounds, also possibly writers of some sort. His website will-ludwigsen.com is even stranger than his fiction.
Colleen Mondor is a writer and reviewer who resides in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. She has been published in Eylsian Fields Quarterly and Identity Theory, among others, and her monthly column of young adult book reviews can be found online at Bookslut.com. She also reviews for the ALA's Booklist. Her personal website is Chasingray.com, named for her literary hero, Ray Bradbury. It was a toss-up between Bradbury and Louis Armstong, who she maintains is one of the coolest people who ever lived. In a perfect world, Dandelion Wine would be on everyone's nightstand with “What a Wonderful World” as our global theme song. It's something to aspire to.
M. Rickert has won a World Fantasy Award for best short story, and the Crawford and World Fantasy awards for her short story collection, Map of Dreams, published by Golden Gryphon press. She lives in Cedarburg, Wisconsin.
David J. Schwartz's short fiction has appeared in numerous markets, including the anthologies Paper Cities, The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, and Twenty Epics. His first novel, Superpowers, was nominated for the Nebula Award. He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Stephanie Shaw has been an actress, a theater critic, a Neo-Futurist, and a solo performer around Chicago for the last twenty years. She has recently completed her MFA in Creative Writing at Columbia College Chicago, where she is a senior lecturer in the Theater Department, teaching acting, solo performance, and (strangely) musical theater. She has been published in the Chicago Reader, the New City, Analemma Magazine, Neo-Solo: 131 Neo-Futurist Solo Plays From Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind, and 200 More Neo-Futurist Plays From Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind. Her novella “Mademoiselle Guignol: A Theatrical Romance with Blood” will be published by Doorways Publications this summer. She lives in a barely functioning household in Oak Park, Illinois, with her husband and three children.
Brian Francis Slattery is an editor, writer, and musician. He has written two novels, Spaceman Blues (2007) and Liberation (2008), both for Tor Books. This is his fourth published short story.
Lavie Tidhar is the author of linked-story collection HebrewPunk (2007); novellas An Occupation of Angels (2005), Cloud Permutations (2009), and Gorel & The Pot-Bellied God (2010); and, with Nir Yaniv, the short novel The Tel Aviv Dossier (2009). He's lived on three continents and one island-nation and was last seen in Southeast Asia.
Ray Vukcevich's fiction has appeared in a wide variety of magazines. Some of the stories have been collected in Meet Me in the Moon Room. Read more about the fiction at sff.net/people/RayV.
Elizabeth Ziemska received an MFA in Creative Writing from Bennington College. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, stepson, three dogs, and one rabbit. She has previously been published in Tin House and nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award, and she is currently at work on a novel titled Muse of Vengeance and Sorrow.
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If you enjoyed the stories in this book, be sure to check out the Interfictions Annex online for these additional stories:
Kelly Barnhill, “Four Very True Tales"
Kelly Cogswell, “For the Love of Carrots"
F. Brett Cox, “Nylon Seam"
Chris Kammerud, “Some Things About Love, Magic, and Hair"
Eilis O'Neal, “Quiz"
Ronald Pasquariello, “The Chipper Dialogues"
Mark Rich, “Stonefield"
Genevieve Valentine, “To Set Before the King"
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