by Rena Rossner
SHIMON ADAF was born in Sderot, Israel, in 1972 to parents of Moroccan origin. He began publishing poetry during his military service. Later, he moved to Tel Aviv and joined a rock band as songwriter and acoustic guitar player. He published three poetry collections and six novels so far. His third collection of poetry Aviva-No won the Yehuda Amichai Poetry Award in 2010. between 2010-2012 he published the Rose of Judea trilogy, which deals with the issue of Jewish identity in different realities and with the role of poetry in initiation to adult life. The second volume of the thematic trilogy, Mox Nox, won the Sapir Prize (the Israeli equivalent of the Booker Prize) in 2011. The novel Sunburnt Faces came out in English in 2013 (PS Publishing). He resides in Tel Aviv and teaches Creative Writing and Literature in Ben Gurion University.
DANIEL POLANSKY is the author of the Low Town fantasy noir trilogy. His latest book, Those Above, was released by Hodder and Stoughton in 2015. He is sometimes in Brooklyn.
SARAH LOTZ is a screenwriter and novelist with a fondness for the macabre and fake names. Among other things, she writes horror/thriller novels under the name S.L. Grey with author Louis Greenberg, a YA pulp-fiction zombie series with her daughter, Savannah, under the pseudonym Lily Herne, and quirky erotica novels with authors Helen Moffett and Paige Nick under the name Helena S. Paige. Her latest solo novel, The Three, was published in May, 2014, and Day Four is out later this year. She lives in Cape Town with her family and other animals.
BENJAMIN ROSENBAUM’s stories have appeared in F&SF, Strange Horizons, Harper’s, and Nature, nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon, BSFA and Locus Awards, and been translated into more than 20 languages. He has been a party clown, rugby flanker, synagogue president, and programmer for the Swiss banks. He currently works in Washington, DC with his wife Esther and his kids, Aviva (author of the blues song “Homework”) and Noah (author of the RPG “Galaxy World”). He is writing a roleplaying game about the fantastic shtetl, called Dream Apart.
ANNA TAMBOUR’s fiction is always 110+% true tales, minus the names. She says, 'The pseudonymous "Irving Wiseman" is actually my father - and the time of his life covered here predates his time machine, on which he later installed a seatbelt for my safety." Tambour’s last novel, Crandolin, was shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award. Look out for her next collection, The Finest Ass in the Universe, coming soon from Ticonderoga Publications.
ADAM ROBERTS has published fifteen science fiction novels and many short stories, some of them collected in Adam Robots (Gollancz 2013). He is a university academic as well as a writer, and lives a little outside London.
LAVIE TIDHAR is the author of A Man Lies Dreaming, The Violent Century and the World Fantasy Award winning Osama. His other works include the Bookman Histories trilogy, several novellas, two collections and a forthcoming comics mini-series, Adler. He currently lives in London.
REBECCA LEVENE has been a writer and editor for twenty years, working in the games, publishing, TV and magazine industries. Her new four-part epic fantasy series, The Hollow Gods, launched in July 2014 with Smiler’s Fair.
ABOUT THE CHARITY
Mosac (Charity No: 1139077) provides practical and emotional support to non-abusing parents, carers and families of children who have been sexually abused.
The charity was formed in 1992 when four mothers whose children were abused came together and drew strength from each other’s shared experience and realised the need for a similar service for others.
Based in Greenwich in south London, Mosac offers a national helpline, as well as counselling, advocacy, support groups and play therapy, and aims to break the silence surrounding child sexual abuse by raising awareness through training and consultancy.
All proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to Mosac.
