Cat Rambo lives, writes, and edits in the American Midwest. Their work has appeared in such places as Asimov's, Weird Tales, and Strange Horizons. They were the fiction editor of award-winning Fantasy Magazine (http://www.fantasy-magazine.com) and appeared on the World Fantasy Award ballot in 2012 for that work. Their story "Five Ways to Fall in Love on Planet Porcelain" was a 2012 Nebula Award finalist.

John Barth described Cat Rambo's writings as "works of urban mythopoeia" -- their stories take place in a universe where chickens aid the lovelorn, Death is just another face on the train, and Bigfoot gives interviews to the media on a daily basis. They has worked as a programmer-writer for Microsoft and a Tarot card reader, professions which, they claim, both involve a certain combination of technical knowledge and willingness to go with the flow. In 2005 she attended the Clarion West Writers' Workshop.

In 2007, their collaboration with Jeff VanderMeer, The Surgeon's Tale and Other Stories, appeared, while theri first solo collection, Eyes Like Sky and Coal and Moonlight, was published in August of 2009 and was an Endeavour Award finalist. In 2012, collection Near + Far appeared from Hydra House as well as a novella, A Seed Upon the Wind, as part of the Fathomless Abyss collaborative project. In 2023, their works DEVIL'S GUN and GODS OF TABAT will appear.

A frequent volunteer with the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, they are a former two-term president of the organization. Their most recent nonfiction work is writing book MOVING FROM IDEA TO FINISHED DRAFT (Plunkett Press).

David Lee Summers is an author, editor and astronomer living somewhere between the western and final frontiers in Southern New Mexico. He is the author of twelve novels. His short stories and poems have appeared in numerous magazines including Cemetery Dance, Realms of Fantasy, Star*Line, and The Santa Clara Review. David also edited Tales of the Talisman Magazine for ten years. When he's not writing, he operates telescopes at Kitt Peak National Observatory.

Spencer Ellsworth has been writing since he learned how, starting with the sweeping epic "Super Tiger" in crayon on scratch paper. He is the author of the Starfire Trilogy, a series of space opera novels from Tor.com publishing. His short fiction has been published at Lightspeed Magazine, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Tor.com and many other places. He lives in Bellingham, Washington with his wife and three children.

Twitter @spencimus

Agent: Sara Megibow at KT Literary

Author of CORTEZ ON JUPITER, HIGH AZTECH, SMOKING MIRROR BLUES, "The Frankenstein Penis," and other acts of creative outrage.

Randy Henderson's darkly humorous contemporary fantasy trilogy from TOR (US) and Titan (UK) includes FINN FANCY NECROMANCY, BIGFOOTLOOSE & FINN FANCY FREE, and SMELLS LIKE FINN SPIRIT.

Randy was the Golden Pen Grand Prize winner of Writers of the Future in 2014.

Randy is also a member of the Dungeon Scrawlers D&D liveplay show, and a relapsed sarcasm addict. He lives in Western Washington with writer and audiobook narrator Folly Blaine, too many gnomes, and the requisite two cats. Don’t hesitate to message him, he's happy to chat and be of help where he can. (He/Him)

www.randy-henderson.com

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My newest books are MEDUSA UPLOADED, and MEDUSA IN THE GRAVEYARD, published by Tor. Look for them in paperback, ebook, and audio.

I have written under three pen names: as Emily Devenport I wrote SHADE, LARISSA, SCORPIANNE, EGGHEADS, THE KRONOS CONDITION, and GODHEADS. As Maggy Thomas I wrote BROKEN TIME, which was nominated for the Philip K. Dick award. As Lee Hogan I wrote BELARUS and ENEMIES. My books have been published in the U.S., the U.K., Israel, China, and Italy. Look for two other e-books, THE NIGHT SHIFTERS and SPIRITS OF GLORY on Amazon. They can be read on your kindle. I'm always working on new stuff, so I hope you'll keep checking my page for updates. I live in Arizona, a wonderfully strange place where I enjoy hiking, gardening, rockhounding, studying geology, and writing. I volunteer at the Botanical Garden in Phoenix, and I'm a buyer at the Heard Museum book store.

David Boop is a Denver-based speculative fiction author & editor. He’s also an award-winning essayist, and screenwriter. Before turning to fiction, David worked as a DJ, film critic, journalist, and actor. As Editor-in-Chief at IntraDenver.net, David’s team was on the ground at Columbine making them the first internet only newspaper to cover such an event. That year, they won an award for excellence from the Colorado Press Association for their design and coverage.

David’s debut novel, the sci-fi/noir She Murdered Me with Science, returned to print in 2017 from WordFire Press. (Simultaneously, he self-published a prequel novella, A Whisper to a Scheme.) His second novel, The Soul Changers, is a serialized Victorian Horror novel set in Pinnacle Entertainment’s world of Rippers Resurrected. David edited the bestselling weird western anthology, Straight Outta Tombstone, for Baen, and has followed with Straight Outta Deadwood and Straight Outta Dodge City. David is prolific in short fiction with many short stories and two short films to his credit. Additionally, he does a flash fiction mystery series on Gumshoereview.com called The Trace Walker Temporary Mysteries (the first collection is available now.) He’s published across several genres including media tie-ins for Predator (nominated for the 2018 Scribe Award), The Green Hornet, The Black Bat and Veronica Mars.

David works in game design, as well. He’s written for the Savage Worlds RPG for their Flash Gordon (nominated for an Origins Award) and Deadlands: Noir titles. He owns Longshot Productions, a multimedia company specializing in books, games, and short animated videos.

His third go at a “real” degree landed him Summa Cum Laude in the Creative Writing program at UC-Denver. He also is part-time temp worker and believer. His hobbies include film noir, anime, the Blues and Mayan History. You can find out more at Davidboop.com, Facebook.com/dboop.updates or Twitter @david_boop.

Rick Novy is a writer, engineer, musician, and mathematician. He makes his home in a suburb of that great metropolitan desert region of Arizona known as Phoenix. He grew up in the frozen tundra of Wisconsin and graduated from the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater with a bachelor of science degree in physics and mathematics. He also graduated from San Jose State University with a masters degree in engineering.

His fiction has appeared in respectable publications, including Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, Flash Fiction Online, M-Brane SF, and Tales of the Talisman. He is a member of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA).

Lex Wilson writes fiction and comics in North Carolina.

He was one of the writers on the video game Life is Strange: Before the Storm (Deck Nine/Square Enix) for Xbox, Playstation, and Windows. Publisher's Weekly has praised his "sharp ear for dialogue," and Locus Magazine called him a "promising new writer."

His stories have won the Eagle Award in comics and Writers of the Future in science fiction prose, with work appearing in Asimov's, Analog, Outlaw Territory II (Image Comics), The Florida Review, and elsewhere.

UNINVITED QUESTS is his debut novel.

He's originally from northern Ohio. You might know him as "Alex."