Rick Wilber's ALIEN DAY novel (Tor, 2021) is the sequel to ALIEN MORNING (Tor, 2016) which was a finalist for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel of 2017. He has also published a half-dozen other novels and short-story collections, several college textbooks on writing and the mass media, a memoir about his father’s life in baseball, and some sixty short stories, novelettes or novellas in major markets, including the Sidewise Award winning “Something Real,”the Sidewise Award runner-up, "The Secret City," and the poignant “Today is Today,” reprinted in THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY (Prime Books, 2019) edited by Rich Horton. Both stories and seven more tales of determination are in the collection, RAMBUNCTIOUS: NINE TALES OF DETERMINATION (WordFire, 2020).

Another WordFire collection, THE WANDERING WARRIORS (WordFire 2020) was selected as a BookBub Featured New Release in August, 2020. The collection is a collaboration with writer and astrophsicist Alan Smale and includes two bonus stories, one from each author.

Wilber is the editor of several reprint anthologies, including FIELD OF FANTASIES: BASEBALL STORIES OF THE STRANGE AND SUPERNATURAL (Nightshade, 2014), Future Media (Tachyon, 2011), and MAKING HISTORY: CLASSIC ALTERNATE HISTORY STORIES (New Word City, 2018) among others.

The son of a major-league baseball player and coach, and a three-sport college scholarship athlete himself, Wilber often incorporates sports into his fiction. He is the father of a Down syndrome son and often incorporates the disabled in his fiction, as well.

He is a Visiting Professor and Thesis Coordinator in the low-residency MFA in Creative Writing—Genre Fiction at Western Colorado University, and he is he co-founder and co-judge with Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine Editor Sheila Williams of the Dell Magazines Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing, awarded annually at the International Conference on the Fantastic in Orlando, Florida. You can find him at www.rickwilber.net and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/Rick.Wilber and on Twitter as Rick Wilber @WilberSFWriter and on his blog at https://profile.typepad.com/rickwilber

Alan Smale is a professional astronomer, but his writing tastes have always veered more towards alternate and twisted history, fantasy, and horror. His novella of Romans in ancient America, "A Clash of Eagles" in Panverse Two, won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History, and the first book in a trilogy set in the same universe, CLASH OF EAGLES, appeared in 2015 from Del Rey in the US and Titan Books in the UK and Europe. The series continues with EAGLE IN EXILE (March 2016) and will conclude with EAGLE AND EMPIRE (2017). Alan has sold 40 short stories to magazines including Asimov's, Realms of Fantasy, Abyss & Apex, Paradox, and Scape, and original anthologies Panverse One and Two, Apollo's Daughters, Book of Dead Things, and Writers of the Future #13.

Alan grew up in England, and has degrees in Physics and Astrophysics from Oxford University. He serves as director of an astrophysical archive, and performs research on black hole binaries at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Alan also sings bass with well-known vocal band The Chromatics, and is co-creator of their educational AstroCappella project.