Liam Hogan was abandoned in a library at the tender age of 3, only to emerge blinking into the sunlight many years later with a head full of words and an aversion to loud noises.

London based and with a first class degree in Physics from Oxford, Liam is an award winning (Quantum Shorts 2015 & Roswell Award 2016) short story writer, appearing in over 50 anthologies, including the Amazon chart topping Political/Sci-Fi Anthology "Alternative Truths", and NewCon Press's "Best of British Sci-Fi 2016".

His twisted fantasy collection "Happy Ending NOT Guaranteed" is published by Arachne Press.

His work has been performed at Liars' League, NoSleep Podcast, and White Rabbit's "Are You Sitting Comfortably". You can find it in print at DailyScienceFiction, Gallery of Curiosities, and OpenPen, as well as the anthologies listed here and at http://happyendingnotguaranteed.blogspot.co.uk/.

He dreams in Dewey Decimals.

Jamie Lackey lives in Pittsburgh with her husband and their cats. She enjoys reading, writing, tabletop role playing games, video games, watching anime, baking, hiking, and mushroom hunting.

She has over 160 short fiction credits, and her short stories have appeared in places like Daily Science Fiction, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Apex Magazine, Escape Pod, and Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show. Her fiction has appeared on the Best Horror of the Year Honorable Mention and Tangent Online Recommended Reading Lists, and she's a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.

Her longer works include two novellas, Moving Forward: A Novella of Life After Zombies and The Forest God, as well as her debut novel, Left Hand Gods. She also has four short story collections available: One Revolution: A Year of Flash Fiction; Second Revolution: Another Year of Flash Fiction; The Blood of Four Gods and Other Stories; and A Metal Box Floating Between Stars and Other Stories.

She graduated from the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford in 2006 with a degree in Creative Writing. She studied under James Gunn at the Center for the Study of Science Fiction's Writer's Workshop in 2010 and has taken various workshops with Cat Rambo.

She read submissions for the Hugo-winning Clarkesworld Magazine for five years and was an assistant editor for the Hugo-winning Electric Velocipede from 2012-2013. She served as editor for Triangulation: Lost Voices in 2015 and Triangulation: Beneath the Surface in 2016.

Learn more about her at her website, www.jamielackey.com

I grew up near Pennsylvania Amish country and began writing while living in San Francisco.

Odd bits of information, like historical footnotes, often turn into stories.

A museum exhibit sparked "Mud," in Terra! Tara! Terror. WWI was mechanized slaughter, a "modern" war with tanks and planes, but also cavalry charges! Imperial War Museum photos show soldiers with dogs and cats, which killed rats in the trenches, and boosted the men's morale. Dogs were trained to carry messages, lay communications wire, and haul machine guns. Animals were decorated. My grandfather told stories about the horses and mules used in WWI.

Genealogy prompted "My Jack" in Flame Tree's Urban Crime. My great- and great-great-grandmothers emigrated from London, England in 1886.

Recently read: Salt, by Mark Kurlansky, the saga of that common substance; Heretics: The Wondrous (and Dangerous) Beginnings of Modern Philosophy, a graphic novel by Steven and Ben Nadler. The Library Book by Susan Orlean, and lots by Jody Picoult!

Herb Kauderer is an associate professor of English at Hilbert College near Buffalo, NY. He holds a PhD in Popular Literature from the University at Buffalo (2018), an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College (2007), and five other college degrees. He is the author of four books and fifteen chapbooks of poetry. He was the main screenwriter for the super low-budget indie film ‘BEYOND THE MAINSTREAM’ (2013), and has also written drama and short fiction.

Herb’s poem "Frozen Hurricanes" received third place in the Dwarf Stars Award in 2021, and “After” won the 2016 ASIMOV’S Readers’ Award. His collaborative poem “Soft Collision” was a finalist for the ANALOG AnLab Readers’ Award. His 2014 chapbook ‘THE BOOK OF ANSWERS’ was a two time nominee for the Elgin Award, and his 2019 chapbook 'FRAGMENTS FROM THE BOOK OF THE AFTER-DEAD' received third place in the 2020 Elgins. In 2021 Herb's non-fiction essay "Names: SF's Influence on Name Freedom" won the Critters Readers Award. His poem “A Twisted Certainty” won the Ewaipanoma Sonnet contest (2008), and other poems have been finalists or nominees for the Pushcart Prize, The Rhysling Award, The Dwarf Star Award, and the Dragon Soup contest.

As the featured poet in SCIFAIKUEST #55 for February 2017 Herb had 28 poems and an interview in the issue. That is longer than many chapbooks. He was featured again in SCIFAIKUEST #87 for February 2021 and contributed 29 poems, an interview, and an essay. Herb’s book THE SNOWSTORM OF ’14: POEMS FROM THE FRONT LINES (2016) recounts the experience of living at the epicenter of two of the worst snowstorms in the lower 48 states.

More information is available at HerbKauderer.com.

Katherine Quevedo was born and raised near Portland, Oregon, where she lives with her husband and two sons. Her writing has appeared in Triangulation: Habitats, Best Indie Speculative Fiction Vol. III, Factor Four Magazine, Apparition Literary Magazine, Myriad Lands Vol. 2, and elsewhere. Find her at www.katherinequevedo.com.

Chris lives in the beautiful garden of England and in the odd moment he’s not walking the dog he pursues his passion for writing fiction. Specialising in horror, fantasy, and science-fiction Chris has stories in print with several publishers. To keep up with future stories be sure to follow @ https://mused.blog

Hello!

I’m a Welsh magic 'n mystery writer, living by the sea with the softest cat in the world. I have very curly hair and am 90% dark chocolate.

I’m addicted to my Kindle and my favourite question is “what are you reading?”

My award-nominated work has been published in several anthologies, and when I'm not writing I read submissions for Apex magazine and review theatre and comedy for Broadway Baby.

Diane Turnshek teaches college astronomy classes in Pittsburgh and has been named a Dark Sky Defender by the International Dark-sky Association. She has been on the Board of Directors for both SFWA and Parsec, Pittsburgh’s premier science fiction charitable organization. For nine years, she mentored graduate students at Seton Hill's MFA Writing Popular Fiction program. In the last three years, she has set up book signing events for over 300 authors and curated three space art galleries. She is the founder of Write or Die, a critique group running since 1996, Alpha, a teen writing workshop since 2002 and the CMU Speculative Fiction Lecture Series that began in 2014.

She created the Triangulation series of themed anthologies to be a training ground for local writers who wanted to take turns editing. She edited the first one in 2003 and the 2019 issue, Triangulation: Dark Skies. Her love of both astronomy and science fiction led her to crew the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah, earn second place in the international Mars City Design competition and win the 2017 NASA Intel/HP competition to make life better for astronauts. Her latest project is to make a high resolution, nighttime, light pollution map of Pittsburgh for researchers.