John Adams - Lightspeed - Year One

Adam-Troy Castro’sseventeen books include Emissaries from the Dead (winner of the Philip K. Dick award), and The Third Claw of God, both of which feature his profoundly damaged far-future murder investigator, Andrea Cort. His next books will be a series of middle-school novels about the adventures of a strange young boy called Gustav Gloom, the first of which will be Gustav Gloom and the People Taker, due out from Grossett and Dunlap in August 2012. His short fiction has been nominated for five Nebulas, two Hugos, and two Stokers. Adam-Troy, who describes the odd hyphen between his first and middle names as a typo from his college newspaper that was just annoying enough to embrace with gusto, lives in Miami with his wife Judi and a population of insane cats that includes Uma Furman and Meow Farrow.

Maggie Clarkis an emerging Canadian writer with her toes in many literary waters. Alongside this first publication for science fiction, she’s been published for poetry in RATTLE , Pedestal Magazine , Ryga , and ditch , while a novelette is forthcoming at Vagabondage Press. Her first play was given a reading at Canada’s Magnetic North Theatre Festival, and among her current commissioned projects is a feature length film. Having devoured wide tracts of science fiction throughout her childhood, returning to the form as a mature writer feels a lot like coming home.

Tom Crosshill’sfiction has appeared in magazines such as Beneath Ceaseless Skies , Sybil’s Garage and Flash Fiction Online . In 2009, he won the Writers of the Future contest. Originally from Latvia, he writes in English and lives in New York, where he’s a member of the writers’ group Altered Fluid . In the past, he has operated a nuclear reactor, translated books and worked in a zinc mine, among other things. He’s currently working on a post-Singularity YA novel featuring superpowers and giant robots. Visit him at tomcrosshill.com.

Since 1997, Julie E. Czernedahas turned her love and knowledge of biology into science fiction novels and short stories that have received international acclaim, multiple awards, and bestselling status. A popular speaker on scientific literacy and SF, in 2009 Julie was Guest of Honor for the national conventions of New Zealand and Australia, as well as Master of Ceremonies for Anticipation, the Montreal Worldcon. She’s presently finishing her first fantasy novel, A Turn of Light , to be published by DAW in 2011. Most recently, Julie was a guest lecturer at the National Science Teachers convention in Philadelphia and participated in Laurentian’s Social Science & SF conference. As for new projects, Julie is co-editing Tesseracts 15: A Case of Quite Curious Tales with Susan MacGregor and will be a juror for the 2011 Sunburst Awards. (No matter what, she’ll be out canoeing, too.) For more about Julie’s work, visit czerneda.com.

Tananarive Dueis a winner of the American Book Award and a two-time finalist for the Bram Stoker Award. Her novels include the My Soul to Keep series, The Between, The Good House, and Joplin’s Ghost . Her short fiction has been published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction , and in anthologies such as Dark Delicacies II, Voices from the Other Side, Dark Dreams, Dark Matter, and Mojo: Conjure Stories . She is a frequent collaborator with SF writer Steven Barnes: they’ve produced film scripts, short stories, and three Tennyson Hardwick detective novels, the latest of which (written with actor Blair Underwood) is From Cape Town With Love . (They also collaborate in another way: they’re married.)

Carol Emshwillergrew up in Michigan and in France. She lives in New York City in the winter and in Bishop, CA in the summer. She’s been doing only short stories lately. A new one will appear in Asimov’s soon. She’s wondering if she’s too old to start a novel but if a good idea came along she might do it anyway. PS Publishing is publishing two of her short story collections in a single volume (sort like an Ace Double), with her anti-war stories on one side and other stories on the other.

John R. Fultz(johnrfultz.wordpress.com) lives in the Bay Area, California, but is originally from Kentucky. His fiction has appeared in Weird Tales, Black Gate , and Space & Time , as well as the comic book anthologies Zombie Tales and Cthulhu Tales . His graphic novel of epic fantasy, Primordia , was published by Archaia Comics. John’s literary heroes include Tanith Lee, Thomas Ligotti, Clark Ashton Smith, Lord Dunsany, William Gibson, Robert Silverberg, and Darrell Schweitzer (not to mention Howard, Poe, and Shakespeare). When not writing stories, novels, or comics, John teaches English Literature at the middle/high school level and plays a mean guitar. In a previous life he made his living as a wandering storyteller on the lost continent of Atlantis.

Eric Gregorylives in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he is working toward his MFA at North Carolina State University. His stories have appeared in Strange Horizons, Interzone, Futurismic, Shine: An Anthology of Optimistic Science Fiction , and other publications. Find more at ericmg.com.

Joe Haldemanwrites for a living and teaches as an absorbing hobby. He has been a full-time writer since 1969, except for the occasional teaching and a short tenure as senior editor of Astronomy Magazine . He has taught writing at MIT every fall semester since 1983. Main hobbies are astronomy, bicycling, watercolor, and guitar. His latest books are Marsbound and Starbound . He’s hard at work on the final book of the trilogy, Earthbound .

Vylar Kaftanwrites speculative fiction of all genres, including science fiction, fantasy, horror, and slipstream. She’s published stories in places such as Clarkesworld , Realms of Fantasy , and Strange Horizons . She lives with her husband Shannon in northern California and blogs at vylarkaftan.net.

James Patrick Kellyhas written novels, short stories, essays, reviews, poetry, plays and planetarium shows. His most recent book is a collection of stories entitled The Wreck of the Godspeed. His short novel Burn won the Nebula Award in 2007 . He has won the Hugo Award twice: In 1996, for his novelette “Think Like A Dinosaur,” and in 2000, for his novelette, “Ten to the Sixteenth to One.” His fiction has been translated into eighteen languages. With John Kessel he is co-editor of The Secret History of Science Fiction, Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology and Rewired: The Post Cyberpunk Anthology . He writes a column on the internet for Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine and is on the faculty of the Stonecoast Creative Writing MFA Program at the University of Southern Maine and the Board of Directors of the Clarion Foundation. His website is jimkelly.net.

Caitlín R. Kiernanhas published seven novels, most recently The Red Tree , which has been nominated for the World Fantasy and Shirley Jackson awards. Her short fiction has been collected into several volumes, including Tales of Pain and Wonder ; From Weird and Distant Shores ; To Charles Fort, With Love ; Alabaster ; A is for Alien ; and The Ammonite Violin & Others . In Spring 2011, Subterranean Press will release Two Worlds and In Between: The Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan (Volume One) . She studied geology and paleontology at the University of Alabama and the University of Colorado, and has published in several scientific journals, including the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology . She’s currently working on her next novel. Kiernan lives in Providence, Rhode Island with her partner, Kathryn.