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Alice Sola Kimcurrently lives in San Francisco but occasionally finds herself in St. Louis, where she is completing an MFA program at Washington University. Her short fiction has appeared in publications such as Asimov’s Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, and Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet .

Stephen Kingis the bestselling, award-winning author of innumerable classics, such as The Shining, Carrie, Cujo , and The Dead Zone —all of which have been adapted to film, as have many of King’s other novels and stories. Other projects include editing Best American Short Stories 2007 , writing a pop culture column for Entertainment Weekly , scripting for the Vertigo comic American Vampire , and a collaboration on a musical with rocker John Mellencamp called Ghost Brothers of Darkland County . His most recent books are the novels Blockade Billy and Under the Dome , a thousand-plus-page epic he has been working on for more than twenty-five years. His latest book is Full Dark, No Stars , a short fiction collection of four all-new, previously unpublished stories. Another recent collection, Just After Sunset , came out in 2008. Other recent short stories include a collaboration with his son, Joe Hill, called “Throttle,” for the Richard Matheson tribute anthology He Is Legend , and “UR,” a novella written exclusively for the Amazon Kindle. His other work includes classics such as The Stand , The Dark Tower , Salem’s Lot , among others.

David Barr Kirtleyhas been described as “one of the newest and freshest voices in sf.” His work frequently appears in Realms of Fantasy , and he has also sold fiction to the magazines Weird Tales and Intergalactic Medicine Show , the podcasts Escape Pod and Pseudopod , and the anthologies New Voices in Science Fiction, The Dragon Done It, and Fantasy: The Best of the Year . He’s also appeared in several of John Joseph Adams’s anthologies: The Living Dead and The Living Dead 2 , and he has a story forthcoming in the anthology The Way of the Wizard that’s due out in November. Kirtley is also the co-host (with John Joseph Adams) of the Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast.

Ted Kosmatkais the author of numerous short stories and novelettes. His work has appeared in F&SF and Asimov’s , the anthology Seeds of Change , and has been reprinted in seven best-of-the-year anthologies, serialized over the radio, and translated into Hebrew, Russian, Polish, and Czech. He is a winner of the Asimov’s Readers’ Choice Award and has been a finalist for the Nebula Award and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. His first novel, The Helix Game , is forthcoming from Del Rey. Ted worked for most of the last decade in laboratories in Indiana but now makes his home in the Pacific Northwest, where he writes science fiction video games for a living.

Nancy Kressis the author of twenty-six books: three fantasy novels, twelve SF novels, three thrillers, four collections of short stories, one YA novel, and three books on writing fiction. She is perhaps best known for the Sleepless trilogy that began with Beggars in Spain , which was based on the Nebula- and Hugo-winning novella of the same name. She won her second Hugo in 2009 in Montreal, for the novella “The Erdmann Nexus.” Kress has also won three additional Nebulas, a Sturgeon, and the 2003 John W. Campbell Award (for her novel Probability Space ). Her most recent books are a collection of short stories, Nano Comes to Clifford Falls and Other Stories ; a bio-thriller, Dogs ; and an SF novel, Steal Across the Sky . Kress’s fiction, much of which concerns genetic engineering, has been translated into twenty languages. She often teaches writing at various venues around the country and blogs at nancykress.blogspot.com.

Geoffrey A. Landisis a physicist who works at the NASA John Glenn Research Center on developing advanced technologies for human and robotic space exploration. He is also a Hugo- and Nebula-award winning science fiction writer; the author of the novel Mars Crossing , the short-story collection Impact Parameter and Other Quantum Realities , and more than eighty short stories, which have appeared in places including Analog, Asimov’s, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction , and numerous best-of-the-year volumes. Most recently, his poem “Searching” won the 2009 Rhysling award for best science-fiction poem, and his poetry collection Iron Angels appeared from Van Zeno. His most recent story, “Sultan of the Clouds,” appears in the September 2010 issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction .

Sarah Langanis the author of the novels The Keeper and The Missing , and her most recent novel, Audrey’s Door, won the 2009 Stoker for best novel. Her short fiction has appeared in the magazines Cemetery Dance , Phantom , and Chiaroscuro , and in the anthologies Darkness on the Edge and Unspeakable Horror . She is currently working on a post-apocalyptic young adult series called Kids and two adult novels: Empty Houses , which was inspired by The Twilight Zone , and My Father’s Ghost , which was inspired by Hamlet . Her work has been translated into ten languages and optioned by the Weinstein Company for film. It has also garnered three Bram Stoker Awards, an American Library Association Award, two Dark Scribe Awards, a New York Times Book Review editor’s pick, and a Publishers Weekly favorite book of the year selection. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, daughter, and rabbit.

Joe R. Lansdaleis the author of over thirty novels and two hundred short pieces, fiction and non-fiction. He has received the Edgar Award, seven Bram Stokers, the British Fantasy Award, and many others. His novella, Bubba Hotep , was made into a movie of the same name.

Tanith Leewas born in 1947, didn’t learn to read till nearly eight, and started to write aged nine—and she hasn’t stopped since. In 1975, DAW Books published her epic fantasy The Birthgrave (soon due for re-release from Norilana) and so rescued Lee from lots of silly jobs at which she was extravagantly bad. Since then, she’s written more than ninety novels and collections plus almost three hundred short stories. She lives on the S.E coast of England with her husband, writer/artist John Kaiine, in a house full of books and plants, under the firm claw of two cats.

Yoon Ha Lee’swork has appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Clarkesworld, Fantasy Magazine, Ideomancer, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, Farrago’s Wainscot, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Electric Velocipede, and Sybil’s Garage. She’s also appeared in the anthologies Twenty Epics, Japanese Dreams, In Lands That Never Were, The Way of the Wizard, Year’s Best Fantasy 6 , and Science Fiction: The Best of 2002. Her poetry has appeared in such venues as Jabberwocky, Strange Horizons, Star*Line, Mythic Delirium, and Goblin Fruit . Learn more at pegasus.cityofveils.com.

Ursula K. Le Guinis the author of innumerable SF and fantasy classics, such as The Left Hand of Darkness , The Lathe of Heaven , The Dispossessed , and A Wizard of Earthsea (and the others in the Earthsea Cycle). She has been named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America, and is the winner of five Hugos, six Nebulas, two World Fantasy Awards, and twenty Locus Awards. She’s also a winner of the Newbery Medal, The National Book Award, the PEN/Malamud Award, and was named a Living Legend by the Library of Congress.