Jaym Gates - War Stories

MIKE BARRETTA is a retired U.S. Navy Helicopter pilot with deployments around the world. He works for a Major Defense contractor. He holds a Master’s degree in Strategic Planning and International Negotiation from the Naval Post–Graduate School and is nearing a completion of a Master’s Degree in English from the University of West Florida. He is published in Jim Baen’s Universe, New Scientist, Redstone, and various anthologies. He resides in Gulf Breeze, Florida with his wife, Mary Jane, and five children.

SUSAN JANE BIGELOW is a librarian, writer and political columnist. She’s the author of the three Extrahumans books and The Daughter Star , the first in a series of epic space opera novels. Her work has appeared in the Lambda Award–winning The Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard from Topside Press, and Queers Dig Time Lords . She also writes a weekly Connecticut–focused political column at CTNewsJunkie.com. Susan can be found wandering around northern Connecticut and western Massachusetts with her wife, covered in cat hair.

MAURICE BROADDUS has written hundreds of short stories, essays, novellas, and articles. His dark fiction has been published in numerous magazines, anthologies, and web sites, including Asimov’s Science Fiction, Cemetery Dance, Apex Magazine, and Weird Tales Magazine . He is the co–editor of Streets of Shadows (Alliteration Ink) and the Dark Faith anthology series (Apex Books) and the author of the urban fantasy trilogy, Knights of Breton Court (Angry Robot Books). He has been a teaching artist for over five years, teaching creative writing to students of all ages. Visit his site at www.MauriceBroaddus.com.

KEITH BROOKE’S most recent novel alt.human (published in the US as Harmony ) was shortlisted for the 2013 Philip K Dick Award. He is also the editor of Strange Divisions and Alien Territories: the Sub–genres of Science Fiction , an academic exploration of SF from the perspectives of a dozen top authors in the field. Writing as Nick Gifford, his teen fiction is published by Puffin, with one novel also optioned for the movies by Andy Serkis and Jonathan Cavendish’s Caveman Films. He writes reviews for the Guardian , teaches creative writing at university level, and lives with his wife Debbie in Wivenhoe, Essex.

JAMES L. CAMBIAS writes SF and designs games. Originally from New Orleans, he lives in western Massachusetts. His stories have appeared in F&SF, Shimmer, Nature , and several original anthologies. A Darkling Sea , his first novel, came out in January 2014. Mr. Cambias has written for GURPS, Hero Games, and other roleplaying systems, and is a partner in Zygote Games. He is a member of the notorious Cambridge SF Workshop. You can read his blog at www.jamescambias.com.

F. BRETT COX’S fiction, poetry, essays, and reviews have appeared in numerous publications. With Andy Duncan, he co–edited the anthology Crossroads: Tales of the Southern Literary Fantastic (Tor, 2004). A native of North Carolina, he is Associate Professor of English at Norwich University and lives in Vermont with his wife, playwright Jeanne Beckwith.

The Central Clancy Writer for Red Storm/Ubisoft, RICHARD DANSKY was named one of the Top 20 video game writers by Gamasutra in 2009. His credits include Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Blacklist , Ghost Recon: Future Soldier and Rainbow Six: Raven Shield . Richard has published six novels, most recently Vaporware , and is the developer for the upcoming 20th Anniversary edition of the acclaimed tabletop RPG Wraith: The Oblivion . He lives in North Carolina with his wife and their uncountable cats, books, and single malt whiskeys.

An editor and multi–published author, NERINE DORMAN currently resides in Cape Town, South Africa, with her visual artist husband, and has works published by Kensington, Dark Continents Publishing, eKhaya, Tor Books and Immanion Press. She has been involved in the media industry for more than a decade, with a background in magazine and newspaper publishing, commercial fiction, and advertising. Her book reviews, as well as travel, entertainment and lifestyle editorial regularly appear in national newspapers. A few of her interests include music, travel, history, Egypt, art, photography, psychology, philosophy, magic and the natural world.

THORAIYA DYER is a three–time Aurealis Award–winning, three–time Ditmar Award–winning Australian writer based in the Hunter Valley, NSW. Her short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld, Apex, Nature and Cosmos and is forthcoming in Analog . A petite collection of four original stories, Asymmetry , is available from Twelfth Planet Press. Find her online at Goodreads or www.thoraiyadyer.com.

The youngest writer to be named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, JOE HALDEMAN has earned steady awards over his 44–year career: his novels The Forever War and Forever Peace both made clean sweeps of the Hugo and Nebula Awards, and he has won four more Hugos and Nebulas for other novels and shorter works. Three times he’s won the Rhysling Award for best science fiction poem of the year. In 2012 he was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. The final novel in a trilogy, Earthbound , is out (after Marsbound in 2008 and Starbound in 2009), and he’s working on a new novel, Phobos Means Fear . Ridley Scott has bought the movie rights to The Forever War .

Joe’s latest novel is Work Done for Hire , out in December 2013. The collection The Best of Joe Haldeman came out in 2013. He just retired from a part–time appointment as a professor at M.I.T.; he taught every fall semester from 1983 until 2013. He paints and bicycles and spends as much time as he can out under the stars as an amateur astronomer. He’s been married for 49 years to Mary Gay Potter Haldeman.

MARK JACOBSEN is a C–17 pilot, strategist, and Middle East Regional Affairs Specialist in the U.S. Air Force. He has flown missions to more than 25 countries, speaks Arabic, and studied Conflict Resolution in Jordan. Mark enjoys imaginative, character–driven fiction, and his own writing reflects his interests in politics and international affairs. He is the author of The Lords of Harambee , which has been described by reviewers as “ Blackhawk Down in space.” He is married with three children, and lives wherever the Air Force sends him. Follow Mark online at www.buildingpeace.netor @jacobsenmd.

JAKE KERR is a Nebula and Sturgeon Award nominated author whose short fiction has been translated into Chinese and French and published in science fiction magazines, anthologies, podcasts, literary journals, and has been featured in The Year’s Best Science Fiction and on io9.com. He lives in Texas with his wife and three daughters.

RICH LARSON was born in West Africa, has studied in Rhode Island, and at 22 now lives in Edmonton, Alberta. He won the 2014 Dell Award and won the 2012 Rannu Prize for Writers of Speculative Fiction. In 2011 his cyberpunk novel Devolution was a finalist for the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. His short work appears or is forthcoming in Lightspeed, DSF, Strange Horizons, Apex Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, AE and many others. Find him at Amazon.com/author/richlarson.

YOON HA LEE lives in Louisiana with her family and has not yet been eaten by gators. Her collection Conservation of Shadows was published by Prime Books in 2013, and her fiction has appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction , Clarkesworld, Lightspeed , and Tor.com .