Esther M. Friesner is the author of over 30 novels and over 150 short stories, plus poetry, articles, an advice column, and one professionally produced play. She won the Nebula Award for her short stories in two consecutive years. At present she is best known for having created and edited the five extremely popular Chicks in Chainmail anthologies. Her most recent novels are Temping Fate (Dutton/Penguin, June 2006) and Nobody’s Princess (Random House, April 2007). She lives in Connecticut with her husband, is the proud mother of two all-grown-up kids, and harbors cats.
P. R. Frost, the author of the Tess Noncorire Adventures series, resides on beautiful Mt. Hood in Oregon. She is currently finishing up the second novel in the series. She hikes the Columbia River Gorge for inspiration, reads omnivorously, and enjoys attending science fiction conventions. She grew up in a ballet studio, performing with the Ballet du Lac, a pro/am company out of Lake Oswego, Oregon.
It’s been almost exactly ten years since Sarah A. Hoyt sold her first short story. In the interim, she’s sold over three dozen short stories to magazines such as Amazing, Asimov’s, Analog, and Weird Tales, as well as an assortment of anthologies. Alongside the short stories, she’s sold a dozen novels. The most notable are her critically acclaimed Shakespeare Fantasy series, her Musketeer Mysteries series, written as Sarah D’Almeida (www.musketeersmysteries.com), and her new Urban Fantasy Shifter’s series (www.shifterseries.com.). Sarah lives in Colorado with her two teen sons, her husband, and a varied pride of cats. Catch up with her at http://www.sarahahoyt.com.
Julie Hyzy has loved science fiction since her eighth-grade teacher put a copy of Ray Bradbury’s The October Country in her hands many years ago. Julie’s short stories have appeared in Star Trek, Strange New Worlds (Pocket Books), and All the Rage This Year (Phobos). She’s also written several mystery novels, including Artistic License (stand-alone romantic suspense), Deadly Blessings (first in a series), and Deadly Interest. She lives with her family in Tinley Park, Illinois.
James Patrick Kelly has had an eclectic writing career. He has written novels, short stories, essays, reviews, poetry, plays, and planetarium shows. His books include Burn (2005), Strange But Not a Stranger (2002), Think Like a Dinosaur and Other Stories (1997), Wild-life (1994), Heroines (1990), Look Into the Sun (1989), Freedom Beach (1986), and Planet of Whispers (1984). His fiction has been translated into sixteen languages. He has won the World Science Fiction Society’s Hugo Award twice: in 1996 for his novelette “Think Like A Dinosaur” and in 2000 for his novelette “Ten to the Sixteenth to One.” 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. In 2004 he was appointed by the Governor of New Hampshire to be the chair of the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts.
Alan L. Lickiss fell in love with robot stories when he discovered science fiction. While he admires the robot vacuums that have shown up in recent years, he is still looking for the more versatile robots that can pick up his clothes first before they vacuum the carpet. He lives along the front range in Colorado with his wife and children, works a day job, and writes as much as he can in the evenings. Now if he only had a robot stenographer.
Rebecca Moesta is the author of 28 books and numerous short stories, including the award-winning Star Wars: Young Jedi Knights series, two original Titan A.E. novels, which she co-authored with husband Kevin J. Anderson, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer novel, Little Things. With Anderson, she has written an original young-adult fantasy series, Crystal Doors, for Little, Brown.
Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Lisanne Norman started writing at the age of eight in order to find more of the books she liked to read. In 1980, two years after joining The Vikings, the largest British reenactment society in Britain, she moved to Norfolk, England. There she ran her own specialist archery display team. Now living in America and a full-time author, she has created worlds where warriors, magic, and science all coexist in her Sholan Alliance Series. Her next novel in the series will be called Shades of Gray, from DAW.
Irene Radford has been writing stories ever since she figured out what a pencil was for. A member of an endangered species, a native Oregonian living in Oregon, she and her husband make their home in Welches, Oregon, where deer, bear, coyote, hawks, owls, and woodpeckers feed regularly on their back deck. In her spare time, Irene enjoys lacemaking and is a longtime member of an international guild.
Annie Reed is an award-winning writer whose short fiction has appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, three volumes of Strange New Worlds, and several DAW anthologies, including Time After Time, Hags, Sirens, and Other Bad Girls of Fantasy, and Cosmic Cocktails. She lives in northern Nevada with her husband, daughter, and a varying number of high-maintenance cats. In addition to science fiction, she writes mystery, romance, and women’s fiction.
Mike Resnick is the winner of five Hugos and a Nebula, along with other major awards in the USA, France, Japan, Spain, Croatia, and Poland. He is the author of more than 50 novels, 200 stories, 14 collections, and 2 screenplays, and the editor of more than 40 anthologies. His work has been translated into 22 languages.
Kristine Kathryn Rusch has won or been nominated for all the major awards in the SF field for her science fiction stories. Her most recent SF novel is Paloma: A Retrieval Artist Novel.
Dean Wesley Smith is the bestselling author of over eighty novels and a hundred short stories. He has been nominated for just about every major award in science fiction and fantasy and even won a few, including a World Fantasy Award. His most recent fantasy novel is All Eve’s Hallows, and he writes thrillers under a different name. He lives on the Oregon Coast with his wife, Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
