SANDRA KASTURI is a writer, editor, book reviewer and the co-publisher of ChiZine Publications. She has written three poetry chapbooks and has edited the poetry anthology, The Stars As Seen from this Particular Angle of Night. She is the author of two poetry collections, The Animal Bridegroom (2007), and Come Late to the Love of Birds (2013), both from Tightrope Books. Her fiction and poetry has appeared in various magazines and anthologies.
Halli Villegas is the author of three collections of poetry, Red Promises, In the Silence Absence Makes and The Human Cannonball, and several anthology pieces. She has published online erotica under a pen name. Her poetry and prose have appeared in places such as the LRC, Exile, Kiss Machine, Pagitica, Variety Crossings and The Windsor Review, and her book, The Hair Wreath and Other Stories, was published by ChiZine in 2010. Halli has received funding for her writing from the OAC Works in Progress in 2006, the TAC mid-level writers in 2007 and 2009, and the OAC Works in Progress in 2009.
Kelley Armstrong is a Canadian author, primarily of fantasy works. She has published twelve fantasy novels to date, most set in the world of Women of the Otherworld series, one crime fiction novel, and the Darkest Powers Trilogy. The latest novel in the Women of the Otherworld series is called Waking the Witch. Her title Thirteen made The New York Times Best Seller List for 2012. The first book in The Age of Legends Trilogy, Sea of Shadows, made the New York Times bestseller list in April 2014.
Steven Erikson, a pseudonym used by Steven Rune Lundin, was born in Toronto, Canada on October 7, 1959. He is an anthropologist and archaeologist by training and a graduate of the Iowa Writer's Workshop. He is the author of the Malazan Book of the Fallen series and the Bauchelain and Korbal Broach series.
Amal El-Mohtar won the Locus Awards 2015 award in the Short Story category with her title The Truth About Owls, which is featured in the anthology Kaleidoscope.
Lisa L. Hannett is from Ottawa, Canada. She majored in painting and photography and earned an Honours degree in Fine Arts. She also earned an Honours degree in English in South Australia and a PhD in medieval Icelandic literature. She is also a graduate of Clarion South. Currently she is a Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at Flinders University. As a writer of speculative fiction stories, her short stories have appeared in Clarkesworld Magazine, Fantasy Magazine, Weird Tales, ChiZine, Shimmer and Ann & Jeff VanderMeer's Steampunk Reloaded, among other places. Her first collection of short stories, Bluegrass Symphony, won the 2011 Aurealis Award for Best Collection. She was the winner for, Best Horror Short Story, Aurealis Awards 2011. In 2015 her title The Female Factory won an Aurealis Award in the Collection category. Her first novel, Lament for the Afterlife, won the 2016 Ditmar Award for Best Novel.
Helen Marshall is the author of Gifts for the One Who Comes After, which won a World Fantasy Award in 2015.
