BRUCE BOSTON has received a record seven Rhysling Awards, a record five Asimov's Readers' Choice Awards, the Bram Stoker Award, a Pushcart Prize, and the Grand Master Award of the Science Fiction Poetry Association. He is the author of forty books and chapbooks, most recently the humorous collection Etiquette with Your Robot Wife. For more information, please visit his website.

JANET E. GARDNER teaches English literature and writing at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. She grew up in northern California and now lives and writes on Cape Cod.

VYLAR KAFTAN's work has appeared in Strange Horizons and Lenox Avenue.  She is a 2004 
graduate of Clarion West, and lives near Berkeley, CA.  This is her website. 

CLARE KIRWAN has won short story competitions in Dark Tales and The Nerve magazines and also performs poetry with Liverpool's Dead Good Poets Society.

PAMELA PAINTER’s recent story collection is The Long And Short Of It. She is also co-author of What If? Writing Exercises For Fiction Writers. Her stories have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, and have received three Pushcart Prizes. Painter teaches in the MFA Program at Emerson College.