Aliette de Bodard lives and works in Paris. Her Aztec fantasy Servant of the Underworld is out with Angry Robot, and her stories have appeared in venues such as Interzone, Asimov's and the Year's Best Science Fiction. She was a Campbell Award finalist and a Writers of the Future winner. Her website is  www.aliettedebodard.com 

Andrew Hook lives in Norwich. His short fiction has been collected in three books: The Virtual Menagerie (Elastic Press), Beyond Each Blue Horizon (Crowswing Books), and Residue (Half-Cut Publications). Andrew has also written the novel Moon Beaver (ENC Press) and novella And God Created Zombies (NewCon Press). His website is www.andrew-hook.com 

Chris Amies lives in London. His first published stories appeared in small press magazines and theMidnight Rose series of anthologies. More recently he has been published in The Mammoth Book of Future Cops and Strange Pleasures. A novel, Dead Ground was published by Big Engine. Cow Lane was written in Hammersmith while he was living near the places it describes, although he is sure that nothing like that happened to the real version of the pub. 

Cyril Simsa was born and brought up in London. Since the 1990s he has been living in Prague, where he tries to avoid the fate of his near-namesake in the Kafka story. He has contributed reviews and articles to a wide variety of genre publications (Foundation, Locus, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, Wormwood). His stories have appeared in Electric Velocipede, StarShipSofa, Darkness Rising, Here & Now, Central Europe Review, New Horizons and New Writings in the Fantastic. He has also published translations of Czech writers. 

David H. Hendrickson has published over nine hundred works of nonfiction ranging from humor and essays to scientific research and sports journalism. He has been honored with the Scarlet Quill and Joe Concannon awards. His short stories have appeared in anthologies, literary journals, and magazines, including the DAW anthologies Swordplay and The Trouble With Heroes. His story "In Another Life" placed second in the Flash Me Magazine Readers' Choice Award. His two latest novels are currently under consideration by New York publishers and he is at work on a third. A lifelong resident of New England, he resides north of Boston. His website is www.hendricksonwriter.com 

Gavin Inglis lives and works in Edinburgh. Despite learning piano as a child he has retained an interest in music and is a barely competent multi-instrumentalist. His short fiction appears in many magazines
and anthologies, and his collection Crap Ghosts contains sixteen stories of ineffective apparitions and substandard spooks. Gavin collaborates with Glasgow bands Spylab and Cinephile, teaches flash fiction, and regularly performs his fiction on stage. 

Jackie Hawkins was born in Surrey but has lived in Cambridge since her student days. Her first career was in human genetics and she spent several years researching mutations in leukaemia. She has been writing fiction on and off since she was five years old and is currently working on a young adult novel. 

The author of numerous short stories and novels, Jill Zeller is a writer living near Seattle, Washington with her patient and adoring husband, one self-centered tuxedo cat and one pit bull mix named Jack. Her works explore the boundaries of reality. Some may call it fantasy, but there are rarely swords and never elves. More to the point, she prefers to write as if myth, imagination and hallucination were as real as the chair she is sitting on as she writes this. 

Jim Steel is editing a collection of his music journalism that will initially be published in hardback with a limited-edition slipcase containing a CD of the Living Eyes album. Jim is also an executive member of the MWU and an A.O. in UKAC. He lives in Glasgow. You can contact him through official channels but please don't waste his time. However, you can be assured that he will most certainly contact you when it becomes necessary. If this happens, remember that he is your friend and offer him your full cooperation. 

L.L Hannett was born and raised in Canada, and now lives in Adelaide, South Australia. She has sold to venues including Clarkesworld Magazine, Fantasy Magazine, Weird Tales, Electric Velocipede, ChiZineand Steampunk Reloaded. Her story On the Lot and In the Air appeared on Locus's Recommended Reading List for 2009. Lisa is a graduate of the Clarion South Writers Workshop. 

Maxwell Peterson is currently living in Michigan, in the United States, with a cat that isn’t his. He has been writing feature stories for The Drummond Island Digest since 2004, and his short story “Daughter of God” is in the anthology The Blackness Within He is a hat person (or he thinks he is) and writes all of his first drafts in fountain pen. There always seems to be ink on his fingers, but he secretly suspects that inky fingers are a good thing. 

Neil Williamson's fiction has been published in a variety of magazines and anthologies. Some of his stories appeared in the collection, The Ephemera (Elastic Press, 2006), and he also co-edited Nova Scotia: New Scottish Speculative Fiction with Andrew J. Wilson. Neil lives in Glasgow where he can be found crossing opinions with other members of the fierce literary duelling school known as the Glasgow SF Writers Circle. 

Richard Jay Goldstein lives in the mountains east of Santa Fe, where it’s nice and quiet, thanks. He’s a retired ER doc and has been writing and publishing stories, essays, and poetry for about twenty years. His wife, Polly Tapia Ferber, is a professional percussionist. He’s published forty-something stories, essays, and poems in the literary and fantasy/sci-fi press, including a couple of anthologies. He’s received two Pushcart nominations. 

Sean Martin is the author of several non-fiction books. Research for The Gnostics: The First Christian Heretics provided the inspiration for the story ‘Deep Field.’ He is also the author of Andrei Tarkovsky, a study of the Russian filmmaker, and co-directed the documentary Lanterna Magicka: Bill Douglas & the Secret History of Cinema, an exploration of the late Scottish director’s fascination with pre-cinema optical devices and the making of his final film, Comrades. Sean Martin was born in Somerset, but now lives in Edinburgh. 

Stephen Gaskell lives in London, where he private tutors, plays football, and, on his daily cycle to the British Library to write, colourfully curses bad drivers. He studied rocket science at University College, Oxford and artificial intelligence at the University of Sussex, but thinks his most beneficial graduation came from Clarion East at Michigan State Uni. His work's been published in Nature, Interzone, andCosmos Magazine, amongst other places. His blog is www.stephengaskell.com. 

Susan Lanigan is a programmer and writer. Twice shortlisted for the Hennessy New Irish Writing Award (2005 and 2009) and winner of the 2009 Dublin One City One Book Award, she has had short fiction and poetry published in a variety of magazines. She runs writers' workshops in short fiction at www.joyofwriting.net. She currently lives by the sea in Bray, County Wicklow. 

Tom Brennan lives on the coast in Liverpool, UK, with wife Sylvia and many cats.  His regular job is an Emergency Medical Dispatcher taking 911 calls, but he enjoys writing a wide variety of fiction, particularly SF, Fantasy and Mystery.  His short stories have appeared in Paradox, Writers of the Future, Story House, Neo-opsis, Indy, Baen's Universe and Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Nineteen.His favorite question is 'What if...' 

By day, Vaughan Stanger works as a research manager at a British engineering company. This is less interesting than it sounds, which may explain why, thirteen years ago, he began setting himself homework. The resulting short stories have been published in Nature, Interzone, Postscripts, Hub andNeo-opsis, amongst others, with translations appearing in Polish and Hebrew. He is working on a novel, but then isn’t everybody? 

Vincent Lauzon was born in Montréal, Canada. He published his first book, Le pays à l'envers, when he was eighteen years old. It was nominated for the Governor General's Award, Canada's most coveted literary prize, in 1987. It didn't win. He went on to publish ten books for children and teens, all of them in French. Then real life intervened and he stopped writing for a decade or so. A few years ago, he decided to give it another go, this time in English. Festspeel is his first story published in his new language of predilection. Next up, German. Vincent Lauzon lives in the suburbs of Montréal with his wife and five children.