After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia (43 page)

Genevieve Valentine
is the author of
Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti
. Her short fiction has appeared in
Clarkesworld
,
Strange Horizons
,
Fantasy Magazine
,
Lightspeed
, and others, and in the anthologies
Teeth
,
The Living Dead 2
,
Running with the Pack
,
Armored
,
The New Adventures of John Carter of Mars
, and more. Her nonfiction has appeared in
Lightspeed
,
Tor.com
, and
Fantasy Magazine
, and she is the coauthor of the pop-culture book
Geek Wisdom
. Her appetite for bad movies is insatiable, a tragedy she tracks on her Web site,
genevievevalentine.com
.

Jane Yolen
, winner of two Nebulas and a bunch of other awards, just counted up her books published—and
under contract to be published—and the astonishing number is over 330. Of course if
you counted her single poems, the count would be much higher. Her first love has always
been poetry. The poem in this book was written on a gray day in Scotland (or as they
write it there, “grey”), about the aftermath of some unnamed worldwide disaster. Though
of course, even on extremely gray/grey days in Scotland, everything is green. Jane
lives in Massachusetts and Scotland, and can be found online at
www.janeyolen.com
.

Ellen Datlow
has been editing science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction for over thirty
years. She was fiction editor of
OMNI
magazine and
SCIFICTION
and has edited more than fifty science fiction, fantasy, and horror anthologies for
adults, teenagers, and children, many of them with Terri Windling. She has won multiple
Locus Awards, Hugo Awards, Stoker Awards, International Horror Guild Awards, World
Fantasy Awards, and the Shirley Jackson Award for her editing. She was named recipient
of the 2007 Karl Edward Wagner Award, given at the British Fantasy Convention for
“outstanding contribution to the genre,” and in 2010 she was given the Life Achievement
Award by the Horror Writers Association.

Ellen lives in New York City, where she co-hosts the long-running reading series Fantastic
Fiction at KGB. More information can be found at
www.datlow.com
. or at her blog,
http://ellen-datlow.livejournal.com
.

Terri Windling
is an editor, artist, essayist, and the author of books for both children and adults.
She has won nine World Fantasy awards, the Mythopoeic Award, the Bram Stoker award,
and the SFWA Solstice Award for outstanding contributions to the speculative fiction
field. She has edited more than thirty anthologies of magical fiction for children,
teenagers, and adults (many of them in collaboration with Ellen Datlow); she created
the Bordertown series (a pioneering work of urban fantasy:
www.bordertownseries.com
); and she’s been a consulting editor for the Tor Books fantasy line since 1986. A
former New Yorker, Terri now lives in small country village on Dartmoor, in the southwest
corner of England, with her husband, daughter, and a dog named Tilly. Visit her on
the Web at
www.terriwindling.com
, or on her blog, The Drawing Board, at
http://windling.typepad.com/blog
.