One Small Step, an anthology of discoveries (44 page)

TANSY RAYNER ROBERTS
is the award-winning author of the
Creature Court
trilogy:
Power and Majesty, The Shattered City
and
Reign of Beasts
. Her short story collection
Love and Romanpunk
was published by Twelfth Planet Press in 2011. You can find her at her blog (
http://tansyrr.com/
), on Twitter (@tansyrr/) and on the Hugo-nominated podcast Galactic Suburbia. Tansy lives in Tasmania, Australia with a Silent Producer and two superhero daughters.
 

BARBARA ROBSON
studies estuaries for a living, and sometimes writes stories when she should be writing scientific papers. Find “Neighbourhood Watch” in the Twelfth-Planet Press anthology,
Sprawl
, “Mrs Estahazi” in
Belong
(Ticonderoga Publications), and “Lizzie Lou” in
The Year’s Best Fantasy 5
(Harper Voyager). She is making slow progress towards writing her first novel, tentatively titled
Speakeasy
.
 

ANGELA SLATTER
writes dark fantasy and horror. She is the author of the Aurealis Award-winning
The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales
, the
WFA-shortlisted
Sourdough and Other Stories
, and the new collection/mosaic novel (with Lisa L. Hannett),
Midnight and Moonshine
. She has a British Fantasy Award for “The Coffin-Maker’s Daughter” (
A Book of Horrors,
Stephen Jones ed.), a PhD in Creative Writing and blogs at
www.angelaslatter.com
.
 

CAT SPARKS
is fiction editor of
Cosmos Magazine
. She managed Agog! Press, which produced ten anthologies of new speculative fiction, from 2002-2008.
Cat has received a total of seventeen Aurealis and Ditmar awards for her writing, editing and art. She was a Writers of the Future prize winner and a graduate of Clarion South writing workshop. In 2011 she was the recipient of an Australia Council emerging writers grant. She is currently doing a PhD in young adult post-apocalypse literature. She can be found at
catsparks.net
 

SUZANNE J. WILLIS
is a graduate of Clarion South 2009 and her work has appeared in
AntipodeanSF, Goldfish Grimm’s Spicy Fiction Sushi
and anthologies by Fablecroft Publishing and Misanthrope Press. She works full-time and writes in the spaces around it, inspired by fairytales, ghost stories and all things strange. Suzanne lives in Melbourne with her patient partner and pampered pooch.
 

Epilogue
(edited by Tehani Wessely)
 

After the Rain
(edited by Tehani Wessely)
 

Splashdance Silver
by Tansy Rayner Roberts
 

Canterbury 2100: pilgrimages in a new world
(edited by Dirk Flinthart)
 

“
Flower and Weed”
by Margo Lanagan
 

The Bone Chime Song and Other Stories
by Joanne Anderton
 

Coming in 2013…
 

Path of Night
by Dirk Flinthart
 

Liquid Gold
by Tansy Rayner Roberts