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is the author of the trilogy of novels comprising
The
Physiognomy
(winner of the 1988 World Fantasy Award),
Memoranda
, and
The Beyond
. His most recent books are the novel
The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque
and the collection
The
Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories
. His short fiction has appeared in the field's top print and online magazines, as well as in numerous anthologies, including
The Year's Best Fantasy and
Horror, Volumes 13
and
15
. He lives in South Jersey with his wife and two sons and teaches Composition, Research Writing, and Early American Literature at Brookdale Community College.
(
www.eciad.bc.ca/~amathur/hiromi_goto
) was born in Japan and moved to Canada with her family at the age of three. Her most recent novel,
The Kappa Child,
was the recipient of the 2001 James Tiptree Jr. Memorial Award and was shortlisted for the 2002 Sunburst Award. Her first novel,
Chorus of
Mushrooms,
was awarded the Regional Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best First Book. She has also written a fantasy novel for children called
The Water of Possibility.
Hiromi is a creative writing instructor, editor, and the mother of two children.
Marty Halpern
has been an editor for Golden Gryphon Press since the summer of 1999. In addition to acquiring new works of fiction and working with authors and artists, he also manages the goldengryphon.com web site. Along with Golden Gryphon Press publisher Gary Turner, Marty was a finalist for the 2001 World Fantasy Award/Special Award, Professional. He has a second anthology to be published in 2003:
The Silver Gryphon,
coedited with Gary Turner. To earn a few extra bucks, Marty occasionally works as a corporate business systems analyst, specializing in security configurations and authorizations for SAP software. He lives in Silicon Valley.
has had a variety of mini-careers, including piano teacher, janitor, guitar teacher, English tutor, secretaryreceptionist to a psychologist, fiddle teacher, café lunch singer, and movie extra. Her current jobs are writer, magazine production worker, and copyeditor. She has sold more than 200 stories and a number of middle school and media tie-ins. Her novels include
The Silent Strength of Stones, A Red Heart of Memories, Past the
Size of Dreaming,
and
A Fistful of Sky.
Nina lives in Eugene, Oregon, with cats and a mannequin. Her anime collection keeps growing.
is a six-foot-tall Aztec Leprechaun. His novels,
Cortez on Jupiter, High Aztech,
and
Smoking Mirror Blues,
have an international cult following. He has published a variety of short fiction, nonfiction articles, essays, reviews, illustrations, and cartoons. This is all because visions keep forming in his brain and won't leave him alone until he puts them on paper. But he can't seem to take it seriously. Currently, he is completing W
alter
Quixote,
a "mainstream" novel that is as funny and weird as anything else he has done. A toothless coyote skull named Huehuecoyotl keeps watch over him.
Claude Lalumière
(
www.lostpages.net
) was born to a unilingual francophone family, but it didn't take. He taught himself to speak English by the age of three and now lives and writes in his chosen language. He was a bookseller for thirteen years; during most of that time, he owned Nebula, a Montreal bookshop devoted to "the fantastic, the imaginative, and the weird." His criticism appears frequently in numerous print and online venues. He's a columnist for
Black Gate,
Locus Online
, and
The Montreal Gazette
. His fiction has been published in
Interzone, Other Dimension, The
Book of More Flesh
, and others. He lives in Montreal.
David Langford
(
www.ansible.demon.co
.uk) is a twenty-twotime winner of science fiction's Hugo Award – sixteen times as "fan writer" for humorous and critical commentary on SF, five times for his SF newsletter
Ansible,
and once for best short story with "Different Kinds of Darkness." After taking a physics degree from Brasenose College, Oxford, he spent five years as a nuclear weapons physicist for the British Ministry of Defence before escaping to freelance bliss and poverty in 1980. Langford has published some twenty-five books since collaborating on a 1978 "reconstruction" of
The Necronomicon.
His latest, as compiler/editor, is
Maps: The Uncollected John Sladek.
is the symbionym chosen by Yves Meynard and Jean-Louis Trudel for their collaborative efforts, which have so far yielded one young adult book and eight published stories. Another book is in the works, while their first book together has been honored with the 2002 Prix Boréal. Meynard and Trudel hold degrees in fields ranging from mathematics and computer science to physics and astronomy. Their individual writing in French and in English totals over one hundred stories, more than twenty young adult books, three novels, one award-winning collection, and two short novels. Meynard has published the fantasy novel
The Book of
Knights,
and Trudel has translated Joël Champetier's
The Dragon's
Eye,
both from Tor Books. Meynard coedited the fifth volume of the Canadian anthology T
esseracts,
while Trudel coedited the seventh volume. Both have won the Prix Boréal, Prix Solaris, and Aurora Awards for their individual work.
James Morrow
(www.sff.net/people/Jim.Morrow) was born in Philadelphia and spent much of his adolescence in a cemetery, making 8mm horror films with his friends. He also drew comic books, dabbled in live theater, and wrote short stories. His skepticism concerning the God hypothesis resulted from reading Voltaire, Ibsen, Camus, and other "honest atheists" in his tenthgrade world literature class. In 1979 Morrow tried his hand at novel-writing and soon found himself addicted. His efforts included the nuclear-war comedy
This Is the Way the World Ends,
the religious satire
Only Begotten Daughter,
and the Nietzschean sea saga T
owing Jehovah.
He has won the Nebula Award twice, the World Fantasy Award twice, and the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire once.
Elise Moser
lives in Montreal. Her last lover disappeared without a trace.
(
www.brazenhussies.net/murphy
) has won numerous awards for her science fiction and fantasy writing, including the Nebula Award for best novel and best novelette (both in the same year), the Philip K. Dick Award for best paperback original, and the World Fantasy Award. Her novels include
The Falling Woman,
Adventures in Time and Space with Max Merriwell, Wild Angel,
There and Back Again,
and
Nadya.
She lives in San Francisco, where she works for the Exploratorium, a museum of science, art, and human perception. Her favorite color is ultraviolet.
(www.sff.net/people/sanders) graduated from Arkansas A&M College, and served in the U. S. Army Security Agency from 1963 through 1966. He has at various times worked as a musician, shipping clerk, construction laborer, encyclopedia salesman, traveling preacher, and dishwasher at the New York Stock Exchange cafeteria. In 1973, having fulfilled the statutory odd-occupations requirement, he took up writing, first as a sports and outdoor writer and then, in 1988, turning to speculative fiction. His stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies and have been nominated for various awards, including the Hugo and the Nebula; in 1998 his short story "The Undiscovered" received the Sidewise Award for Alternate History. He is also the author of twenty published books, including his latest novel,
J.
He lives in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, with his wife and his cat and his old motorcycle.
(
www.owmyhead.com/silverberg
) is the award-winning author of
Dying Inside, The Book of Skulls, Lord
Valentine's Castle,
and many other celebrated science-fiction
is a writer and broadcaster based in Toronto. A long-time film critic for CBC Radio, Michael is also a two-time winner of Canada's Aurora Award for science fiction. He was a cofounder of the writers' organization SF Canada and served as its first vice-president.
published his first novel,
Maybe I'll
Call Anna,
in 1990, the year he moved to Austin, Texas. Since moving to Austin, he has published novels
Résumé with Monsters,
Zod Wallop,
and
Irrational Fears,
and a collection of short fiction,
The Return of Count Electric & Other Stories.
Résumé with
Monsters
was voted Best Novel in 1995 by The International Horror Critics Guild. His stories have appeared in Dozois's
The
Year's Best Science Fiction,
Hartwell's
The Year's Best SF,
and in Datlow and Windling's
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror.
(
www.sfwa.org/members/steele
) was born in Nashville, Tennessee. He holds a B.A. in Communications and an M.A. in Journalism. He became a full-time science fiction writer in 1988, following the publication in
Asimov's
of his first short story, "Live from the Mars Hotel." He has since published more than a dozen novels and collections and has twice won the Hugo Award for best novella. Before turning to SF, he worked as a newspaper staff writer, freelanced for business and general-interest magazines, and spent a short tenure as a Washington correspondent, covering politics on Capitol Hill. He currently serves on the Board of Advisors for the Space Frontier Foundation. He lives in western Massachusetts with his wife Linda and their two dogs. His hobbies include building model spacecraft.
(www.sff.net/people/RayV) was a finalist for the
Meet Me in the Moon Room,
from Small Beer Press. His first novel is
The Man of Maybe Half-a-Dozen Faces
from St. Martin's. His short fiction has appeared in many magazines including
Fantasy & Science Fiction, SCIFICTION, Lady
Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, The Infinite Matrix, Talebones,
and
Asimov's,
as well as in several anthologies. He lives in Oregon and works in a couple of university brain labs.
writing teacher, novelist, and journalist, hopes to open a writer's colony with his wife Guiniviere. He lives in Austin, Texas, and has sixty-plus stories on various "Year's Best" lists. At forty-two, he finally picked up his B.A. in English, wearing honor cords that he won bowling. He has made more money from his poetry than from his articles about the paranormal, which is pretty dang paranormal if you think about it. His wife Guiniviere is a painter, filmmaker, and composer, but Don makes the better chili.
Leslie What
(www.sff.net/people/leslie.what) is the author of
The
Sweet and Sour Tongue
and a pseudonymous trashy novel. She has won awards for nonfiction, dramatic work, and fiction, including a Nebula Award for best short story. Her recent work has appeared in
The Writer, The MacGuffin, The Third Alternative, SCIFIC
TION,
and in numerous anthologies. She's worked as a psychiatric nurse, managed a low-income nutrition site, and tap-danced professionally; she is an artist and the mother of two.
Interzone
and founder of the
fictionmags
internet forum, where the coeditors of W
itpunk
met. The editors would like to thank Gary Turner for his generous help and advice; the indefatigable Gordon Van Gelder for always coming through; Ellen Datlow for her time and advice; John Betancourt, John Boston, Paul Di Filippo, Pierre-Paul Durastanti, Peter Halasz, and Dennis Lien for their help; and lastly, Randall W. Scott, for his assistance accessing the Clarion Archives at Michigan State University.
