Wendy Nikel is a speculative fiction author with a degree in elementary education, a fondness for road trips, and a terrible habit of forgetting where she’s left her cup of tea. Her short fiction has been published in Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, Daily Science Fiction, Nature: Futures, and elsewhere. Her time travel novella series, beginning with The Continuum, is available from World Weaver Press. For more info, visit wendynikel.com

Kyle Richardson is a speculative fiction writer, author, and editor living in Ontario, Canada with his adorable wife, their rambunctious son, and their adventurous daughter. He writes about broken hearts, cephalopods, and the occasional clockwork beast. He also has a terrible habit of saying the wrong thing at the most inopportune moments (just ask his wife).

You can find his books and stories at kylerichardson.ca.

Andy Oldfield is a writer of words and music who lives in the UK. He used to be a psychotherapist, but is now happily retired and splits his time between being out in nature and writing in his studio – his whippet is happy in both situations. He was once the editor of CompuServe UK’s SF channel and deputy editor of FEAR magazine. His fiction has appeared in the likes of NewMyths.com (winner of Readers Choice Award), Interzone, HMS Beagle, Flashquake and Thaumatrope.

Hastings Kidd writes short fiction and lives in rural England with his family.

Deborah L. Davitt was raised in Reno, Nevada, where she graduated first in her class from UNR in 1997 (as Deborah McRann). While an undergraduate, she focused heavily on medieval and Renaissance literature from Beowulf to Shakespeare. She received her MA in English from Penn State, and later found work as a technical writer on projects ranging from nuclear ballistic missile submarines to NASA to computer manufacturing.

She currently lives in Houston, Texas, with her husband and son. Her poetry has received Pushcart, Rhysling, and Dwarf Star award nominations and has appeared in over fifty journals including F&SF and Asimov’s. Her short fiction has appeared in Analog and Galaxy’s Edge.

For more about her work, including her poetry collection, The Gates of Never, please see www.edda-earth.com. You may contact her on Facebook at www.facebook.com/deborah.davitt.3 or Twitter @davittDL.