Carolyn Agee - "The Rustle of the Wind"
Carolyn is an actress and author in the Pacific Northwest who enjoys baking, knitting, and travel. Her credits include works in Petrichor Machine, Niteblade and Mystic Signals. Website: http://www.carolynagee.com.
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Robyn Andrew - "Repetition"
Robyn is an Australian writer that has many short stories featured and published in upcoming anthology projects. Robyn is an avid lover of horror, but is also enjoying challenging herself with other genres. She has done numerous movie reviews for a leading New York website. Currently, Robyn is working on her debut fiction novel. Links to her published works and upcoming projects can be found on her Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ robyn.andrew.9 and you can follow Robyn’s blog at: https://rlandrewauthor.wordpress.com/wp-admin/index.php
Cyn Bermudez - "To Dream in Color"
Cyn Bermudez is an author, astronomy nerd, and comic con enthusiast. Her fiction is forthcoming or published in Middle Planet, Perihelion, The Best of Vine Leaves Literary Journal, BWS Quarterly Review, Fiction Vortex, The Red Line, The Milo Review, Beyond Science Fiction, and more. For more of her fiction, please visit her website at cynbermudez.com. Cyn is also the editor-in-chief of The Riding Light Review, ridinglight.org. Someday she hopes to tree camp in Germany.
Scott Chaddon - "The Tresspasser"
Scott is 47 and was born and raised in Fairbanks, Alaska. He attended the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, earning a Bachelor’s in Art with a Minor in Theatre. As an artist, he paints, draws, sculpts, does metal working, and has had showings in Fairbanks, AK. Recently, at the encouragement of his wife, he began submitting his writing for publication and has had two pieces accepted. He has two children and three wonderful grandsons. Scott presently lives with his wife of seven years on a farm in Missouri with a small menagerie of animals including chickens, rabbits, dogs, and cats.
William Cureton - "Assassination in the Archology"
William is a junior in high school and has been writing on and off for a few years. His main interests, both in reading and writing, are with fantasy and science fiction. This is his first story accepted into publication.
Andrew Fraknoi - "The Cave in Arsia Mons"
Andrew is the chair of the astronomy department at Foothill College near San Francisco and was the 2007 California Professor of the Year. With the late Byron Preiss, he was co-editor of The Universe and The Planets, anthologies of science fact and fiction published by Bantam in the 1980’s. He is also the lead author on an introductory astronomy textbook, Voyages through the Universe. Fraknoi serves on the Board of the SETI Institute and on the Lick Observatory Council. Asteroid 4859 has been named Asteroid Fraknoi by the International Astronomical Union in recognition of his work in public education.
Mark Isherwood - "Descent"
Mark is a published poet with a book of poetry published in the USA by Anaphora Press called Lethe. He is 43 years old, married with three children and earns a living as the head of Creative and Non-fiction writing at the City Lit in Covent Garden, London.
Cyndy Edwards Lively - "First Wave"
Cyndy is a retired pediatrician living in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Her story “The Strike” appeared in the January 2012 issue of Jupiter. “Shareholders” was a semi-finalist in the August 2012 Writers of the Future Contest and was published in revised form in the July 2013 edition of Leading Edge.
Laura K. Luttrell - "Exit Interview"
Laura has owned several small businesses, raised two children, and survived a short military career. She voraciously reads anything she can get her hands on from cereal boxes to technical manuals but prefers science fiction and fantasy. Currently, she is writing a YA fantasy novel about a boy whose mentally-ill mother can only be cured if he can master his ability to control his own emotions.
Daniel Marcus - "Growing Skyline"
Daniel Marcus is a mobile application developer and science fiction enthusiast from North Carolina. He’s Jewish, vegetarian, loves locally brewed beer, and has a passion for open source software.
Nick Nafpliotis - "Red Camera One"
Nick is a music teacher in and writer from Charleston, South Carolina. During the day, he instructs students from the ages of 11-14 on how to play band instruments. At night, he writes about weird crime, bizarre history, pop culture, and humorous classroom experiences on his blog, RamblingBeachCat.com. He is also a television, novel, and comic book reviewer for AdventuresinPoorTaste.com.
Bethany Nuckolls - "The Girl Who Colonized Mars"
Bethany is an ESL and Creative Writing instructor in Charlotte, NC and earned her Master’s in Creative Writing at Queens University in 2013. She has published several short stories and is currently seeking an agent for her science fiction YA novel. Bethany’s hobbies include dressing up as Doctor Who and singing on stage like a total nerd.
Kristin Procter - "The Necessities of Life"
Kristin lives in Massachusetts, was born Canadian, partnered with a Brit, and birthed two Australian babies. She has writing published or forthcoming in Mom Egg Review, 3elements, and Zest.
Jonathan Shipley - "Into Thin Air"
Jonathan is from Fort Worth creates short stories and novels in the genres of fantasy, science fiction, and horror. In terms of output, he has written over a hundred short stories in a vast story arc that ranges from Nazi occultism to vampires to futuristic space opera. On the publication front, he has had almost forty short stories published in magazines and anthologies, including the Bram Stoker Award-winning AFTER DEATH horror anthology. A full listing can be found at http://www.shipleyscifi.com/publishedworks and most of these publications can be purchased at http://www.amazon.com/author/shipley.
Kara Race-Moore - "Betting the Boot"
Kara studied history at Simmons College as an excuse to read about the soap opera lives of British royals. She worked in educational publishing, casting the molds for future generations’ minds, and has moved into the more civilized world of litigation. She attended 6th grade in a one room schoolhouse on an island, an experience which taught her how to live with limited resources on any planet. She first came to science fiction through Anne McCaffrey and is still grateful to her for showing an impressible teenager that woman can be in and write science fiction too. Her publications include: “And a Pebble In Her Shoe,” in Redshifted, Third Flatiron Press, anthology, 2013, Science Fiction; “From Scratch,” in Dying to Live, Diabolic Publications, anthology, 2013, Horror; “A Passing, Pleasing Tongue,” podcast, Tales of Old website, 2012, Historical Fiction; and “The Undead Pay the Bills,” It Was A Dark and Stormy Night, anthology, Pill Hill Press, 2011, Horror.
Chuck Regan - "Storm Season"
Chuck is a part-time writer/editor, full-time designer/illustrator in the Philadelphia area. His short fiction has appeared in Zelmer Pulp, Shotgun Honey, The Big Adios, Gutter Books, Dark Corners Magazine, and Space & Time Magazine. His novel-in-progress called Little Agony is a sci-fi western about colonizing Mars. See more at www.chuckregan.com.
M. T. Reiten - "Last Resort Pioneers"
M. T. Reiten is a research scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory and work in the same lab that developed the ChemCam currently in use on the Mars rover Curiosity. He has published professionally in the Writers of the Future XXI, Baen's Universe, and S. M. Stirling's forthcoming Change anthology.
Lloyd Vancil - "Hell's Deep"
Lloyd is a Vietnam veteran, father of three wonderful children, and an independent publisher with two novellas, a collection of short stories, and an anthology of poetry and essays available on line. He won an award for flash fiction, had a technical article published in a national magazine, and edited and published The Listening Post newsletter for the Vietnam Veterans of Ventura County for several years. His loving wife of forty-three years helps to edit and proofread the stories and encourages his flights of fancy.