Andy Sawyer is the Science Fiction Collections Librarian in the University of Liverpool Library, responsible for the Science Fiction Foundation Collection – the largest resource of sf and material about sf in the UK. Until 2012, he was also Course Director of the University's M.A. in Science Fiction Studies program. As a critic and editor he writes especially on science fiction and fantasy.

Zach Shephard lives in Washington state, where he dreams up fantasy, science fiction and horror stories. His fiction has appeared in places like Fantasy & Science Fiction, the Unidentified Funny Objects anthology series, and several of Flame Tree Publishing's Gothic Fantasy books. For a full list of Zach's stories, check out [...].

David Tallerman is the author of crime novel The Bad Neighbour, fantasy series The Black River Chronicles and the Tales of Easie Damasco trilogy, and the novella Patchwerk. His short fiction has appeared in around eighty markets, including Clarkesworld, Nightmare and Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine.

Brian Trent’s speculative fiction appears regularly in the world’s top speculative fiction markets, including ANALOG, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, Daily Science Fiction, Apex, Escape Pod, COSMOS, Galaxy’s Edge, Nature, and more. Trent lives in New England.