Christopher Kastensmidt was born in Texas but has lived in Porto Alegre, Brazil since 2001. Christopher was a Nebula Award finalist and winner of the Realms of Fantasy Readers' Choice Awards for his novelette "The Fortuitous Meeting of Gerard van Oost and Oludara." This story was the first in The Elephant and Macaw Banner fantasy series, which has since been published in six countries and adapted to comics and games. These stories feature a Dutch explorer and Yoruban slave who meet in sixteenth-century Brazil and begin a series of adventures together, harkening to old Sword & Sorcery heroes like Fritz Leiber´s Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser and Charles R. Saunder's Imaro. Christopher ran Brazilian video game developer Southlogic Studios for a decade before its sale to Ubisoft Brazil, where he served as Creative Director. He participated in the production of thirty internationally-published video games, totalling millions of units sold. Christopher has a Bachelor's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rice University and a Master's degree in Social Communication from the Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul. Besides writing, he lectures at UniRitter university on scriptwriting, game designm and video game production. To learn more about The Elephant and Macaw Banner series, please visit www.eamb.org, where Christopher posts news, artwork, and in-depth explanations of historical and cultural references used in the stories.

Clarion West '13. Author of BACK IN THE USSR (finalist of the Jabuti Award - Brazil), Love: An Archaeology, Love Will Tear Us Apart, and Under Pressure. Coming in 2023: 16 (collection) Rio 60 Graus (novella) Taxonomia Humana (novel) Also: stories in Interzone Magazine. He/him.

Science Fiction and New Weird Writer PhD in Philosophy

Solange Rodríguez Pappe (Guayaquil, Ecuador, 1976) es una escritora interesada en el género de lo extraño y lo fantástico. Con Balas perdidas ganó en Ecuador el Premio nacional de relatos Joaquín Gallegos Lara al mejor libro del año 2010. Catedrática universitaria desde hace varias décadas y coordinadora de talleres de escritura creativa, ha realizado investigaciones sobre el fin del mundo en Latinoamérica para su tesis de maestría en Estudios de la Cultura. Como narradora ha publicado los libros Tinta sangre (2000), Dracofilia (2005), El lugar de las apariciones (2007), Balas perdidas (2010), Caja de magia (2015), Episodio aberrante (2016), La bondad de los extraños (2016) y Levitaciones (2017). Sus relatos han sido traducidos al inglés, al francés y al mandarín

Co-editor of the non-fiction anthology Conductas Erráticas (2009). Author of the book of short-stories Vacaciones Permanentes (2010). Her short-stories have been published in Spanish and Latin American magazines such as Etiqueta Negra, el perro, Otro Cielo, Big Sur, and Los Noveles. She writes for the Chilean magazine The Clinic. Liliana Colanzi (Santa Cruz, 1981). Escritora y periodista. Estudiante del doctorado de literatura comparada en Cornell, Estados Unidos. Sus cuentos han aparecido en revistas iberoamericanas como Etiqueta Negra, el perro, FronteraD, Otro Cielo, Los Noveles y Big Sur. Coeditó la antología de no-ficción Conductas erráticas (Alfaguara 2009). Es autora del libro de cuentos Vacaciones permanentes (El Cuervo 2010).