Kate O’Connor was born in Virginia in 1982. She graduated from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Prescott in 2009 and now lives (and occasionally works) in the New York area. Kate has been writing science fiction and fantasy since 2011. In between telling stories, she flies airplanes, digs up artifacts, and manages a kennel full of Airedales.

George Nikolopoulos is a speculative fiction writer from Athens, Greece. His short stories have been published (and/or are pending) in Galaxy's Edge, Nature Magazine, Daily Science Fiction, Factor Four, Dream Forge, Grievous Angel, Best Vegan SFF, The Year's Best Military & Adventure SF, Fiddler’s Green Peculiar Parish Magazine, Hybrid Fiction, Five Minutes in Hotel Stormcove, On Spec, Laughing at Shadows, Twenty-two Twenty-eight, Helios Quarterly Magazine, Selene Quarterly Magazine, Gallery of Curiosities, Murder Park After Dark, 99 Tiny Terrors, Unsung Stories, Lite Lit One, Bards & Sages Quarterly, Havok, The Centropic Oracle, StarShipSofa, 600 Second Saga, Antipodean SF, Manawaker Studio's FFP, SF Comet, Mad Scientist Journal, Truancy, Digital Fiction Pub's QuickFic, Sci Phi Journal, 9Tales from Elsewhere, Fifty Flashes, Timeshift, Drabbledark, Martian, Sins and Other Worlds, Angels, Monsters, Gruff Variations, Scarlet Leaf Review, Clash of the Titles, The Lane of Unusual Traders, Sky Castles, Event Horizon, Up and Coming–Stories by the 2016 Campbell-eligible Authors, Szortal, QuarterReads, Stella's Literary Bistro, Diasporic Literature Spot, as well as many magazines and anthologies in Greece and Cyprus. His children's fantasy novelette "The Three Princesses" has been published in Cyprus and his poetry collections "Glass Boats" and "Missed Opportunities" have been published in Greece. He is a member of Codex Writers' Group. He sometimes blogs at georgenikolopoulos.wordpress.com

J.S. Arquin is an author, audiobook narrator and producer, podcaster, entertainer, and adventurer. He has lived in, performed in, and explored beautiful, inspiring, and disturbing places all over the world, and currently makes his home in Portland, OR, where he dodges raindrops on his bicycle and sometimes writes about himself in the third person. He is the author of The Crimson Dust Cycle, and has voiced and produced dozens of audiobooks, You can catch his ramblings and some breathtaking speculative fiction on his podcast, The Overcast: www.theovercast.libsyn.com. For a free Crimson Dust Cycle prequel story, sign up for his newsletter at www.arquinworlds.com. You can also find him on Twitter @JS_Arquin.