AJ Kirby is the author of the novels The Lost Boys of Prometheus City, Small Man Syndrome, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, A Man Could Lose Himself, Things Won’t Fix, When Elephants walk through the Gorbals, Paint this Town Red, Bully, Perfect World and Sharkways. He has also written the novellas The Gavel, Nu-Gen, Hangingstone, Blink, Teeth, Ace Cameron and the Red Peril, Shouting into an Empty Cave, Bed Peace, The Haunting of Annie Nicol, and The Black Book. His short fiction has been published across the web, and in magazines, anthologies and literary journals, as well as in three collections: Trickier & Treatier, The Art of Ventriloquism and Mix Tape. He was one of 20 Leeds-based authors under 40 recently shortlisted for the LS13 competition and his novel Paint this Town Red was shortlisted for 2012’s The Guardian Not the Booker prize. All of his books are available for purchase on his Amazon Author Page. He reviews fiction for The New York Journal of Books and The Short Review. In addition he undertakes Red Sportswriting, as a regular contributor to The Republik of Mancunia and Stretty News blogs. He has written three books about Manchester United: Louis van Gaal: Dutch Courage; The Pride of All Europe: Manchester United’s Greatest Seasons in the European Cup, and Fergie’s Finest: Sir Alex Ferguson’s Greatest Manchester United x11. His official website is here: http://www.andykirbythewriter.20m.com/

Colleen Anderson writes fiction, dark fiction, erotica, poetry, SF, fantasy, and anything of interest. She has a BFA in Creative Writing and freelances as a copyeditor and proofreader. Her works have been nominated for multiple awards: Elgin, Rhysling, Dwarf Stars, Pushcart, Aurora. As well, her works have been shortlisted for the Gaylactic Spectrum Award, the Friends of Merril short fiction contest, the SFPA poetry contest, and placed in the Rannu competition, Balticon poetry contest and Crucible. Colleen also won the Jerry Jazz Musician short story contest and has received several honorable mentions in the Year's Best SF, Year's Best Horror and Fantasy, and the Writers of the Future. She is a member of the HWA and SFPA and is the current president of the SFPA helping to promote speculative poetry for all readers and writers. She co-edited Tesseracts 17 with East Coast, dark fiction writer Steve Vernon, Playground of Lost Toys with Ontario, award-winning author Ursula Pflug, and edited Alice Unbound: Beyond Wonderland. A recipient of the Ladies of Horror Fiction, Canada Council and BC Arts Council grants in writing, she has published over 300 pieces of fiction and poetry. You can find some of her works online at Polu Texni, Polar Borealis, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, Radon Journal and many others, as well as her short fiction collections Embers Amongst the Fallen, and A Body of Work (Black Shuck) through Amazon. She is the author of two poetry collections as well; I Dreamed a World (LVP), 2022, and The Lore of Inscrutable Dreams (Yuriko Publishing), 2023, also available through Amazon Colleen has served on several juries for the Bram Stoker awards and the British Fantasy Awards as well as on the HWA Scholarship Committee. www.colleenanderson.wordpress.com

Writer, Musician, Artist, Human Gadfly. 2000AD / Rebellion Publishing: JUDGE DREDD, ROGUE TROOPER, JUDGE DEATH / FALL OF DEADWORLD, THE ORDER, INDIGO PRIME, SAPHIR, BLACK MAX, etc COMMANDO Comic, BATTLE, MISTY & SCREAM, BIG MONSTER FUN, etc. In US: EDGAR ALLAN POE'S SNIFTER OF DOOM and other comics / Text stories for AHOY COMICS. CAP'N DINOSAUR for IMAGE COMICS. Various short stories incl. several for RUDY RUCKER'S FLURB eZine, BIG ECHO, etc. INFO AND SOCIAL LINKS HERE: https://about.me/kekw

John Grant is author of over eighty books, of which about twenty-five are fiction, including novels like The World, The Hundredfold Problem, The Far-Enough Window and most recently The Dragons of Manhattan and Leaving Fortusa. His “book-length fiction” Dragonhenge, illustrated by Bob Eggleton, was shortlisted for a Hugo Award in 2003; its successor was The Stardragons. His first story collection, Take No Prisoners, appeared in 2004. He is editor of the anthology New Writings in the Fantastic, which was shortlisted for a British Fantasy Award. His novellas The City in These Pages and The Lonely Hunter have appeared from PS Publishing. His latest fiction book is Tell No Lies , his second story collection; it's published by Alchemy Press. His most recent nonfiction is A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Film Noir . Earlier, he coedited with John Clute The Encyclopedia of Fantasy and wrote in their entirety all three editions of The Encyclopedia of Walt Disney’s Animated Characters; both encyclopedias are standard reference works in their field. Among other recent nonfictions have been Discarded Science, Corrupted Science (a USA Today Book of the Year), Bogus Science and Denying Science. As John Grant he has to date received two Hugo Awards, the World Fantasy Award, the Locus Award, and a number of other international literary awards. He has written books under other names, even including his real one: as Paul Barnett, he has written a few books (like the space operas Strider’s Galaxy and Strider’s Universe) and for a number of years ran the world-famous fantasy-artbook imprint Paper Tiger, for this work earning a Chesley Award and a nomination for the World Fantasy Award.