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).

Alex Shvartsman is a writer, editor, and translator from Brooklyn, NY. He's the author of The Middling Affliction (2022) and Eridani's Crown (2019) fantasy novels. Kakistocracy, a sequel to The Middling Affliction, is forthcoming in 2023. Over 120 of his stories have been published in Analog, Nature, Strange Horizons, and many other venues. He won the 2014 WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction and was a two-time finalist (2015 and 2017) for the Canopus Award for Excellence in Interstellar Fiction. His collection, Explaining Cthulhu to Grandma and Other Stories and his steampunk humor novella H. G. Wells, Secret Agent were published in 2015. His second collection, The Golem of Deneb Seven and Other Stories followed in 2018. Alex is the editor of over a dozen anthologies, including the Unidentified Funny Objects annual anthology series of humorous SF/F.

Known for witty, vivid characters, Krista Walsh never has more fun than getting them into trouble and taking her time getting them out. When not writing, she can be found walking, reading, gaming, or watching a film – anything to get lost in a good story. She currently lives in Ottawa, Ontario

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

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.

Catherine Lundoff’s stories have appeared in over 80 publications including Callisto: A Queer Fiction Journal, The Cainite Conspiracies, Ghosts in Gaslight, Monsters in Steam, So Fey: Queer Faery Stories, The Mammoth Book of Professor Moriarty Adventures, Tales of the Unanticipated, Periphery: Erotic Lesbian Futures, Farrago’s Wainscot and Best Lesbian Erotica. She is the author of Out of This World: Queer Speculative Fiction Stories and Silver Moon: A Wolves of Wolf's Point Novel (new updated edition) and the editor of Scourge of the Seas of Time (and Space), all from Queen of Swords Press. She was also the author of two award-winning collections of lesbian erotica: Crave: Tales of Lust, Love and Longing (Lethe Press, 2007) and Night's Kiss (Lethe Press, 2009) and editor of the fantasy and horror anthology Haunted Hearths and Sapphic Shades: Lesbian Ghost Stories (Lethe Press, 2008). She was the co-editor, with JoSelle Vanderhooft, of the sf/f anthology Hellebore and Rue: Tales of Queer Women and Magic (Lethe Press, 2011) as well as the author of the fantasy/historicals collection A Day at the Inn, A Night at the Palace and Other Stories (Lethe Press, 2011) and the novel Silver Moon. As of 2014, she also writes erotica and erotic romance as Emily L. Byrne, with stories in such anthologies as Forbidden Fruit and Best Lesbian Erotica 20th Anniversary Edition, the novel Medusa's Touch and the short story collections Knife's Edge and Desire.

Pepe Rojo, quien define su obra como “realismo mediático mash-up”, pertenece a una generación de escritores que han encontrado en la ciencia ficción un repertorio de posibilidades para explorar diferentes niveles de la realidad. Ganador del Premio Kalpa 1996. Rojo obtuvo el premio kalpa en 1996, uno de los concursos más importantes de la ciencia ficción mexicana, por un cuento de corte cyberpunk: estos escritores se caracterizan por una extrapolación a muy corto plazo y sus referencias a la cultura de los noventa. Razones que los enmarcaron de inmediato como grupo dentro de la ciencia ficción. Actualmente, Pepe Rojo es catedrático de la Escuela de Humanidades, imparte las materias Nuevas Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación e Introducción al cine; y en sus tiempos libres es padre de familia

Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger—the co-editor of Boing Boing and the author of the YA graphic novel In Real Life, the nonfiction business book Information Doesn’t Want To Be Free, and young adult novels like Homeland, Pirate Cinema, and Little Brother and novels for adults like Rapture Of The Nerds and Makers. He is a Fellow for the Electronic Frontier Foundation and co-founded the UK Open Rights Group. Born in Toronto, Canada, he now lives in Los Angeles.

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.

Science Fiction and New Weird Writer PhD in Philosophy

Maria Galina (Russian: Мария Галина) is one of the most interesting authors among those who made their names in the turbulent 1990s. She writes both literary and science fiction (with ten SF books to her credit). She is also a noted poet, a thoughtful critic, and translator of English and American science fiction, in all of which she excels. She is a winner of many important prizes for her prose and poetry and her critical essays. A graduate from Odessa University majoring in sea biology she took part in several sea expeditions but in 1995 she gave up biology and took up writing professionally. Apart from numerous Russian publications she has three books published in Poland and her work has been included in various anthologies of Russian writing abroad (Russian Women Poets: Modern Poetry in Translation, UCL, London, 2002; and Amerika. Russian Writers View the United States, Dalkey Archive Press). Her literary fiction contains a strong element of magic realism while gender issues have always been the focus of her attention. As a poet she was awarded by some of the most prestigious Russian poetry awards - The Moscow Count (for the best poetry book published in Moscow) and Anthology (for the highest achievements in the modern Russian Poetry)