Nicole Rensmann, Jahrgang 1970, arbeitet seit 1998 als freiberufliche Schriftstellerin. Seitdem weist sie mehr als achtzig Publikationen vor, bevorzugt im phantastischen Genre. Als Journalistin führte sie von 2003 bis 2010 zahlreiche Interviews mit international und national bekannten Autoren. Für verschiedene Print-Magazine und Online-Portale verfasste sie Rezensionen und Artikel. Sie unterrichtete Kreatives Schreiben und war Mentorin. Seit 2004 betreibt sie ihren Blog, in dem sie über ihre Arbeit berichtet und über (fast) alles schreibt, was sie beschäftigt. Nicole Rensmann ist Mitglied bei PAN e.V. und lebt im Bergischen Land.

Thomas Finn wurde 1967 in Chicago geboren, wuchs in Deutschland auf und lebt heute in Hamburg. Also publishes under the synynom F. I. Thomas Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information.

Andreas Eschbach is a German writer who mostly writes science fiction. Even if some of his stories do not exactly fall into the SF genre, they usually feature elements of the fantastic. Eschbach studied aerospace engineering at the University of Stuttgart and later worked as a software engineer. He has been writing since he was 12 years old. His first professional publication was the short story Dolls, published in 1991 in German computing magazine C't. His first novel was published in 1995. Five of his novels have won the Kurd-Laßwitz-Award, one of the most prestigious awards in the German SF scene. His novels have also been translated into a number of languages, including English, French, Italian, Russian, Polish, Turkish and Japanese. In 2002, his novel Das Jesus Video was adapted for German television. In 2003, his novel Eine Billion Dollar was adapted for German radio. As of 2006, his only novel translated into English was Die Haarteppichknüpfer, published in 2005 as The Carpet Makers.

I was born in New York City in 1965. I decided I wanted to be a fiction writer when I was five years old and spent my childhood and adolescence learning how to tell stories. At Cornell University I wrote what would become my first published novel, Fool on the Hill, as my senior thesis in Honors English. My professor Alison Lurie helped me find an agent, and within six months of my college graduation Fool on the Hill had been sold to Atlantic Monthly Press. Through a combination of timely foreign rights sales, the generous support of family and friends, occasional grant money, and a slowly accumulating back list, I’ve managed to make novel-writing my primary occupation ever since. My third novel, Set This House in Order, marked a critical turning point in my career after it won the James Tiptree, Jr. Award, a Washington State Book Award, and a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award, and helped me secure a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. My fourth novel, Bad Monkeys, also won multiple awards and is being developed as a film, with Margot Robbie attached to star. My sixth novel, Lovecraft Country, has been produced as an HBO series by Misha Green, Jordan Peele, and J.J. Abrams. It will debut on Sunday, August 16. In 1998 I married my best friend, the researcher and rare-book expert Lisa Gold. We live in Seattle, Washington.