Called by the Bangkok Post "the Thai person known by name to most people in the world," S.P. Somtow is an author, composer, filmmaker, and international media personality whose dazzling talents and acerbic wit have entertained and enlightened fans the world over. He was Somtow Papinian Sucharitkul in Bangkok. His grandfather's sister was a Queen of Siam, his father is a well known international lawyer and vice-president of the International Academy of Human Rights. Somtow was educated at Eton and Cambridge, and his first career was in music. In the 1970s (while he was still in college) his works were being performed on four continents and he was named representative of Thailand to the Asian Composer's League and to the International Music Commission of UNESCO. His avant-garde compositions caused controversy and scandal in his native country, and a severe case of musical burnout in the late 1970s precipitated his entry into a second career - that of author. He began writing science fiction, but soon started to invade other fields of writing, with some 40 books out now, including the clasic horror novel Vampire Junction, which defined the "rock and roll vampire" concept for the 80s, the Riverrun Trilogy ("the finest new series of the 90's" - Locus) and the semi-autobiographical memoir Jasmine Nights. He has won or been nominated for dozens of major awards including the Bram Stoker Award, the John W. Campbell Award, the Hugo Award, and the World Fantasy Award. Somtow has also made some incursions into filmmaking, directing the cult classic The Laughing Dead and the award winning art film Ill Met by Moonlight.

Jetse de Vries—@UpbeatFuture—is a technical specialist for a propulsion company by day, and a science fiction reader, editor (part of the Interzone team 2004 — 2008, the groundbreaking optimistic SF anthology SHINE) and writer (Clarkesworld, Michael Moorcock’s New Worlds, Escape Pod, and many more) by night. He's also an avid bicyclist, total solar eclipse chaser, single malt aficionado, metalhead and intelligent optimist. On March 28, 2021, he posted the world’s first NFT SF novel on Ethereum’s Mintable. His first novels are about to come out.

I wanted to be a writer from a very young age, and wrote my first proper short story at 14. I also wrote a novel that year, called “Skin Deep”‘, which I really need to type up. I started sending stories out when I was about 23, and sold my first one, “White Bed”", in 1993. Since then I’ve sold about 70 short stories, two short story collections and three novels. I’m an avid and broad reader but I also like reality TV so don’t always expect intelligent conversation from me.

An Israeli writer, editor and musician. Instrumental vocalist. Founder and former chief editor of Israel's first online SF&F magazine. Bassman. Computer programmer. His story collection, One Hell of a Writer, was published by Odyssey Press in 2006. Composer and arranger. Writers columns, articles and reviews for various publications. A devoted acapella performer. His stories appeared in magazines in Israel and elsewhere. Participated in numerous musical groups and bands, and still hasn't had enough. Wrote two books with fellow author Lavie Tidhar: Fictional Murder (Odyssey Press, Israel, 2009) and The Tel Aviv Dossier (ChiZine Publications, Canada, 2009). Records his own music at his own studio, The Nir Space Station. Participates in dance shows as a live musician. Creates music for films and TV. Starred in a short horror film, his role being that of the monster. Said film won the first place in an Israeli short film competition in 2006. Lives in Tel Aviv. Rides a motorbike, despite himself. Likes food, knows nothing about it. Likes literature, knows quite a bit about it. Can handle a sailboat. Can't handle cooking, and refuses to learn. Visit Nir's official homepage for free stories, music and videos.

Tunku Halim has lived in the UK, Australia, the Philippines, Thailand and Malaysia. He worked as Legal Counsel for a global IT company before turning to writing. Twenty books later, he is dubbed Asia’s Steven King. By delving into Malay myth, legends and folklore, his writing is regarded as ‘World Gothic’. His novel, Dark Demon Rising, was nominated for the 1999 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award whilst his second novel, Vermillion Eye, is used as a study text in The National University of Singapore’s Language and Literature course. His short story has also won first prize in a 1998 Fellowship of Australian Writers competition. In Malaysia, he has had three consecutive wins in Malaysia's Star-Popular Readers’ Choice Awards between 2015 and 2017.

Anil Menon is a leading Indian writer of speculative fiction, as well as a computer scientist with a Ph.D. from Syracuse University, who has authored research papers and edited books on Evolutionary Algorithms; his research addressed the mathematical foundations of replicator systems, majorization, and reconstruction of probabilistic databases, in collaboration with Professors Kishan Mehrotra, Chilukuri Mohan, and Sanjay Ranka. After working for several years as a computer scientist, he has directed his creative energies towards fiction. His short stories and reviews have appeared in the anthology series Exotic Gothic, Strange Horizons, Interzone, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Chiaroscuro, Sybil's Garage, Apex Digest and other magazines. In 2009, Zubaan Books, India's leading feminist press, published his debut young adult novel The Beast With Nine Billion Feet. It was shortlisted for the 2010 Vodafone Crossword Book Award and 2010 Parallax prize. In 2009, in conjunction with Vandana Singh and Suchitra Mathur, he helped organize India's first in-residence, three-week speculative fiction workshop at IIT-Kanpur. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anil\_Menon