Gillian Ybabez is a writer, blogger, and trans Latina. She writes scifi, fantasy, contemporary, surreal, and horror stories. She wants to write more stories of all genres about trans women existing. She publishes all her writing on her website. Find more of her writing at her website: www.Gillian-Ybabez.com Buy collections of her stories at her Gumroad store: www.gumroad.com/gillianybabez

My latest book is Victories Greater Than Death. Coming in August: Never Say You Can't Survive: How to Get Through Hard Times By Making Up Stories. Previously: All the Birds in the Sky, The City in the Middle of the Night, and a short story collection, Six Months, Three Days, Five Others. Coming soon: An adult novel, and a short story collection called Even Greater Mistakes. I used to write for a site called io9.com, and now I write for various places here and there. I won the Emperor Norton Award, for “extraordinary invention and creativity unhindered by the constraints of paltry reason.” I've also won a Hugo Award, a Nebula Award, a William H. Crawford Award, a Theodore Sturgeon Award, a Locus Award and a Lambda Literary Award. My stories, essays and journalism have appeared in Wired Magazine, the Boston Review, Conjunctions, Tin House, Slate, MIT Technology Review, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, Tor.com, Lightspeed Magazine, McSweeney’s, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, ZYZZYVA, Strange Horizons, Apex Magazine, Uncanny Magazine, 3 AM Magazine, Flurb.net, Monkey Bicycle, Pindeldyboz, Instant City, Broken Pencil, and in tons and tons of anthologies. I organize Writers With Drinks, which is a monthly reading series here in San Francisco that mashes up a ton of different genres. I co-host a Hugo Award-winning podcast, Our Opinions Are Correct, with Annalee Newitz. Back in 2007, Annalee and I put out a book of first-person stories by female geeks called She’s Such a Geek: Women Write About Science, Technology and Other Nerdy Stuff. There was a lot of resistance to doing this book, because nobody believed there was a market for writing about female geeks. Also, Annalee and I put out a print magazine called other, which was about pop culture, politics and general weirdness, aimed at people who don’t fit into other categories. To raise money for other magazine, we put on events like a Ballerina Pie Fight – which is just what it sounds like – and a sexy show in a hair salon where people took off their clothes while getting their hair cut. I used to live in a Buddhist nunnery, when I was a teenager. I love to do karaoke. I eat way too much spicy food. I hug trees and pat stone lions for luck. I talk to myself way too much when I’m working on a story.

M Téllez is a heavily cyborg storyteller and sloganeer from the 215 (Lenapehoking). They serve as Minister of Crossroads and founding member of the corner store sci-fi & action collective, METROPOLARITY. CYBORGMEMOIRS.com contains everything else you need to know. Written and audio stories, news, gear, and more.

"I'm a multidisciplinary artist and educator with a passion for social justice and community work. I have always had an enormous appetite for arts in multiple media - created with the hands or performed with the body. Though I've dabbled in sculpture, sewing, pottery, candlemaking, sketching, glass, painting, and more, dance and textiles have long been at the forefront. I began to dance at age 5 or 6 and first learned to knit soon after. I've since expanded my range of dance styles, become a dis/abled dancer, and learned to choreograph; and in textiles, I've picked up spinning, dyeing, weaving, and pattern design. Much of my art and other work is informed by my own experience with dis/ability, gender fluidity, and queer identity. While studying at UVM I received formal training as a tutor, in Universal Design for Learning, and on social justice organising and advocacy. I now have several years' experience educating on topics of gender, sexuality, ability, and socio-economic status for various groups, conferences, and institutions. Improving access for some improves access for all. Keeping in mind the diversity of experience and the intersection of multiple identities supports communities, makes education more effective, and enriches arts and life in general. While advocacy, arts, and classroom teaching may seem disparate, I consider them interwoven, fusable parts of the greater whole that is my life, my work, and my place in my communities."

RoAnna Sylver is passionate about stories that give hope, healing and even fun for LGBT, disabled and other marginalized people, and thinks we need a lot more. Aside from writing oddly optimistic dystopia and vampire books, RoAnna is a blogger, artist, and singer. RoAnna lives with family near Portland, OR, and probably spends too much time playing videogames. The next adventure RoAnna would like is a nap in a pile of bunnies.

Keffy is a speculative fiction writer currently living on Long Island, where he is working toward a PhD in Genetics. His short fiction has been published in Apex, Fantasy Magazine, Lightspeed, and Uncanny, among other places. He is currently the editor and publisher of GlitterShip magazine.