Chen Qiufan was born in 1981, in Shantou, China. (In accordance with Chinese custom, Mr. Chen's surname is written first. He sometimes uses the English name Stanley Chan.) He is a graduate of Peking University and published his first short story in 1997 in Science Fiction World, China's largest science fiction magazine. Since 2004, he has published over 30 stories in Science Fiction World, Esquire, Chutzpah and other magazines. His first novel, The Abyss of Vision, came out in 2006. He won Taiwan's Dragon Fantasy Award in 2006 with "A Record of the Cave of Ning Mountain," a work written in Classical Chinese. His story, "The Tomb," was translated into English and Italian and can be found in The Apex Book of World SF II and Alias 6. He now lives in Beijing and works for Google China.

Rich Larson was born in Galmi, Niger, has studied in Rhode Island and worked in the south of Spain, and now lives in Ottawa, Canada. Since he began writing in 2011, he’s sold over a hundred stories, the majority of them speculative fiction published in magazines like Asimov’s, Analog, Clarkesworld, F&SF, Lightspeed, and Tor.com. His work appears in numerous Year’s Best anthologies and has been translated into Chinese, Vietnamese, Polish, French and Italian. Annex, his debut novel and first book of The Violet Wars trilogy, comes out in July 2018 with Orbit Books. Tomorrow Factory, his debut collection, follows in October 2018 with Talos Press. Besides writing, he enjoys travelling, learning languages, playing soccer, watching basketball, shooting pool, and dancing kizomba.

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Lavie Tidhar was raised on a kibbutz in Israel. He has travelled extensively since he was a teenager, living in South Africa, the UK, Laos, and the small island nation of Vanuatu. Tidhar began publishing with a poetry collection in Hebrew in 1998, but soon moved to fiction, becoming a prolific author of short stories early in the 21st century. Temporal Spiders, Spatial Webs won the 2003 Clarke-Bradbury competition, sponsored by the European Space Agency, while The Night Train (2010) was a Sturgeon Award finalist. Linked story collection HebrewPunk (2007) contains stories of Jewish pulp fantasy. He co-wrote dark fantasy novel The Tel Aviv Dossier (2009) with Nir Yaniv. The Bookman Histories series, combining literary and historical characters with steampunk elements, includes The Bookman (2010), Camera Obscura (2011), and The Great Game (2012). Standalone novel Osama (2011) combines pulp adventure with a sophisticated look at the impact of terrorism. It won the 2012 World Fantasy Award, and was a finalist for the Campbell Memorial Award, British Science Fiction Award, and a Kitschie. His latest novels are Martian Sands and The Violent Century. Much of Tidhar’s best work is done at novella length, including An Occupation of Angels (2005), Cloud Permutations (2010), British Fantasy Award winner Gorel and the Pot-Bellied God (2011), and Jesus & the Eightfold Path (2011). Tidhar advocates bringing international SF to a wider audience, and has edited The Apex Book of World SF (2009) and The Apex Book of World SF 2 (2012). He is also editor-in-chief of the World SF Blog, and in 2011 was a finalist for a World Fantasy Award for his work there. He also edited A Dick and Jane Primer for Adults (2008); wrote Michael Marshall Smith: The Annotated Bibliography (2004); wrote weird picture book Going to The Moon (2012, with artist Paul McCaffery); and scripted one-shot comic Adolf Hitler’s I Dream of Ants! (2012, with artist Neil Struthers). Tidhar lives with his wife in London.

Mary is a freelance writer who writes science fiction and fantasy. She first fell in love with these genres when Luke turned on his lightsaber and when Lucy walked through the wardrobe. Her short stories can be seen in several anthologies and has an MFA in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University. She and her husband are raising their two boys to be geeks, and proudly display their life-size replica of Han Solo in Carbonite in their family room. Mary lives in Illinois, and can be found at SF conventions in the Chicago area, especially Windycon and Capricon.

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

Gabriela Damián Miravete es una escritora, editora, guionista y locutora. También se ha dedicado al periodismo cultural en los ámbitos literario y cinematográfico y ha colaborado en publicaciones tales como Letras Libres, Lee+, Cine Premiere y Confabulario. Gabriela nació en la Ciudad de México en 1979. Estudió Comunicación y Educación en la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona y Creación Literaria en la Escuela de Escritores de la Sociedad General de Escritores de México. Su trabajo literario ha sido reconocido en México y Estados Unidos. La Tradición de Judas, álbum de cuentos para niños, ilustrado por Cecilia Varela, recibió el Premio de Cuento en la Feria del Libro Infantil y Juvenil de la Ciudad de México (FILIJ) y fue editado en 2007 por CONACULTA. En 2010 ganó la beca Jóvenes Creadores del FONCA, en la especialidad de narrativa, con la que escribió el libro de cuentos aún inédito Pequeños naipes de ópalo. En 2012 fue finalista en el World Fantasy Award con el cuento “Future Nereid”, que fue antologado por Chris Brown y Eduardo Jiménez Mayo en Three Messages and a Warning, libro editado por Small Beer Press. Sus ensayos y cuentos han sido traducidos al inglés y portugués.

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.