Adam-Troy Castro made his first professional sale to Spy magazine in 1987. Since then, he's published more than seventy short stories, including the Stoker nominee "Baby Girl Diamond" and the Hugo/Nebula nominees "The Funeral March of the Marionettes" and (with Jerry Oltion) "The Astronaut from Wyoming." Adam is the author of four Spider-Man novels, including the trilogy that culminated in 2002's The Secret of the Sinister Six. Adam's short stories are reprinted in his collections Lost in Booth Nine, An Alien Darkness, A Desperate Decaying Darkness, Vossoff and Nimmitz, and Tangled Strings. The owner of four cats, including Jones, Maggie, Lipless Louie, and the acronymic P.I.T.A., Adam credits his wife, the lovely and long-suffering Judi Castro, with refusing to accept a damn fine first draft and instead insisting on the critical changes that moved "Of a Sweet Slow Dance in the Wake of Temporary Dogs" past the finish line and into the kindly editor's mailbox.
Editor Keith R.A. DeCandido has been an author, critic, editor, anthologist, interviewer, musician, and TV personality in over a decade in the SF and comics fields. He has been involved editorially in over a dozen anthologies, some behind the scenes. The more public ones include OtherWere: Stories of Transformation (with Laura Anne Gilman), Urban Nightmares (with Josepha Sherman), The Ultimate Alien and The Ultimate Dragon (with Byron Preiss & John Betancourt), the forthcoming Tales of the Dominion War, and the collection Virtual Unrealities: The Short Fiction of Alfred Bester (with Robert Silverberg & Byron Preiss). He is also the best-selling author of a variety of novels, short stories, eBooks, comics, and nonfiction books told in assorted media universes, including Star Trek, Farscape, Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda, Marvel Comics, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Doctor Who, Xena, and more. His first original novel, Dragon Precinct, is due in 2004. Through Albé-Shiloh Inc., he is producing several projects besides Imaginings, including the science fiction trilogy The Inconstant Moon by Pierce Askegren, published by Ace Books.
In the twenty-five years of Craig Shaw Gardner's professional career, he's published around thirty novels, forty short stories, and three dozen reviews and articles. The day he went to see Viva Las Vegas, his very first Elvis film, he stayed to watch it twice.
Charles L. Harness was born in a little town in West Texas in 1915. He has degrees in chemistry and law. He worked as a patent lawyer in Connecticut and Maryland for forty years. His first SF story was published in 1948. Many of his subsequent stories and novels dealt with the patent profession, and several were nominated for Hugo and Nebula Awards. In recent years, NESFA Press has published two collections of his short fiction--An Ornament to His Profession and Cybele, with Bluebonnets--as well as Rings--an omnibus of his novels The Paradox Men, The Ring of Ritornel, Firebird, and Drunkard's Endgame.
H. Courreges LeBlanc is a native of New Orleans. He expatriated to Minnesota in 1980, and attended Clarion in 1996. Since then, he's sold several stories to Strange Horizons, Terra Incognita, Tales of the Unanticipated, and Darkling Plain. He has written a novel, Tainted Cotillion, which his agent is dutifully flogging. In addition to his literary pursuits, LeBlanc is also a musician. He is in the improvisational jazz ensemble, the Moon, and an electronic music ensemble, Eight Minutes to Wapner. His other interests include recumbent bicycles, vintage cars, permaculture, and free software.
Nancy Jane Moore's fiction has appeared in several anthologies, on the Web site Fantastic Metropolis, and in magazines ranging from Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet to the National Law Journal. She has trained in martial arts for more than twenty years and holds a black belt in Aikido.
Daniel Pearlman got his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Columbia University and teaches Creative Writing at the University of Rhode Island. His ironical/fantastical stories and novellas began appearing in 1988 in magazines and anthologies such as Amazing Stories, The Silver Web, New England Review, Quarterly West, Semiotext(e) SF, Synergy, and Simulations. His books of fiction to date are The Final Dream & Other Fictions (Permeable Press, 1995); a mainstream novel, Black Flames (White Pine Press, 1997), a twisted excursion into the Spanish Civil War; a new fiction collection, The Best-Known Man in the World & Other Misfits (Aardwolf Press, 2002); and a science-fiction novel, Memini (Prime Books, 2003). His new novel, Weeds in Franco's Garden, is based on his prolonged residence in Spain (1971-74) and is currently seeking a publisher. His work has received outstanding reviews in periodicals such as Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and the Washington Post. If you’d like to get in touch, his email is dpearl@uri.edu.
Aaron Rosenberg was born in New Jersey, grew up in New Orleans, graduated high school and college in Kansas, and now lives in New York. He has published short stories, poems, essays, articles, reviews, and nonfiction books, but for the last ten years the majority of his writing has been in role-playing. Aaron has written for more than ten game systems (including Lord of the Rings, Vampire, DC Universe, EverQuest, and Star Trek) and is the president of his own game company, Clockworks. He has two degrees in English, and misses teaching college English, which he did for several years. In 2001, Aaron released Star Trek: S.C.E.: The Riddled Post as an eBook, which will be reprinted in book form in the S.C.E. omnibus Some Assembly Required in 2003.
Harry Turtledove, an escaped historian, writes science fiction, fantasy, and historical fiction. He is perhaps best known for his alternate history, including such titles as The Guns of the South, Nebula finalist How Few Remain, Ruled Britannia, and the Hugo-winning novella, "Down in the Bottomlands." He lives in Los Angeles with his wife--the writer Laura Frankos--and their three daughters.
Sarah Zettel was born in California, and since then has lived in four states, ten cities, and two countries. She has been practicing the art of writing fantasy and science fiction since the sixth grade, and hopes to get it right one day. Her most recent novels are Kingdom of Cages and A Sorceror's Treason. She currently lives in Michigan with her husband Tim, her son Alex and her cat, Buffy the Vermin Slayer.