Aliette de Bodard lives and works in Paris, where she has a day job as a System Engineer. In between bouts of coding she writes speculative fiction: her Aztec noir fantasy Obsidian and Blood is published by Angry Robot, and her short fiction has appeared in venues such as Clarkesworld, Asimov’s, and various anthologies, as well as multiple times previously in Beneath Ceaseless Skies. She has won a Nebula Award, a Locus Award, and been shortlisted for the Hugo, Sturgeon and Tiptree awards. Her new novel, The House of Shattered Wings, is out now from Gollancz (UK/Commonwealth) and Roc (US). Visit her at aliettedebodard.com for writing process, book reviews, and Franco-Vietnamese cooking.

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Gabrielle de Cuir has narrated over 400 hundred titles specializing in fantasy, humor, and titles requiring extensive foreign language and accent skills.  Her “velvet touch” as an actors’ director has earned her a special place in the audiobook world as the foremost choice for best-selling authors and celebrities. Short list of those directed: Anne Hathaway, Emilio Estevez, Wil Wheaton, Dr. Daniel G. Amen, Elijah Wood, Deepak Chopra, Eric Idle, Nancy Cartwright, Michael York, Ed Herrmann, and Joe Mantegna.  She is the writer and director of the Award winning short film THE DELIVERY, which deals with an Alice-in-Wonderland version of audio books.  She spent her childhood in Rome growing up with her wildly artistic and cinematic father, John de Cuir, four-time Academy Award winning Production Designer, an upbringing that enabled her to be fluent in Romance languages and to have an unusual appetite for visual delights.

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Mary de Morgan, the daughter of an abolitionist and a mathematician, lived from 1850 to 1907. She was a suffragette, a socialist sympathizer, and a social worker among the girls of London’s East End. She also had a reputation for tactlessness, which is about what you’d expect from someone born into a family of intellectuals, non-conformists, and dissenters. De Morgan penned a two-volume novel called A Choice of Chance written under the pseudonym of William Dodson; but it was her fairy tales that she’s best known for. Her collections include On a Pincushion, The Necklace of Princess Fiorimonde, and The Windfairies.

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Marion Deeds writes speculative fiction and urban fantasy. She is a reviewer and columnist for fantasyliterature.com.

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Maria Deira grew up in the high desert of Eastern Oregon but now lives in the cozy gloom of the Willamette Valley. Her fiction has been published in A cappella Zoo, Fiction Southeast, Word Riot, GigaNotoSaurus, and Strange Horizons. She’s currently working on a novel.

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A. M. Dellamonica’s first novel, Indigo Springs, won the Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic. Her fourth, A Daughter of No Nation, won the 2016 Prix Aurora for Best Novel. She has published over forty short stories in Tor.com, Strange Horizons, Lightspeed and elsewhere and was the co-editor of Heiresses of Russ 2016. She teaches writing at two universities and is pursuing an MFA in creative writing at a third. Alyx is married to Nebula Award-winning author Kelly Robson; the two made their outlaw wedding of 1989 legal, in 2003, when the Canadian Supreme Court conferred equality on same-sex couples. You can support her at Creative Fictions.

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Michelle Denham is a biracial Korean-American who lives in the desert. She earned her doctorate in English Literature and now writes letters for a living and stories in order to live. Her stories have appeared in Daily Science Fiction, Flash Fiction Online, A Future Fire, and the print anthology, When the Ride Ends, published by Owl Canyon Press.

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Laura Denson is a transplanted Georgia native living in Maryland. She blogs about crafts, gaming, food, random thoughts on life, and anything else that strikes her fancy.

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Tanya is the founder and Director of I Need Diverse Games, a not-for-profit foundation based in Chicago, that is dedicated to better diversification of all aspects of gaming. I Need Diverse Games serves the community by supporting marginalized developers attend the Game Developer Conference by participating in the GDC Scholarship program, helps assist attendance at other industry events, and is seeking partnership with organizations and initiatives.

Tanya is a lifelong Chicagoan who loves everything about gaming, #INeedDiverseGames spawn point, and wants to make it better and more inclusive for everyone. She was the founding Editor In Chief of Fresh Out of Tokens podcast where games culture was discussed and viewed through a lense of feminism, intersectionality, and diversity. She is the Diversity Liaison for GaymerX and often speaks on issues of diversity, feminism, race, intersectionality, and other topics at multiple conventions throughout the year. Her writing about games and games critique has appeared in Uncanny Magazine, Polygon, Wiscon Chronicles, Vice Gaming, Mic, Paste Games, and other publications.

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Dayle A. Dermatis has been called “one of the best writers working today” by USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith. Under various pseudonyms (and sometimes with coauthors), she’s sold several novels and more than a hundred short stories in multiple genres, including romance, SFF, mystery, thriller, and YA. She is also a founding member of the Uncollected Anthology project.

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