Kate Heartfield’s latest novel, The Embroidered Book, is a Sunday Times bestselling historical fantasy about Marie Antoinette and her sister Charlotte. Several of her short stories have appeared in PodCastle. She is a former journalist who lives near Ottawa, Canada.
Sylvia Heike is a speculative fiction writer from Finland. Her stories have recently appeared in Flash Fiction Online and elsewhere. When not writing, she likes to go hiking and looking for birds. She tweets at @sylviaheike and you can find her online at sylviaheike.com.
Amanda Helms is a mixed-race Black/white writer whose short fiction has appeared in fine venues such as FIYAH, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Uncanny. A member of SFWA and HWA, she also serves as an editor for Diabolical Plots. When not reading, writing, or editing, she is likely chasing after her school-age child, daydreaming about embarking upon train journeys, or cooing over cute puppy pictures.
Samantha Henderson lives in Southern California by way of England, South Africa, Illinois and Oregon. Her short fiction and poetry have been published in Realms of Fantasy, Strange Horizons, Goblin Fruit and Weird Tales, and reprinted in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Science Fiction, Steampunk Revolutions and the Mammoth Book of Steampunk, as well as being podcast in Podcastle, Escape Pod, and The Drabblecast. She’s the author of the Forgotten Realms novels Heaven’s Bones and Dawnbringer, and is currently working on a novel based on her short story “Cinderella Suicide.“
Loreen Henegan lives in Oregon with her husband and infant daughter. They have a very small house in the shadow of an enormous sweetgum tree.
She began writing stories at the age of three, but took a couple of decades off to gain life experience before trying to make a name for herself.
His first fiction sale was the short story “And Not Quite Human,” published in the September 1953 issue of Beyond Fantasy Fiction. His first published novel was The Color of Hate in 1960. He had 20 more novels and collections published (over half of them in the series featuring Indiana circuit judge Donald Robak, which began with 1971’s Deliver Us to Evil) and around 100 short stories. His collaborators in science fiction included Alexei Panshin and Harlan Ellison; he co-wrote one mystery novel (Loose Coins) with fellow Indiana prosecuting attorney Guy M. Townsend. His last novel, Snowbird’s Blood, was published in February 2008. Many of his mystery novels were set in the fictitious Bington, a place which combined aspects of Madison and Bloomington.
Hensley remained active in science fiction fandom throughout his life; the Hensleys were familiar faces at science fiction conventions such as Rivercon and Midwestcon. Hensley was a First Fandom “Dinosaur” (which meant he had been active in fandom prior to July 4, 1939), and received the First Fandom Hall of Fame Award in 2006.
Carlos Hernandez (he/him) is the author of the Pura Belpré-award-winning Sal and Gabi Break the Universe, as well as its sequel, Sal and Gabi Fix the Universe (2020) and the short story collection The Assimilated Cuban’s Guide to Quantum Santeria (2016). He is also a CUNY associate professor of English at BMCC and the Graduate Center, as well as a game writer and designer. Find him on socials @writeteachplay.
Louise Hewitt (she/they) is enthusiastic about stories in all their forms. She is an advertising copywriter by day, a reader of bedtime stories in the evenings, and a D&D dwarf cleric at the weekends. Lou to her friends, she enjoys cooking up a storm, riding her bike in the rain, feeding ducks, doing yoga, and attempting to meditate. Her favourite stories are about dragons, but pirates and sea serpents are also good. She lives in London, UK, with her partner, her child on alternate weeks, and a very large ginger cat.
Jim C. Hines has written more than fifty published short stories. His first professional story sale was the award-winning “Blade of the Bunny,” which took first place in the 1998 Writers of the Future competition and was published in Writers of the Future XV.
Jim is an active blogger about topics ranging from sexism and harassment to zombie-themed Christmas carols, and won the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer in 2012.