Kat is a queer Greek/Serbian SFF writer, film critic, and podcaster based in London, UK. Her novel-in-progress about a secret society of Swedish superheroes was shortlisted for the London Writers Awards in 2019, and she was a juror for the Best Non-Fiction category in the 2020 British Fantasy Awards. She organises Spectrum, the largest critique group for SFF writers in the UK, and is one of the podcast editors at Strange Horizons magazine. Her day job is in theatre.
Mary Robinette Kowal is the author of historical fantasy novels: The Glamourist Histories series and Ghost Talkers. She has received the Campbell Award for Best New Writer, three Hugo awards, the RT Reviews award for Best Fantasy Novel, and has been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards. Her stories appear in Asimov’s, Clarkesworld, and several Year’s Best anthologies. Mary, a professional puppeteer, also performs as a voice actor (SAG/AFTRA), recording fiction for authors including Seanan McGuire, Cory Doctorow, and John Scalzi. She lives in Chicago with her husband Rob and over a dozen manual typewriters. Visit maryrobinettekowal.com
Barbara Krasnoff has had short stories in over 45 print and online publications, including Space & Time, Andromeda Spaceways, Mythic Delirium, Abyss & Apex, and a variety of others. Her story “Sabbath Wine,” which was published in the anthology Clockwork Phoenix 5, was a Nebula Award finalist. The History of Soul 2065, her mosaic novel published by Mythic Delirium Books, follows several generations of two mystical Jewish families. She earns her living as Reviews Editor at The Verge. You can find her website at Brooklynwriter.com.
Eleiece Krawiec, a Louisiana transplant since 1985, lives in the New Orleans, Louisiana metropolitan area, and is a legal assistant. In 2007 “on a whim” she decided to give voice-acting a try, and she’s been involved in it and narration ever since. Her experience ranges from voicing roles for a variety of audio dramas, beginning with her initial voicing role as Captain Cortez in Starship Excelsior: A Star Trek Fan Production, as well as a second captain in that series, Skipper Sam Cox. Eleiece continues to voice roles for two other Star Trek based audio dramas: Outpost – A Star Trek Fan Production, and Endless Vigilance: A Star Trek Fan Production. She has voiced roles for a variety of non-Star Trek based audio dramas, including Misfits Audio, 19 Nocturne Boulevard, and Darker Projects. And, owing to her love of reading aloud, she has narrated any number of stories for several podcasts, including Drabble Cast, The Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine, and Escape Pod.
Nancy Kress began writing fantasy and currently writes science fiction, often about genetic engineering. She teaches regularly at summer conferences such as Clarion West and Taos Toolbox. She is the author of twenty-seven novels, three books on writing, four short story collections, and over a hundred works of short fiction. Her fiction has won six Nebulas, two Hugos, a Sturgeon, and a John W. Campbell Memorial Award. Her work has been translated into Swedish, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Danish, Polish, Croatian, Korean, Lithuanian, Chinese, Romanian, Japanese, Russian, and Klingon, none of which she can read.
M. L. Krishnan originally hails from the coastal shores of Tamil Nadu, India. She is a 2019 graduate of the Clarion West Writers Workshop, a 2022 recipient of the Millay Arts Fellowship, and a 2022-2023 MacDowell Fellow. Her work has appeared, or is forthcoming in Diabolical Plots, PodCastle, Baffling Magazine, The Best Microfiction 2022 anthology and elsewhere. You can find her on Twitter @emelkrishnan.
Derek Künsken left molecular biology to work with street kids in Central America and eventually found himself working for the Canadian diplomatic world with refugees in Colombia. He now writes science fiction and fantasy in Gatineau, Québec. He has two published novels: The Quantum Magician and The Quantum Garden. He’s also creating comics. He has a YA webcomic called Briarworld at webtoon.com with artist Wendy Muldon, and a comic book version of “Franken-Puppy” on Comixology with artist Trevor Markwart in FLIP Vol 2.
Petra Kuppers is a disability culture activist and a community performance artist. She is a Professor at the University of Michigan, and she teaches on the MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts at Goddard College. Her most recent poetry collection is PearlStitch (Spuyten Duyvil: 2016). Her stories have appeared or are forthcoming in The Sycamore Review, Visionary Tongue, Future Fire, Wordgathering, Festival Writer, and Accessing the Future: A Disability-Themed Anthology of Speculative Fiction. She is the Artistic Director of The Olimpias, an international disability culture collective. She lives in Ann Arbor with her poet partner and collaborator, Stephanie Heit.
Chris Kuriata lives in (and often writes about) the Niagara Region. His stories about elderly poisoners, whale-hunting clowns, and time-traveling kittens have appeared in many fine publications from “Gamut” to on-line at “The Saturday Evening Post”.