People
K.C. Ball
K.C. Ball lives in Seattle with her wife, Rachael Buchanan. Her speculative fiction has been published in various online and print magazines, including Analog, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Daily Science Fiction and Lightspeed. Some of her stories are collected in Snapshots From A Black Hole & Other Oddities from Hydra House Books. K.C. is a 2010 graduate of the Clarion West writers workshop and a 2009 winner of the Hubbard Writers of the Future award.
Philippa Ballantine
New Zealand born fantasy writer and podcaster Philippa (Pip) Ballantine is the author of the Books of the Order, The Chronicles of Art, The Shifted World series. She is also the co-author of the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences series with her husband, Tee Morris. Philippa currently resides in Manassas, Virginia with her husband, daughter, and a furry clowder of cats.
Andrea Bang
Andrea Bang was born and raised in Burnaby, B.C. She grew up wanting to be a librarian, designer, fairy, teacher, cashier, critic, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, construction worker – and the list goes on. Since they didn’t offer a class in Vampire Slaying, she took the equivalent: a degree in Psychology, acting classes and spewing witty comebacks at objects with no reflection.
Outside of acting, Andrea enjoys making things (crafting, sewing, moviemaking), writing and watching too many films. Some of her work can be seen on Inanimate Funnies. Currently she’s on CBC’s “Kim’s Convenience”, a comedy based on Ins Choi’s award-winning play, which can be seen on Netflix or CBC!
Nicolette Barischoff
Nicolette Barischoff got her start in speculative fiction last year with a story in Crossed Genres’ anthology Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction From the Margins of History. Her work has since appeared in Accessing the Future (The Future Fire), The Journal of Unlikely Academia (Unlikely Story), and Angels of the Meanwhile (forthcoming). She spends a lot of time advocating for body positivity and gender equality. CBS New York has called her activism “public pornography.” She has spastic cerebral palsy, and sometimes writes about disability.
Sofía Barker
Sophie Barker studied to become a doctor but was rescued by translation before there was too much damage done. She has worked with authors such as Lucy Taylor, Priya Sharma, and Kelly Robson in bringing their work to Spanish readers. She is very lucky to be surrounded by a great community of literary friends that keep reminding her that she is loved. She lives in Madrid, but her Scottish blood keeps calling her to Edinburgh. You can find her fangirling about one female writer or another on Twitter @S_A_Barker
Chris Barnes
Chris Barnes attended the inaugural Clarion South writing workshop in 2004. He hasn’t written many stories after the initial flurry of those years, but those stories helped secure a job at the consumer organisation CHOICE where for the past 10-odd years he has written stories on more mundane subjects such as vacuum cleaners and lawn mowers. (Oh the glamour!)
Chris Barnham
Chris worked for many years for the British government, but now just makes stuff up for himself. Stories have appeared in Compelling SF, Interzone, and numerous other places, including the last two Best of British SF collections. His time travel romance novel, Fifty-One, is available from U.S. Indie Filles Vertes Publishing. He lives in London, England, and has a wife and three tall children — all of them much nicer people than him. Whenever work allows, he spends as much time as possible out of town with mud on his boots.
C. A. Barrett
C. A. Barrett lives in a busy home in Kentucky, and writes while her husband guards her from children, animals, and laundry piles so large that they’ve gained sentience. She blogs about writing at www.enchanted.horse.
Tahnia Barrie
Tahnia Barrie is a Sierra Leonean poet and writer, currently based in her country’s capital city, Freetown. She is a 2024 Voodoonauts fellow, an alum of the 2023 WAW residency at the Library of Africa and the African Diaspora, and an Associate Editor at PodCastle magazine. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in the Commonwealth Foundation’s literary magazine adda, Strange Horizons, Lolwe, Fantasy Magazine, 20.35 Africa’s Anthology of Contemporary Poetry and elsewhere.