Chaitanya Murali is a writer and editor based in Bangalore, India. He has spent the past decade moving from one profession to the next, cycling from law to publishing, and now, to game design – where he will remain. This is his first pro sale.
Brian Murphy is a long time co-host of The Miskatonic University Podcast. He works at home in the tech industry and has far more time on his hands than he will admit. He would also like to ask his neighbors to stop building things with power tools in the middle of the day.
Hilary Moon Murphy writes and sells fantasy stories in Minneapolis and runs MinnSpec — Minneapolis Speculative Fiction Writers.
Samantha Murray lives in Western Australia in a household of unruly boys. Her story “Of Sight, of Mind, of Heart” won an Aurealis Award, and her fiction has been collected in The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy & Horror, and The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume 4. You can follow her on Twitter @samanthanmurray
Kaushik is a management consultant by day and moonlights as a one man band with a variety of instruments, a veena and an electric guitar. He also enjoys writing, reading and listening to speculative fiction.
Shweta Narayan was born in India and has lived in Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, the Netherlands, Scotland, and California. They feel kinship with shapeshifters and other liminal beings. Their short fiction and poetry has appeared in Strange Horizons, Mithila Review, Breaking the Bow: Speculative Fiction Inspired by the Ramayana, We See a Different Frontier: A Postcolonial Speculative Fiction Anthology, An Alphabet of Embers: An Anthology of Unclassifiables, Lightspeed: Queers Destroy Fantasy, and Clockwork Phoenix 3, among others. Shweta was the Octavia Butler Memorial Scholarship recipient at Clarion 2007 and was shortlisted for the 2010 Nebula Awards.
Carrow Narby is a writer and doctoral student based in Boston, Massachusetts. They are still very new to the world of fiction. Ever since they can remember they have been fascinated with monsters, and their work tends to explore what it feels like to be, or to be seen as, a monster.
Edith Nesbit (15 August 1858 – 4 May 1924) was an English author and poet; she published her books for children under the name of E. Nesbit. She wrote or collaborated on more than 60 books of children’s literature. She was also a political activist and co-founded the Fabian Society, a socialist organization.
Mari Ness has published close to 100 short and flash fiction stories in various publications including Tor.com, Clarkesworld, Daily Science Fiction, and Apex. Her experimental novella, Through Immortal Shadows Singing, is forthcoming from Papaveria Press. She blogs at Tor.com, where she has, amongst other things, compared Disney animated films to their text sources. She lives in central Florida.
My name is Sylvain Neuvel. I was born in Quebec City and raised in a small Quebec town called L’Ancienne-Lorette.
I write science fiction. My first novel, Sleeping Giants, is available now from Del Rey. It revolves around a secret project to assemble the ancient body parts of a giant humanoid relic buried throughout the world by aliens. The sequel, Waking Gods, came out in April 2016, and the third book in the Themis Files trilogy, called Only Human comes out May 1st 2018. Click here for more info.
I have a B.A. in linguistics from Université de Montréal in 1999. I received my Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Chicago in 2003. My main interests are word-based morphology, computational morphology, as well as formal and lexical semantics and most of my work focuses on a formal characterization of polysynthesis, compounding and agglutination in word-based morphological terms.
I am currently Director of translation services and a software engineer for a Montreal company. I’m also a certified translator and an astronaut (ok, I made that last one up). You can link to my resume from this page, I’ve also made available abstracts and electronic versions of some of my papers.
I have a son, Théodore, who’s a real genius, and two cats, President Laura Roslin, not quite as smart, and the brave Jyn Erso. My personal interests include robotics as well as science-fiction in all shapes and sizes. I’m obsessed with Halloween and I’m currently building a working R2-D2 replica.
Author photo by James Andrew Rosen.