Joe Pitkin has lived, taught, and studied in England, Hungary, Mexico, and most recently at Clark College in Vancouver, Washington. He has done biological field work on the slopes of Mount St. Helens, and he lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife and daughters. You can follow his work at his blog, The Subway Test: thesubwaytest.wordpress.com.
Don is a writer whose work has appeared in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Crossed Genres, Lakeside Circus, and other places online and in print. He is also a graduate of the 2016 Viable Paradise Writing Workshop. You can find him online at donfoolery.com and on Twitter as @DonP.
Brittany Pladek is a literature scholar and speculative fiction writer based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Nick Podehl is a professional voice actor. He has narrated numerous audio books, many of which have won prestigious awards. He is currently seeking to bolster his experience by recording voice overs in video games, movies, commercials, and alternative media while continuing to narrate audio books.
He is very passionate about and committed to his work, and truly finds joy in his work.
Nick graduated from Grand Valley State University with a degree in Communication and a minor in Theatre.
He currently lives and works around Grand Rapids, Michigan with his beautiful wife Erin and their cat Dreams.
Kevin Powe, international voiceover artist and actor, has lent his voice of villainy to video games and audio books worldwide from his studio in Melbourne, Australia. But, never fear – under the extremely menacing goatee is a warm and versatile pro who has been known to break out his engaging, “nice guy” naturalism for commercial and corporate projects (when bribed with the right kind of chocolate).
Creator and voice of the animated sci-fi series Altered (in development with co-writer Peter M. Ball), Kevin is also the voice of Karen Fainges’ multi-volume Shayton Chronicles novels and is featured in the trailer for Fractured Skyline, a new online cyberpunk strategy game.
Sri is a graduate student hailing from near Toronto, Ontario, who is (metaphorically) wandering the world, searching for purpose. She is deeply fond of reading and writing speculative fiction, especially fantasy, and has work published in Cast of Wonders; she hopes to publish more soon. Outside of writing, she is learning how to play the guitar and piano, practicing the violin, daydreaming, and trying to motivate herself to finish any of the numerous projects she has going. You can find her on Twitter at @sriative, where she rarely tweets but lurks in the shadows, casting her judgmental yet benevolent eye over the world.
Tim Pratt (genderfluid, any pronouns) is the author of over 30 novels, most recently multiversal space opera The Knife and the Serpent. Pratt is a Hugo Award winner, and has been a finalist for Nebula, World Fantasy, Sturgeon, Stoker, and other awards. She publishes a new story every month at www.patreon.com/timpratt
A.E. Prevost loves writing about found families, language, gender, mental health and mental illness, and good things happening to interesting people. Their most recent publications are in the battle poet anthology Sword & Sonnet and the Gender Diverse Pronouns special issue of the magazine Capricious. Their story from Capricious, “Sandals Full of Rainwater”, made the 2018 Tiptree Honor List, and will be reprinted in the upcoming Transcendent 4: The Year’s Best Transgender Speculative Fiction.
A.E. is a linguist by training and one of the people behind the linguistics educational video series The Ling Space (on YouTube). They also love making constructed languages, and they have been lucky enough to get to apply their skills to feature films and other secret projects. In their day job, A.E. helps run an independent bookstore in Montreal, Canada, as well as working at a nonprofit that provides advocacy and support for disabled students pursuing higher education. A.E. has a Patreon where they put up miscellaneous new writing and adorable cat pictures every month. You can support them for a dollar or more a month, at patreon.com/aeprevost.
Sarah Prineas is an American fantasy author who lives in Iowa and once worked for the honors program at the University of Iowa. She is married to John Prineas, a Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Optical Science and Technology Center at the University of Iowa. They have two children. Prineas is originally from Lyme, Connecticut. She went to college in Minnesota. She has lived in Germany.
Her first novel The Magic Thief was published in 2008 by HarperCollins in the United States. As of June 2008, foreign rights had been sold to thirteen other countries. The sequel, The Magic Thief: Lost came out in 2009 and a third book, The Magic Thief: Found came out in 2010. Before she turned to novels, Prineas wrote fantasy short stories for adult markets. In 2008, she donated her archive to the department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University.