Hugo and Word Fantasy finalist E. Catherine Tobler lives and writes in Colorado. Weird how that works out! Her debut collection, The Grand Tour, is available from Apex Book Company. Her short fiction appears in Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, Beneath Ceaseless Skies and others.
Alexia Tolas is a Bahamian writer whose narratives explore the intricacies of small-island life, drawing heavily from local folktales and mythology. Her writing has been featured in literary journals including MsLexia, Granta, Windrush, Adda, and The Caribbean Writer. She won the Commonwealth Short Story Regional Award for the Caribbean in 2019, shortlisted for the 2020 Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award, and in 2022, she received the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival’s Elizabeth Nunez Award for Writer’s in the Caribbean.
Jeremiah Tolbert is a web designer and a writer living in Lawrence, Kansas with his wife and son. He writes science fiction and fantasy. His work often places an emphasis on working-class characters and how genre elements impact their lives. It’s predominantly optimistic about science and is often set in the Midwest, generally, and his home state of Kansas, specifically.
Lori J. Torone lives in Queens, NY, with her two children and her small, black rescue dog. She teaches middle school English and is an adjunct at her alma mater, St. Joseph’s College. Lori writes lesson plans and mythic fantasy in her attic library. A novelette from her independently published collection, Through the Oak Door, inspired the dance-theater performance entitled “Revelations” by Corporeal Arts Inc. She loves medieval literature, tapestries, loose-leaf tea with honey, wearing cozy shawls or scarves and fingerless gloves, and making essential oil potions to diffuse while writing or teaching. Her favorite sport is jousting.
Jennifer Tran is a Creative Writing major at SJSU bumbling through their senior year. When they’re not writing, drinking tea in excessive amounts, or looking up Wikipedia articles for various deep sea creatures, they like to fantasize about living the life of a modern day bog witch. You can hit them up on twitter @jennnnnntran (if you want, no pressure).
Ian Tregillis attended the University of Minnesota for both college and graduate school. Eventually, the university decided it had seen quite enough of him, so it politely but firmly asked him to leave, grow up, and get a real job. Ian’s parting gift was a doctorate in physics for his research on radio galaxies. After finishing his thesis, he moved to New Mexico just as soon as he found a group of people willing to hire him. He’s still a bit surprised by this because he has no useful skills.
In 2005, Ian attended the Clarion Writers’ Workshop in East Lansing, Michigan. (This was the second-to-last Clarion class in the program’s 35-year run at Michigan State University before the program moved to its new home at UCSD in 2007.) There he spent six weeks living in a sweltering, slightly creepy, soon-to-be-condemned sorority house with twelve other aspiring writers. Scurvy was a problem. However, in spite of many predictions, cannibalism was not.
After Clarion, and thanks to Walter Jon Williams, he was welcomed into New Mexico’s disproportionately large community of professional science fiction and fantasy writers. Although he often feels like a minor league batboy inexplicably mistaken for a professional baseball player, he has shared critiques with, and worked alongside, a long list of New Mexico writers including WJW, Daniel Abraham, Melinda Snodgrass, S. M. Stirling, Ty Franck, Victor Milán, Sage Walker, and George R. R. Martin.
Nowadays he lives in northern New Mexico, where he consorts with writers, scientists, and other disreputable types.
John Trevillian is an English novelist, poet, shaman and award-winning author of three dystopian sci-fi novels (The A-Men, The A-Men Return and Forever A-Men), plus writer of many other short stories, poetry collections and travel journals. He is also creator of the Talliston House & Gardens project, which could use your support – please see: Trevillian.com & Talliston.com.
Sienna Tristen is a Canadian artist and author of speculative fiction and poetry who explores queer platonic partnership, radical compassion, and mythmaking in their work. The first installment of her fantasy duology The Heretic’s Guide to Homecoming came out from indie arts collective The Shale Project in 2018, and won gold medals from both the Independent Publisher Book Awards and the Readerviews Awards in 2019. They also have a verse novel, The Insomniac’s Assistant, published with Penrose Press. A purveyor of many skills and talents, Sienna can lead a yoga class, speak to you in three and a half languages, sing harmonies to your melodies, and climb forty feet in the air on a pair of silks. They are currently working on their second novel.