Matt Wallace lives and works in Los Angeles. He likes to tell stories, and pay rent, and whenever he can do both at the same time that’s a win.
His new epic fantasy Savage Legion will be published in the Spring of 2020. Until then, follow Matt on Twitter, and devour every book in the Sin du Jour series.
Damien Angelica Walters is the author of Cry Your Way Home, Paper Tigers, and Sing Me Your Scars, winner of This is Horror’s Short Story Collection of the Year. Her short fiction has been nominated twice for a Bram Stoker Award, reprinted in The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror and The Year’s Best Weird Fiction, and published in various anthologies and magazines, including the Shirley Jackson Award Finalists Autumn Cthulhu and The Madness of Dr. Caligari, World Fantasy Award Finalist Cassilda’s Song, Nightmare Magazine, Black Static, and Apex Magazine. Until the magazine’s closing in 2013, she was an Associate Editor of the Hugo Award-winning Electric Velocipede. She lives in Maryland with her husband and two rescued pit bulls and is represented by Heather Flaherty of The Bent Agency.
Si Wang is a speculative fiction writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. His work has appeared in Aurealis, Electric Spec, and Mythaxis.
Christoph Weber is a former firefighter, now a writer and tropical fruit orchardist in Hilo, Hawaii, a town so rainy he couldn’t start a wildfire if he wanted. Probably. He hasn’t tried.
Christoph’s short fiction has appeared in Nature, VICE’s Terraform, and won the Writers of the Future Award. For more of his work, including an in-progress trilogy that resurrects Neanderthals and other de-extincted hominins, follow him at christophweber.com
Rebecca Wei Hsieh (she/her) is an actor and writer with a BA in Theatre and Italian Studies from Wesleyan University. She doesn’t particularly enjoy talking about herself in the third person, but does it nonetheless to seem as professional as possible. As part of her attempt to be professional, Rebecca writes for Nerdy POC and Screen Rant, and has written for other publications such as Wanderful and OC87 Recovery Diaries. Rebecca is also a connoisseur of bad puns and a generally awkward queer woman of colour.
Heather Welliver is an Emmy Award nominated narrator and voice actress whose past credits include A.D.D.Cast and Grailwolf’s Geek Life.
She has been part of the Escape Artists family of narrators since 2007.
Martha Wells has written well over a dozen fantasy novels, including the Books of the Raksura series (The Cloud Roads, The Serpent Sea, The Siren Depths, Stories of the Raksura Vol. I, Stories of the Raksura vol. II), The Wizard Hunters, Wheel of the Infinite, and the nebula-nominated The Death of the Necromancer, as well as YA fantasies, short stories, and non-fiction. She has had stories in Black Gate, Realms of Fantasy, Stargate Magazine, Lightspeed Magazine, and in the anthologies Elemental, Tales of the Emerald Serpent, and The Other Half of the Sky. She has also written the media-tie-ins, Stargate Atlantis: Reliquary, Stargate Atlantis: Entanglement, and Star Wars: Razor’s Edge. Her new book in the Raksura series, The Edge of Worlds, will be out in April 2016.
Kathy Diane Wentworth (January 27, 1951 – April 18, 2012) was an American science fiction author. A University of Tulsa graduate, she got her start winning the Writers of the Future Contest in 1988, and then later won Field Publications’ “Teachers as Writers” Award in 1991. Wentworth served two terms as secretary of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in the early 2000s. She served as the editor for the Writers of the Future Contest from 2009 until her death. One of her novelettes, “Kaleidoscope” (2008), and three of her short stories, “Burning Bright” (1997). “Tall One” (1998), and “Born Again” (2005) have been Nebula award finalists.
Wentworth died on April 18, 2012, from complications with pneumonia and cervical cancer.