People
Shaoni C. White
Shaoni C. White is a writer and researcher of speculative fiction from Southern California. This is their first published work of fiction. It was probably not co-written with a swarm of flies. They can be found on Twitter at @shaonicwhite.
The Word Whore
The Word Whore runs Air Out My Shorts with Preston Buttons. This is an intermittent humor podcast which includes a not insignificant amount of booze and fiction of dubious quality.
Eileen Wiedbrauk
Eileen Wiedbrauk is Editor-in-Chief of World Weaver Press as well as a writer, blogger, book reviewer, coffee addict, cat herder, MFA graduate, fantasist-turned-fabulist-turned-urban-fantasy-junkie, Odyssey Workshop alumna, designer, tech geek, entrepreneur, avid reader, and a somewhat decent cook. She wears many hats, as the saying goes. Which is an odd saying in this case, as she rarely looks good in hats. Her creative work has appeared in Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, North American Review, Swink, Enchanted Conversation, and others. Find her at EileenWiedbrauk.com or @EileenWiedbrauk on Twitter. She’s working on a collection of Doctor Who inspired essays, more dark short fiction and a light space opera while her alter-ego tackles sci-fi romance. She’s editing two forthcoming anthologies: SPECTER SPECTACULAR II: 13 DEATHLY TALES and WEIRD & WONDROUS WORK: SPECULATIVE FICTION PRESENTS THE ODDEST OF ODD JOBS (we spend most of our waking hours at work, why shouldn’t our characters?) featuring stories by Alex Bledsoe, Ellen Kushner,Deliah Sherman, Douglas Cohen, Ryan Britt, and others. Both anthologies are forthcoming in 2014 from World Weaver Press.
Troy Wiggins
Troy Wiggins is a writer and editor from Memphis, Tennessee. His short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Griots: Sisters of the Spear, Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction From the Margins of History, Expanded Horizons, Fireside Magazine and Memphis Noir. He blogs about the intersection of speculative fiction, race, and nerd culture at afrofantasy.net. Troy lives in Memphis with his wife and their two dogs.
Ysabeau S. Wilce
Ysabeau S. Wilce is an author of young adult fantasy novels. Her novels feature the rebellious young heroine Flora Fyrdraaca and her adventures in the fictional land of Califa. She has traveled the world and lived in San Francisco, Anchorage, Miami, Mexico City, Madrid, Los Angeles, Maryland, Phoenix, Philadelphia, and Brooklyn. She has a graduate degree in military history and lives in San Francisco.
Leslianne Wilder
Leslianne Wilder was born in Austin, Texas. Since then she has lived in Osaka, Miami, and San Antonio before coming to rest in Oxford, England. Her work has appeared in Shock Totem and Black Dog and Leventhal’s Psychos anthology. She blogs at lesliannewilder.blogspot.com.
Luke Wildman
Luke Wildman is an amateur crastinator, but dreams of someday going pro. Born in Liberia and raised in Nigeria, he moved to the U.S. at nineteen and currently lives with his wife, dog, and kid in smalltown Indiana, entrenched behind a rampart of overdue library books. His award-winning short fiction has appeared in his friends’ inboxes and lesser venues including Writers of the Future 37, Parnassus literary journal, and the Inner Workings anthology from Calendar of Fools.
Robert Luke Wilkins
Robert works as a SpaceX software engineer by day, and writes by night, with his stories having appeared in On Spec, Stupefying Stories, and others. An ex-pat Englishman, he now lives with his wife in California, where their cats Michiko and Mochi Luna do all they can to disrupt the tranquility of their lives. You can chat with him on Twitter at @RobertLWilkins.
Paul Willems
Paul Willems, (born April 4, 1912, Edegem, Belgium—died November 29, 1997, Zoersel), Belgian novelist and playwright whose playful strategies and fascination with language, doubles, analogies, and mirror images mask a modern tragic sensibility. He expressed the identity crisis of postwar Belgium in an idiosyncratic and often savagely ironic style.