Gene Rodman Wolfe’s work is notable for his dense, allusive prose as well as the strong influence of his Catholic faith. He is a prolific short-story writer and novelist and has won many science fiction and fantasy literary awards.

Wolfe is most famous for The Book of the New Sun (four volumes, 1980–83), the first part of his Solar Cycle. In 1998, Locus magazine ranked it third-best fantasy novel before 1990 (after The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit) based on a poll of subscribers that considered it and several other series as single entries.

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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor is a queer non-binary writer from Minnesota, where they live with their two cats. Merc is the author of several short story collections and the novella, The Wolf Among the Wild Hunt. They have had short stories published in such fine venues as Lightspeed, Fireside, Nightmare, Apex, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Escape Pod, Uncanny, and more. Find them online:

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Eleanor R. Wood lives by the sea in a rambling Victorian house filled with books, plants, and aquariums. She has two dogs, zero cats, and never enough liquorice. Her stories have appeared in dozens of venues, including Galaxy’s Edge, Nature: Futures, Fireside, The Best of British Fantasy 2019, and Best of British Science Fiction 2020.

You can find a full list of her published work at creativepanoply.wordpress.com.

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Pria Wood was the audio producer for PodCastle from 2009-2018 and remains immensely proud of her work there. Currently she is an Instructional Assistant Professor at the University of Mississippi where she teaches a number of theatre classes. She has also been releasing music as These Liminal Days (https://theseliminaldays.com).

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Cheyenne Wright is the color artist on the Hugo Award winning graphic novel series Girl Genius. A freelance illustrator of many fine table-top projects; Like “Deadlands Noir”, and the “Professor Elemental” edition of the “Pairs” card-game. He is NOT the Lord of a subterranean colony of Mole-people bent on world subjugation. Such claims are libelous and unfounded. As is the ground beneath those who repeat them. [You have been warned sun-sucking dirt walkers]. More info about Cheyenne’s current plans for a better world [all of them… better worlds] can be found at www.ArcaneTimes.com.

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Madeline Yale Wynne (September 25, 1847 − January 4, 1918) was an American artist, teacher, writer, and philanthropist.  In 1895 she turned to writing; Madeline’s supernatural short story “The Little Room” was published in Harper’s Magazine and was well received. It was later released in a collection of Wynne’s short stories called The Little Room and Other Stories, along with The Sequel to the Little Room. (More recently, “The Little Room” appeared in the 2009 horror compendium, American Fantastic Tales, edited by Peter Straub.) She wrote for Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s Monthly, Home Beautiful, and various other publications.

Madeline helped to found and lead the Deerfield Society of Arts and Crafts in 1901, which became an umbrella organization for the arts movement in the village. Wynne served as the curator as the movement produced a broad array of artistry, including jewelry, photography, weaving, basketry, rugs, and furniture. She and Annie became very influential in developing arts and crafts in the community, with Madeline organizing tours of the village’s craftwork and arranging speaking engagements. The two women were expert metal smiths in their own right.

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Alberto Yáñez is a writer of fantasies, poetry, and essays on justice, agency and art, pop culture, and the absurdity of life. With the eye of a natural editor, he’s also a photographer with a documentarian’s approach to taking pictures.

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Christie Yant writes and edits science fiction and fantasy on the central coast of California, where she lives with a dancer, an editor, two dogs, three cats, and a very small manticore.

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Isabel Yap writes fiction and poetry, works in the tech industry, and drinks tea. Born and raised in Manila, she has also lived in California and London, and studied abroad in Tokyo. In 2013 she attended the Clarion Writers Workshop. Her work has appeared on Tor.com, Uncanny Magazine, Shimmer Magazine, and Year’s Best Weird Fiction volume 2.

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C. A. Yates has written lots of stories and poetry for the BFS Award winning press Fox Spirit Books. Her most recent work has appeared in Kristell Ink’s anthology Hanging on by Our Fingertips, Fox Spirit’s Furry anthology The Jackal Who Came in From the Cold, and she has had several pieces of flash fiction featured in the online magazine, The Sirens’ Call. She has also narrated for podcasts such as Pseudopod, Cast of Wonders, and StarShipSofa. She is currently working on a collection of her short fiction and poetry, as well as bashing away at a novella. Find her online at www.chloeyates.com and she tweets as @shloobee.

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