Daniel has appeared numerous times in Gardner Dozois' The Year's Best Science Fiction anthologies. He has authored five books and numerous short stories. The novels Metaplanetary and Superluminal are part of a series, based upon the short story "Grist."
Rachel Edidin makes a living editing comics and prose fiction for Dark Horse Comics. She’s also, in no particular order, a freelance writer, an erstwhile letterer, a mediocre but enthusiastic drummer, a rogue scholar, and a die-hard zinester. She lives in Portland, OR, with her partner, lots of comic books, and a surprisingly loud cat.
Rachel is currently between both websites and blogs but can be found lurking around Twitter under the handle @RaeBeta.
Pati Nagle was born and raised in the mountains of northern New Mexico. An avid student of music, history, and humans in general, she loves the outdoors but hides from the sun.
Ellen Datlow is currently tied (with frequent co-editor Terri Windling) as the winner of the most World Fantasy Awards in the organization's history (nine). She has also won, with co-editor Windling, a Bram Stoker Award for The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror #13, and with co-editors Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant, a Bram Stoker Award for The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror #17.
Kristine Kathryn Rusch is an award-winning mystery, romance, science fiction, and fantasy writer. She has written many novels under various names, including Kristine Grayson for romance, and Kris Nelscott for mystery.
Bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith has written more than eighty popular novels, both his own and tie-in projects, including Laying the Music to Rest and X-Men: The Jewels of Cyttorak. With Kristine Kathryn Rusch, he is the coauthor of The Tenth Planet trilogy and the motion picture novelization X-Men, along with more than a dozen Star Trek books and two original Men in Black novels. He has also written novels in a number of gaming universes, including Vor and the novelization for the movie Final Fantasy.
Jay Lake lives in Portland, Oregon, where he works on numerous writing and editing projects. His 2009 novels are Green from Tor Books, Madness of Flowers from Night Shade Books, and Death of a Starship from MonkeyBrain Books. His short fiction appears regularly in literary and genre markets worldwide. Jay is a winner of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and a multiple nominee for the Hugo and World Fantasy Awards. He is represented by Jennifer Jackson of Donald Maass Literary Agency.