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Ursula Vernon, aka T. Kingfisher is the author and illustrator of far more projects than is probably healthy. She has written over fifteen books for children, at least a dozen novels for adults, an epic webcomic called “Digger” and various short stories and other odds and ends.

The daughter of an artist, she spent her youth attempting to rebel, but eventually succumbed to the siren song of paint (although not before getting a degree in anthropology.) Ursula grew up in Oregon and Arizona, went to college at Macalester College in Minnesota, and stayed there for ten years, until she finally learned to drive in deep snow and was obligated to leave the state.

Having moved across the country several times, she eventually settled in New Mexico, where she works full-time as an artist and creator of oddities. She lives with her husband and his chickens.

andyvanoverberghe a mixed media creator and designer focusing in animation arts and high-detail fine art illustrations primarily using ink and charcoal on wood and stone. He specializes in creative writing, anatomical drawing, world building, storyboards, conceptual design, motion graphics design, video production, and animation. Balancing the light and the dark in all things, his work provokes imagination and explores anatomy, philosophy, psychology, nature, spirituality, the cosmos, geometry, and the world observed. His work inspires the spirit and enriches the mind.

John Scalzi has been writing professionally since 1991, first as a film critic and general columnist for the Fresno Bee newspaper (where his reviews and columns were nationally syndicated), then as America Online’s in-house writer and editor, and since 1998 as a full-time freelance writer. Scalzi is best known as a writer of science fiction, with several novels in the genre published since 2005, including Redshirts, the 2013 winner of the Hugo Award for best novel. He also frequently writes non-fiction. A full book-format bibliography is here.

Scalzi is also a consultant on writing, editing and marketing. Clients (directly or in association with marketing companies) have included The Walt Disney Company, AOL, Oppenheimer Funds, US Trust, Zagat and Network Solutions. Scalzi also served as the Creative Consultant on the television show Stargate: Universe and wrote a column on science fiction film for the FilmCritic.com site. He also wrote the video game Midnight Star, and the accompanying graphic novel, Midnight Rises. His work has been featured on the Netflix television series Love, Death and Robots.

A California native, Scalzi attended the Webb Schools of California and the University of Chicago, and lives in Ohio with his wife, daughter and an assortment of pets.

By day, Stace Johnson is a mild-mannered IT guy for a Colorado 9-1-1 facility, but at night, he transforms into a mild-mannered writer, poet, and musician with an affinity for the Oxford comma.

Stace has written more than thirty non-fiction articles for computer magazines such as ComputorEdge and Rocky Mountain TechLine, and his fiction has appeared most recently in Martian Magazine and Edward Bryant’s Sphere of Influence. He received an Honorable Mention in the Fall 2009 Writers of the Future Contest, and his short story “Sphere of Falling” was chosen to be presented orally at Stories for All Seasons, a Denver literary series, in 2003.

His poetry has appeared in numerous places, including Tales of the Talisman, the Apex Book Company website, and cream city review‘s inaugural I/O issue. He is a long-standing member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association.

He loves puns. You have been warned.