The following are confirmed participants for MileHiCon 56!
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| Participant Name: | Biography: | Website: | Facebook: | Twitter: | Other links: |
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 Glen Engel-Cox | Glen Engel-Cox has lived in Texas, California, Malaysia, Ohio, Saudi Arabia, and Washington (both state and District of Columbia), working as a country radio DJ, bank clerk, legal secretary, database manager, library assistant, technical writer, computer programmer, adjunct English professor, and communication consultant. He earned an MFA with honors from American University. Glen has published a novel, Darwin’s Daughter; a non-fiction compilation, First Impressions; and short fiction in LatineLit, Utopia, Nature, Triangulation, Factor Four, SFS Stories, and elsewhere. | https://engel-cox.com/ | https://www.facebook.com/gengelcox | patreon.com/gengelcox | |
 Cameron Pittman | Cameron Pittman is a museum professional involved in managing natural history collections, incorporating the tasks of digitization, preparation, and conservation. He received a BS in Wildlife & Fisheries at the University of Georgia, and a MS in Museum and Field Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder Following graduation, Cameron began working as the Assistant Collections Manager of Vertebrate Zoology, where he helps manage the mammalogy, ornithology, and herpetology collections. | https://www.dmns.org/science/zoology/staff/cameron-pittman/ | N/A | N/A | N/A |
 Qwordy | Qwordy is an author, book reviewer, and founder of The Hardest Reading Challenge You'll Ever Do. She is known on tiktok for her parrot Mambo and the author of the current semi-finalist in SPFBO X: The Humane Society for Creatures & Cryptids. | https://ko-fi.com/stephaniegillis | @qwordyq | Tiktok: @stephanieandmambo Instagram: @qwordyq | |
| Ezri Lell | Storyteller above all else, Ezri writes and publishes novels, designs and publishes games, and DMs/GMs as much as possible. A love of cooking, food, and feeding those she cares for is as deep a through-line and passion. Devoted parent, child, and spouse, Ezri enjoys looking for stories in the cultures and food of the world, and creating stories with friends. | http://www.kalijor.com | |||
 Robert G. Williscroft | Dr. Robert G. Williscroft is a retired submarine officer, deep-sea & saturation diver, scientist, author, and lifelong adventurer. He spent 22 months underwater, a year in the equatorial Pacific, 3 years in the Arctic ice pack, and a year at the Geographic South Pole. He holds degrees in Marine Physics and Meteorology and a doctorate for developing a system to protect SCUBA divers in contaminated water. He is a prolific author of non-fiction, submarine technothrillers, and hard science fiction. He lives in Centennial, Colorado, with his family. | https://RobertWilliscroft.com | https://www.facebook.com/robert.williscroft | @RGWilliscroft | LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/argee/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwilliscroft/ Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/RGWilliscroft YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/RWilliscroft Book Website: https://RobertWilliscroft.com Personal Website: https://argee.net Blog: https://thrawnrickle.com/ Publisher: https://freshinkgroup.com/author/robertwilliscroft/ Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/Robert-G-Williscroft/e/B001JP52AS |
 Jonathan Brazee | Jonathan is a retired Marine colonel and full-time hybrid writer who writes mostly military scifi. He's a two time Nebula and two-time Dragon Award finalist and a USA Today Bestseller. | jonathanbrazee.com | https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002720970431 | ||
| Howard V. Hendrix | Howard V. Hendrix is the author of six novels -- four from ACE, two from Del Rey. He writes shorter fiction and nonfiction, primarily for Analog, and poetry primarily for Star*Line. Having lost his home to a California wildfire three weeks after he retired from a lifetime of college teaching, he has recently moved to Colorado. Currently at work on a nonfiction book for McFarland and Company, | ||||
| Bennett Rutledge | A recovering Federal Bureaucrat trying to clean up mistakes from the past. I am currently involved in the aftermath of the Colorado Legislature 2024 session, and running for SD16. Volunteer for National Space Society, Lifetime Learner and deep thinker. My superpower is: I KNOW nothing. In today's political climate that means there is nothing of which I am so certain that I am willing for anyone to die over it. | ||||
 DeAnna Knippling | DeAnna Knippling is an eclectic bookworm who writes mystery, horror, science fiction, fantasy, romance, and classic-style pulp adventure stories with plot twists to die for! Her hobbies are cooking, taking long walks on Florida beaches, fangirling, digging into open-source intelligence, history, biology, and psychology—and reading lots of fiction, graphic novels, and web comics while her tea goes cold. Author of The House Without a Summer and A Murder of Crows, you can find her at WonderlandPress.com. | www.WonderlandPress.com | https://www.facebook.com/deanna.knippling | N/A | https://www.instagram.com/deanna.knippling/ |
 Carrie Vaughn | Carrie Vaughn's work includes the Philip K. Dick Award winning novel Bannerless, the New York Times Bestselling Kitty Norville urban fantasy series, over twenty novels and upwards of 100 short stories, two of which have been finalists for the Hugo Award. Her next novel, The Naturalist Society, is about 19th century ornithologists, awkward love triangles, and the magic of binomial nomenclature. An Air Force brat, she survived her nomadic childhood and managed to put down roots in Boulder, Colorado. | www.carrievaughn.com | https://www.facebook.com/carrie.vaughn | https://www.patreon.com/carrievaughn | |
| Michael Carroll | Science journalist, lecturer and artist Michael Carroll has over thirty books in print. He has written and illustrated dozens of magazines worldwide, including Asimov's, Analog, Time, National Geographic, and Astronomy. His most recent non-fiction books are Planet Earths: Past and Present (Springer Praxis books), and Envisioning Exoplanets (Smithsonian). His fourth science fiction novel is Plato’s Labyrinth: Dinosaurs, Ancient Greeks and Time Travelers. One of his paintings is on the surface of Mars—in digital form—aboard the Phoenix lander. Mike voluntarily eats orange marshmallow circus peanuts, a food that has been banned in several industrialized countries. | carrollspaceart.com | https://www.facebook.com/michael.carroll.568847/ | ||
 Levi Jacobs | Levi Jacobs was born in North Dakota and grew up in Japan and Uganda, so he was bound to have a fantastic take on modern life. Currently marketing his award-winning Tidecaller Chronicles, and at work on three more serieses, he runs a fruit stand to pay the bills. | https://www.levijacobs.com | www.facebook.com/authorlevijacobs | @IRLeviJacobs | |
 Jason Henry Evans | Jason has written historical fiction, steampunk & other genres in the Denver community for over a decade. He has been a regular panelist and faculty member at a variety of conventions during that time. He has had short stories published in over a dozen anthologies, been a blogger for Pikes Peak Writers and Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers websites, as well as having four novels published. Come visit Jason as he launches a new book at MileHiCon 56! | www.jasonhenryevans.com | https://www.facebook.com/jasonhenryevans | ||
 Shannon Lawrence | A fan of all things fantastical and frightening, Shannon Lawrence writes primarily horror and fantasy. Her short stories can be found in anthologies and magazines in addition to her collections. Her nonfiction title, The Business of Short Stories, and debut urban fantasy novel, Myth Stalker: Wendigo Nights, are available now. You can also find her as a co-host of the podcast Mysteries, Monsters, & Mayhem. When she's not writing, she's hiking through the wilds of Colorado and photographing her magnificent surroundings, where, coincidentally, there's always a place to hide a body or birth a monster. Find her at www.thewarriormuse.com. | www.thewarriormuse.com | https://www.facebook.com/thewarriormuse | https://x.com/thewarriormuse | https://www.bookbub.com/profile/shannon-lawrence |
 R. Gary Raham | R. Gary Raham writes science fact and science fiction. He believes the latter often excites a new generation of scientists to discover more of the former. Armed with degrees in biology from the University of Michigan, Raham taught high school science before pursuing careers in writing, illustration, and design. His work has garnered numerous awards. Raham’s writing has been known to make a reader laugh and think simultaneously with no known deleterious effects. His most recent SF title, a 2024 Colorado Book Award finalist, is Not Quite Dead Geniuses at Large on an Angry Planet. See https://rgaryraham.com. | https://www.rgaryraham.com | https://www.facebook.com/rgary.raham | NA | |
 Juli Rew | Juliana Rew is a software engineer and former science and technical writer for the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. She has been published in a number of venues, including Stupefying Stories and Shoreline of Infinity, and is the author of the Unwinding series of SFF novels. Since 2012, she has been the editor of Third Flatiron Anthologies, based in Boulder and Ayr, Scotland. She is a member of SFWA and BSFA. | https://www.thirdflatiron.com | https://www.facebook.com/thirdflatiron | @julirew | |
 Kate Jonuska | Full of dark humor and deep characters, Kate Jonuska’s short fiction was nominated for a 2015 Pushcart Prize (“Desire Designed,” BROAD Magazine), and her first novel, Transference, was a Denver Post Staff Pick. She’s also the author of the Dictionary of Fiction Critique, edits and publishes anthologies, and serves as Conference Chair on the Board of Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers. Find out more at www.katejonuska.com. | www.katejonuska.com | https://www.facebook.com/KJonuska/ | https://www.amazon.com/stores/Kate-Jonuska/author/B00SJE7HNW | |
 Ronnie Seagren | Ronnie Seagren is a story teller, and her own story began in Colorado, segues to California for her school years, then back to Colorado. She began creating stories in sixth grade and, smitten by the original Star Trek, turned to science fiction in high school. The sequel to her novel, Seventh Daughter, is currently under construction, and her latest story will be in Sam Knight's Decked Halls anthology, due out in February, 2024. | https://www.facebook.com/ronnie.seagren | |||
 Dee Beetem | SF fan, one of the founding members of DASFA, sister of Rose Beetem, old Trekkie, RPG gamemistress, now living in Houston Texas. | ||||
 Rose Beetem | Rose Beetem is the last fan standing who has attended all the MileHiCons. A founding member of the Denver Area Science Fiction Association (DASFA) and a generalist fan with an addiction to con organizing, she’s been on the MHC con com most years since she was 16 and still also chairs the tiny 100% participatory Karval Kon. She enjoys urban fantasy, most of the Star Wars and MCU canon, and thinks Strange New Worlds, Lower Decks and The Orville are all good Treks. A semi-universal auntie, Rose is sort-of retired and still passionate about curries and tai chi. | ||||
| Karen Bjorn | I dabble in watercolor painting, comic art, story writing, 3d design, and jewelry design. I cos-play and enjoy sharing my PHD in life with all. I have been attending MileHICon since 1979 and helping where I can since the mid 1990s. I do table top role playing game while my daughter hangs out mostly in gaming room and art room. | ||||
| Rick Wilber | Rick Wilber has published a half-dozen novels for Tor and other publishers, several short-story collections for WordFire and others, and some seventy short stories and two-dozen poems in major markets, most often in Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine. The son of a major-league baseball player, coach and manager, Rick’s stories often reflect his interest in baseball. The parent of a son with Down syndrome, Rick often includes Down syndrome characters in his stories. He is a visiting assistant professor in the low-residency MFA in Creative Writing-Genre Fiction at Western Colorado University. | http://rickwilber.net/ | https://www.facebook.com/Rick.Wilber | ||
 Lou J Berger | Lou J Berger lives in Denver, Colorado with his high-school crush, three kids, a rescued Sheltie dog and a brilliant rescue mutt with a nefarious agenda. A member of SFWA, he has been published in Clarkesworld, Galaxy’s Edge magazine, and a host of anthologies. He is STILL working on his first novel. His author website is www.LouJBerger.com. Follow him on the following social media platforms: Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/loujberger.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AuthorLouJBerger/ | www.LouJBerger.com | https://www.facebook.com/AuthorLouJBerger/ | https://x.com/LouJBerger | |
| Candy Fantastic | Candy Fantastic is a magical being who loves to create. She especially loves to transport people to other worlds through her writing and visual art. In her spare time, she is a co-host of The Cloaked Tatters podcast where she explores topics of trauma and transformation, offering strength and hope to her listeners. | https://www.candyfantastic.com/ | https://www.facebook.com/candycanefantastic/ | https://thecloakedtatters.com/ | |
 Rob S. Rice | Rob S. Rice proudly considers himself an ‘Ambassador from the Past.’ He holds a doctorate in Ancient History and works as ‘The Professor’ at the Colorado Renaissance Festival, where he teaches all kinds of history to participants and customers alike. He’s written large amounts of non-fiction, including 776 entries in Amber’s Encyclopedia of Warfare and young readers’ history. He enjoys reading the old forgotten classics of Science Fiction and Fantasy and wearing period clothing and discussing history and science and old and recent technology. His works of Historical Fantasy are available from the Esterhazy Press, visit his website at http://www.robricebooks.com | http://www.robricebooks.com/2017index.html | |||
 Andrew Burt | Dr. Andrew Burt (www.aburt.com), former SFWA VP, has lots of published SF, including new novel TERMINATION OF SPECIES, for those who like AI, biotech, chess, and a bit of romance. He herds Critters (www.critique.org), the first writers workshop on the web and home to other writers' resources. He runs ReAnimus Press and Hugo-winning Advent Publishers, helping award-winning and bestselling authors breathe life into great books. He's been a computer science professor (AI, networking, security, privacy, and free-speech/social issues); founder of Nyx.net, the world's first ISP; and a technology consultant/author/speaker. For a hobby, he constructs solutions to the world's problems. Fortunately, nobody listens. | https://aburt.com | https://www.facebook.com/andrew.l.burt | https://reanimus.com | |
 Charlie Jane Anders | charliejane.com | facebook.com/charliejaneanders | I'm on Bluesky as charliejane.bsky.social | tumblr.com/charliejaneanders | |
 Annalee Newitz | www.techsploitation.com | https://www.instagram.com/ghidorahnotweak/ | Mastodon: wandering.shop/@annaleen; Bluesky: annaleen.bsky.social |
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 Aaron Michael Ritchey | Aaron Michael Ritchey is the author of over fifty novels under various pen names. He’s been an Amazon All-Star, and the first book in The Juniper Wars series was a Dragon Award Finalist. His novel, Sages of the Underpass, won the Independent Audiobook Award for best fantasy in 2021. His latest series, The Shadowcroft Academy for Dungeons, written with James A. Hunter, is an Amazon bestseller. | https://aaronmritchey.com/ | https://www.facebook.com/aaron.m.ritchey/ | @aaronmritchey | |
| Vennessa Robertson | Vennessa Robertson is an author and ex-educator and is active in the writing and historic reenactment communities. When she is not writing or homeschooling she is managing the family's ever-growing large and small animal sanctuary ranch. She is the author of the Victorian Paranormal Arcane Adventuress series and the StarHawks futuristic military scifi series. | https://www.facebook.com/vennessa.robertson | |||
 Hunter Wahl | Hunter is life-long tinkerer who has somehow ended up making stop motion films for a living. He loves to share his passion for creative problem solving, and enjoys a good burrito. | ||||
 Josiah Seaman | Josiah is a curious geneticist, inventor, and programmer, with a PhD in computational biology and a Bachelor's in computer science. He is an enthusiastic and passionate science communicator who loves to impart his enthusiasm to his audience. In his free time he studies neuroscience, particle physics, and renewable energy. He has been a game master for over 20 years and lovs learning new systems. | http://josiahseaman.com | |||
 Stace Johnson | Stace Johnson is a writer, musician, and IT professional from Colorado. He has published more than 120 short pieces spanning non-fiction, fiction, and poetry, most recently in Animal Magica Volume 3, A Bit of Luck, Animal Magica Volume 2, and Modern Magic. His poetry has appeared in Star*Line, Tales of the Talisman, and on the Apex Publications website. He can often be found performing geeky original parody songs and folk rock covers in his signature steampunk hat. Stace is currently pursuing a master's degree in publishing from Western Colorado University. Learn more at https://linktr.ee/lytspeed. | www.lytspeed.com | www.facebook.com/wrytspeed | @lytspeed | www.linktr.ee/lytspeed |
| Fred Poutre Cloven Fruit Games | Fred comes from an extremely large and complicated family, which currently has 5 generations. He is a great-grandfather. Fred has lived in 13 states, and has visited all but Hawaii. Currently he lives in Riverton, Wyoming - almost the dead center of the state. Fred designs card, board, and role-playing games for Cloven Fruit Games. Fred's fandom reaches across many different science-fiction and fantasy, from many different medias. His day job is a mathematics teacher. | ||||
| Courtney Willis | I was a science teacher for 52 years, 23 years in High School and 29 at University. My last class was the fall of 2019. A good time to have a last class because the pandemic hit the next semester! Although I have not attended MileHi Con since the beginning, I have regularly attended and participated for over 45 years. I enjoy learning new things from all the panels and getting together with old friends. | ||||
| Mario Acevedo | Mario Acevedo has authored eight novels to include the national bestselling The Nymphos of Rocky Flats and is the author-artist of Cats In Quarantine. He has won an International Latino Book Award, a Colorado Book Award, and appeared in numerous anthologies. He taught creative writing at the Regis University Mile-High MFA program and Lighthouse Writers Workshops. A lifelong artist, he served as a soldier-artist for the us Army during Operation Desert Storm. | http://www.marioacevedo.com | https://www.facebook.com/mario.acevedo.754703 | @AdelanteArts | |
 Dr. Jim | Dr. Jim Gunderson believes in LLAMAs, the potential of AI, and the awesomeness of his wife, Dr. Louise. | ||||
 Wil McCarthy | Aerospace engineer/startup founder Wil McCarthy, formerly of WIRED and the SyFy channel, has won the Prometheus award once and the AnLab award twice. He’s been nominated for the Nebula, Locus, Seiun, Sturgeon and Philip K. Dick awards, and Discover Magazine rated his world of “P2/Sorrow” one of the 10 best fictional planets of all time. He has appeared in Analog and Asimov's, and his bestselling novels include New York Times Notable BLOOM, Amazon.com "Best of Y2K" THE COLLAPSIUM, and most recently, BEGGAR'S SKY. He has also written for TV and video games, and published copious nonfiction. McCarthy holds 31 issued U.S. patents. | www.wilmccarthy.com | https://www.facebook.com/wil.mccarthy.9 | ||
| Rebecca Lickiss | A passionate reader, Rebecca Lickiss began telling stories at an early age. She finally decided to write them down for publication, since it was better than cleaning house again. Her website is covered with real cobwebs from neglect. Her children recently informed her that to have a real life she must have a presence on the web. So now she's got to go get a life so she can put it on the web. Are you using yours currently? | www.vikinghorde.com | |||
| Marie Whittaker | Marie Whittaker is an award-winning essayist and novelist. She created The Adventures of Lola Hopscotch, Legendary Roots, and many of her stories appear in anthologies, including Weird Tales. She enjoys teaching about project and time management for creatives. She’s worked as a truck driver and raft guide and is now Associate Publisher at WordFire Press and Executive Director for Superstars Writing Seminars. Marie is a Colorado native, mom to two adult children and Grammy to one who is made of pure magic. Marie enjoys hiking, gardening, and renovating her historic Victorian home. She’s an advocate against animal abuse, a dog mom, cat mom, and bunny mom. Learn more at mariewhittaker.com. | https://mariewhittaker.com/ | https://www.facebook.com/marie.g.whittaker | @mariegwhittaker | https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariegwhittaker/ https://www.pinterest.com/MarieGWhittaker/boards/ https://www.instagram.com/mariegwhittaker/?hl=en |
 C.L. Wilson | Author C.L. Wilson’s unique blend of richly-imagined fantasy, action, and emotional intensity has made her books a favorite read for romance and fantasy readers alike. Praised for exceptional worldbuilding and vivid prose, her critically acclaimed novels have regularly appeared on bestseller lists including the USA Today, the New York Times, and Publisher’s Weekly. When not torturing her characters mercilessly, C.L. enjoys relaxing with her family in sunny Florida and daydreaming of a world where chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream is a fat burning food. | clwilson.com | facebook.com/clwilsonbooks | @clwilsonbooks | |
 Steven Barnes | Steven Barnes is the NY Times bestselling author of over thirty novels of science fiction, horror, and suspense. The Image, Endeavor and Cable-Ace Award winning author also writes for television, including 80's THE TWILIGHT ZONE, STARGATE SG-1, ANDROMEDA and an Emmy Award winning episode of THE OUTER LIMITS. He has been Guest of Honor at the world's most prestigious Science Fiction conventions. Most recently, he wrote for Jordan Peele's TWILIGHT ZONE revival, and Shudder's HORROR NOIRE anthology. Steven was born in Los Angeles, California, and except for a decade in the Northwest, and three years in Atlanta Georgia, has lived in that area all his life. Steve and Tananarive live with their son Jason in Upland, California. www.steven-barnes.com | www.steven-barnes.com | https://www.facebook.com/steven.barnes.7127 | ||
| Steve Leininger | Computer pioneer, designer of Radio Shack's TRS-80 Model 1. | ||||
| A.L. Kessler | A.L. Kessler resides in Colorado Springs and is most known for her Here Witchy Witchy series. She's an author of Urban Fantasy and Paranormal Romance. When she's not writing she's reading, drinking coffee, or taking long naps with cats. | amylkessler.com | https://www.facebook.com/alkesslerauthor | ||
 Steve Rasnic Tem | Steve Rasnic Tem's writing career spans over 45 years, including more than 500 published short stories, 17 collections, 8 novels, misc. poetry and plays. His collaborative novella with his late wife Melanie, The Man On The Ceiling, won the World Fantasy, Bram Stoker, and International Horror Guild awards in 2001. He has also won the Bram Stoker, International Horror Guild, and British Fantasy Awards for his solo work, including Blood Kin, winner of 2014’s Bram Stoker for novel. Earlier this year he received the Horror Writers Association Lifetime Achievement Award. Visit his website at: www.stevetem.com. | www.stevetem.com | https://www.facebook.com/steve.tem | @Rasnictem | |
 Jo | Jo Fontana resides in Denver, Colorado with her family and special needs pets. She is a hybrid, genre-fluid author and writes fantasy, horror, and young adult fiction. She is also known to dabble in children’s literature. She holds undergraduate degrees in healthcare and Spanish. She is an active member of the Colorado Authors’ League, SCBWI, and PPW. Gods of the Bay was her debut novel and was a finalist in the 2021 CAL Awards. Her next novel, Gods of the Mountains is scheduled for release in 2025. She is a lifelong learner and believes reading and writing fiction can improve mental health. | www.jofontana.com | https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100082864028277 | https://x.com/TurtleMonkey2 | @jo.author1.bsky.social |
 Adam Gaffen | Adam Gaffen is the author of hopepunk science fiction, urban romantasy, and a heist thriller, as well as numerous shorter works of fiction. Amazingly, these are all contained in his Cassidyverse (though he's not sure how he ended up here). He enjoys talking with fans at in-person events when he's not busy writing or wrangling the pack of animals at his home in Southern Colorado. | https://www.cassidychronicles.com | https://www.facebook.com/adam.gaffen | rabidchipmunk42 | https://www.threads.net/@adamgaffen |
| Ian Brazee-Cannon | Ian Brazee-Cannon is a writer, film maker, game designer, podcaster and father. He is the creator and writer of the Georgie and Armand’s Place books and stories. His short stories have been published in The Fifth Di..., Wondrous Web Worlds, Forgotten Worlds, Tales of the Talisman, the shared world universe of ‘The Divided States of America’, and many more places. He is one of the founders and regular co-hosts on the Amateur Skeptics podcast. Ian has been involved with Dangling Carrot Films, Running Riot Productions and Ijin Studios as a writer, director, producer and editor on their projects. | ||||
 J.T. Evans | J.T. Evans writes fantasy and urban fantasy novels. He’ll dabble with sci-fi and horror in short form as well. He is the former president of the Colorado Springs Fiction Writers Group and Pikes Peak Writers. When not writing, he secures computers at the Day Job, and plays way too many tabletop games. Despite having his right arm amputated and reattached after a nasty car crash, he types faster than the average bear. He is the author of the Modern Mythology and Flashing Blades series and is hastily working on more right now. | https://jtevans.net/ | https://www.facebook.com/jtevans.author | https://gnomestew.com/ | |
| Holly Roberds | Holly started out writing Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Terminator romantic fanfiction before spinning off into her own fantastic worlds with bitey MCs and heart wrenching climaxes as well as the spicy kind. Holly is a Colorado girl to her core but is only outdoorsy in that she likes drinking on patios in Denver. She lives with her ever-supportive husband and surly house rabbits who supervise this writer, to make sure she doesn’t spend all of her time watching Buffy reruns. | www.hollyroberds.com | https://www.facebook.com/hollyroberdsauthorpage | https://www.instagram.com/authorhollyroberds/ https://www.tiktok.com/@hollyroberdsauthor |
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 Richard Friesen | Richard Friesen is a master storyteller whose works include an epic fantasy series, the Dreaming King Saga where the one who has the prophetic dream is king. And a humorous superhero, Narcolepsy, whose power is falling asleep and taking you into his dreams with him. Last, there’s a space opera series, The Clark Family Legend about two star-pilots who change human space with daring and brains while trying to navigate the waters of fame and how to follow a legend. Come join the adventure! | https://richardfriesen.net | https://www.facebook.com/richardfriesen.net | https://www.patreon.com/richardfriesen | |
 David Lee Summers | David Lee Summers writes science fiction, horror and steampunk and has published thirteen novels, two novellas and over one hundred short stories. His latest novel is Ordeal of the Scarlet Order. He also has new short stories in the anthologies A Cry of Hounds, Other Aether, and Arithmophobia. When not writing, he operates telescopes at Kitt Peak National Observatory where he's helping to look for exoplanets and mapping the known universe. Learn more about him at http://www.davidleesummers.com | http://davidleesummers.com | https://www.facebook.com/davidleesummers | @davidleesummers.com | https://www.instagram.com/astroscribe |
| Amy Armstrong | Amy has enjoyed being part of the MileHiCon community for years now. She writes upmarket fiction and soft sci-fi. | https://www.amyarmstrongwrites.com | |||
| Bruce Davis | Bruce Davis is a Mesa AZ based general and trauma surgeon. He also is a writer of science fiction and fantasy novels. His independently published works include his nonfiction memoir, Dancing in the Operating Room, a glimpse into the life of a Trauma Surgeon. Glowgems for Profit and Thieves Profit are parts of a continuing series of stand-alone novels about Zach Mbele, former Republic of Mars commando and captain of the fast freighter, Profit. They and his latest works, Platinum Magic, Gold Magic, and Silver Magic, his forays into the world of fantasy, are published by Brick Cave Media. | www.thatwhichishuman.com | |||
 L.R. Braden | L.R. Braden is the bestselling, multi-award-winning author of the Magicsmith series, the Rifter series, and several works of shorter fiction. When not writing, she spends her time reading in a multitude of genres (speculative fiction is her favorite), playing games with her family, enjoying Colorado’s great outdoors, and weaving metal into intricate chain mail jewelry that she sells through her Etsy shop, Wimsi Design. | https://www.lrbraden.com/ | https://www.facebook.com/LRBraden | LaurenRBraden | Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laurenrbraden/ |
 Daniel Ausema | Daniel Ausema's short fiction and poetry have appeared in Strange Horizons, Fantasy Magazine, Diabolical Plots and many other places. His fantasy trilogy The Arcist Chronicles is published by Guardbridge Books, with the third book set for release during MileHiCon, and he is the creator of the steampunk-fantasy Spire City series. He lives in Colorado, at the foot of the Rockies, and can be found online at danielausema.com. | https://danielausema.com | https://www.facebook.com/authordanielausema | @ausema | https://bsky.app/profile/danielausema.bsky.social |
| Meghan Bethards | A long time crafter and seamstress of all things nerdy. | ||||
 Steve Wahl | Steve Wahl is a fraud. Neither a writer, editor, publisher, filmmaker, artist, nor even a Klingon. He is pure and simple, a fan, a consummate reader, and a viewer. Infected early, my rooms are lined floor to ceiling with groaning bookshelves. Even my Kindle is running short on space. In his spare time he managed to sire three devoted fans somehow. MileHiCon constitutes some of his high holy days of the year. | ||||
 John Wilker | John Wilker is a science fiction author living in Denver. He's written several well reviewed series and dabbles in action/adventure thrillers under the name J. Beckett. When not writing rip-roaring space adventures, he's gardening or drinking beers on a patio. | https://johnwilker.com | https://www.facebook.com/johnwilkerwriter | https://wandering.shop/@jwilker | |
 Carol Hightshoe | A native Texan, Carol found her way back to Texas after of a five-year detour in The Nederlands and over thirty years in Colorado. Both detours were courtesy of her husband Tim and the US Air Force. She is now retired in Brackettville, Texas where she spends most of her time writing and publishing other authors as the editor and publisher of WolfSinger Publications and the online magazine The Lorelei Signal. She has been published in various anthologies and magazines including "Creature Fantastic", PanGaia Magazine, "Stories of Strength", Baen's Universe, Tales of the Talisman and Kepler's Dozen. Her books include: Call of Chaos, Chaos Embraced, The Road into Chaos, and Chaos Challenged. | https://www.carolhightshoe.com/ | https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61557531385316 | https://www.wolfsingerpubs.com/ | |
 Cynthia J Ward | A strange nerd who loves movies, gaming, craft beer, queer culture, and various combinations thereof. Cynthia has dipped her toes in filmmaking, film criticism, broadcasting, podcasting, homebrewing, and general geekiness. She lives in Denver with her wife, kids, and cats. | https://www.instagram.com/filmbuffcj/ https://letterboxd.com/filmbuff/ |
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 Rachael Kuintzle | Dr. Rachael Kuintzle is a Denver-based author, editor, scientist, and labor & tenant organizer. She received her PhD in biochemistry & molecular biophysics from Caltech (‘23), where her research focused on the ‘cellular linguistics’ of Notch signaling—a molecular language involved in stem cell control and tissue regeneration. She founded Caltech’s creative writing club, TechLit, in 2017 and served as editor-in-chief and a contributing author of Caltech’s first fiction anthology, INNER SPACE AND OUTER THOUGHTS: Speculative Fiction From Caltech and JPL Authors. Rachael is writing her debut YA sci-fi novel, THE GHOSTS OF GADOLIN, with coauthor Dr. Samuel Clamons. | https://www.rachaelkuintzle.com/ | https://www.facebook.com/kuintzle | @kuintzle | https://rachaelkuintzle.substack.com/ https://www.instagram.com/kuintzle/ |
 Marie DesJardin | Marie DesJardin writes science fiction, fantasy, and alternative history, ranging from short stories to novels and screenplays. Credits include Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Compelling Science Fiction, and Flash Fiction Online. She was a Story Quest award winner and a finalist in the 2017 AnLab Readers' Choice Awards. Favorite things include caring for and fostering animals, enjoying the great outdoors, and traveling-- she's now visited over 30 countries. Marie lives in Denver, Colorado, where she enjoys swimming, biking, and hiking when the mountains are not on fire. She's now Twitter-free so please see her Facebook or Amazon pages | amazon.com/author/mariedesjardin | facebook.com/marie.desjardin/ | ||
 Peri Charlifu | Peri is a Colorado artist who has been active in the science fiction/fantasy convention circuit for over 40 years. He shows work in 30-35 shows a year and is a perennial at Mile Hi Con. | aegeangoods.com | https://www.facebook.com/peri.charlifu | ||
 Sarena Ulibarri | Sarena Ulibarri is the author of two novellas (Another Life from Stelliform Press and Steel Tree from Android Press) as well as nearly 50 short stories. This year, she has stories appearing in the magazine Baubles From Bones, as well as in the anthologies Strange Locations: An Anthology of Dark Travel Guides (from Apex) and Solarpunk: Short Stories From Many Futures (from Flame Tree Press). She is editor-in-chief of World Weaver Press, and a story reviewer and climate fiction editor for Grist Magazine's annual contest Imagine 2200. Find more at www.SarenaUlibarri.com | www.SarenaUlibarri.com | @sarenaulibarri | Instagram: @sarenaulibarriauthor | |
| Jane M. H. Bigelow | Jane M. H. Bigelow has published poetry, short stories and short nonfiction on such topics as gardening in Ancient Egypt. Recently, she self-published a mixed-genre novel entitled “A Most Inconvenient Corpse”, and is working on a sequel, “A Most Intriguing Voyage”. She has also published a fantasy novel, Kossinli’s Talisman, and its sequel, Viceroy’s Knot. Several of her short stories appear in the Darkover anthologies, including Citadels of Darkover. History and mythology, travel and gardening, all influence her fiction. Jane lives in Denver, CO with her husband, Robert, and two spoiled cats, Shiraz and Thunderpurr. | https://www.facebook.com/jane.bigelow.9 | |||
| Peter Sartucci | Local Colorado author, has a 5-book Epic Fantasy series and a 3-book Apocalyptic Science Fiction series available on Amazon (soon to go wide), long time Denver-area fan, married with two children. | ||||
 Jon Black | Jon writes from coffeehouses and bars in Texas or wherever he finds himself. His distinctive, award-winning historical fiction with supernatural, horror, or pulp elements has been called “historical fan service.” Jon’s best-known publications include the Bel Nemeton series, blending a quirky 6th century re-imagining of Arthurian mythology with 21st century pulp; Gabriel’s Trumpet, a 1920s jazz-driven, supernatural mystery; and the novel-length Dr. Who story “Swinging Londons.” This year, look for his collection of horror stories set in the Texas Hill Country as well as the punk rock-fueled monster mashup Chupacabra vs. Rougarou. Jon also writes for TTRPGs. | jonblackwrites.com | https://www.facebook.com/JonBlackAuthor | @blackonblues | IG: @jonblackwrites |
 Kit Campbell | It is a little known fact that Kit was raised in the wild by a marauding gang of octopuses. It wasn’t until she was 25 that she was discovered by a traveling National Geographic scientist and brought back to civilization. This is sometimes apparent in the way that she attempts to escape through tubes when startled. Her transition to normalcy has been slow, but scientists predict that she will have mastered basics such as fork use sometime in the next year. More complex skills, such as proper grocery store etiquette, may be forever outside her reach. Kit can be found online at http://kitcampbellbooks.com. | http://kitcampbellbooks.com | @KitCampbell | https://www.tumblr.com/blog/kit-campbell | |
 Arlen | As well as writing fiction, Arlen Feldman is a software engineer, entrepreneur, maker, costumer, con-runner (cosinecon.org), and computer book author—useful if you are in the market for some industrial-strength door stops. He lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado. | https://cowthulu.com | Mastodon: @cowthulu@mastodon.social. Bluesky: @cowthulu.bsky.social | ||
 Jason Henderson | Publisher at Castle Bridge Media, home of the Castle of Horror Anthology, author of the Young Captain Nemo and Alex Van Helsing series. | jasonhenderson.com | https://www.facebook.com/polidorium | castlebridgemedia.com | |
| Jim Henderson | Jim Henderson is a Colorado writer of fun, varied, and sound science fiction adventures. He is the author of the 9-book Mantis Saga, the story of the scout ship Mantis and crew, as well as Viper: Boat-571, a military sci-fi adventure. He most recently published Inspector Giskard; a sci-fi mystery set in Colorado. Fun, adventure, aliens, space combat, robots, humor, and excitement abound. Jim is a veteran, and cybersecurity professional. He likes science fiction books, movies, TV, and games. When not working or mentally exploring the universe, he enjoys hiking, kayaking, gaming, and time with his wife and 8 grandchildren. | mantissaga.space | https://www.facebook.com/groups/MantisSaga | ||
 James Van Pelt | James Van Pelt writes full-time in western Colorado. He has coached swim teams, taught high school and college English, and enjoys the hiking trails near his home. His work has appeared numerous times in Analog, Asimov’s and other venues. He has been a finalist for the Nebula, the Theodore Sturgeon Award, the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (now the Astounding Award), and been reprinted in several Year’s Best anthologies. He hangs out on Facebook and loves chatting with fans and writers. He can be found at www.jamesvanpelt.com and on FaceBook at https://www.facebook.com/james.vanpelt.14/. | http://www.jamesvanpelt.com | https://www.facebook.com/james.vanpelt.14 | ||
 F. P. Dorchak | F. P. Dorchak has a B.S. in physics/astronomy and is retired from 37 years as an Air Force officer and a contractor, where he’d worked in missile warning, satellite operations and support, and technical writing. Frank’s been writing since he was six. He has five Indie novels and one short story collection that won a 2017 Best Books Award. His first novel in 10 years is A Philosophy of Stars. Frank’s also been learning the classical violin since 2020. Frank can occasionally be reached in séances and at www.fpdorchak.com, but don’t believe everything he tells you. | https://www.fpdorchak.com/ | https://www.facebook.com/fpdorchakauthor | None | Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fpdorchak/, RealityCheck Second Wordpress site: https://fpdorchakrealitycheck.wordpress.com/ |
 Matthew S. Rotundo | Matthew S. Rotundo is the author of Wet Work, the first book in The Unseen series, the Prison World Revolt series--Petra, Petra Released, and Petra Rising--and other novels. His short fiction has appeared in Alembical 3, Intergalactic Medicine Show, and Writers of the Future Volume XXV. He graduated from the Odyssey Writing Workshop in 1998. Matt also plays guitar and has been known to sing karaoke. He lives in Nebraska, and assures you that he has heard all the jokes. | https://matthewsrotundo.com/ | https://www.facebook.com/matthew.s.rotundo | ||
 Danyda Feldman | Danyda is a professional storyteller, speaker, dragon maker, costumer, and hypnotherapist. She stubbornly keeps her British accent, but speaks fluent American. danydafeldman.com | https://www.facebook.com/danyda.feldman/ | |||
 Chris Barili | Chris Barili grew up in Lake George, New York, but has lived all over the world. He has been writing since he was fourteen years old, when he wrote his first novel. He holds a Bachelor's degree in English from University of Nebraska at Omaha, and a Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, Popular Genre Fiction, from Western State Colorado University. His fiction has appeared in the anthology "Temporally Out of Order" by Zombies Need Brains Press, in three anthologies by Sky Warrior Press, on Evil Girlfriend Media, and on Zetetic: A Record of Unusual Inquiry, and several other publications. His stories also appear in Crimson Streets Magazine, and in the Superstars Writing Seminars anthology "Undercurrents." His story, "Quaking Aspens" is due out in Ember: A Journal of Luminous Things, as well. He sold his first novel, a paranormal romance, under a pseudonym in 2016, and his fantasy novel Shadow Blade came out from WordFire Press in 2019. He currently lives in Colorado Springs. | authorchrisbarili.ink | https://www.facebook.com/authorchrisbarili/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel | @authorchrisbarili | |
 Ian Tregillis | Ian Tregillis is the author of seven critically acclaimed novels including the Milkweed Triptych (Bitter Seeds, The Coldest War, and Necessary Evil), Something More Than Night, and the Alchemy Wars Trilogy (The Mechanical, The Rising, and The Liberation). His short fiction has appeared in venues including Asimov’s Science Fiction, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and Tor.com, and been reprinted in half a dozen year’s best anthologies including The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year and Best New Horror. A physicist who lives in New Mexico, he swears his day job does not involve reverse-engineering UFOs. | iantregillis.com | @ITregillis | ||
| Quinn Brazee-Cannon | I have been going to Mile High con since before I can even remember. Spent my whole life in the world of cons, science Fiction, fantasy, and the whole geek world. For the past few years I have loved doing programming at mile high con and am so excited to be coming back another year! | ||||
 Lauren C. Teffeau | Lauren C. Teffeau's new environmental fantasy A Hunger with No Name released this September from University of Tampa Press. Her novel Implanted (Angry Robot) was shortlisted for the 2019 Compton Crook award for best first SF/F/H novel. Based in Albuquerque, she's published over twenty short stories in speculative fiction magazines and anthologies including Sunday Morning Transport, DreamForge Magazine, and the Bram Stoker award-nominated Chromophobia: A Strangehouse Anthology by Women in Horror. To learn more, please visit https://www.laurencteffeau.com | http://laurencteffeau.com | @teffeau | https://www.instagram.com/lteffeau/ | |
 John Barnes | John Barnes published 33 novels, mostly sf, between 1984 and 2013. He has also published 33 short stories, 54 articles in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance, and a miscellany of other stuff mostly about marketing, statistics, semiotics, and the statistical semiotics of marketing analysis. He was the only data scientist in the tax resolution industry until he proved his company could not increase profits with data science; luckily the marketing department took him back. He is much farther along than he has been in years on a new novel, titled DORYPHOROS. | JohnBarnesSF | |||
 Betsy Dornbusch | Betsy Dornbusch writes epic fantasy, and has dabbled in science fiction, thrillers, and erotica. Her short fiction has appeared in over twenty magazines and anthologies, and she’s the author of three novellas. Her first fantasy novel came out in 2012 and her latest trilogy, Books of the Seven Eyes, wrapped up with Enemy in 2017. The Silver Scar, a standalone future fantasy novel, was called “a spellbinding saga” by Publisher’s Weekly. She likes writing, reading, snowboarding, punk rock, and the Denver Broncos. Betsy and her husband split their time between Boulder County and Grand Lake, Colorado. | http://betsydornbusch.com | http://facebook.com/betsydornbusch | http://instagram.com/betsydornbusch | |
 John E Stith | John E. Stith is the author of nine novels, including REDSHIFT RENDEZVOUS, a Nebula Award nominee, and MANHATTAN TRANSFER, a Hugo Award Honorable Mention. Several of his works with Ace Books and Tor Books have been bought by the Science Fiction Book Club, optioned for film, and translated into numerous languages. He has optioned several feature-film screenplays, and has sold to television (Star Trek). Complete information on his works may be found at www.neverend.com. | www.neverend.com | |||
 Daniel Dvorkin | Daniel Dvorkin, Ph.D., served as an Army infantryman and an Air Force medic, and is now a bioinformaticist unraveling the secrets of life itself, or at least coming up with better drugs. His fiction includes Dawn Crescent and the Star Trek: The Next Generation novel The Captains' Honor (both with David Dvorkin) and the recent published "Merit Badge" appearing in Boundary Shock Quarterly, first in a planned series. Nonfiction includes various scholarly articles, findable by searching for "Dvorkin D" at http://pubmed.gov. He lives in Denver with his fiancée Becca Lee and a quantum field of cats. | https://www.facebook.com/DanielTheMedic | https://qoto.org/@medigoth | ||
 KaChun YU | Ka Chun Yu is an astronomer at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, which he joined originally to create planetarium software to visualize the known universe. Currently, he gives numerous talks to the public, advises on science content in permanent and temporary exhibits, and has helped produce movies and visualizations for digital planetariums. His research interests include studying how to teach astronomy with digital planetariums, and astronomical research involving outflows from protostars and young star clusters. | https://www.dmns.org/science/space-sciences/staff/ka-chun-yu/ | |||
 Dana Bell | Owned by two cats, Taj and Esther, Dana Bell spends her time giving them attention, writes stories starring or featuring felines, and working a day job so there is food upon demand. She has written and published several books, more stories than can be counted and an award winning poet. As an editor she has lost count of the how many anthologies she’s edited or how many writing careers she has launched. Hobbies include building/decorating dollhouses, creating flower arrangements and designing candle holders. | https://www.facebook.com/dragonlots57 | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpcRzYgLS9Pd646GAKmo1jQ | ||
 Kendra Merritt | Books have been Kendra's escape for as long as she can remember. She used to hide fantasy novels behind her government textbook in high school, and she wrote most of her first novel during a semester of college algebra. Older and wiser now (but just as nerdy) she writes fantasy and science fiction with characters who have disabilities. If she's not writing, she's reading, and if she's not reading, she's playing video games. She lives in Denver with her very tall spouse, their book loving progeny, and a lazy black monster masquerading as a service dog. | www.kendramerritt.com | https://www.facebook.com/kendramerrittauthor | ||
| Robin D. Owens | Award Winning novelist Robin D. Owens credits the telepathic cat with attitude in selling her first fantasy romance, HeartMate. She's written fifteen books in the series for Penguin Random House. And three, including short story collections, published independently. She wrote eight books for Luna, including three books set in Denver, Colorado. Her newest stories, about an ex-accountant who sees Old West ghosts and helps them move on, currently stands at 5 books. She particularly likes adding quirky characters for comic relief and leaving little threads dangling from book to book for readers. She interacts with folks: https://www.facebook.com/robin.d.owens.73 | https://www.facebook.com/robin.d.owens.73 | |||
| Jim Barnard - Denver Space Society | Jim Barnard is a retired aerospace engineer who advocates exploration & development of human and robotic space. | ||||
| Chip | Chip Houser's short fiction has appeared in PULP Literature, Molotov Cocktail, PodCastle, Bourbon Penn, Daily Science Fiction, and many other speculative and literary markets. “Dark Morsels”, a collection of his very short fiction, was published in 2023 by Red Bird Chapbooks. He lives in northern Colorado. Find him on X @chazzlepants, on Facebook, and at chiphouser.com. | chiphouser.com | https://www.facebook.com/chazzlepants/ | @chazzlepants | |
 Lena M Johnson | Lena M. Johnson is a science fiction author from Colorado who is obsessed with dinosaurs and cats. She has been published in various anthologies where she writes about badass women in futuristic worlds. Follow her online for news of her upcoming novel, cat pictures, and terrible puns. | https://lenamjohnson.com | https://www.facebook.com/authorlenamjohnson | https://www.twitter.com/lenamjohnson | https://www.instagram.com/authorlenamjohnson, https://www.threads.net/@authorlenamjohnson |
 Carolyn Kay | Carolyn Kay enjoys crossing genres and imagining what normally inanimate objects would do if given life. She is collaborating with award-winning illustrator, Chaz Kemp, on the World of Ashelon, a series of novellas and novels set in a steampunk fantasy world. When she’s not writing, she can be seen dancing with Batavia, a tribal fusion belly dance troupe, knitting, or playing with her beloved cats. You can find her books at carolynkayauthor.com, and on most social media under Bewitchinghips. | https://www.carolynkayauthor.com/ | https://www.facebook.com/CarolynKayAuthor | @bewitchinghips | Instagram: @bewitchinghips |
 Carol Berg | Carol Berg, former software engineer, never expected to write one fantasy novel, much less eighteen. Nor did she expect to win the Colorado Book Award (four times) or to hear that her books had been read on the slopes of Denali or underneath the Mediterranean Sea. She certainly never expected to see her name alongside those of her literary heroes like Mary Stewart and JRR Tolkien as winner of the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award. Carol’s newest fantasy adventure novels arrived from Tor Books under her assumed name of Cate Glass. Carol lives in the foothills of the Colorado Rocky Mountains. | https://www.carolberg.com | https://www.facebook.com/carolberg | ||
 Chaz Kemp | Chaz loves SteamPunk, CyberPunk, and Fantasy. SteamPunk and CyberPunk are all about creatively defying authority and forging your own path. It’s resistance as art. Fantasy is all about visualizing your dream and then defying the odds to achieve it no matter who you are or what you look like. This is why Chaz draws culturally diverse characters in the Art Nouveau style. Publishers and corporations say that diverse characters don’t sell. He loves proving them wrong. Defying the odds is what defines him, and forging his own path is what drives him. Art is Rebellion. You can find him here: https://linktr.ee/chazkemp | www.chazkemp.com | https://www.facebook.com/chaz.kemp | ||
 Jeffe Kennedy/Jennifer K. Lambert | Jeffe Kennedy™ is a multi-award-winning, bestselling author of 66 published titles, primarily in epic fantasy romance. She is a Past-President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA). She is best known for the RITA® Award-winning The Pages of the Mind, the recent trilogy, The Forgotten Empires, and the wildly popular Dark Wizard. She recently signed a six-figure deal with Tor for a new romantasy series writing as Jennifer K. Lambert™, with book one, Never the Roses, forthcoming in hardback July 8, 2025. Jeffe lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is represented by Sarah Younger of Nancy Yost Literary Agency. | https://jeffekennedy.com/home | https://www.facebook.com/Author.Jeffe.Kennedy/ | @jeffekennedy (though I'm no longer active there) | |
| Scott Tefoe | Scott Tefoe is one of those reading junkies who as a child read cereal boxes every morning at breakfast and ended up working in the bookselling business later in life. Reading is one of Scott's passions and he has given up trying to pinpoint his favorite novel or author. He prefers his fiction to be intelligently well written with a twist, encompassing but not limited to SF, dark fantasy, horror, slipstream, magical realism, and the just plain whacked. | ||||
 Emily Mah | Emily Mah writes science fiction and fantasy, while her alter ego, EM Tippets writes contemporary fiction. She lives in Santa Fe with her husband a houseful of kids. | ||||
 Goth Hobbit | Becca Lee has been a fixture at MileHiCon since the tail end of the Reagan administration. She is working on a long-running series of projects on early 20th Century women's history, has enough primary source material to stock a small museum, and still finds it disconcerting to write about herself in the third person. Engaged to Daniel Dvorkin, her other interests include art, science, gardening, needlework, costuming, cooking, science, and music; in short, well-rounded nerddom. She also goes by the moniker of Goth Hobbit. If you don't know why, you'll figure it out when you see her. | https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&subview=table&user_id=gothhobbit&verifiable=any&view=species | |||
| Tim Anderson | Tim Anderson. Adventurer, wizard, bovine hypnotist, billionaire playboy…these are all things he would like to be someday if/when he grows up. In the meantime, he works as a software dev by day. By night, he has released several videogames and currently writes fiction under the pen name Tanner Howsden. Additionally, he had small appearances in a movie, a music video, a dating show, and was in Season 3 of "The Guild" for about 10 seconds. | https://tannerhowsden.com/ | TannerHowsden | ||
| HC Werner | HC lives with his wife (and cat, Marlowe) in Central Texas, where he's been a high school ELA teacher for the past five years. He also coaches baseball, writes short stories, takes photos, and occasionally pretends he's still a barista. | https://hc-werner.tumblr.com | https://www.instagram.com/hcwerner.scribbles | ||
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| Thea Hutcheson | Thea Hutcheson writes across genres under multiple pseudonyms. Lois Tilton of Locus said her work in Realms of Fantasy's 100th issue "is sensual, fertile, with seed quickening on every page. Well done..." Her story in Hot Blood XI: Fatal Attractions, garnered an Honorable Mention in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: 17th Annual Collection. She lives in an economically depressed, unscenic, nearly historic small city in Colorado. When she's not working diligently as a Planning Commissioner to change that, she writes, and fills the time between bouts at the computer as a factotum. Find more of her work at www.theahutcheson.com | www.theahutcheson.com | https://www.facebook.com/thea.hutcheson | ||
 Laurence MacNaughton | L. MacNaughton is an award-winning urban fantasy author whose books have been praised by Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Library Journal, and Kirkus Reviews. Get a free ebook at www.LMacNaughton.com | https://lmacnaughton.com/ | https://www.facebook.com/LMacNaughton/ | https://dashboard.mailerlite.com/forms/250968/83824191389828793/share | |
 Reed Mingault | Reed Mingault is the daughter of a Marine and hasn’t spent more than a few years in one place in her life. Her formative years, when not moving cross country and across oceans, were spent on horseback and handling birds of prey, and she’ll happily tell you more than you wanted to know about either. She draws, paints, dabbles in illuminated calligraphy, and is fascinated by pre-industrial handicrafts. Reed lives with her geneticist husband, precocious daughter, and a small menagerie of furred, scaled, and exoskeleton-ed critters. | http://reedmingault.com | @milvusscribe on bluesky | ||
 Natli VanDerWerken | Natli VanDerWerken #1 Amazon International Best Selling Multiple Award-Winning Author Natli is the author of the fantasy series "The Dragon’s Children". She loves Dragons and has collected over 40 of them, many collected from the Far East while serving in the Navy as a meteorologist and anti-submarine warfare specialist. The Dragon's Children pentalogy was inspired by a fairy tale Natli told her grandchildren one Christmas Eve. The main character in each novel is based on one of those grandchildren. Natli is a native Coloradan, living in Aurora. She has a Masters in Computer Information Systems, develops websites, shows Shetland Sheepdogs, and quilts in her mostly non-existent free time. | natlivanderwerken.com | facebook.com/natlivanderwerken-author | https://twitter.com/@CODragonLady | https://wwww.linkedin.com/in/natli-vanderwerken-author/ pinterest.com/natli_vanderwer/ instagram.com/natlivanderwerken/ GoodReads: https://bit.ly/NatliVanDerWerkenGoodreads YouTube: https://bit.ly/NatliVanDerWerken YouTube @natlivanderwerken136 |
| Connie Willis | Nebula- and Hugo-Award winning author Connie Willis is the author of Doomsday Book, Passage, To Say Nothing of the Dog, Crosstalk, Blackout/All Clear, Lincoln's Dreams, The Best of Connie Willis, and a number of short stories, including her Christmas story collections. Her most recent novel is The Road to Roswell, and she is currently working on a new Oxford time-travel novel. | conniewillis.net | |||
| Veronica R. Calisto | Veronica R. Calisto (she/her) is an alto, a writer of speculative fiction, and a big nerd. One of those rare Colorado natives, she has a degree in Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology and is a two-time American Idol reject. She is the author of several books, including Diary of a Mad Black Witch and the first two in the SparkleTits Chronicles series. She is also the co-editor of Bizarre Bazaar, a finalist for the 2023 Colorado Book Awards in the anthology category. | www.facebook.com/veronica.roland.7/ | |||
| John Fiala | John has been into in games, fantasy, science fiction from a young age. He has not grown up yet. www.jcfiala.net | https://www.facebook.com/jcfiala | jcfiala | ||
 Patrick Hester | Patrick Hester is an author, blogger, 2013 & 2014 Hugo Award Winner, and an all around Functional Nerd. He writes fiction of all shapes and sizes, but his heart belongs to Science Fiction and Fantasy. He is the Producer and co-host for The Functional Nerds Podcast. His fiction is available online. He can usually be found on social media under ATFMB. He lives in Colorado with a puppy named Ronan who makes him laugh each and every day. | www.functionalnerds.com | https://www.facebook.com/atfmb | https://www.instagram.com/atfmb/ | |
 Alastair Mayer | Alastair Mayer is a near-ancient British-Canadian-American who has been around science fiction for decades. Before his kids sapped all his energy, he was a pilot, scuba diver, astronaut candidate, space activist, and probably other things he doesn't remember. A SFWA member, he has written for Analog, Byte, High Frontier and Final Frontier magazines. Now that his kids are adults, he has plenty of time to write, especially since leaving his day job at a Colorado-based satellite company. Alastair continues to add to his popular T-Space series, comprising the Alpha Centauri trilogy, the Kakuloa series, the Carson & Roberts archeology adventures. | https://www.alastairmayer.org/ | https://www.facebook.com/alastair.mayer | @AlastairMayer | |
 David R. Slayton | David R. Slayton (He/Him) grew up in Guthrie, Oklahoma, where finding fantasy novels was pretty challenging and finding ones with diverse characters was downright impossible. Now he lives in Denver and writes the books he always wanted to read. His debut, White Trash Warlock, was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award. In 2015, David founded Trick or Read, an initiative to give out books along with candy to children on Halloween as well as uplift lesser-known authors or those from marginalized backgrounds. His latest release Dark Moon, Shallow Sea, won the Colorado Book Award. Find him online at www.DavidRSlayton.com. | https://davidrslayton.com/ | https://www.facebook.com/david.r.slayton | https://twitter.com/drslayton | https://www.instagram.com/slaytondavidr/ |
 Michael Burgess | Michael Lee Burgess, maybe 30? years as the MileHiCon Art Show Auctioneer (hard to remember), many years as Literacy Auctioneer, founder of the C/FO Denver that became the DAI animation fan club while he was at Iliff Seminary in Denver and still loves animation. Offers an ecumenical Sunday Communion Worship Service (he's a United Methodist Church pastor when home). Officer in the Royal Manticoran Navy (the Honor Harrington/David Weber fan club) has a 14-year D&D campaign and will talk to you about anything. He lives in Elmwood Nebraska, brings grandkids and loves cats and books. | ||||
| Chuck Stout | Chuck’s lifelong passion for aviation and space exploration started with building models and reading science fiction. Those, plus interests in astronomy and other sciences, provided a foundation for a variety of satisfying careers. He has helped to design and build satellites, worked in machine shops, hospitals, and labs, designed and built scores of museum exhibits, and written and edited award-winning books and online pilot-training materials. In 2022, he celebrated 50 years as an active pilot. He recently retired as the Curator of the Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum. (And he still builds models and reads science fiction.) | ||||
 Tananarive Due | TANANARIVE DUE is an award-winning author who teaches at UCLA. A leading voice in Black speculative fiction, Due has won an American Book Award, an NAACP Image Award, and a British Fantasy Award. Her books include The Reformatory (winner of a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Chautauqua Prize, Bram Stoker Award, Shirley Jackson Award and a New York Times Notable Book), The Wishing Pool and Other Stories, Ghost Summer: Stories, My Soul to Keep, and The Good House. She and her late mother, Patricia Stephens Due, co-authored Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights. | www.tananarivedue.com | https://www.facebook.com/tananariveduewrites/ | @tananarivedue | Instagram: @tananarivedue |
| Jessica Coyle | Jessica Coyle is one of the organizers of Bubonicon in Albuquerque, NM. When not working at her day job as the Instructional Coordinator at Coronado Historic Site, she hangs out with her boyfriend Craig and cats Gizmo and Kaylee watching terrible movies and crocheting. | ||||
| Craig W. Chrissinger | Craig W. Chrissinger is back to writing one piece a year for Locus Magazine, working some advance film screenings, and heading up in-person Bubonicons. Nothing is the same as before the modern-day plague, but we muddle through (and, yes, we had Covid October 2023). Craig has been in fandom since 1976, and lives in Albuquerque with the fabulous Jessica and two young cats named Gizmo and Kaylee. He works at a used bookstore, reads books, magazines and comics, and watches TV and movies. He would like to write more and really de-clutter the house. | www.bubonicon.com |