BU TO RS Uri Grey (story, “The Sad Story of the Naga”, p. 23) is a game writer, translator, humanist, Twitterist, and storyteller from Israel. His work has been published in numerous magazines including Dungeon, Dragon, and Signs & Portents. He plays D&D with kids for a living and thinks he’s got the best job in the world. He lives in [urigrey.com] and rather enjoys the view. David M. Harris (poem, “The Spear of the Moment”, p. 38) was an editor with Dell Books, Belmont-Tower Books, and Byron Preiss Visual Publications, and did a bunch of freelance work for nearly everyone in the science fiction field. He is the author, with Harry Harrison, of Bill, The Galactic Hero: The Final Incoherent Adventure, a few published short stories, and some published essays and poetry. Now he mostly teaches college English.
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Joey Jordan (illustrations, “By the Dragon’s Tail”, p. 8) is a freelance illustrator of fantasy and science fiction who draws and paints out of Washington state. To see more, visit [joeysrealm.com]. Vladimir Krizan (cover art, “The Rock”) is a digital and matte painter whose work also serves as the cover art for Panverse Publishing’s Eight Against Reality. He lives in Slovakia and you can see more of his art at [sketchboook.deviantart.com]. Reggie Lutz (poem, “Mother’s Garden”, p. 38) is a sometimes Pisces, sometimes Aquarius, and frequently both depending on which chart you are looking at. Her novella “Fork You” was published in Panverse One.
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J.M. McDermott (interview, Richard Dansky, p. 28) is the author of two novels. Last Dragon, his first, was #6 on Amazon.com’s Year’s Best SF/F of 2008, and was shortlisted for a Crawford Prize for first fantasy. The second novel, Maze, will be out in Spring 2011 from Apex Books. Watch for news at [jmmcdermott.com]. Melissa Mead (story, “Hirasol”, p. 11) lives in Upstate NY. Her stories have appeared in places like Sword & Sorceress and Electric Velocipede. She’s been writing for years, and thanks to the Carpe Libris Writers Group she’s starting to get the hang of it: [carpelibris.wordpress.com]. Helen R. Peterson (poem, “Death Could Not Part Them”, p. 38) is the managing editor of Chopper Poetry Journal out of New London, CT, with work in the upcoming issues of Southword Journal, Foundling Review, Literary Tonic, The View From Here, and poeticdiversity.
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J.P. Wickwire (poem, “The Torturer’s Boy”, p. 39) has seen her poetry published in Vicious Verses and Reanimated Rhymes, a zombie poetry anthology edited by A. P. Fuchs, and her speculative short fiction has been published in Whispering Dragons Digital Magazine. She lives on a short mountain in the small town of Germantown, NC, and is a “book skeptic” at [dailymonocle.blogspot.com]. Have a story to tell? Visit [bullspec.com] for full guidelines, but in short: $0.05/word for new fic-
tion and poetry; $0.01/word for previously published works; [submissions@bullspec.com].
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