 Joe R. Lansdale is a champion Mojo storyteller known for his offbeat, witty, and often gruesome stories and novels. In addition to his prose career, Lansdale has turned his pen to comics, writing issues of Conan, Batman, The Spirit, and the Fantastic Four. In his long career, Lansdale has won umpty-ump awards, including five Bram Stoker horror awards, a British Fantasy Award, the American Mystery Award, the Horror Critics Award, the Booklist Editor’s Award, and the New York Times Notable Book honor. Lansdale is also a member of the Martial Arts Hall of Fame, and runs his own Shen Chuan martial arts school. |
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 Matthew Hughes is a globe-trotting fantasy and suspense fiction writer. He's taken turns at journalism, speech-writing for the Canadian Ministers of Justice and Environment, as well as a freelance corporate and political speech-writer in British Colombia. Widely known for his Archonate series of stories and novels, he has been hailed as Jack Vance's "heir apparent." The Other has been shortlisted for the Philip K. Dick Award, 2011. Congragulations Matt! |
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 John Shirley is the author of more than a dozen chilling and innovative works including the popular novel Demons as well as tie-in novels for the Constantine and Predator series. In addition to his novels, Shirley co-wrote the screenplay for the 1994 blockbuster The Crow. Shirley has fronted multiple punk-rock bands, and was deemed the “postmodern Edgar Allen Poe” by literary critic Larry McCaffrey. He lives in San Francisco. |
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 Elizabeth Hand is the Nebula and World Fantasy Award-winning author of twelve novels and three short-story collections, including the popular novel Mortal Love. With an established fan base, Hand writes lyrically rich and always beautifully rendered prose. The guest of honor at the 2009 ReaderCon, Hand also writes a regular review column for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and book reviews for The Washington Post. |
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 Martin Millar has been influenced by the likes of Led Zepplin, Elric of Melniboné, the Sex Pistols, Lord of the Rings, and the post-punk era in Brixton, South London. He has published around sixteen novels filled with his own mark of dark humor and fantasy since 1987. “The grungy, gory, glorious world that … Millar has created is unforgettable,” writes Diana Tixier Herald of Booklist. In 2002 Martin was awarded the World Fantasy Award for the Thraxas series, written under the pseudonym Martin Scott. He likes Jane Austen novels, and he wrote a stage play of Emma. He even wrote the novelization of the Tank Girl movie. |
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 Will Elliott came to international attention when The Pilo Family Circus, his debut novel, won five Australian literary awards. In America, the book was short-listed for the International Horror Guild Award for best novel. Elliott began working on the book at nineteen, when he dropped out of law school and was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Influenced by writers as diverse as Chuck Palahniuk, Bret Easton Ellis, and H. P. Lovecraft, his writing is at turns creepy, violent, spare, and wickedly imaginative. Now twenty-nine, Elliott is working on a follow-up novel and has recently completed a memoir. He lives in Brisbane, Australia. |
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 Jeff VanderMeer is an award-winning writer with fiction published in over 20 countries. His books, including the bestselling City of Saints & Madmen, have made the year's best lists of Publishers Weekly, LA Weekly, Amazon, the San Francisco Chronicle, and many more. Considered one of the foremost SF/fantasy writers of his generation, he has worked with rock band The Church, 30 Days of Night creator Ben Templesmith, Dark Horse Comics, and Playstation Europe on various projects including music soundtracks and short films. His nonfiction appears regularly in the Washington Post and on the Amazon book blog. With his wife Ann (they have been cited by Boing Boing as a literary "power couple"), he is also an award-winning editor whose books include the iconic Steampunk anthology. VanderMeer is a frequent guest of honor at events around the world, including Bumbershoot (Seattle), Utopiales (France), and the Brisbane Writers Festival (Australia). |
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 Brian Evenson is the author of eight books of fiction, most recently The Open Curtain, which was a finalist for the Edgar Award and the International Horror Guild Award, and was named by Time Out New York as one of the best books of 2006. He is the recipient of both an O. Henry Award and an NEA award. Evenson's writing has been described as dark, violent, philosophical, critical, and lyrical. "Like Poe's, Evenson's stories range from horror to humor; a similarly high critical intelligence is always in control," writes Samuel R. Delany. "We read them with care, with our guard up, only to find they have already slipped inside and gotten to work, refining the feelings, the vision, the life."
Listen to a Rick Kleffel podcast interview here. |
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 Kevin Brockmeier is the author of the novels The Brief History of the Dead and The Truth About Celia. He has received an Italo Calvino Short Fiction Award, a James Michener-Paul Engle Fellowship, three O. Henry Awards (one, a first prize), the PEN USA Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and an NEA Grant. Recently he was named one of Granta magazine's Best Young American Novelists. He is the guest editor of the third Best American Fantasy series. |
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 Escober is the alias of bestselling Dutch author Esther Verhoef and her husband Berry Verhoef. Together, they write action thrillers marked by penetrating psychology and a tightly honed tension. They live near Amsterdam. |
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 Jemiah Jefferson was born in Denver, Colorado and started writing fiction at the age of twelve. Her publications include the novels Voice of Blood, Wounds, Fiend, and A Drop of Scarlet, and the legendary erotic short-story chapbook ST*RF*CK*NG. She has also written fiction, essays, and criticism for Willamette Week, Just Out, Plazm, 2GRLZ Quarterly, and the culture blog Popshifter. She maintains a regular comedy-flavored film review blog on Livejournal. Jefferson lives in Portland, Oregon. |
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