R.A. Busby
Winner of 2020’s Shirley Jackson Award for Short Fiction, R.A. Busby spends her spare time running in the desert with her dog and finding weird things to write about.
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Amanda Ching
Amanda Ching loads trucks for a large package handling company in Pittsburgh. Her work is out of print, but her story’s still going on.
Rachael K. Jones
Rachael K. Jones grew up in various cities across Europe and North America, picked up (and mostly forgot) six languages, and acquired several degrees in the arts and sciences. Now she writes speculative fiction in Portland, Oregon. Rachael is a Eugie Award Winner and a Hugo, Nebula, Locus, Bram Stoker, and World Fantasy finalist. Her fiction has appeared in dozens of venues worldwide, including Lightspeed, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Strange Horizons, and all four weekly Escape Artists podcasts. Follow her on Bluesky @RachaelKJones.bsky.social, or find her at www.RachaelKJones.com.
Tanith Lee
Tanith Lee (19 September 1947 – 24 May 2015) was a British writer of science fiction, horror, and fantasy. She was the author of over 90 novels and 300 short stories, a children’s picture book (Animal Castle), and many poems. She was the first woman to win the British Fantasy Award best novel award (also known as the August Derleth Award), for her book Death’s Master (1980)
Daniel Abraham
Daniel James Abraham is an American speculative fiction writer who lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His collaboration with Ty Franck under the name James S. A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes, was nominated for the 2012 Hugo Award for Best Novel and the 2012 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. (And is the basis for the TV show, The Expanse.)
His novelette “Flat Diane” was nominated for the Nebula Award, and was featured on Pseudopod. His novelette “The Cambist and Lord Iron: a Fairytale of Economics” was nominated for the Hugo Award and the World Fantasy Award.
Matthew Acheson
Matthew Acheson lives in Orono, Maine. He earned his Bachelor’s in Computer Science and Ancient History from the University of Southern Maine, and has worked as an engineer in the telecommunications industry for over a decade. His fiction has appeared in Raygun Revival, Spinetingler, Digital Dragon, Morpheus Tales, and others. On some cold winter nights you’ll find him by the fireplace, entertaining his fourteen nieces and nephews with strange tales of supernatural horror and the fantastic.
Forrest J Ackerman
Forrest James Ackerman was an American magazine editor, science fiction writer, and literary agent. As a literary agent, he represented such science fiction authors as Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, and L. Ron Hubbard. For more than 70 years, he was one of science fiction’s staunchest spokesmen and promoters.
He was the founding editor and principal writer of the magazine Famous Monsters of Filmland. While he did not actually create the character of Vampirella, he did name her, based on the 1960s Jane Fonda film ‘Barbarella’. Ackerman was central to the formation, organization and spread of science fiction fandom and a key figure in the wider cultural perception of science fiction as a literary, art, and film genre. He attended the 1st World Science Fiction Convention in 1939, where he wore the first “futuristicostume” (designed and created by his girlfriend, Myrtle R Douglas, better known as Morojo), which sparked decades of fan costuming thereafter, the latest incarnation of which is cosplay. Famous for his word play and neologisms, he coined the genre nickname “sci-fi.” He posessed a shelf full of awards including multiple Hall of Fame inductions as well as Bram Stoker Award and World Fantasy Award lifetime achievements.
Jason Adams
Jason Adams is the mastermind behind Random Signal. It is the bee’s knees.The Random Signal podcast is equal parts geek talk and indie rock. This includes, but is not limited to, comics, movies, games, beer, giant squids, hoboes, Airwolf, and quirky independent music from North Carolina and points beyond.