Eleanor Scott was born Helen Leys in Middlesex in 1892. Her father was a barrister and novelist, and her early education was provided by her mother, Ellen, who prepared both of her daughters for going on to Oxford – it’s important to note that the first female students attended Oxford in 1879, but they couldn’t, officially, graduate until 1920. Before that, women had to travel to Trinity College in Dublin to receive their qualifications. After the Great War, Helen became a teacher, and eventually, Principal of an Oxford teacher training college. Her first short story to appear in print was The Room, in October 1923, credited to H. M. Leys. In 1928, the first work bearing the pen name Eleanor Scott appeared: the controversial novel War Among Ladies, which was published by Ernest Benn. Her final novel, Puss in the Corner was published in November 1934.

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Effie Seiberg is a fantasy and science fiction writer. Her stories can be found in the “Women Destroy Science Fiction!” special edition of Lightspeed Magazine (winner of the 2015 British Fantasy Award for Best Anthology), “The Best of Galaxy’s Edge 2015-2017”, Analog, and all the other Escape Artist podcasts, amongst others. In particular, Effie would like to draw your attention to “The Tale of Descruptikn and the Product Launch Requirements Documentation” over on Cast of Wonders. Effie lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. She likes to make sculpted cakes and bad puns.

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Melinda Selmys is a core creator involved with Vulgata Magazine.

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Matthew Wayne Selznick is an author, creator, and creative services provider living in Long Beach, California. He’s the author of the Parsec Award nominated “Brave Men Run — A Novel of the Sovereign Era” as well as his latest novel, “Pilgrimage,” and a number of other titles set in a variety of storyworlds.

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Sevatividam is a wife, mom, businesswoman, singer and songwriter,  in the Charlotte, North Carolina area. She is a huge nerd for speculative fiction and loves to read, write, narrate and listen to stories. She enjoyed very much drawing on various sullen rednecks she’s known to find the voices for this story.

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Diane Severson is a lyric soprano specialized in Early Music, specifically Baroque and medieval music and Lieder/Art Song. She is an enthusiastic teacher of singing (taking her cues from her mentor the late Cornelius Reid and his long-time student and mentor in her own right Carol Baggott-Forte).

Diane has been involved in the Speculative Poetry Scene (yes, it’s a thing) since 2010. She has narrated for the StarShipSofa Podcast Magazine since Tony C. Smith started running fiction and found out that she reads aloud to her husband. She quickly became his go-to-girl when he wanted poetry read. As a result of that affinity with poetry, and because she does her best work when she has a Cause (a budding superheroine?), she decided to take up as Science Fiction Poetry’s Spokesperson. She produced the sporadic podcast, which ran as part of StarShipSofa, called Poetry Planet and is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA) and currently serves as Membership Chair, Volunteer Wrangler and Communications Coordinator. She has reviewed genre poetry for Amazing Stories Magazine and the SFPA’s Star*Line magazine and edited an issue of the SFPA’s online journal, Eye to the Telescope  on the theme of Music. She continues to narrate stories for StarShipSofa and other podcasts (notably EscapePod, PodCastle and Tales to Terrify) and audio book narrations.

The best place to find her is on the web because she tends to pick up and move to another country at the drop of a hat, having lived in Germany, the UK, and France in the past 12 years. She and her small family, a “rocket scientist” and a young multi-linguist, currently reside in a Home County in England.

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Mistakes have been made. Oh… candy, leftovers, Eggo’s… she really likes Eggo’s. It’s finger-lickin’ good. You’re going to be home by 8, listening to the Talking Heads and reading Vonnegut or something. That sounds like a nice night. It’s about the shadow monster, isn’t it?

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