Matt Thompson is a London-based experimental musician and writer of strange stories. He is way, way behind on his to-be-read pile, a situation he currently finds himself unable to rectify. His work has been published at Interzone, Nature: Futures, Black Static and many more worthy venues. You can find him online at http://matt-thompson.com.
Maui Threv was born in the swamps of south Georgia where he was orphaned as a child by a pack of wild dawgs. He was adopted by a family of gators who named him Maui Threv which in their language means mechanical frog music. He was taught the ways of swamp music and the moog synthesizer by a razorback and a panther. His own music has been featured over in episodes of Pseudopod. He provided music for the second episode ever released across the PseudoPod feed: Waiting up for Father. He also is responsible for the outro music for the Lavie Tidhar story Set Down This. He has expanded his sonic territory across all 100,000 watts of WREK in Atlanta where you can listen to the Mobius every Wednesday night. It is available to stream via the internet as well, and Threv never stops in the middle of a hoedown.
Lavie Tidhar is the World Fantasy Award winning author of Osama (2011), of The Violent Century (2013) and of the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize winning A Man Lies Dreaming (2014), in addition to many other works and several awards. His latest novel is the Campbell Award winning and Clarke Award nominated Central Station (2016). He works across genres, combining detective and thriller modes with poetry, science fiction and historical and autobiographical material. His work has been compared to that of Philip K. Dick by the Guardian and the Financial Times, and to Kurt Vonnegut’s by Locus.
James Tiptree Jr. was the pseudonym of Alice B. Sheldon (1915-1987). She was a photo-intelligence officer in WWII as well as a CIA agent, which formed the bulk of her career before academia. This experience was influential on her stories, including her in-depth understanding of national and international responses to crises. After her career with the CIA, she achieved a doctorate at George Washington University in Experimental Psychology in 1967, and her doctoral dissertation was on the responses of animals to novel stimuli in differing environments. You can see this reflected in her work, notably “The Screwfly Solution.” It was at this time that she started writing science fiction stories under a pseudonym to protect her new academic career, and chose a male name to fit in better at the magazines. In addition to James Tiptree, she published under the pseudonym Raccoona Sheldon. Tiptree also won two more Nebulas, two Hugos, and a World Fantasy Award. She was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2012. In 1991, the James Tiptree, Jr. Award was named in her honor, and recognizes speculative fiction that expands or explores our understanding of gender. “The Screwfly Solution” was later collected in Her Smoke Rose Up Forever. If you only pick up one Tiptree collection, and you should, this is a great place to start.
E. Catherine Tobler has sold more than 130 science fiction and fantasy short stories to markets such as Clarkesworld, Apex, Lightspeed, Fantasy, and Interzone. Her short fiction has been a finalist for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award and the Nebula Award. Her editorial work at Shimmer and The Deadlands has made her a finalist for the Hugo Award, the World Fantasy Award, and the Locus Award.
Tol has had a varied career, including as a hostage negotiator, car repairer and professional artist. He’s currently a lawyer (mostly in the video gaming, AI and social media fields). Technically, he’s been trained by ninjas and the SAS. In his own time he’s re-learning French and the piano, and taking up cage fighting. He summers on the Côte d’Azur and winters in London, England (and wonders if those are the right way round).
Brenda S. Tolian, MFA, is a writer in New Orleans and author of Blood Mountain, published by Raw Dog Screaming Press. Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies such as 101 Proof Horror, Consumed Tales Inspired by The Wendigo, The Jewish Book Of Horror, and Twisted Pulp Magazine issue 3. Her poetry has appeared in various publications, and she was a featured poet for the HWA publication Showcase Vol.8. The story “Ba’alat Ov” is one of many great stories contained in the Denver Horror Collectives, The Jewish Book of Horror. Find more information at brendatolian.com
Sarah has been published in numerous venues including Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2011 Edition.