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Aquila Brennan

Aquila Brennan
Aquila Brennan is a 13-year Veteran of the U.S. Army and photography enthusiast.
During her service she served a total of ten years at the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), and was deployed three times. Aquila deployed to Iraq once from 2005 to 2006, and twice to Afghanistan from 2008 to 2009 and from 2012 to 2013.
In her last five years in the Army, she served as the public affairs NCO for the 101st Combat Aviation Brigade where she covered the training and deployments for a brigade of 5,000 Soldiers. During this time she covered the brigade’s flyovers of Super Bowl XLVIII, the 2014 Coca-Cola 600, and the 2014 Army-Navy game. She also covered the inactivation of the 101st Pathfinder Company in August 2016.
Even though her background is in journalistic writing, she’s beginning her first work of fiction.
You can follow her on Instagram at @DarciAquilae, or you can find her grousing about the insanity of transition and trans issues on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@armtieaquila

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Marie Brennan

MARIE BRENNAN is an anthropologist and folklorist who shamelessly pillages her academic fields for material. She is currently misapplying her professors’ hard work to the Victorian adventure series THE MEMOIRS OF LADY TRENT. She is also the author of the doppelanger duology of WARRIOR AND WITCH, the urban fantasy LIES AND PROPHECY, the ONYX COURT historical fantasy series, and more than forty short stories. More information can be found on her website, Swan Tower. The third Memoir of Lady Trent, VOYAGE OF THE BASILISK, was released in March, 2015.

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Tom Brennan

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A flood sees a plate as a dullish parallelogram. In modern times authors often misinterpret the shoe as a nimbused flesh, when in actuality it feels more like a caring mercury. The zeitgeist contends that their condition was, in this moment, a baptist grey. The jails could be said to resemble scandent cemeteries.

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J.D. Brink

J. D. Brink was not a private detective in the 1940s, but he’d liked to have been. Instead he was born in the 1970s, was a kid at the best time ever to be a kid (the ’80s), went to college in the ’90s, and has since become a sailor, spy, teacher, nurse, officer, and father. Today (fall of 2013) he and his family live in Texas, where there aren’t enough cheating husbands, missing persons, practicing witches, or hard-boiled mysteries to keep him occupied. In his writing, as in life, Mr. Brink enjoys dabbling in multiple genres.

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Maurice Broaddus

MAURICE BROADDUS’ dark fiction has been published in numerous magazines, anthologies, and web sites, and he’s the author of the urban fantasy series, THE KNIGHTS OF BRETON COURT. He has been a teaching artist for over five years, teaching creative writing to elementary, middle, and high school students as well as adults. You can visit his site at MauriceBroaddus.com. His anthology, DARK FAITH: INVOCATIONS, has just been released from Apex Books. His KNIGHTS OF BRETON COURT trilogy has been released as an omnibus from Angry Robot books.

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Christine Brooke-Rose

Christine Brooke-Rose was born in Geneva, Switzerland to an English father and American-Swiss mother. She was brought up mainly in Brussels, and educated there, at Somerville College, Oxford and University College, London. During World War II she worked at Bletchley Park as a WAAF in intelligence, later completing her university degree. She then worked for a time in London as a literary journalist and scholar. She was married three times: to Rodney Bax, whom she met at Bletchley Park; to the poet Jerzy Pietrkiewicz; and briefly to Claude Brooke. On separating from Pietrkiewicz in 1968 she moved to France, teaching at the University of Paris, Vincennes, from 1968 to 1988. After she retired she lived in the south of France. (more…)

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Ira Brooker

Ira Brooker is a freelance writer and editor living in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He does a lot of arts and culture writing for venues including Cracked, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Rupert Pupkin Speaks, and plenty of others.

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Summer Brooks

Summer Brooks

Summer Brooks is a story addict who watches way too much television. She enjoys putting her encyclopedic knowledge to the test during discussions and interviews about scifi, horror and comics, and does so as the longtime host and producer of Slice of SciFi, and as co-host of The Babylon Podcast.

Summer also does voiceovers & narrations for Tales to Terrify, StarShipSofa and Escape Pod, among others, and is an avid reader and writer of science fiction, fantasy and thrillers, with a handful of publishing credits to her name. Next on her agenda is writing an urban fantasy tale, and a monster movie creature feature or two.

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