John Chu is a microprocessor architect by day, a writer, translator, and podcast narrator by night. His story “The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere” won the 2014 Hugo Award for Best Short Story. Bibliography is at JohnChu.net. His story “Making the Magic Lightning Strike Me” will be published in issue 16 (May/June 2017) of Uncanny Magazine..
Chungus is our hard-working sourdough starter (pronouns he/they).
Chungus was born on 20 June 2020. He was created with Joshua Weissman’s starter method. They are a regular co-star of EA’s streaming on Twitch. Their godmother is Ursula Vernon. Chungus is currently widely shipped with Bob, the sourdough familiar from A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking. Their ship name is Bungus.
Chungus has an extensive wardrobe created by his fans. Wendy Reynolds is his chief costumer. They currently include:
Chungus’ current body is a Kilner wide-mouthed 0.5L preserve jar with the following approximate dimensions:
Chungus has the following outfits on their wish list:
Nino Cipri is a queer and nonbinary/trans writer, currently at work on an MFA at the University of Kansas. A multidisciplinary artist, Nino has also written plays, screenplays, and radio features; performed as a dancer, actor, and puppeteer; and worked as a teacher, bookseller, bike mechanic, and labor organizer. Their writing has been published by Nightmare Magazine, Podcastle, Fireside Fiction, and other fine venues.
Leon Clarance is a film and TV producer with Zero Gravity Management. He has produced all manner of weird and wonderful projects, from the hit TV series SENSE8 with the Wachowski’s and J. Michael Straczynski to small charming indie movies like Crucifixion with the Conjuring franchise’s Hayes brothers and Peter Safran (the latter now being the head of DC Studios. For any Stranger Things fans, he produced the film Kodachrome alongside the team at 21 Laps that produce the show. He has done several horror films and concedes has also made some horrific ones. Whether they overlap on a Venn is up to you.
He’s also a chartered accountant, a hedge fund consultant, an advisor to law firms and used to play football (soccer) semi-professionally. That’s quite a lot to go on a business card, but nobody uses them any more anyway, right? Right?
A bit of a vagrant, he has lived in the US, France, Barbados and of course the UK. He’s lived in flats (apartments), houses, a tent, and for one glorious summer, a car (with a built-in tent). He now lives back ‘home’ in the UK (in a house) in the suburbs of Hertfordshire, with his partner and 2 dogs called George and Mildred. He has three children, who are of course his greatest achievements and for them, just like his movies, he thinks the credit should really be given mainly to his producing partner…
Andrew Clarke is a London-based musician, writer and actor who has created work for the stage, film and radio in an ongoing quest to work out how to make any money at all. He is currently writes and performs in The Lost Cat Podcast – which details the adventures he has had while looking for his lost cat – featuring monsters, ghosts, Old Ones, several ends of the world, some cats and lots and lots of wine. The podcast can be found here: He is also currently demo-ing his latest album. The previous album, called ‘Bedrooms & Basements’ can be found at Bedrooms & Basements.
George Cleveland lives in Tamworth, NH where he cares for cats with Attention Deficit Disorder. He is the Executive Director of the Gibson Center for Senior Services in North Conway. For many years, George was known as The Voice of the Valley on New Hampshire radio, where he conducted over 3500 interviews with newsmakers from all parts of the world – George has spoken with most major Presidential candidates, a representative of an interplanetary confederation and many noted authors and musicians. An avid collector of tales and legends, he sniffs out new hauntings and reports of long lost treasure. He has frequently written on people and places of interest, including musicians and artists and has appeared before numerous historical and school groups in the United States and Hawai’i speaking about his grandfather, former President Grover Cleveland. He was featured on C-SPAN’s ‘American Presidents’ series when they broadcast from Cleveland’s birthplace in Caldwell, New Jersey.
Lucy Clifford married the mathematician and philosopher William Kingdon Clifford in 1875. After his death in 1879, she earned a prominent place in English literary life as a novelist, and later as a dramatist. Her best-known story, Mrs Keith’s Crime (1885), was followed by several other volumes, such as Aunt Anne (1892). She also wrote The Last Touches and Other Stories (1892) and Mere Stories (1896); and a play, A Woman Alone (1898). She is perhaps most often remembered, however, as the author of The Anyhow Stories, Moral and Otherwise (1882), a collection of stories she had written for her children.
Mildred McElroy Clingerman (March 14, 1918 – February 26, 1997) was an American science fiction author. Most of her short stories were published in the 1950s in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, edited by Anthony Boucher. Boucher included her story “The Wild Wood” in the seventh volume (1958) of The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction and dedicated the book to her, calling her the “most serendipitous of discoveries.” Her science fiction was collected as A Cupful of Space in 1961. She also published in mainstream magazines like Good Housekeeping and Collier’s. Her story “The Little Witch of Elm Street” appeared in Woman’s Home Companion in 1956.
Married women are portrayed in stories like “The Wild Wood” (January 1957 F&SF) or “A Red Heart and Blue Roses” (original to her collection); they suffer violations of body space, male intrusiveness, and the impostures of aliens. Her stories have also appeared in several anthologies, including literature textbooks for middle and high school students. A 2017 anthology, The Clingerman Files, includes all of her originally published stories.
Clingerman was a collector of books of all kinds, especially those by and about Kenneth Grahame, and of Victorian travel journals. Clingerman was as strongly associated with F&SF as Zenna Henderson. She was a founder of the Tucson Writer’s Club and served on the board of the Tucson Press Club. She was posthumously awarded the Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award in 2014.