Stewart C Baker is an academic librarian and author of speculative fiction, poetry, and games, including The Butterfly Disjunct: And Other Stories, available now from Interstellar Flight Press. He was the lead writer for the Nebula-award winning game A Death in Hyperspace. Born in England, Stewart lives in Oregon.
Bo Balder is the first Dutch author to have been published in Clarkesworld and F&SF. Her short fiction has also appeared in Escape Pod and other places. Her sf novel “The Wan” was recently published by Pink Narcissus Press.
Lisa Baldinelli is a 19 year old currently working for her double major in English Literature and History at Southern New Hampshire University. She has always loved writing ever since she first started doing it for fun in the fourth grade, but has never had the confidence to publish her work until now. Living on campus has fueled more of her creative spark, and she hopes she’ll have the opportunity to share that spark with the world again.
L.M. BALL is a British expat living in the East Coast of America as a full time Microbiologist. She started writing Star Trek fan fiction as a child and eventually evolved into creating my own stories.
Meghan Ball (she/her) is a writer and editor whose work has appeared at Tor.com, Tor Nightfire, the Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi and Fantasy Blog, io9.com, Uncanny Magazine, and Fireside Fiction. She has also appeared on several podcasts including co-hosting Caring Into The Void and edited the successfully Kickstarter-funded 1, 2, 3 Action! role playing game. When not writing, she listens to an unhealthy amount of music, plays guitar, rolls terribly in D&D, and does cross stitch. You can find her on twitter @eldritchgirl and discover more of her work at her website eldritchwrites.com. She lives in a weird part of New Jersey.
Born in Wellington, New Zealand, Philippa (Pip) Ballantine has always had her head in a book. For this she blames her father who thought Lord of the Rings was suitable bedtime reading for an eight year old. At the age of thirteen she began writing fantasy stories for herself.
She first earned a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Political Science and then a Bachelor of Applied Science in Library and Information Science. So soon enough she found herself working in the magical world of libraries where she stayed for over a decade.
Her first professional sale was in 1997, and since then she has gone on to produce mostly novel length fiction. In 2006 she became New Zealand’s first podcast novelist, and her podcasts have won both a Parsec Award and a Sir Julius Vogel award.
D. Morgan Ballmer lives with his wife and daughters in Maple Valley, Washington. His work has been featured in the Pseudopod episode 502 “The Trauma Box”, Three-Lobed Burning-Eye Magazine, Pantheon Magazine, and various anthologies. He can be found online at strangelyquiet.wordpress.com or on FaceBook as D Morgan Ballmer.