Bo Balder
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.
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Lisa Baldinelli
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.
Don Mark Baldridge
Don Mark Baldridge is a Professor of Art and Computer Science, which sort of tells you what you need to know about him. A US citizen, he’s been around the world, spending months and years at a time abroad. Don Mark is a founding member of a Loose Unsyndicate.
L.M. Ball
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
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.
Philippa Ballantine
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
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.
Julian Bane
Born in Brazil in 1967, Julian Bane arrived in the United States at the age of 11. His love for the arts started at an early age: first with comics and drawing superheroes for his school paper to shooting Star Wars action figures and styrofoam planets with a Super 8 camera, all the while building miniature sets and props. As a young man, Bane admired, leading characters in shows such as Doctor Who and Star Trek. These characters later influenced Bane to become an actor.
“Their impact on my mind was strong, The Doctor, Captain Kirk and Sherlock Holmes were some of the best characters ever created.”
After three years in the Air Force pursuing a career as a jet fighter, Bane came to turning point in his life and decided to return to his original passion: the arts and more specifically, acting.
Bane traveled to Los Angeles and over the last decade has dedicated his life to perfecting his craft: acting, writing and directing. His has performed in plays such as The Tempest, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, Wuthering Heights and leading the cast as The Traveler in Hollywood’s first production of H. G Wells The Time Machine. He has also branched out to the small and big screens, appearing in multiple TV shows,music videos, documentaries and films.
Along with doing audio characters such as The Doctor in the Doctor Who Legacy series, Brahms on Starship Excelsior and Leviathan on Darker Projects… Bane has branched out into narrating Jack Reacher and Doctor Who short stories on YouTube.