Eight-time Hugo Award winner Lynne M. Thomas is the Co-Editor-in-Chief and Co-Publisher of the four-time Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine with her husband Michael Damian Thomas. The former Editor-in-Chief of Apex Magazine (2011-2013), she co-edited the Hugo Award-winning Chicks Dig Time Lords, as well as Whedonistas and Chicks Dig Comics. She moderated the Hugo-Award winning SF Squeecast and contributes to the Verity! Podcast. In her day job, she is the Head of the Rare Book and Manuscript Library and Juanita J. and Robert E. Simpson Rare Book and Manuscript Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, one of the largest public university rare book collections in the country. You can learn more about her shenanigans at lynnemthomas.com.

Seanan McGuire is a native Californian, which has resulted in her being exceedingly laid-back about venomous wildlife, and terrified of weather. When not writing urban fantasy (as herself) and science fiction thrillers (as Mira Grant), she likes to watch way too many horror movies, wander around in swamps, record albums of original music, and harass her cats.

Seanan is the author of the October Daye, InCryptid, and Indexing series of urban fantasies; the Newsflesh trilogy; the Parasitology duology; and the "Velveteen vs." superhero shorts. Her cats, Lilly, Alice, and Thomas, are plotting world domination even as we speak, but are easily distracted by feathers on sticks, so mankind is probably safe. For now.

Seanan's favorite things include the X-Men, folklore, and the Black Death. No, seriously. She writes all biographies in the third person, because it's easier that way.

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K. Tempest Bradford is an award-winning teacher, media critic, and author of fantasy and science fiction steeped in Black Girl Magic. Her debut middle grade novel Ruby Finley vs. the Interstellar Invasion is now out from FSG for Young Readers.

Tempest’s short fiction has appeared in multiple anthologies and magazines, including In The Shadow of the Towers and Strange Horizons. Her media criticism and essays on diversity and representation have been published at NPR, io9, Ebony Magazine, and more.

She teaches classes and gives talks on representation and creating diverse narratives for Writing the Other and has been invited to teach at Clarion West, LitReactor, universities, and entertainment companies.

She’s the recipient of the 2020 LOCUS Special Award for Inclusivity and Representation Education and the 2022 Lemonade Award. She’s been nominated for FIYAH Magazine‘s IGNYTE Community and Ember Awards.

Please visit her website at KTempestBradford.com

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Tara O'Shea is a Chicago-area artist, writer, and editor.

Her essay collection "Chicks Dig Time Lords", co-edited with Lynne M Thomas, from Mad Norwegian Press won the 2011 Hugo Award for "Best Related Work", and was the first in a popular series of essay collections including "Whedonistas", "Chicks Dig Comics", "Chicks Dig Gaming", and "Queers Dig Time Lords".

After the success of "Chicks Dig Time Lords", her co-editor Lynne Thomas continued editing and contributing to other Mad Norwegian anthologies, eventually taking the reigns of APEX Magazine from editor Cat Valente, organising a fannish podcast featuring Seanan McGuire, Paul Cornell, L.M. Myles, Elizabeth Bear, and other guests. Following her brief stint at APEX, she and husband Michael Thomas successfully crowd-funded the magazine "Uncanny", edited by fellow Chicago geek extraordinaire, the award-winning Michi Trota.

Since her brief foray into the world of creating, co-editing, and contributing to essay collections about popular media, O'Shea has returned to her roots as a graphic designer. In addition to working for many years at a variety of professional agencies and production companies, she has also designed and illustrated both e-book and print covers for a variety of authors, including Seanan McGuire, C.E. Murphy, Ingrid Seymour, Jon Sprunk, Simon R Green, Tanya Huff, Elizabeth Moon, and many more.

In addition to her 20 years of experience as an artist, she worked since 1999 as a freelance journalist, contributing editor, managing editor, and (briefly) editor-in-chief. Her articles, reviews, interviews, and essays have appeared in such publications as Tor.com, Firefox News, Titan's officially licensed "Angel" magazine, Yahoo! Internet Life, The 11th Hour, Audio Revolution, MediaSharx/ZENtertainment, and other online and print publications.

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Kathryn Sullivan started writing science fiction and fantasy not long after she had finished reading all of the books in her father's science fiction collection. Stories about girl agents defeating alien bad guys and tales of wizards' apprentices looking for forgotten treasure filled school notebooks alongside her regular homework. Any place and any object is at risk of appearing in her stories - the river bluffs surrounding Winona, MN, where she lives, can become the windswept cliffs of an alien planet or the deep mysterious woods of a fantasy tale. She is owned by a large cockatoo, who graciously allows her to write about other animals, as well as birdlike aliens.

Tammy is a YA and Sherlock Holmes author in addition to being a Young Adult librarian. She has a BFA in theater from DePaul University, and an MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh in Library and Information Sciences. She lives with her husband, four cats, dog (and often a foster dog) in Kansas, but will forever call Pittsburgh, PA home.