Annalee Newitz writes fiction and nonfiction about the intersection of science, technology and culture.

Their first novel, Autonomous, won the Lambda Literary Award and was nominated for the Nebula and Locus Awards. Their book Scatter, Adapt, and Remember was nominated for the LA Times Book Award. They are currently a contributing opinion writer at the New York Times. Previously, they were the founding editor of io9, and served as the editor-in-chief of Gizmodo and as the tech culture editor at Ars Technica. They have also written for publications including Wired, Popular Science, the New Yorker, the Atlantic, Slate, Washington Post, Smithsonian Magazine, and more. They have published short stories in Lightspeed, Shimmer, Apex, and Technology Review's Twelve Tomorrows.

Annalee is the co-host of the Hugo Award-winning podcast, Our Opinions Are Correct.

They were the recipient of a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT, worked as a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and has a Ph.D. in English and American Studies from UC Berkeley.

Learn more at AnnaleeNewitz.com or follow them on Twitter @annaleen

Devin Grayson is an award-winning comics veteran with over two decades of experience writing the world’s most beloved superheroes for Marvel and DC Comics. With the publication of Batman: Gotham Knights in March of 2000, she became the first woman to create, launch, and write a new, ongoing Batman title.

Recent works include REWILD, a contemporary graphic novel fairy tale about the Climate Crisis with artist Yana Adamovic (Berger Books), the #GGN2022-noinated Omni for Humanoids, and “Widowmakers” for Marvel featuring Yelena Belova, a character Devin created back in 1999 who is currently starring in Disney’s Black Widow blockbuster.

Openly bisexual, Devin is committed to diverse representation in both real and fictional spaces. She lives in the Bay Area with her family, including two step-sons—one transgender and one cis—and an adorable Diabetes Alert Dog, Jada. Find out more at DevinGrayson.net!

Charlie Jane Anders is the author of Victories Greater Than Death, the first book in a new young-adult trilogy. Up next: Never Say You Can’t Survive, a book about how to use creative writing to get through hard times; and a short story collection called Even Greater Mistakes.

Her novel The City in the Middle of the Night came out in 2019—it won the Locus Award for Best SF Novel, and was named one of the year's best books by the Guardian, Den of Geek, Polygon and Autostraddle, among others, and was optioned for television by Sony and Mom de Guerre Productions. Her 2016 novel, All the Birds in the Sky, was #5 on Time Magazine's list of the year's 10 best novels, and won the Nebula, Locus and Crawford awards. Her first novel, Choir Boy, won a Lambda Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Edmund White First Novel Award.

Charlie Jane was a founding editor of io9.com, a blog about science fiction and futurism, and went on to become its editor in chief. Her fiction and journalism have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Slate, McSweeney's, Mother Jones, the Boston Review, Tor.com, Tin House, Teen Vogue, Conjunctions, Wired Magazine, the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Asimov's Science Fiction, Lightspeed Magazine, Catamaran Literary Reader, ZYZZYVA, and numerous anthologies and "best of the year" collections. Her novelette "Six Months, Three Days" won a Hugo Award, and her short story "Don't Press Charges and I Won't Sue" won a Theodore Sturgeon Award.

Charlie Jane also won the Emperor Norton Award, for "extraordinary invention and creativity unhindered by the constraints of paltry reason."

Her TED Talk, "Go Ahead, Dream About the Future" has been viewed more than two million times.

She hosts the long-running monthly reading series Writers With Drinks, in which she makes up fictional bios for the authors (and nobody's sued yet.) Charlie Jane also organizes the Bookstore and Chocolate Crawl, which brings a mob of people to local bookstores to buy tons of books, and eat chocolate along the way. And during the covid-19 crisis, she also helped to organize a series of online fundraisers for local bookstores, at welovebookstores.org. She also helps to organize and co-host the monthly Trans Nerd Meet Up.

Back in the day, Charlie Jane created the satirical website GodHatesFigs.com, which received many "best of the web" awards. She was also part of the editorial staff of Anything That Moves, the influential bisexual magazine, and helped out with many other queer publishing projects including Black Sheets/Black Books. And she also organized tons of events such as the notorious Ballerina Pie Fight—plus an event in a hair salon where people got their hair cut while reading stories about haircuts to an audience.

With Annalee Newitz, Charlie Jane co-hosts a podcast about the meaning of science fiction called Our Opinions Are Correct. The podcast has been going strong for two years, and won a Hugo Award for Best Fancast. Anders and Newitz also collaborated on io9, plus an anthology called She's Such a Geek: Women Write About Science, Technology & Other Nerdy Stuff, and a magazine called other magazine.

Charlie Jane hugs trees, and keeps a British penny in her left shoe at all times.

Kory Wells grew up on the stories of her southern Appalachian family and the wonder of the Space Age, diverse influences that have shaped her life’s work and writing.

She is the author of the poetry collection SUGAR FIX (Terrapin Books, 2019) and the chapbook Heaven Was the Moon (March Street Press, 2009). She also performs her poetry on the album DECENT PAN OF CORNBREAD, a collaboration with her daughter, folk musician Kelsey Wells.

A seventh generation Tennessean, Kory recently served two terms as the inaugural Poet Laureate of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, where she also founded and manages a reading series and open mic. Winner of the 2016 HeartWood Broadside Series and a finalist for other awards, her work appears in numerous publications, including the JAMES DICKEY REVIEW, KISSING DYNAMITE, RUMINATE, STIRRING, and THE SOUTHERN POETRY ANTHOLOGY.

Kory’s creative nonfiction, praised by LADIES HOME JOURNAL as "standout,” leads the anthology SHE’S SUCH A GEEK (Seal Press, 2006), and her novel-in-progress was a finalist in the William Faulkner Creative Writing Competition.

In her first career, Kory became nationally known for her blogging, social media and niche expertise in insurance analytics and technology. In 2014 she left that career to fully focus on her longtime work as a creative. She is on the board of the Rockvale Writers' Colony and mentors poetry students in the low-residency program MTSU Write.