Joe Vasicek fell in love with science fiction and fantasy when he read The Neverending Story as a child. He wrote several unfinished novels in high school and took Brandon Sanderson's writing class at Brigham Young University.

He first came onto the indie writing scene in 2011 with his debut novel Genesis Earth. Since then, he has written more than twenty books, including Genesis Earth, Gunslinger to the Stars, The Sword Keeper, and the Sons of the Starfarers series. His stories have been published in Leading Edge, Kasma SF, Serial Magazine, Gallery of Curiosities, and Bards and Sages Quarterly.

As a young man, he studied Arabic and traveled across the Middle East and the Caucasus Mountains. He has also traveled across the United States, from Texas to New England and California to Washington DC. He lives in Utah with his wife, daughter, and two apple trees.

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Wendy Nikel is a speculative fiction author with a degree in elementary education, a fondness for road trips, and a terrible habit of forgetting where she's left her cup of tea. Her short fiction has been published by Analog, Nature, Daily Science Fiction, and elsewhere. Her series of time travel novellas, beginning with THE CONTINUUM, was published by World Weaver Press. For more info, visit wendynikel.com

R. J. Howell is a writer and an artist. A Chicago native, she earned her BA in Fiction Writing at Columbia College Chicago and her MFA in Creative Writing: Popular Fiction from the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast program.

Her short fiction has appeared in magazines such as Arsenika and Translunar Travelers Lounge, and in anthologies such as Astral Books’ Beyond the Stars: Rocking Space and Beyond the Stars: Infinite Expanse, Summerstorm Press' Wicked West, and Smoking Pen Press’ Vampires, Zombies and Ghosts.

She’s a firm believer in living a life well-read.

Ethan Hedman is a speculative fiction writer from South Florida, the land of manatees, medianoches, and miscreants. He conjures up new stories from his home in Cutler Bay.

More than anything else, Ethan adores getting lost in creative entertainment. The joy of being absorbed in awesome books, stories, movies, games, and shows inspired him to start creating fictional works of his own. Ethan started writing short speculative fiction in late 2016 and has been tapping away at his keyboard ever since.

Writing aside, Ethan's pan/bi/queer, an inclusive Norse Pagan / Heathen, loves gaming, cooking, and cats, and spends far too much time procrastinating. He also spent a few years wreaking havoc on mechanized combatants across Florida with ELK Robotics, a local robot combat team he co-founded in 2015.

Margret Treiber is a writer and serves as editor-in-chief for the speculative fiction humor magazine, Sci-Fi Lampoon. When she is not writing or working at her day job with technology, she helps her birds break things for her spouse to fix. Her fiction has appeared in a number of publications. Links to her short stories, novels, and upcoming work can be found on her website at http://www.the-margret.com and on Amazon.

Science fiction books are great, because you can fit so much into them: romance, westerns, adventure, horror, military, animal stories, children's, YA, fantasy, urban fantasy, chicklit, and more. This is why I write science fiction.

I won the first annual Riverdale Avenue Books NaNoWriMo contest (2013) (thanks, Riverdale Avenue Books and Lori Perkins!). It was my first time being published, with a book called an LGBTQ Handmaid's Tale. Since then, I have contributed to a number of charity anthologies. Plus I'm in a bestselling anthology, 42 and Beyond (thanks, Hydra Productions!)! I have won NaNoWriMo every year since.

I have been writing fiction of one form or another for about fifty years. My great love is science fiction, but I enjoy writing comedy, romance, and mystery. These elements often show up in my writing. Then there's the dystopian work, and the quirky bits.

Be on the lookout for (except for in Untrustworthy, which isn't set on Earth) the following Easter eggs:

* Someone from Boston (which is where I live)

* Someone named Shapiro (I have no idea why this name has stuck in my work, but it has)

The future is a strange and fascinating place. Let's explore it together.

I greatly appreciate your unwavering support and kindness. You lift me up.

But you better buckle up, 'cause it's a wild ride.

Paul Williams (1975-) was born in Birmingham. He started writing when he was 6, wanting to become script editor of Doctor Who. His published work includes three non-fiction books, various articles and over fifty short stories.

He now lives in Australia.

You know that feeling you get when you sneak back to bed after a 3 am bathroom trip?

The one that causes you to stop and look into the dark abyss behind you? The one that makes you dive into bed and hide under the covers?

Sarah Gribble loves that feeling. She wants you to have that feeling in broad daylight, safe on your couch.

Sarah lives in Columbus, Ohio with her husband, dog, and two cats. She enjoys hiking, camping, consuming horror in every way possible, and freaking out her readers. She's the published author of dozens of short stories and her first novel, SURVIVING DEATH, will be released in September 2020. She is currently working on her next novel.

Mike Adamson holds a Doctoral degree from Flinders University of South Australia. After early aspirations in art and writing, Mike secured qualifications in both marine biology and archaeology. Mike has been a university educator since 2006, has worked in the replication of convincing ancient fossils, is a passionate photographer, master-level hobbyist, and journalist for international magazines. Short fiction sales include to Metastellar, The Strand, Little Blue Marble, Abyss and Apex, Daily Science Fiction, Compelling Science Fiction and Nature Futures. Mike has placed some two hundred stories to date, totalling over one million words in print. Mike has completed his first Sherlock Holmes novel with Belanger Books, and will be appearing in translation in European magazines. You can catch up with his journey at his blog ‘The View From the Keyboard,’ http://mike-adamson.blogspot.com