Brenda Cooper
Brenda Cooper writes science fiction and fantasy short fiction and novels. Her novels include a collaboration with Larry Niven, Building Harlequin's Moon, and her solo the Silver Ship and the Sea, both from Tor Books. A sequel, Reading the Wind, will be out in July of 2008. Her short fiction, solo and in collaboration with Larry Niven, has appeared in Nature, Analog, Asimov's, Strange Horizons, the Salal Review, the Harrington Lesbian Fiction Quarterly, and in multiple anthologies.

Brenda is a futurist, and works with noted futurist Glen Hiemstra. Her non-fiction futurist work can be found on Glen's Futurist.com site. A frequent public speaker about the future, Brenda likes to engage audiences in conversations about the future. Brenda lives in Bellevue, Washington, with her partner Toni, and works as the CIO for the City of Kirkland. For more information, see http://www.brenda-cooper.com.

Barbara Davies
Barbara Davies published her first short story in 1994. Since then, more than forty of her stories have appeared in various magazines, including Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Fantasy Magazine, Rage Machine Magazine, Farthing, Electric Spec, and Here and Now, and in several anthologies, including Ideomancer Unbound and F/SF Volume 1. The readers of Kimota gave one of her stories their 1999 Best Story Award. Her books include Christie and the Hellcat and Into the Yellow and Other Stories from Bedazzled Ink. Her Web site is at http://www.barbaradavies.co.uk

Catherine Lundoff
Catherine Lundoff’s stories have appeared or are forthcoming in over 60 publications including So Fey: Queer Faery Stories, Time Well Bent: GLBT Alternate History, Periphery: Erotic Lesbian Futures, Farrago’s Wainscot, Such a Pretty Face and Simulacrum. She is the author of two collections of lesbian erotica: Crave: Tales of Lust, Love and Longing (Lethe Press, 2007) and Night’s Kiss (Torquere Press, 2005) and editor of the forthcoming fantasy and horror anthology Haunted Hearths and Sapphic Shades: Lesbian Ghost Stories (Lethe Press, 2008). Her story “At the Roots of the World Tree” was a finalist for the 2005 Spectrum Award and Crave is a 2008 Lambda Award nominee. Her website can be found at http://www.visi.com/~clundoff.

Martha J Allard
Martha J Allard writes in Flint Michigan, where she lives with three cats whom she supports by working at a local bookstore. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in publications like Talebones, TurboCharged Fortune Cookie, and online in Wild Violet. Her non-fiction has been published in Morbid Curiosity, and the anthologies, Lend the Eye a Terrible Aspect, and Death’s Garden.