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Screenwriter and author Deanna Carlyle specializes in humor and dark fantasy for kids and teens. To learn more about her work, visit http://www.deannacarlyle.com.
Aliette de Bodard lives and works in Paris, where she has a job as a
computer engineer. In her spare time, she indulges her love of mythology and
history by writing speculative fiction stories: her work has appeared or is
forthcoming in Interzone, Realms of Fantasy and Year's Best Science
Fiction. She has been nominated for a Campbell Award for Best New Writer.
Visit http://www.aliettedebodard.com for more information.
Nancy Fulda's fiction has appeared in venues including Jim Baen's Universe, Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest, and Norilana Books' Warrior, Wisewoman anthology. She is a Phobos Award recipient, a two-time WOTF Finalist, and an assistant editor at Jim Baen's Universe.
Nancy also manages the custom anthology web site at http://www.anthologybuilder.com, where visitors can assemble a print-ready anthology of stories by prominent authors.
Nancy keeps a blog at http://nancyfulda.livejournal.com. She lives in Germany with her husband, their three children, and no cats.
Stephen Gaskell was born in Brighton, UK, the same year the Viking 2
spacecraft landed on Mars. Through his childhood he got very good at
math and science, culminating in gaining entrance to University
College, Oxford from where he graduated with a degree in Physics.
Later, he discovered he preferred making stuff up to doing research
and proving theorems, so he began writing. Sales to Writers of the
Future Vol. XXIII, Nature, and Cosmos Magazine amongst others have
convinced him he has some talent at this, but he's still hedging his
bets. To this end he has recently completed a Masters in
Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems at Sussex University so that in the
eventuality of a robot uprising he'll be well placed to seek
employment as a security specialist for our digital overlords. www.stephengaskell.com/
Sara Genge is a doctor in Madrid, Spain. She is careful to mix her horror, SF and fantasy to the point where almost all her stories are unclassifiable. She is a founding member and contributor at the www.dailycabal.com which offers daily speculative microfiction for those stolen moments when reading blogs just won't cut it. Blog
After Floris Kleijne's birth in Amsterdam in 1970, nothing of consequence
happened to him until 2001, when he traded his mother tongue for the English
language. (His mother still resents the trade; she's not spoken to him
since.) Since 2001, he's published stories--some of them
award-winning--about space travel, time travel, an axe murderess, people
with gills, and--even though he's happily married--a naked man in a cage.
His first novel, a road movie with werewolves cast as the good guys, is only
two rewrites, an agent, and a publisher away from becoming a best-seller.
Floris likes to claim he prefers writing to Real Life, but the truth is his he
loves both with equal passion--which is why he's so glad that the two merge
seamlessly in the Villa Diodati workshops. Blog.
Rochita Loenen-Ruiz is a Filipina writer-mom living in The
Netherlands. When she isn't busy chasing her toddler around the
house, she writes the authors and books columnist for Munting Nayon
Magazine, reviews for The Fix, and edits for Haruah: Breath of
Inspiration. Her work has appeared in a mix of literary, experimental,
and speculative fiction publications including Philippine Speculative
Fiction volume two and volume four, Route Offline, The Second
Hay(na)ku Anthology, Byzarium, Flash Me magazine and the international
issue of Weird Tales Magazine. Excerpts from her poetic memoir are
included in Hope Away from Home released by OMF Lit Philippines in
2007. Visit her writing blog at: http://rcloenen-ruiz.livejournal.com
Ruth Nestvold in an American writer living in Germany in a house with a turret.
She's not quite sure how she got there, but it might have had something to do with the that father in Copenhagen she watched all those years ago who was playing with his bilingual sons.... She now has two bilingual children of her own, and her fiction has appeared in Asimov's, F&SF, Realms of Fantasy, Baen's Universe, Strange Horizons, and several year's best anthologies, among others. She has been nominated for the Nebula, Sturgeon, and Tiptree awards, and the Italian translation of her novella "Looking Through Lace" won the "Premio Italia" for best international work. Her novel Flamme und Harfe (Flame and Harp) appeared in translation from Penhaligon, a German imprint of Random House, in January 2009. She occasionally maintains a web site at www.ruthnestvold.com.
John Phillip Olsen. Orignally from
California, John is an English teacher who has lived and worked in the east of
France for over thirty years. A graduate
of Clarion West 98, his fiction has appeared in Asimov's and Interzone. Most recently, his story “Birthday”,
critiqued at Villa Diodati 3, was selected by Ben Rosenbaum for Tumbarumba. You can visit his blog at http://jpolsen.livejournal.com/.
Benjamin Rosenbaum lives near Basel, Switzerland, with his wife Esther and
his cute and alarming children, Aviva and Noah, who like to cook pancakes,
sing recursive songs, and turn people into pigs. His stories have appeared
in Harper's, F&SF, Asimov's, McSweeney's, Strange Horizons, and Nature, been
nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, BSFA, and Sturgeon Awards,
and been translated into 14 languages; also, Noah told him he was fancier
than Noah's elbow. His collection "The Ant King and Other Stories" (
http://theantking.com) came out in August 2008 from Small Beer Press. More
at http://www.benjaminrosenbaum.com.
Jeff Spock is a fiction writer and video game writer currently living in the south of France. He has previously spent time (not concurrently) as an IT director, farmhand, salesman, dishwasher, teacher, marketing manager, project manager, maître d', business intelligence consultant, handyman, and unemployed layabout.
www.jeffspock.com
Other pages of mine:
Clarion
West 98 |
Cutting
Edges: Or, A Web of Women |
Joe's Heartbeat in Budapest |
The
Aphra Behn Page |
ECHO
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