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Forrest Aguirre lives in Madison, Wisconsin with his wife and four children where he edits works of convulsive beauty for the Ministry of Whimsy. Forrest’s academic training is in the humanities (BA) and African History (MA). His fiction has appeared in several venues, one of his stories earning an honorable mention in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror.
Hawk Alfredson is an award-winning surreal painter whose work appeared on the first Fantastic Metropolis sampler, Breaking Windows. He lives in New York City with the photographer Mia Hanson. [web site]
Neal Asher’s latest book is The Skinner, from Tor and Tor UK. He lives in England. [web site]
Dale Bailey will publish two books this fall—a collection of short fiction called The Resurrection Man’s Legacy and Other Stories (Golden Gryphon Press) and a novel called House of Bones (Signet). He recently won the International Horror Guild Award for his short story “Death and Suffrage.”
R. M. Berry runs Fiction Collective 2 and has published such acclaimed books as the novel Leonardo’s Horse, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. He has an entry in the forthcoming Thackery T. Lambshead Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases. [web site]
K. J. Bishop lives in Australia. Her first novel, The Etched City, published by Prime Books, has recently been acquired by Tor UK for publication in the British Commonwealth and by Bantam Spectra for the US. Her short fiction has appeared in Album Zutique #1, with more forthcoming in The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases and Leviathan 4. [web site]
Richard Bleiler is an academic librarian. He most recently edited Supernatural Fiction Writers: Contemporary Fantasy and Horror for Charles Scribner’s Sons. In addition, he edited the 2nd edition of Science Fiction Writers (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1999), compiled The Reference Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction (Libraries Unlimited, 1999; 2nd edition forthcoming, 2004), and assisted in the creation and writing of Science Fiction: The Early Years (Kent State University Press, 1990) and Science Fiction: The Gernsback Years (Kent State University Press, 1998). He believes that the worth of any culture can be determined by the number of literary genres it supports.
Cuyler Brooks writes “On the Shelf,” a yearly account of his book collecting triumphs.
Jonathan Carroll lives in Vienna, Austria, where he is currently working on the sequel to his novel critically-acclaimed novel White Apples. [web site]
Jay Caselberg’s novel Wyrmhole is forthcoming from Roc Books in October, with another to follow, Metal Sky, in October 2004. His short fiction is forthcoming from The Thackery T. Lambshead Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases in October, and the ReVISIONS anthology from DAW early next year. [web site]
Michael Chabon’s novel, The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, earned him the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2001. [web site]
Michael Cisco’s first novel, The Divinity Student, won the International Horror Guild Award. His novels The San Veneficio Canon and The Traitor are forthcoming from Ministry of Whimsy Press, with a third, The Tyrant, out in late 2003 from Prime Books. He has contributed several pieces to the forthcoming Thackery T. Lambshead Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases.
Brendan Connell, currently living in Switzerland, has had short fiction has appeared or will appear in such anthologies as Leviathan 3, Album Zutique #1, and The Thackery T. Lambshead Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases. His translations have been published in Literature of Asia, Africa, and Latin America (Prentice Hall).
Ian Covell is a British reviewer and essayist, as well as occasional fiction writer. He is currently co-compiling bibliographies of Michael Moorcock and Edmund Cooper.
John Coulthart has designed a series of stunning books for Savoy in Manchester, England, including most recently, A Voyage to Arcturus. In addition to collaborations with Alan Moore, he has just finished designing The Thackery T. Lambshead Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases. [web site]
Peter Crowther runs one of England’s best new independent presses, PS Publishing, which has released books from China Miéville, Ramsey Campbell, Paul Di Filippo, and many others. Crowther’s excellent fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines.
Jack Dann’s latest book, the collection Jubilee, was published by HarperCollins Australia in 2001 and will be out from TOR in the U.S. in 2003. Dann is one of Australia’s best writers of fantastical fiction. [web site]
Ellen Datlow lives in New York City and is one of the pre-eminent anthologists and editors in the fields of fantasy, science fiction, and fantasy. The former fiction editor at Omni, she now edits SciFiction, an award-winning Internet site. [web site]
