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Scott Thomas is the author of the collection Cobwebs and Whispers. Two stories from that collection recently appeared in The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror.

William Thompson is a respected critic whose reviews have appeared on SF Site and in Interzone, among others.

Jeff Topham reviews for The Alternative Times, among others. His nonfiction has appeared on Fantastic Metropolis and Revolution SF, with future work in The Thackery T. Lambshead Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases, among others.

Lisa Tuttle’s most recent book is Ghosts & Other Lovers, a short story collection. She has also written Writing Fantasy & Science Fiction.

Gordon Van Gelder edits the award-winning F&SF. Formerly, he was a senior editor at St. Martin’s Press.

Alan Wall is the author of several novels, including the critically-acclaimed China, in addition to a short story collection and two books of poetry. His essays and short fiction have appeared on The London Magazine, The Spectator, The Third Alternative and Fantastic Metropolis. Wall is currently working on a new novel, White Ivory.

Michael Walsh runs Old Earth Books, which recently performed a vital restorative function by reissuing handsome new editions of the long-out-of-print Edward Whittemore novels.

Liz Williams is a two-time finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award, with novels forthcoming from Tor UK and a short story collection from Night Shade Books. Her fiction has appeared in year’s best anthologies, Realms of Fantasy, and the forthcoming Thackery T. Lambshead Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases. [web site]

Neil Williamson, a Scottish writer, has published short fiction in Interzone, The Third Alternative, Fantastic Metropolis, The Thackery T. Lambshead Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases, and many other publications.

Richard Winters runs Impatiens Press, which has published his highly-recommended short novel Brightness and several other books.

Paul Witcover’s first novel Waking Beauty received rave reviews. He is currently working on a second novel, and runs the NYR of SF reading series with David Hartwell. [web site]

Gene Wolfe has written several classics, including The Shadow of the Torturer and The Fifth Head of Cerberus. [web site]

Tamar Yellin’s fiction has appeared in London Magazine, Stand, Best Short Stories, The Jewish Quarterly, and the forthcoming Thackery T. Lambshead Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases. She lives in England.

Zoran Živković is one of the leading Eastern European practitioners of magic realism and surrealism, with seven books published in Russia, the United States, and elsewhere. He lives in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. [web site]