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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]

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Alan DeNiro is a Rat Bastard with work appearing in Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet and the Small Beer Press anthology Trampoline, among others. [web site]

Cory Doctorow is continually subjected to hardcopy appearances of his books, when he would rather they all appear solely as ASCII files. His Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom has received excellent reviews, with a short story collection due out from Four Walls Eight Windows. [web site]

L. Timmel Duchamp’s fiction has appeared in Leviathan 2, Leviathan 3, and many issues of Asimov’s SF Magazine. Her nonfiction has appeared in Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet magazine and Fantastic Metropolis (where she serves as a co-editor). Her work will soon appear in The Thackery T. Lambshead Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases. [web site]

Lawrence Dyer is the author of the just-released A Cottage on the Moss, a nonfiction book about living in remote rural Northern England. [web site]

Carol Emshwiller, an NEA grant recipient, recently won the Philip K. Dick Award for her novel The Mount. Her short story collection Report to the Men’s Club and Other Stories was a finalist for the award. [web site]

Brian Evenson is a professor at the University of Brown. His widely-acclaimed short fiction has appeared in many literary magazines, including Conjunctions, and has been collected in Altmann’s Tongue and other books. His fiction is forthcoming in The Thackery T. Lambshead Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases. [web site]

Tim Feeney is the current editor of The Review of Contemporary Fiction.

Jeffrey Ford, winner of a World Fantasy Award, is the author of the recent critically-acclaimed The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque and the fiction collection The Fantasy Writer’s Assistant. His fiction has or will soon appear in SciFiction, The Thackery T. Lambshead Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases, and many others. [web site]

Karen Joy Fowler’s award-winning novels include Sarah Canary. She has just completed a novel entitled The Jane Austin Book Club. [web site]

Neil Gaiman is the author of the national bestseller American Gods. His fiction is forthcoming in several anthologies, including The Thackery T. Lambshead Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases. [web site]

Stephen Gallagher is a widely-published English novelist who has also worked in television and movies. White Bizango, from PS Publishing, is his latest book. [web site]

Theodora Goss’ fiction has recently appeared or is forthcoming from Alchemy, Fantastic Metropolis, LCRW, and others. Her story “The Rose in Twelve Petals” will appear in the next Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror. [web site]

Mia Hanson’s evocative and often mysterious photography has graced several book covers. She lives in New York City with Hawk Alfredson, the noted surrealist painter.

M. John Harrison’s most recent books are the Tiptree Award-winning novel Light and the Night Shade collection Things That Never Happened. [web site]

Barry Hughart won the World Fantasy Award for his first novel, The Bridge of Birds. Subsequent novels in the same Oriental milieu have received rapt critical attention and established Hughart as a major fantasy writer. [web site]

Rhys Hughes is a Welsh author often compared to Italo Calvino. Tartarus Press published his most recent book, Stories From a Lost Anthology. New books are forthcoming from Ministry of Whimsy and from Night Shade Books, with short fiction in The Thackery T. Lambshead Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases.

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Shelley Jackson has written several children’s books, in addition to The Melancholy of Anatomy. Her short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming from Conjunctions, Trampoline, and The Thackery T. Lambshead Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases. [web site]

Harvey Jacobs’ most recent novel is American Goliath, published by St. Martin’s Press. He is currently working on a new novel, with a short story collection due out shortly. His short fiction has recently appeared in F&SF, with more work forthcoming in The Thackery T. Lambshead Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases.

Stephen Jones is one of the pre-eminent anthologists and editors in the horror field. His Dark Terrors series, edited with David Sutton, and his Best New Horror series are considered landmark anthologies in the field.

Henry Kaiser is a legendary guitar player, known for his risk-taking and collaborations with other avant garde musicians. [web site]

James Patrick Kelly has won acclaim for his dozens of meticulously-crafted, deeply felt short stories, which have been collected in two volumes from Golden Gryphon Press. [web site]

Rick Klaw ran Mojo Books for several years, publishing work by Joe Lansdale, among others. His newest book is Geek Confidential, published by Monkeybrain Books.

John Klima, formerly an editor for Tor Books in New York, publishes a small SF-themed zine named Electric Velocipede that comes out bi-annually in April and October.

Kathe Koja has authored six existential horror novels and now writes for young adults. Her latest book, a short story collection, was published by Four Walls Eight Windows.

Jay Lake is a new writer whose magic realism stories have appeared in a number of U.K. and U.S. markets, with work forthcoming in Leviathan 4 and The Thackery T. Lambshead Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases. [web site]

David Langford, an English writer, has won a number of awards for his fiction and nonfiction. His latest book is Maps: The Uncollected John Sladek. His short fiction is forthcoming in The Thackery T. Lambshead Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases, among others. [web site]

Tanith Lee’s latest books include the last of the Venus Quartet: Venus Preserved, Mortal Suns, a large fantasy, both from Overlook this summer, fourth of the Claidi books Wolf Wing from Dutton next year, Piratica from Hodder, and Cast A Bright Shadow, book one of the Lionwolf trilogy, from Pan MacMillan next year. Her short stories regularly appear in Weird Tales, Asimov’s, and Realms of Fantasy. [web site]

Des Lewis has published more short stories in the international small press than any living writer—more than 3,000. He currently edits the England-based Nemonymous, a fiction journal that publishes writers’ work without a byline. [web site]

Nick Mamatas’ collection of short stories and personal essays, 3000 MPH In Every Direction At Once, was just released by Prime Books. Next year, Night Shade Books will publish his first full-length fiction, the Lovecraftian Beat road novel Move Under Ground. [web site]

Javier A. Martinez edits the highly-respected Extrapolation, a peer-reviewed academic journal that explores science fiction, fantasy, horror, and comics.

Farah Mendlesohn is the editor of Foundation, a journal of SF/F criticism. Her reviews have appeared in The Washington Post and The NY Review of SF, among others.

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Michael Moorcock is a former editor of New Worlds and current editor of Fantastic Metropolis. His most recent books are The Skrayling Tree and a collection of Jerry Cornelius stories from Four Walls Eight Windows, with short fiction set to appear in The Thackery T. Lambshead Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases, among others. [web site]

Cheryl Morgan edits and writes for the Hugo-nominated Emerald City review web site.

Darren Nash is the editor for Simon & Schuster’s Earthlight SF/F imprint.

Richard Eoin Nash has had several books out from Soft Skull Press, among others. [web site]

Vera Nazarian’s novelette “The Young Woman in a House of Old” appears in the anthology Strange Pleasures 2, edited by Paul Barnett and Dave Hutchinson just came out from Prime Books, and her second novel Lords of Rainbow is currently available from Wildside Press. [web site]

Lance Olsen is a well-known avantpop author with several novels to his credit, the latest, Girl Imagined by Chance, from Fiction Collective 2. And, yes, he has fiction forthcoming in The Thackery T. Lambshead Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases. [web site]

Milorad Pavić’s The Dictionary of the Khazars is considered a classic of nonlinear storytelling. His recent books have continued to explore the limits of the nontraditional and fantastical. [web site]

Dan Pearlman is a noted Ezra Pound scholar whose fiction has appeared in a number of literary magazines around the U.S.

Ian Nichols has published a book of poetry, writes fiction, and is a musician. He also helps edit the Australian magazine ASIM.

Justina Robson is the critically-acclaimed author of three novels, including most recently, Natural History, from Pan MacMillan. [web site]

Luís Rodrigues is managing editor of Fantastic Metropolis and Breaking Windows, a sampler collection of fiction and nonfiction from the site.

Mary Doria Russell has had international success with her critically-acclaimed novels The Sparrow and its sequel. [web site]

Lucius Shepard’s novellas and short stories appear frequently in F&SF, among others. His work has recently been published in book form by PS Publishing and Golden Gryphon.

Delia Sherman is the author of several critically-acclaimed novels and one of the founders of the Interstitial Arts Foundation. [web site]

Mike Simanoff is a librarian, editor, and writer living in New York City. He is affiliated with the Ministry of Whimsy Press and Fantastic Metropolis.

Brian Stableford has published over 50 novels and his myriad translations of French Decadent literature for both Dedalus and Tartarus editions have been excellently received. His short fiction regularly appears in year’s best anthologies and is forthcoming in The Thackery T. Lambshead Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases. [web site]

Peter Straub’s new novel, lost boy lost girl, will be published by Random House in October. [web site]

Anna Tambour, an Australian writer, will have her first short story collection published by Prime Books in October 2003.

Jeffrey Thomas is the author of the collection Punktown. His work has appeared in many year’s best anthologies. Several new books will be released in 2003 and 2004, with short fiction in several anthologies. He has three pieces in The Thackery T. Lambshead Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases. [web site]

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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]