The 2003 John Campbell Award Winner, Wen Spencer spent twenty years living in Pittsburgh, so its only natural that she sets her stories there. Currently she's living outside of Boston with her husband and son. She's a fan of Japanese anime and manga, and it flavors her writing. TINKER won the 2003 Sapphire Award and was nominated for the Romantic Times Review Choice Award for Best Fantasy.

Her most recently published novel is Endless Blue from Baen Books.

You can find out more about Wen Spencer on her website.

Steve Jackson graduated from Rice University in Houston. While there, he spent most of his time playing wargames and working on the student paper, the Thresher (he spent two years as editor). He became a writer and game publisher, proving that college can be very valuable if you don't let classes get in your way.

Steve's first professional design work was for Metagaming, which published his Ogre, G.E.V., Melee, Wizard, and several other games. In 1980, Steve bought The Space Gamer magazine from Metagaming and started his own company.

Vincent Di Fate is a world renown artist specializing in science fiction, fantasy, astronomical,and areospace paintings and illustrations. He has won numerous awards for his work. He won the the Frank R. Paul Award for Outstanding Achievement in Science Fiction Illustration in 1978, the Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist in 1978, the Skylark Award for Imaginative Fiction in 1987, the Lensman Award for Lifetime Contributions tho the Science Fiction Field in 1990, and the Chesley Award from the Asssociation of Science Fiction/Fantasy Artists for Lifetime Artistic Achievement in 1998.

In the ten years since he discovered fandom, Warren Buff has volunteered with many conventions and worked on a number of fanzines. He helped with StellarCon's bid for the 46th DSC. He is a member of the Southern Fandom Press Alliance, has been elected President of the Southern Fandom Confederation, and co-chaired the bid for NASFiC 2010 to be in Raleigh, NC.

Author and lecturer Chris Berman wrote his first novel, The Hive, while recovering from a bicycle versus SUV accident. Since then he has gone on to write a second novel Red Moon, both published through Xpress Yourself Publishing.

Currently he is working on his third novel Star Pirates, due to be released in late 2010. He lives in Saint Augustine, Florida with his wife and two daughters.

Darrel Osborn is a graphic artist, stage magician, and ballon artist. When not plotting complete world domination, he puts on a variety of magic shows in the Tennesse Valley area as "Doctor" Osborn.

You can find out more about Darrel Osborn on his website.

Author and editor Kimberly Richardson's first book is an anthology of her short stories and poetry, Tales from a Goth Librarian. Currently she is editing a Steampunk Anthology that will be published in 2010 by Kerlak Publishing. She lives in Memphis, Tennesse and books are her greatest passion.

You can find out more about Kimberly Richardson on her MySpace website.

Steve White served as a Navy Officer during the Vietnam War. He has written numerous books beginning in 1993 with The Disinherited, the first in The Disinherited series. He is perhaps most well known for his collaboration with David Weber on the Starfire series, starting with Insurrection. His most recent novel is Saint Antony's Fire. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia and is married and has three daughters.

You can find out more about Steve White on his Wikipedia page.

A 2009/2008/2007 Hugo Award nominee, 2008 Philip K. Dick Award nominee, 2009/2007 Chesley Award nominee and 2006 World Fantasy Award nominee, Lou Anders is the editorial director of Prometheus Books' science fiction imprint Pyr, as well as a series of anthologies including: Fast Forward 2 (Pyr, October 2008), Sideways in Crime (Solaris, June 2008), Fast Forward 1 (Pyr, February 2007), FutureShocks (Roc, January 2006),

Les Johnson is a NASA physicist and manager, author, husband and father. By day, he serves as the Deputy Manager for the Advanced Concepts Office at the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. In his spare time he writes popular science books and articles, reads science fiction, and fulfills the role of husband and father to his two children.

Mr. Johnson has co-authored the books Solar Sails, Living Off the Land in Space, and Paradise Regained: The Re-Greening of Planet Earth.

Stephanie Osborn is a former payload flight controller, a veteran of over twenty years of working in the civilian space program, as well as various military space defense programs. Stephanie is currently retired from space work. She now happily "passes it forward," tutoring math and science to students in the Huntsville area, from elementary through college.

Formed by a Group of Parapsychologists and ghost hunters, The Cemetery Surfers spend as much time in haunted locations as they do onstage. "We're musicians and ghost hunters...If we had a talking dog, we'd be a cartoon."

Allan Gilbreath is an award-winning author, story-teller, and instructor. He has been published in numerous anthologies, magazines, and e-zines. Allan has appeared on stage, television, radio, and web cast. He is currently working on the third novel in his vampire series, along with numerous other projects.

You can read more about Allan Gilbreath on his MySpace website.

Mark Fitzgerald is a recognized speaker, performer, artist and educator and is a strong proponent of the edutainment form of adult education. He is also the editor of Kerlak Publishing's Time Intertwined, Tales of Fantasy and the upcoming WTF anthology. Mark has also done cover art for Time Intertwined and Short Attention Span Mysteries as well as contributing to the covers of Tales of Fantasy and Modern Witches, Wizards, and Magic.