Amal El–Mohtar

Amal El–Mohtar has received the Locus Award, been a Nebula Award finalist for her short fiction, and won the Rhysling Award for poetry three times. She is the author of The Honey Month, a collection of poetry and prose written to the taste of twenty–eight different kinds of honey, and contributes criticism to NPR Books and the LA Times. Her fiction has most recently appeared in Strange Horizons, Lightspeed, Uncanny Magazine, and The Starlit Wood anthology from Saga Press. She lives in Ottawa with her spouse and two cats. Find her online at amalelmohtar.com, or on Twitter @tithenai.

Ruthanna Emrys

Ruthanna Emrys is the author of A Half-Built Garden, Winter Tide, and Deep Roots. She also writes radically hopeful short stories about religion and aliens and psycholinguistics. She lives in a mysterious manor house on the outskirts of Washington, DC with her wife and their large, strange family. There she creates real versions of imaginary foods, gives unsolicited advice, and occasionally attempts to save the world.

Erika Ensign & Steven Schapansky

In addition to co-producing Uncanny’s monthly podcast, Erika and Steven run a small podcast empire out of their Edmonton, Alberta apartment. They co-host the coziest Doctor Who podcast around, Lazy Doctor Who, and host/produce/play on may others. Steven: Radio Free Skaro, The Memory Cheats, and Hockey Feels. Erika: Verity!, The Audio Guide to Babylon 5, The Incomparable, Total Party Kill, and she launched and produced the first 17 months of Hugo Award-nominated Apex Magazine’s short fiction podcast.

When not in front of the mic, they work in communications and write occasional genre essays and articles for books and magazines. They also tweet as @HollyGoDarkly and @Legopolis. Erika blogs at hollygodarkly.com.

If you’re thinking of starting your own podcast, Erika and Steven can help! Their company, Castria, does freelance podcast production and consultation. You can find more info at wearecastria.com.

Alexandra Erin

Alexandra Erin is a poet, humorist, and author who went on Twitter to explain what was happening in November of 2016. Well, things kept happening, and she kept explaining them, and now this is her life as a respected (if not respectable) Twitter pundit.

Jane Espenson

Jane Espenson is an Emmy-nominated and Hugo-award-winning writer of television and short fiction. She is best known for her work on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, Gilmore Girls, Marvel’s Jessica Jones, Game of Thrones, Battlestar Galactica, and Foundation, among other series. She is currently writing for Amazon’s Fallout.

Louis Evans

Louis Evans has been a Star Wars superfan for as long as he can remember. His first published work of science fiction was an entry in the StarWars.com Databank: the Dornean Gunship. His other fiction has been published in Nature: Futures, Analog SF&F, Interzone, and more; his nonfiction has been in Blood Knife and The Toast (about how much he loves Star Wars, in fact). He’s online at evanslouis.com and tweets @louisevanswrite

Katherine Ewell

Katherine Ewell is the author of Dear Killer, which was published when she was nineteen. She studied both creative writing and computer science at Stanford, and is equally fascinated by technology and the written word (especially science fiction). She was born and raised in Los Angeles. She currently lives in Brooklyn by herself, and also with thirteen plants.

Aysha U. Farah

Aysha U. Farah is a science fiction writer and game dev from North Carolina. She lives with her partner and one very large cat.

Tessa Fisher

Tessa Fisher is a PhD candidate and possibly the world’s only openly trans lesbian astrobiologist. When she’s not doing science, her hobbies include burlesque dancing, singing in her city’s LGBT women’s chorus, yoga, and writing LGBT-positive science fiction and fantasy. She and her wife currently reside in Tempe, AZ, along with a fairly aloof bearded dragon.

Annalee Flower Horne & Natalie Luhrs

Annalee Flower Horne and Natalie Luhrs are co-editors of feminist geek culture blog The Bias. They’re on Twitter @leeflower and @eilatan, where they can often be found defending the noble chocolate chip cookie from the evils of raisins.