Carrie Vaughn

Carrie Vaughn’s work includes the Philip K. Dick Award-winning novel Bannerless, the New York Times Bestselling Kitty Norville urban fantasy series, over twenty novels and upwards of 100 short stories, two of which have been finalists for the Hugo Award. Her most recent work includes a pair of novellas about Robin Hood’s children, The Ghosts of Sherwood and The Heirs of Locksley. She’s a contributor to the Wild Cards series of shared world superhero books edited by George R. R. Martin and a graduate of the Odyssey Fantasy Writing Workshop. An Air Force brat, she survived her nomadic childhood and managed to put down roots in Boulder, Colorado. Visit her at www.carrievaughn.com.

Ursula Vernon

Ursula Vernon is a children’s book author. She also writes for adults as T. Kingfisher. Her work has won the Nebula, Hugo, Sequoyah, and Mythopoeic Awards. More information can be found at redwombatstudio.com

Nghi Vo

Nghi Vo became a writer because while there were alternatives, none of them suited her as well as a lifetime of endless research combined with simply making things up.

She is the author of Siren Queen, The Chosen and the Beautiful, and The Singing Hills Cycle, including The Empress of Salt and Fortune, When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain, and Into the Riverlands.

Sabrina Vourvoulias

Sabrina Vourvoulias is the author of Ink (Crossed Genres, 2012), a novel that draws on her memories of Guatemala’s armed internal conflict, and of the Latinx experience in the United States. It was named to Latinidad’s Best Books of 2012.

Her short stories have appeared at Uncanny Magazine, Tor.com, Strange Horizons, Crossed Genres, and in a number of anthologies, including Latin@ Rising (Wings Press; Goodwin, ed.); The Year’s Best Young Adult Speculative Fiction 2015, and Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History (Fox and Older, eds.).

She is freelance bilingual journalist and editor; her pieces have appeared at Philly.com, Philadelphia Magazine, City and State Pennsylvania, NBC Philadelphia, Telemundo 62, and The Guardian US, among others. Follow her on Twitter @followthelede.

Amanda Wakaruk and Olav Rokne

Hugo-finalist fanzine editors Amanda Wakaruk and Olav Rokne are frequent volunteers at Worldcons, and are helping plan a Western Canadian bid for the 2030 World Science Fiction Convention. Outside of fandom, Amanda is an academic librarian and Olav is a public relations professional. Their blog can be found at HugoClub.blogspot.ca.

Lane Waldman

Lane Waldman grew up in Rochester, NY and currently lives in Philadelphia, PA. They have a Bachelor’s from Connecticut College, and they previously worked as a First Reader for Strange Horizons. Their stories have appeared in Daily Science Fiction, Capricious, Betwixt, and the anthology Tales from the Lake Vol. 5.

K.S. Walker

K.S. Walker writes speculative fiction while forgetting about their tea. You can often find them outside with their family or starting a craft project but probably not finishing it. K.S. Walker has been published or is forthcoming at FIYAH, Fantasy, The Deadlands, Apex, and elsewhere. You can find them online at www.kswalker.net or on Twitter and Instagram @kswalkerwrites.

Suzanne Walker

Suzanne Walker is a Chicago-based writer and editor. She is co-creator of the critically acclaimed and award-nominated graphic novel Mooncakes, and her short fiction has been published in Clarkesworld, Uncanny Magazine, and the Star Wars anthology From a Certain Point of View: Return of the Jedi. Her nonfiction works have appeared in a diverse array of publications including StarTrek.com and academic anthologies. She is a scholar of medieval Italian longsword and enjoys aerial silks, figure skating, and baseball.

Jo Walton

Jo Walton is the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award winning author of thirteen novels, including Among Others among others. Her fourteenth novel, Poor Relations, is coming out in February 2018. She has a Patreon for poetry patreon.com/bluejo and a real grown up website jowaltonbooks.com and wastes way too much time on Twitter @BlueJoWalton She comes from Wales but lives in Montreal where the food and books are much better. She plans to live to be ninety-nine and write a book every year.

LaShawn M. Wanak

LaShawn M. Wanak writes speculative stories, essays, and poetry. Her work is published in venues such as Uncanny Magazine, FIYAH, and Sunday Morning Transport. She served as the lead writer for the art collective Meow Wolf on their permanent immersive exhibit, “The Real Unreal,” in Grapevine, TX. She is also the editor of the Hugo-nominated online magazine GigaNotoSaurus.

LaShawn enjoys knitting, anime, and wrestling with theological truths from a Womanist perspective. You can find her on Facebook, Bluesky, her website “The Cafe in the Woods,” and her Patreon. Writing stories keeps her sane. Also, pie.