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Lawrence M. Schoen holds a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology, with a special focus in psycholinguistics. He spent ten years as a college professor, and the study of human behavior and the mind provide a principal metaphor for his fiction. He currently works as the director of research and chief compliance officer for a series of mental health and addiction treatment recovery facilities throughout Philadelphia. Read more »

In addition to her novel, Greystone, she has several upcoming publications. Christina is a contributing editor to a monthly horror-writing column in The Muse Marquee online magazine. Her short story "Restless: will appear in an anthology which will be released in the summer of 2006. She will write a quarterly true ghost tale, "Case Book," for Haunted Lives online magazine. Christina’s works focus on horror and speculative fiction.She belongs to a multitude of critique groups including The Muse It Up Club, Writers's Block and Critters. Read more »

Steven Harper Piziks was born in Saginaw, Michigan, but he moved around a lot. Currently he lives with his wife and sons in Michigan. He’s also lived in Wisconsin and Germany and recently traveled to Ukraine to adopt children with his wife. His short fiction has appeared in Sword & Sorceress, Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Fantasy Magazine, Esther Friesner’s Chicks in Chainmail anthologies, and elsewhere. His novels include In the Company of Mind and Corporate Mentality, both science fiction published by Baen Books, and The Nanotech War, a Star Trek: Voyager novel. Read more »

Benjamin Rosenbaum’s short fiction ranges from crisply extrapolative science fiction in the Campbellian tradition, to richly ambiguous fantasy, to Borgesian fables and postmodern literary whimsies -- accordingly, it’s been published in venues ranging from Asimov’s and F&SF to Nature to Harper’s and McSweeney’s. Ben has been a finalist for the Hugo, the Nebula, and the Sturgeon Awards, and his stories have been collected in The Year’s Best Science Fiction, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, Best SF, and the seminal slipstream anthology “Feeling Very Strange”. Read more »

Hugo-winning SF/F novelist, author of “Accelerando”, formerly the lead developer at Datacash PLC (a successful British dot com), and formerly Linux/free software columnist for the British magazine Computer Shopper. Based in Edinburgh, Scotland, hence speaking fees in US are likely to reflect intercontinental travel time.