Alvaro Zinos-Amaro (Issue #1) grew up in Europe, mostly and despite the advice of his betters earning a BS in Theoretical Physics and studying creative writing. He now lives in California. His fiction has appeared in Farrango’s Wainscot, Neon Literary Magazine, New Dead Families, and other online venues. His reviews and critical essays have appeared in The New York Review of Science Fiction, The Internet Review of Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, Foundation and elsewhere. If you too are waiting for your own pet Aineko, visit Alvaro’s blog.

Megan Arkenberg (Issue #2) is a student in Wisconsin. Her work has appeared in Clarkesworld, Ideomancer, Strange Horizons, and dozens of other places. She procrastinates by editing the fantasy e-zine Mirror Dance and the historical fiction e-zine Lacuna.

RJ Astruc (Issue #2) lives in New Zealand and drinks a lot. She’s been in like a bajillion magazines, including Strange Horizons, Abyss & Apex, Aurealis, and Midnight Echo. Her new novel is A Festival of Skeletons, which is coming out in December from Crossed Genres.

Erich William Bergmeier (Issue #1) lives in a cottage on the outskirts of Montreal. He spends most of his time fishing on the banks of the Ottawa River and translating the works of minor German poets. His work is forthcoming in Encounters Magazine.

S. Hutson Blount (Issue #4) is an ex-sailor and full time househusband living in Alameda, California. Yes, with the “nuclear wessels”.

Alana I. Capria (Issue #3) (born 1985) has an MFA in Creative Writing from Fairleigh Dickson University. She resides in Northern New Jersey with her fiance and rabbits. Her chapbooks and links to other publications can be found at http://alanaicapria.com

Siobhan Carroll (Issue #4)  is a doctoral student at Indiana University. Her short stories and poetry have appeared in magazines such as On Spec, Room of One’s Own, and Son and Foe.

Peter Chiykowski (Issue #3) lives and writes in Halifax, Nova Scotia. His poetry and comics have appeared in university newspapers across the east coast of Canada. He has poetry and fiction out or forthcoming in Grain, The New Quarterly, and OnSpec. You can read his comics, Rock, Paper, Cynic, and  Little Worlds, for free online at Rock, Paper, Cynic.

Jason L. Corner (Issue #3) lives in Richmond, Virginia with his wife and two children, and teaches at Virginia Commonwealth University. His short fiction has appeared in Abyss & Apex, Electric Spec, Nautilus Engine, Ideomancer, and Labyrinth Inhabitant. He enjoys many different kinds of mushrooms.

Gary Cuba (Issue #1) lives with his wife and an unruly horde of freeloading domestic critters in South Carolina. His short fiction has appeared or is scheduled in Jim Baen’s Universe, Abyss & Apex, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Brain Harvest, Fictitious Force, and numerous other speculative and mainstream publications.

BV Czopyk (Issue #2) is an expatriate of communist era Ukraine, now living hermetically, isolated deep in Canada’s snowswept North. He drinks vodka often and writes science fiction occasionally.

Peter Damien (Issue #2) lives in Minnesota for no known reason, with his wife and two sons, his cats, rats, and a million billion books. He writes to fund his tea habit. He has weird hair. He nervously suspects he would be the first to go in a slasher film.

Michael J. DeLuca (Issue #4) brews beer, bakes bread, hugs trees, and curates a precolombian thought broadcast out of the back of his head. He graduated from the Odyssey Writing Workshop in 2005, belongs to the Homeless Moon writers’ cabal, volunteers at Small Beer Press, and operates Weightless Books, a fledgling indie ebook site. Look for more of his short fiction upcoming in Space & Time, Pseudopod, Basement Stories, and the Homeless Moon Chapbook #4, due out at Readercon in July 2011. Read his blog at http://www.michaeljdeluca.com/.

Nancy Fulda (Issue #3) is a Phobos Award Winner and a recipient of the Vera Hinckley Mayhew Award. Her fiction has appeared in publications such as Apex Digest, Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, and Jim Baen’s Universe. Her current project is a novel set on a distant planet with unusual orbital properties.

Catalog librarian by day, Lyn C. A. Gardner (Issue #3) has had poems, stories, and articles published or forthcoming in Strange Horizons, Daily Science Fiction, Sybil’s Garage, The Leading Edge, Mythic Delirium, MindFlights,and more. She is a 2004 graduate of the Clarion West Writers Workshop.

Ada Hoffman (Issue #2) is a Canadian university student who spends her time writing, gaming, worrying about things, and teaching computers to think. She occasionally sings, but alas, it hasn’t killed anybody so far. This is her third published short story.

Ericka Kahler (Issue #1) has lived in eight states: Wisconsin, Minnesota, Florida, Pennsylvania, Texas, Illinois, Alabama and, most recently, Michigan. She graduated from the University of West Florida with a BA in history. In 2005 she won the Mumee Valley Writer’s Conference Short Story Contest and has since written man articles and procedure manuals for businesses. Ericka is also a freelance writer and editor, and her book, Stories and Poems? We’re All Forum: The Best of the Northwest Ohio Writers’ Forum was published in November of 2006 and is available through amazon.com.

Rajan Khanna (Issue #1) is a graduate of the 2008 Clarion West Writers Workshop and a member of the NY-based writing group, Altered Fluid. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Shimmer Magazine, GUD,the Shadows of the Emerald City anthology and Steampunk Tales and has received Honorable Mention in the Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror. He sometimes writes articles for Tor.com and occasionally reads podcasts for Podcastle.

Spencer Koelle (Issue #1) is a creative writing major and women’s studies minor at Susquehanna University. His other publications can be found at his website.

Samuel Mae (Issue #1) writes. Mostly he writes speculative fiction and poetry, but occasionally he veers onto the mainstream highway. He had poetry upcoming in The Terror at Miskatonic Falls Anthology and has fiction upcoming in Issue #21 of the Hugo Award-winning zine Electric Velocipede. For more information, including links to published writing available online, check out his website

Edgar Mason (Issue #1) has lived in too many places to talk about here, beginning with Baltimore and ending, most recently, with the west of France, where he lives with his family and seventeen mounted deer heads. His work has appeared in The Open Vein and Poor Mojo’s Almanac(k), and at MorbidOutlook.com. He can be found online at radiosaturday.vox.com.

Based in his hometown of Montreal, Canada, C.J. Miozzi (Issue #3)  is a freelance writer and artist with a degree in planetary science. A McGill University graduate, his work experience ranges from fiction writer and supervising editor to game writer and graphic designer, and he has been interviewed on local radio and internet podcasts.

Kristine Ong Muslim‘s (Issue #2) work has appeared or is forthcoming in more than four hundred publications worldwide, including Aberrant Dreams, Abyss & Apex, Alternative Coordinates, Dark Recesses, Space & Time, and Tales of the Talisman. She has received several Honorable Mentions in Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror as well as five nominations for the Pushcart Prize and four for the Science Fiction Poetry Association’s Rhysling Award.

Aaron  Polson (Issue #1) was born on the Ides of March: a good day for him, unlucky for Julius Caesar. He currently lives in Lawrence, Kansas with his wife, two sons, and a tattooed rabbit. To pay the bills, Aaron teaches high school students the difference between irony and coincidence. His stories have featured magic goldfish, monstrous beetles, and a book of lullabies for baby vampires. Loathsome, Dark, and Deep, a novel of historical horror, is due from Belfire Press in late 2010. You can visit Aaron on the web at aaronpolson.blogspot.com.

George Potter (Issue #1 and #4) was born in eastern Kentucky and has lived all over the country. He’s a scholar of science fiction and fantasy and an appreciator of cats. His stories have previously appeared in The Sword Review and Aphelion.

T.A. Pratt (Issue #4), sometimes better known as Tim Pratt, is the author of  the Marla Mason series of urban fantasy books. His stories have appeared in The Best American Short Stories, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, and other nice places. He’s won a Hugo for his short fiction (and lost Sturgeon, Stoker, World Fantasy, and Nebula Awards). He lives in Berkeley CA with his wife and son. Find him online at timpratt.org

Cat Rambo (Issue #4)  has worked as a programmer for Microsoft and a Tarot card reader; professions which, she claims, both involve a certain combination of technical knowledge and willingness to go with the flow. Her stories have appeared in Asimov’s, Weird Tales, Clarkesworld, and Strange Horizons, among others, and her work has consistently garnered mentions and appearances in year’s best anthologies. Her collection, Eyes Like Coal and Moonlight, was an Endeavour Award finalist in 2010 and followed her collaboration with Jeff VanderMeer, The Surgeon’s Tale and Other Stories.  Visit her website athttp://www.kittywumpus.net/blog/.

WC Roberts (Issue #1 and #4) lives in a mobile home up on Bixby Hill, on land that was once the county dump. The only window looks out on a ragged scarecrow standing in a field of straw and dressed in WC’s own discarded clothes. WC dreams of the desert, of finally getting his first television set, and of ravens. Above all, he writes.

Marina Lee Sable‘s (Issue #1) poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Pedestal Magazine, Dreams of Decadence, Paper Crow, OG’s Speculative Fiction, Cover of Darkness, Illumen, Shelter of Dayling, C0yote Wild,and Strong Verse.

Alexandra Seidel‘s (Issue #2) poetry has appeared in Sybil’s Garage, Twice the Terror: The Horror Zine Anthology, Space and Time Magazine and others.

Tom Sheehan (Issue #2) is the author of Brief Cases, Short Spans and Epic Cures. He has been nominated for the illustrious Million Writers Award twice and the coveted Pushcart Prize an impressive twelve times. In addition, he has received a Silver Rose Award from American Renaissance for the Twenty-First Century (ART) and the Georges Simenon Award for Excellence in Fiction. Sheehan served in the 31st Infantry Regiment in Korea in 1951, an experience that forever changed his life and serves to inform his writing. He lives in Saugus, Massachusetts.

Rhiannon Rasmussen-Silverstein (Issues #1 and #2) is a student and printmaker. We don’t know much about her, except that she made our absolutely stunning cover art for Issues #1 and #2.

Lavie Tidhar (Issue #2)  is the author of The Bookman, published by Angry Robot, and forthcoming Camera Obscura. Other works include novella Cloud Permutations, linked-story collection HebrewPunk and many others.

Eliza Victoria (Issue #2 and #4) lives in the Philippines. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in various publications based in her country and elsewhere, most recently in The Pedestal Magazine and Philippine Speculative Fiction V. Visit her at http://sungazer.wordpress.com, or follow her on Twitter (#@HiElizaHere).

Rachael Washington (Issue #3) has been published in AlienSkin, A Fly in Amber, and Everyday Weirdness.

Kelsey Willis‘s  (Issue #1) true bio remains unknown – all we know is that she has excellent taste in mythology and a formidable talent for writing poetry.

Shannon Connor Winward (Issue #3) is a mommy and also, sometimes, a poet and author of fiction for children and adults. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in such venues as: Flash Fiction Online, Pedestal Magazine, Vestal Review, Witches & Pagans Magazine, The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Flashshot and Dreamstreets, as well as the anthologies Jack-o’-Spec: Tales of Halloween and Fantasy (Raven Electrik Ink); Twisted Fairy Tales: Volume Two (Wicked East Press), and Greek Myths Revisited (Wicked East Press). Visit her blog at http://ladytairngire.livejournal.com.