Jeff Patterson is a writer and illustrator. He has several stories out in assorted anthologies from Tannhauser Press. He was a long-time contributor to the Hugo Award-winning website SF Signal, and the least-educated (but best-looking) third of the podcast team known as The Three Hoarsemen.

Jeffrey C. “TimeHorse” Jacobs is a working physicist and a professional software engineer, driving an electric car around the mid-Atlantic. Friend assists local writing groups and Doctor Who societies, cosplays, acts, organizes EV events, is a ToastMaster, runs science book clubs, composes music, and created and produces Project Kronosphere. Friend is best known for short stories appearing in Bleed, The Witness Paradox, and Reliquary, among others. Friend is also an adept nano-fiction writer, with some of his 12-word pieces appearing in Tranquility.

Friend is active in various non-partisan issues such as the Equal Rights Amendment, the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, and working to remove money from politics. Friend has flown a plane, lived in Montréal, Paris, near Zürich, and in London and speaks French, German, Italian, Russian, Chinese, and Japanese in precedingly diminished quality. On Friday nights, you can often find friend on BGA and Yukata while we all suffer from SARS-CoV-2.

You can also find Jeffrey on YouTube as creator and cohost of the @greenpillsecret and practicing his lock-picking skills around Reston, VA, where friend regularly climbs 16 flights to stay fit!

Martin Wilsey is a full-time author and creator of the highly acclaimed, bestselling, SOLSTICE 31 SAGA.

Mr. Wilsey's first novel, STILL FALLING, was published on March 31st of 2015. Less than three years and over half a million published words later, he retired from his career as a research scientist for a government-funded think tank. As a full-time science fiction writer, Mr. Wilsey still uses his research and whiteboard skills to keep the books flowing. He likes to put science back into science fiction.

He and his wife Brenda live in Virginia with their cats Brandy and Bailey.

Liz Hayes is an engineer by inclination and training. She began her career at Jet Propulsion Labs, and later moved east to be an analyst and statistician for the Federal Government.

She’s fascinated by medieval reenactment, and writes LOTR fanfiction under the penname Uvatha the Horseman. While doing the research for a fanfic about Sauron forging the Ring, she joined the local guild and became an amateur blacksmith herself. It's an excellent hobby which combines her two favorite things, craft projects and pyromania.

She lives in Northern Virginia with her husband and three teenage children she keeps in line by threatening to show up at PTA meetings in full Jedi robes.

Nowhere in Particular; Everywhere in General:

A Brief Biography

Scott A. Ceier (sear) was born to modest means in New Jersey, USA, just in time for the Summer of Love in Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco. However, instead of going to San Francisco he found himself moved to the City of Brotherly Love, Philadelphia, following along with his father’s stormy career as a meteorologist in the U.S. Navy. This led to wanderlust, incurable and acute. A wanderlust that also contributed to missing Woodstock.

Mr. Ceier is proud to have spent very little time as a tourist, but much time travelling the world living in the United States, Spain, Iceland, Belgium, South Korea, Japan, Djibouti, Afghanistan and New Zealand; and visiting for days and weeks places like South Africa, Mali, Tanzania, Germany, Italy, England, Ireland, France, the Netherlands, Yemen, Kuwait, Greece, Turkey and Bahrain. Within the U.S. he has lived in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia (three times), North Carolina, Florida (several times), Arizona, Missouri, Hawaii and California (twice). He has visited Oregon, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, Arkansas, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Kansas, Tennessee, West Virginia, and New York. Among his favorite cities are San Francisco (perhaps because he regrets missing that summer of love), New Orleans, Paris and Istanbul.

Before university Scott attended thirteen separate schools, in three countries (including four States in the U.S.) and seven cities. His academic background is in Anthropology/Archaeology, and Strategic Intelligence. Professionally he has served in the US Army, at a small town newspaper, on a Casino boat, in Hollywood as a writer/producer (mostly of industrial content, so nothing you have seen) and docent, and in the Department of Defense at the Pentagon. He has been an avid scuba diver in the past, taken flight lessons, and rides a motorcycle (having accumulated more than 100,000 miles without ever leaving the planet).

Scott is married and raising two sons while he takes time to figure out what to do when he grows up.

Stephanie Mirro writes bold, adventurous fantasy for readers who love a little heat with their heartbreak—and maybe a splash of chaos. As a proudly neurodivergent author, she creates fierce, complex characters—neurodivergent ones included—who tackle impossible odds armed with sharp wit and questionable life choices. When not crafting mythology-rich worlds or morally grey heroes, Stephanie can be found bingeing heist movies, searching for her next caffeine fix, or accidentally setting things on fire in the name of creativity.

David Keener is an author, editor and public speaker who lives in Northern Virginia with his wife and two, oops, three inordinately large dogs. Since he married a Scottish lass from Paisley, he frequently finds himself in the United Kingdom (and just as frequently in pubs). He writes science fiction, fantasy and mystery but loves the idea of mashing up his favorite genres in new and (hopefully) unexpected ways.

He is the grand instigator behind the WORLDS ENOUGH anthology series, and co-editor of the first volume, FANTASTIC DEFENDERS. He's also been busily publishing books and appearing in various anthologies.

He frequently speaks at technical conferences and SF/Fantasy conventions, where he often conducts workshops on writing and public speaking. Find out more about him on Twitter (@keenersaurus) or his web site: davidkeener.org.

Cora Baker was born in 1960 and she retired a year ago from her career as a computer programmer analyst. As a life long reader and lover of books, Cora has decided to try her hand at the craft of writing. Her love of genealogy, history, romance, and travel will serve her well in her creative efforts. She has started on the path to greater things with the help of an encouraging group of local writers.

Cora is currently working on a novel and several short stories. She lives in Fredericksburg Virginia with her handsome husband and two cats.

Brigitta Rubin is a recovering perfectionist, scientist, and writer fueled by coffee and her quest for the next deviant idea. Since starting her career as an organic chemist at Sandia National Labs, she has engaged in a state of perpetual career metamorphosis; the only two constants being her love of science and technology and the people that make it possible. She has worked with surgeons, terrorism experts, materials scientists, and even prison wardens -- all of whom serve as inspiration for her next story. Despite her mother's greatest efforts, she is still domestically challenged so she has decided to embrace her front yard as an homage to the long lost art of weed cultivation and housekeeping as an experiment in organized chaos. Her zombie apocalypse skill is identifying novel weapons, which she hones with the help of her Krav Maga tribe.

Don Anderson, equally at home climbing a tree with a chainsaw in hand or working at a computer coding the future, a Diginaut by inclination, has more ideas than he'll ever have time to bring to fruition. With a keen interest in sci-fi, alternate realities, and fantasy, he manages to write some of those ideas down, which he hopes you'll enjoy.