Ira Nayman, a humour writer who stumbled into speculative fiction around twenty years ago and decided to stick around, is the author of eight novels, most recently The Ugly Truth, the final book in the Multiverse Refugees trilogy. Two dozen of his short stories have been published, most recently "Girls Rule the Cyberpunk World!" in Brave New Girls 7 and "ePik Flayl Creates the Wor(l)d... Again" in Dreaming the God. Les Pages aux Folles, Ira's website of political and social satire, has been updated weekly for over twenty years.Ira was the editor of Amazing Stories magazine for three years. The Dance is the first anthology he has edited.

Karen Dales is the award-winning and best-selling author of The Chosen Chronicles (Changeling, Angel of Death, Shadow of Death, and Thanatos). She is the Managing Editor of Dark Dragon Publishing and has edited Dreaming The Goddess and Dreaming The God, both anthologies. She has also had many stories published in different anthologies.