Barry is a freelance Magazine Cartoonist, published author, and Small Press Publisher of five trade paperbacks, a Graphic Memoir, and five comic books.

His Panel Cartoons have appeared in national publications including Barron's, Readers Digest, American Legion Magazine, Lacrosse Magazine, Discoveries, True West Magazine, Medical Economics, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Prospect, First Magazine, The Maple Leaf News, Skipping Stones, The Valley News, The Chicago Loop News, The Artist's Magazine and FiftySomething Magazine.

Barry released his first book in 2005. "Embrace the Pun!" is a collection of pun-based panel cartoons.

"Kitty Nirvana: The First Ginger & Shadow Collection" was released in 2008 and won a Silver Medal at the IPPY Awards. The IPPY's are presented by Independent Publisher Magazine.

"Revenge of the Pun!" was released in 2010 and is also available in e-book format. ForeWord Reviews Magazine awarded Revenge of the Pun a Silver Medal for Humor, at their 2010 Book of the Year Awards. The book has also won a Bronze Medal for Cartoons & Graphic Novels at the 2011 IPPY Awards.

"The Pun Rides Again" was released in February of 2016.

Under the imprint Griffin Comics, Barry has published "Star Crossed", "Gormon" and the autobiographical novel, "Terminal Velocity." In October 2024, "The Boston Paranormal Archives," Barry's collection of true ghost stories, will be released by Fonthill Media.

Barry also offers his panel cartoons for use in PowerPoint presentations, websites and newsletters. It's quick and easy. Look for Cartoon Stock, sort through hundreds of cartoons by topic, and instantly download your selections.

A graduate of the Vesper George School of Art in Boston, Barry has joined with fellow graduate and Cartoonist Brian Codagnone, to form Corbett Features, a cartoon and comic illustration syndicate supplying content for print and multi-media.

Barry teaches Cartooning classes at North Shore Community College. He resides in North Reading, MA.

David Cleden is an award-winning author of both fiction and non-fiction. As a fiction writer, David won the 2016 James White Award for his short story "Rock, Paper, Incisors" and also the Aeon Award for "When The Last Telepath Left Town" both of which have been translated into Italian and have appeared in the "Mondi Incantati" anthologies for 2016 & 2018. Subsequently, David was a first-place winner in the "Writers of the Future: Volume 35" short story competition with "Dark Equations of the Heart".

He is a Bid Director and consultant with more than 25 years experience of the public services IT sector. In addition to writing bids and successfully delivering complex projects for a wide range of commercial clients, he writes widely on a variety of business-related issues. His book, "Bid Writing for Project Managers" is a popular guide to proposal-writing success published by Routledge. David's previous book, Managing Project Uncertainty, was the first title in the Routledge series on "Advances in Project Management". He also contributed a chapter to "Advances in Project Management" edited by Darren Dalcher.

As he is quick to point out, he tries hard not to muddle up his fiction and non-fiction writing.

Jamie Lackey lives in Pittsburgh with her husband and their cats. She enjoys reading, writing, tabletop role playing games, video games, watching anime, baking, hiking, and mushroom hunting.

She has over 160 short fiction credits, and her short stories have appeared in places like Daily Science Fiction, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Apex Magazine, Escape Pod, and Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show. Her fiction has appeared on the Best Horror of the Year Honorable Mention and Tangent Online Recommended Reading Lists, and she's a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.

Her longer works include two novellas, Moving Forward: A Novella of Life After Zombies and The Forest God, as well as her debut novel, Left Hand Gods. She also has four short story collections available: One Revolution: A Year of Flash Fiction; Second Revolution: Another Year of Flash Fiction; The Blood of Four Gods and Other Stories; and A Metal Box Floating Between Stars and Other Stories.

She graduated from the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford in 2006 with a degree in Creative Writing. She studied under James Gunn at the Center for the Study of Science Fiction's Writer's Workshop in 2010 and has taken various workshops with Cat Rambo.

She read submissions for the Hugo-winning Clarkesworld Magazine for five years and was an assistant editor for the Hugo-winning Electric Velocipede from 2012-2013. She served as editor for Triangulation: Lost Voices in 2015 and Triangulation: Beneath the Surface in 2016.

Learn more about her at her website, www.jamielackey.com

Derrick Boden's fiction has appeared in Lightspeed, Clarkesworld, Analog, and elsewhere. He was a finalist for the 2023 Sturgeon Award. Derrick is a writer, a software developer, an adventurer, and a graduate of the Clarion West class of 2019. He currently calls Boston his home, although he's lived in fourteen cities spanning four continents. He is owned by two cats and one iron-willed daughter.

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Sarena Ulibarri is a speculative fiction author and editor currently living in the American Southwest. Her short fiction has appeared in Lightspeed, DreamForge, GigaNotoSaurus, Solarpunk Magazine, and elsewhere, and nonfiction essays have appeared in Strange Horizons and Grist. Her novella, Another Life, was released from Stelliform Press in 2023. As an anthologist, she has curated and published several international volumes of optimistic climate fiction, and has also served as one of the story reviewers behind the Imagine 2200 climate fiction contest. Find her on Mastodon or Bluesky.