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

Avra Margariti is a queer author and Pushcart-nominated poet with a fondness for the dark and the darling. Avra’s work haunts publications such as Vastarien, Asimov's, Liminality, Arsenika, The Future Fire, Love Letters to Poe, Space and Time, Eye to the Telescope, and Glittership. Avra lives and studies in Athens, Greece. You can find Avra on twitter (@avramargariti).

Geoffrey W. Cole's award-winning short fiction has appeared in such publications as Apex, Clarkesworld, EscapePod, Reckoning, and Imaginarium 2012: The Year's Best Canadian Speculative Writing. His stories have been translated into Catalan, French, Hungarian, Italian, Romanian, and Spanish, and have been produced as podcasts. He is the 2016 winner of the Premis Ictineu for best story translated into Catalan. He lives with his wonderful wife, three sons, and giant hound outside Toronto, Canada. Visit Geoff at www.geoffreywcole.com.