Ken Liu (http://kenliu.name) is an American author of speculative fiction. A winner of the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy awards for his fiction, he has also won top genre honors abroad in Japan, Spain, and France.

Liu’s most characteristic work is the four-volume epic fantasy series, The Dandelion Dynasty, in which engineers, not wizards, are the heroes of a silkpunk world on the verge of modernity. His debut collection of short fiction, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, has been published in more than a dozen languages. A second collection, The Hidden Girl and Other Stories, followed. He also penned the Star Wars novel, The Legends of Luke Skywalker.

He’s often involved in media adaptations of his work. Recent projects include “The Message,” under development by 21 Laps and FilmNation Entertainment; “Good Hunting,” adapted as an episode in season one of Netflix’s breakout adult animated series Love, Death + Robots; and AMC’s Pantheon, with Craig Silverstein as executive producer, adapted from an interconnected series of Liu’s short stories.

Prior to becoming a full-time writer, Liu worked as a software engineer, corporate lawyer, and litigation consultant. He frequently speaks at conferences and universities on a variety of topics, including futurism, machine-augmented creativity, history of technology, bookmaking, and the mathematics of origami.

Liu lives with his family near Boston, Massachusetts.

Melissa Yi could slice your throat and sew it back up again. Legally. Because she's an emergency doctor. This inspires her heroine, Dr. Hope Sze, to solve everything from ingrown toenails to full-blown murder.

Melissa's funniest and sweetest thriller, Sugar and Vice, debuts on Kickstarter September 5th in a celebration of felony and the feast: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/melissayi/sugar-and-vice-a-novel-of-death-dumplings-and-dragons

Melissa won the 2023 Derringer Award for the best mystery short mystery in the English language for "My Two-Legs."

As Melissa Yuan-Innes, she writes about everything from Cinderella in China to hot dog-loving aliens to real-life cases in the ER. She has received awards and recognition in mystery, fantasy and science fiction, non-fiction, literature, and poetry. Why pick one world when you could create a multiverse?

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Eugie Foster calls home a mildly haunted, fey-infested house in metro Atlanta that she shares with her husband, Matthew. After receiving her Master of Arts degree in Developmental Psychology, she retired from academia to pen flights of fancy. She also edits legislation for the Georgia General Assembly, which from time to time she suspects is another venture into flights of fancy.

Eugie received the 2009 Nebula Award for Best Novelette for "Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast," the 2011 Drabblecast People's Choice Award for Best Story for "The Wish of the Demon Achtromagk," and the 2012 eFestival of Words Best Short Story Collection Award for MORTAL CLAY, STONE HEART AND OTHER STORIES IN SHADES OF BLACK AND WHITE. She has also been a finalist for the Hugo, BSFA, and Washington Science Fiction Association awards. Her fiction has been translated into eight languages, and her publication credits number over 150. Her short story collection, RETURNING MY SISTER'S FACE AND OTHER FAR EASTERN TALES OF WHIMSY AND MALICE was published in 2009 and has been used as a textbook at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the University of California-Davis.

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Eric Choi is a writer, editor, and aerospace engineer in Toronto, Canada. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Engineering Science and a master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering, both from the University of Toronto, and an MBA from York University. He was the first recipient of the Isaac Asimov Award (now the Dell Magazines Award) for his novelette "Dedication", and he has twice won the Prix Aurora Award – Canada's national prize for excellence in science fiction and fantasy – for his short story "Crimson Sky" and for the Chinese-themed speculative fiction anthology The Dragon and the Stars (DAW) co-edited with Derwin Mak. His work has appeared in more than thirty publications in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Hungary, and Japan. In 2009, he was one of the Top 40 finalists (out of 5,351 applicants) in the Canadian Space Agency’s astronaut recruitment campaign. Please visit his website www.aerospacewriter.ca or follow him on Twitter @AerospaceWriter.