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Fahnestalk, Steve Originally born in the USA (Vallejo, California), Steve Fahnestalk moved to Canada in 1985 and became a citizen a few years later. His stories have been published in Pulphouse Reports and several anthologies (Rat Tales 2 & 3, John Ordover’s Baconthology) and R. Graeme Cameron’s Polar Borealis. He’s had a novel and an anthology of short stories published by New Venture Press and is working on a second novel; he’s also been nominated for several Aurora Awards. Steve writes a weekly column of reviews and opinion for Amazing Stories online: http://amazingstoriesmag.com/authors/steve-fahnestalk/. Books: Compostela (Tesseracts Twenty) (2017 - story) Faulkner, Jay Jay Faulkner resides in Northern Ireland though home is wherever his loved ones are—his wife, best-friend, and soul mate, Carole, and their two wonderful baby boys, Mackenzie and Nathaniel. While he’s a writer, martial artist, sketcher, and dreamer, he’s mostly just a husband and father. Jay’s short stories have been published widely both online and in print anthologies Jay founded and edits With Painted Words, a creative writing site with inspiration from monthly image prompts. Books: Rigor Amortis (2011 - story) Faye, Lyndsay Lyndsay Faye is the twice Edgar Award nominated author of Dust and Shadow, the Timothy Wilde trilogy, Jane Steele, and the Sherlockian short story collection The Whole Art of Detection. A proud member of the Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes, the Baker Street Irregulars, and the Baker Street Babes, she lives in Queens with her husband and cats. Books: Gaslight Gothic: Strange Tales of Sherlock Holmes (2018 - story) Felix, Roxanne [UPDATED 2021-02-07] Roxanne Felix is one of the authors of Women of the Apocalypse, a collaborative anthology of four speculative fiction novellas, which won the Prix Aurora Award (Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Award) for Best Work in English (Other) for 2009. She has also been featured in five other anthologies, with two recently published (fiction and non-fiction) in 2016 by Guernica Editions on the theme of Canadian migration. Her most recent publication was a personal essay on her work in anti-racism in RicePaper Magazine (Dec 2016). Books: Seven Deadly Sins (2009 - story) Women of the Apocalypse (2009 - story) Fennell, Megan [UPDATED 2020-08-28] Megan Fennell is the author of many a short, strange tale. Along with her publications through Edge, her stories have been included in anthologies published by OnSpec Magazine, World Weaver Press, Tyche Books, Knightwatch Press, and elsewhere. They usually have a monster. Megan is the whimsical half of the writing duo V.F. LeSann, comprised of herself and fellow author Leslie Van Zwol, who both live and work in Lethbridge, Alberta. Aside from writing, she also entertains herself pursuing painting, drumming, and theatre. Books: Tesseracts Seventeen: Speculating Canada from Coast to Coast to Coast (2013 - story) Wrestling With Gods (Tesseracts Eighteen) (2015 - story) Files, Gemma Gemma Files is the author of the Hexslinger series — A Book of Tongues, A Rope of Thorns and A Tree of Bones. She has also written two collections of short fiction (Kissing Carrion and The Worm in Every Heart) and two chapbooks of poetry. Her short story “The Jacaranda Smile” was nominated for a 2010 Shirley Jackson Award, as was her novella “each thing I show you is a piece of my death”, which was co-written with her husband, Stephen J. Barringer. She has been a film critic, teacher and screenwriter, and is currently a wife and mother living in Toronto. Books: Evolve: Vampire Stories of the New Undead (2010 - story) Chilling Tales: Evil Did I Dwell; Lewd I Did Live (2011 - story) Chilling Tales: In words, alas, drown I (2013 - story) Fire, Kaolin Imago Kaolin Imago Fire is a conglomeration of ideas, side projects, and experiments. Outside of his primary occupation, he also develops computer games, edits GUD Magazine, and very occasionally teaches computer science. He has had short fiction published in Strange Horizons, Bull Spec, and Crossed Genres, among others. Books: Rigor Amortis (2011 - story) Fisher, Victoria Victoria Fisher was born in England but now divides her year between Ottawa and Toronto, where she is currently studying English, History and Politics at the University of Toronto. She is distracted from her studies by her first love — a fascination for stories of all kinds. Books: Tesseracts Ten (2006 - story) Evolve: Vampire Stories of the New Undead (2010 - story) Fitzpatrick, Sandra Sandra Fitzpatrick lives in Calgary, Alberta, where she met Lynda Williams at Conversion Science Fiction conventions and got onboard with editing the Opus 5 anthology. A member of the Imaginative Fiction Writer’s Association, she contributed the story "Return" to Opus 2. A former biochemistry technician, Sandra now works in financial advising. She was born in Rhode Island and moved to Calgaqry in 1981 after meeting her best friend and future husband, Gary Renshaw, at the 1980 World Con in Boston. Books: Opus 5 (2012 - editor) Flesher, Sheila Sheila Flesher works at the Prince George Public Library. Shelia met Lynda Williams during her days as a student at the University of Northern B.C. when Shelia worked, briefly, in Lynda's web development lab. Books: Opus 4 (2012 - editor) Fletcher, Jacob Jacob Fletcher is a Canadian author who lives in Colorado. He graduated from the University of Manitoba with a degree in English. Jacob enjoys writing flash fiction and poetry. Sometimes, he paints things. Visit him at: jacrylic.wordpress.com. Books: Compostela (Tesseracts Twenty) (2017 - story) Flewwelling, Pat Pat Flewwelling is a part-time writer, part-time editor, part-time publisher, part-time traveling bookseller, and full-time data problem solver at a major telecommunication company. Aside from her seven full-length works, her short works have been included in World Weaver Press' anthologies Sirens and Equus, as well as in Purgatorium by ID Press, and in magazines like Pulp Literature. She writes almost anything that can be labelled dark, action-packed, and ironic. Books: Expiration Date (2015 - story) Nevertheless: (Tesseracts Twenty-One) (2018 - story) Foottit, Kimberly Kimberly Foottit is a graduate of McMaster University, where her first published science fiction story “Walter’s Brain” was set. She continually hammers out mystical and speculative writing in various forms, including an ongoing series of stories featuring the doppelganger John Smith), and she demonstrates a special penchant for “postcard” length flash fiction pieces. Kimberly lives in Hamilton with a mischievous kitten named Ernest. Books: Tesseracts Sixteen: Parnassus Unbound (2012 - story) Forde, Pat Pat Forde resides in Waterloo, Ontario, in a house with an ambitious garden; the gardener is his lovely wife Kathleen. Pat has been a Hugo finalist, a finalist for the Sturgeon Memorial award and for the British Fantasy Award, and both his sales to Analog have won the magazine’s annual Readers Award. Pat is proud to be a member of the community of Canadian SF writers. Books: Tesseracts Nine (2005 - story) Forest, Susan [UPDATED 2020-10-05] Susan Forest is the author of Aurora Award-winning Bursts of Fire (2019), as well as over 25 internationally-published short stories. She edits an award-winning anthology series for Laksa Media, and has appeared at many local and international writing conventions. The second novel of her seven-volume Addicted to Heaven series, Flights of Marigold (Publisher's Lunch Selection), confronts issues of addictions in an epic fantasy world of intrigue and betrayal. Books: Tesseracts Ten (2006 - story) Tesseracts Eleven: Amazing Canadian Speculative Fiction (2007 - story) Tesseracts Fourteen: Strange Canadian Stories (2010 - story) Urban Green Man (2013 - story) Forrester, Maurice [UPDATED 2019-07-22] Maurice Forrester is a software developer living in central New York. Recent publications include stories in Middle Planet, Daily Science Fiction, The First Line, and Unrealpolitik (JayHenge Publishing). Books: Fantastic Trains      An anthology of Phantasmagorical Engines and Rail Riders (2019 - story) Fowler, Christopher Christopher Fowler is the multi-award winning author of over thirty novels including the recently released Bryant and May Off the Rails, the eighth novel to feature Bryant and May. In addition to writing novels and short stories Christopher has written comedy and drama for BBC Radio One (including the Sherlock Holmes story The Lady Upstairs), has written articles and columns for a variety of publications and recently completed Celebrity for the stage. Books: Gaslight Arcanum: Uncanny Tales of Sherlock Holmes (2011 - story) Fradkin, Barbara Barbara Fradkin is a retired psychologist with a fasci­nation for why we turn bad. She is best known for her easy-read novellas and her gritty, psychological detective novels featuring the exasperating, quixotic Ottawa Police Inspector Michael Green, two of which have won the Arthur Ellis Best Novel Award. However, she has also written more than two dozen dark, compelling short stories that haunt numerous magazines and anthologies. She loves the short story format for allowing her to explore the extremes of storytelling, even to the edges of the supernatural. Books: nEvermore: Tales of Murder, Mystery and the Macabre (2015 - story) Fraser, David [UPDATED 2020-08-19] David Fraser is a poet, and spoken-word performer, who lives in Nanoose Bay. His poetry has appeared in Rocksalt, (Mother Tongue Press), Poems from Planet Earth (Leaf Press), Walk Myself Home (Caitlin Press) and Tesseracts 18. His most recent collection is After All the Scissor Work is Done, (Leaf Press, 2016.) Books: Wrestling With Gods (Tesseracts Eighteen) (2015 - poem) Frey, J. M. [UPDATED 2020-08-12] J. M. Frey is an author, voice actor, screenwriter, and professional smartypants. She's appeared in podcasts, documentaries, and on television to discuss all things geeky through the lens of academia. Her debut novel TRIPTYCH was nominated for two Lambda Literary Awards, and garnered a place among the Best Books of 2011 from Publishers Weekly. Since then she’s published THE ACCIDENTAL TURN SERIES, a quadrilogy of meta-fantasy novels, and THE SKYLARK’S SAGA, a steampunk adventure duology. Her Wattpad-exclusive queer regency historical fiction novel THE WOMAN WHO FELL THROUGH TIME was honoured with a Watty Award in 2019. Her life’s ambition is to step foot on every continent – only three left! www.jmfrey.net | @scifrey Books: Wrestling With Gods (Tesseracts Eighteen) (2015 - story) Expiration Date (2015 - story) Friis-Baastad, Erling Born in Norway, Erling Friis-Baastad has spent much of his life in the Yukon Territory. During the 1950s space race, he was entranced by “artists’ renditions” of future space settle­ments. Later, when exoplanets filled the news, he launched upon a “poet’s rendition” of humanity’s attempts to survive elsewhere in the universe. Books: Wrestling With Gods (Tesseracts Eighteen) (2015 - story) Fuller, David Jón David Jón Fuller was born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, where he now lives, but has also lived in Edmonton. He earned an honours degree in theatre at the University of Winnipeg and studied Icelandic for two years at the University of Iceland in Reykjavík. He's been the editor of North America's oldest surviving ethnic newspaper, Lögberg-Heimskringla, and his fiction has been published in The Icelandic Canadian Magazine, Mythic Circle, Alien Skin Magazine, Tesseracts 17, In Places Between, The Harrow, and Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History . He currently works as a copy editor for the Winnipeg Free Press. Books: Tesseracts Seventeen: Speculating Canada from Coast to Coast to Coast (2013 - story) Wrestling With Gods (Tesseracts Eighteen) (2015 - story) Furminger, Sabrina [UPDATED 2020-09-23] Sabrina Furminger is a Vancouver-based writer, columnist, and podcaster. She hosts the YVR Screen Scene Podcast – a twice-weekly interview show that celebrates the actors, filmmakers, and other artists who populate the Vancouver film and television industry. For nearly a decade, she wrote weekly film and TV industry columns for the Westender and the Vancouver Courier newspapers, and currently writes similar content for MONTECRISTO Magazine. She won a Women in Film & Television Vancouver Spotlight Award in 2016, and Ma Murray Journalism Awards in 2017 and 2018. Her speculative fiction has appeared in Ricepaper Magazine, OCW Magazine, and Luna Station Quarterly. Sabrina – who published her first novel (a paranormal romance entitled The Healer) in 2011 – is a graduate of Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. Books: Danse Macabre: Close Encounters with the Reaper (2012 - story) Galler-Smith, Barbara Barbara Galler-Smith resides in Edmonton with John, her fabulously supportive husband, and two incredibly cute Yorkshire terriers. After a hiatus from everything but working for money and pet care brochures, she returned to the quirky world of writing science fiction and fantasy. She's a member of Edmonton's Science Fiction and Fantasy Writer's Group. "The Cult of Pain", and co-founder, with writer-editor Ann Marston, of the emerging new writers group, "The Scruffies" (named for a group-written story's main character, not for their personal conditions). She's also busy editing with On Spec magazine. Books: Druids (2009 - novel) Captives (2011 - novel) Warriors (2013 - novel) Gander, Geoff [UPDATED 2019-02-21] Prior to writing fiction, Geoff Gander was heavily involved in the roleplaying community, and wrote many game products. He has been published by ChiZine Publications, Metahuman Press, AE SciFi, Exile Editions, McGraw-Hill, and Expeditious Retreat Press. He primarily writes horror, but is willing to give anything a whirl. In his spare time, he Steampunks, demolishes flooring, and wrangles two teenagers. Geoff lives in South Mountain with a lovely witch who carves soapstone and plays the bagpipes - not at the same time. Books: Tesseracts Twenty-Two Alchemy and Artifacts (2019 - story) Gardner, James Alan Raised in Simcoe and Bradford, Ontario, Canada James Alan Gardner earned Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Applied Mathe­matics from the University of Waterloo. A graduate of the Clarion West Fiction Writers Workshop, Gardner has published science fiction short stories in a range of periodicals, including The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and Amazing Stories. In 1989, his short story “The Children of Crèche” was awarded the Grand Prize in the Writers of the Future contest. Two years later his story “Muffin Explains Teleology to the World at Large” won an Aurora Award; another story, “Three Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream,” won an Aurora and was nominated for both the Nebula and Hugo Awards. He has written a number of novels in a “League of Peoples” universe in which murderers are defined as “dangerous non-sentients” and are killed if they try to leave their solar system by aliens who are so advanced that they think of humans like humans think of bacteria. This precludes the possibility of interstellar wars. He has also explored themes of gender in his novels, including Commitment Hour in which people change sex every year, and Vigilant in which group marriages are traditional. Gardner is also an educator and technical writer. His book Learning UNIX is used as a textbook in some Canadian universities. He lives in the Waterloo Ontario region, which he’s immortalizing (and destroying) in a new series of novels beginning with All Those Explosions Were Someone Else’s Fault. Books: Compostela (Tesseracts Twenty) (2017 - editor) Gates, Jaym Jaym Gates met herself coming through three doors the other day, and the world split asunder…sorry. Really, she’s PR Manager for Raw Dog Screaming Press; editor of Crossed Genres Magazine; publicist for underground entertainment media group NBTV; editor of the anthology Rigor Amortis; and author, volunteer, and blogger. Books: Rigor Amortis (2011 - editor) Broken Time Blues: Fantastic Tales in the Roaring ’20s (2011 - editor) Gavin, Richard Richard Gavin is one of Canada’s most acclaimed authors of macabre and occult fiction. His tales have sold to The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Dark Discoveries, and Horrors Beyond, and have been collected in the books Charnel Wine, Omens, and The Darkly Splendid Realm. Richard lives in Ontario, Canada, where he is at work on a supernatural novella and a fourth collection of weird tales. Books: Chilling Tales: Evil Did I Dwell; Lewd I Did Live (2011 - story) Geddes, Bev [UPDATED 2019-02-21] Bev Geddes is a school-based speech/language pathologist, and author. Her short story, Living in Oz, appeared in the Aurora Award winning anthology, Strangers Among Us: Tales of the Underdogs and Outcasts (Laksa Media) and was also short-listed for the award, receiving an Honourable Mention in Gardner Dozois, The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection for 2016. Her second story, The Gift, was published in the Aurora Award winning anthology, The Sum of Us (Laksa Media) in 2017. She has written non-fiction pieces for organizations such as Mood Disorders Association and Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society. Her speculative fiction novel, Secrets of Shalott, has recently been completed. When not reading, writing, or running away to her cabin on Lake Winnipeg, she enjoys playing the harp, aided and abetted by a menagerie of cats, dogs, children and chums. Books: Tesseracts Twenty-Two Alchemy and Artifacts (2019 - story) Geigen-Miller, Stephen Stephen Geigen-Miller writes prose, comics and free-associative paragraphs that seemed to make some sort of sense at the time. Stephen is a contributor to the Skiffy and Fanty blog, where he writes a monthly comics review column. He co-created and co-wrote the comics Xeno’s Arrow (with writer/artist Greg Beettam) and Cold Iron Badge (with artist Patrick Heinicke). Stephen lives in Toronto, works at the University of Toronto, and has two children. He writes in the bits and pieces of time in between everything else. Books: Nevertheless: (Tesseracts Twenty-One) (2018 - story) Getty, L. T. L. T. Getty studied creative writing at both the University of Winnipeg and the Canadian Mennonite University. Her short stories have been included in several anthologies. When she is not writing, she works as a paramedic. Books: Tesseracts Sixteen: Parnassus Unbound (2012 - story) Gilks, Marg Marg Gilks has a list of writing credits for poetry, articles, and short stories that spans twenty years and three countries (Canada, USA, and Britain). When not writing herself, she works as a freelance editor and writers’ mentor through Scripta Word Services, helping other writers hone their fiction and polish their prose. She considers speculative fiction the ultimate form of escapism — in what other genre can you create your own universe? Books: Tesseracts Nine (2005 - story) Gillett, M. G. M. G. Gillett is a Calgary writer, and has won and placed several times in short story competitions held in Calgary. He loves the idea of a Canadian style of writing — that Canada has some real living talent with amazing original ideas. Books: Rigor Amortis (2011 - story) Gilman, Laura Anne Laura Anne Gilman is the author of the "Cosa Nostradamus" urban fantasy novels, as well as the mainstream fantasy Weight of Stone: Book 2 of The Vineart War. She lives in New York City, where she also runs d.y.m.k. productions, an editorial consulting company. Books: Those Who Fight Monsters: Tales of Occult Detectives (2011 - story) Ginther, Chadwick Chadwick Ginther's writing has appeared in On Spec, and he has written reviews and articles for Quill and Quire, Prairie Books NOW and The Winnipeg Review. When he is not writing, he is the genre book buyer for Canada's largest independent bookseller. His novels Thunder Road and Tombstone Blues were nominated for the Prix Aurora Award. Books: Tesseracts Sixteen: Parnassus Unbound (2012 - story) Superhero Universe (Tesseracts Nineteen) (2016 - story) Girczyc, Cat [UPDATED 2020-07-23] Cat Girczyc is an SFF writer and fan. Paid creative writing is usually science-fiction and fantasy. A Writers Guild of Canada (WGC) member, she’s written many TV episodes including two for the dark fantasy TV series, The Collector, as well as writing for animation series like Cybersix. She’s now writing prose and screen projects while working as a corporate communications manager. Her film project Lights, Camera, Paranormal Action! was pitched at the July 2020 Frontières Film Festival. This opportunity was due to her WIFTV From our Dark Side competition win. She is also a two-time Aurora winner with many stories and poems published in SFF markets. Contact her via Twitter: @Cat_WritesSFF or via her writing blog: www.catscreenwriting.com Books: Compostela (Tesseracts Twenty) (2017 - 2 poems) Girón, Sèphera Sèphera Girón is the author of a dozen published books, she’s also penned hundreds of short stories, blogs, articles and horoscopes. Books: Expiration Date (2015 - story) Godby, Ben Ben Godby writes mysteriously thrilling pseudo-scientific weird western adventure fantasy tales. He lives in Ottawa, Ontario with a girl, two dogs and a cat. Ben is part of the Codex Writers’ Group and his book reviews have been published in Strange Horizons. He is a business communications specialist, a videogame addict, and a heavy metal enthusiast. He holds a B.A. in Philosophy from McGill University and is a part-time student in the University of Ottawa’s French MBA program. Books: Tesseracts Seventeen: Speculating Canada from Coast to Coast to Coast (2013 - story) Goddard, Patrick T [UPDATED 2020-07-13] Patrick T. Goddard is a Montréal writer, translator, performer, singer, and artist. His plays include the musicals Johnny Canuck and the Last Burlesque and The Mid-Life Crisis of Dionysus. His translations include Quasi-Murder (translated and adapted from Amélie Nothomb's Attentat) and several songs by Boris Vian. As Pinot Noir, he regularly hosts burlesque at Montréal's Wiggle Room, where his pen and ink portraits of Canadian burlesque artists can also be seen. Books: Superhero Universe (Tesseracts Nineteen) (2016 - story) Goldberg, Kim [UPDATED 2020-07-11] Kim Goldberg is the author of several books of poetry and nonfiction, including Devolution, her surreal collection of poems and fables about the end of the world. Her Red Zone collection of poems on urban homelessness has been taught in university literature courses. Ride Backwards on Dragon was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Award. Her quirky surreal poems and stories have appeared in On Spec, The Capilano Review, subTerrain, Riddle Fence, Dark Mountain and elsewhere. She shares Vancouver Island with sasquatches, cadborosauruses and white ravens. Books: Tesseracts Eleven: Amazing Canadian Speculative Fiction (2007 - story) Urban Green Man (2013 - story) Superhero Universe (Tesseracts Nineteen) (2016 - story) Goldman, Ken [UPDATED 2020-08-09] Ken Goldman, former Philadelphia teacher of English and Film Studies, is an Active member of the Horror Writers Association. He has homes on the Main Line in Pennsylvania and at the Jersey shore. His stories have appeared in over 920 independent press publications in the U.S., Canada, the UK, and Australia with over thirty due for publication in 2020-2021. Ken’s tales have received seven honorable mentions in The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror. He has written six books : three anthologies of short stories, YOU HAD ME AT ARRGH!! (Sam's Dot Publishers), DONNY DOESN’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE (A/A Productions) and STAR-CROSSED (Vampires 2); and a novella, DESIREE, (Damnation Books). His first novel OF A FEATHER (Horrific Tales Publishing) was released in January 2014. SINKHOLE, his second novel, was published by Bloodshot Books August 2017. Many of Ken's stories are online, so stop by and scream hello. Books: Expiration Date (2015 - story) Goslee, Sarah Sarah Goslee is well on her way to mad-scientisthood, having taught her dog to purr and her cat to play fetch. She works in a mysterious government research lab by day, and writes speculative fiction and SF-related nonfiction by night. Her work has appeared in Crossed Genres and Clarkesworld, and she is a regular contributor to the Science in My Fiction series. Books: Rigor Amortis (2011 - story) Goss, James Biography currently unavailable. Books: Professor Challenger: New Worlds, Lost Places (2015 - story) Gotlieb, Phyllis Phyllis Gotlieb is a professional writer who has published five volumes of poetry and nine novels (eight of which are Science fiction). She has also written two short story collections and edited numerous others. Her works have appeared in over nine languages worldwide. Phyllis Gotlieb passed away Tuesday July 14th, 2009 in Toronto. She was said to have been Canada's first Science Fiction author. Phyllis Gotlieb was an inspiration for all Canadian Science Fiction authors and will be deeply missed. Books: Tesseracts2 (1987 - editor) Blue Apes (1995 - collection) Gougeon, Angèle Angèle Gougeon is a Canadian writer and artist, with several short stories published in literary magazines and the creator of several more book covers. Though she's recently branched into the digital art world, she finds her roots in the traditional mediums of watercolors and acrylics. She writes stories of all genres, but has always been especially drawn to the fantastical and tales of the paranormal. Books: Sticks and Stones (2016 - novel) Graham, Jack Jack Graham is an expatriate Chicagoan living in Boston, but he plans on relocating to Mars as soon as conditions are favorable. He writes for the award-winning, trans-human, sci-fi RPG, Eclipse Phase. Books: Broken Time Blues: Fantastic Tales in the Roaring '20s (2011 - story) Gray, Andrew Andrew Gray's stories and poetry have appeared in numerous publications, including On Spec, The Malahat Review, Prairie Fire, Event, Grain, Fiddlehead and Chatelaine. He was awarded On Spec's Lydia Langstaff Memorial Prize in 1996, was nominated for the National Magazine Award for Fiction in 2000 and has been shortlisted several times for the CBC/Saturday Night Literary Award. He was a finalist for the 2000 Journey Prize for his short story "Heart of the Land". His first collection of short fiction, Small Accidents, was published by Raincoast in the fall of 2001 and was shortlisted for the Ethel Wilson award in BC and an IPPY independent publisher's award in the US. He is now the coordinator of UBC's Optional Residency MFA program in Creative Writing and lives on Vancouver Island with his family. Books: Tesseracts Eleven: Amazing Canadian Speculative Fiction (2007 - story) Grech, Amy Amy Grech has sold over one hundred stories and three poems to various anthologies and magazines including: Dead Harvest, and Shrieks and Shivers from the Horror Zine. Amy is an Active Member of the Horror Writers Association. Books: Expiration Date (2015 - story) Green, Chris Marie Chris Marie Green is the author of the "Vampire Babylon" series, which includes Night Rising and A Drop of Red. In 2011, Ace published her postapocalyptic urban fantasy western noir "Bloodlands" series. Books: Those Who Fight Monsters: Tales of Occult Detectives (2011 - story) Green, Simon R. Simon R. Green has worked as a shop assistant, bicycle repair mechanic, actor, journalist, and mail order bride. And every day he’s glad he doesn’t have to do any of that any more. His best known series are the "Deathstalker" books, (like "Star Wars," only with a plot that makes sense,) the "Nightside" books, and the "Secret Histories," featuring Shaman Bond, the world’s most secret agent. Books: Those Who Fight Monsters: Tales of Occult Detectives (2011 - story) Greenwood, Ed Ed is an award-winning Canadian writer and game designer best known for creating the Forgotten Realms® fantasy world. He’s also a New York Times bestselling author whose 140-plus books have sold millions of copies worldwide in more than thirty languages. Ed has also published more than seventy short stories (from SF and fantasy to horror, pulp adventure and mysteries), hundreds of magazine articles and columns, poetry, and scripts for comic books, radio plays and screenplays. In real life, Ed is a well padded, white-bearded librarian often mistaken for Santa Claus. A Ryerson journalism grad, he was once hailed as “the Canadian author of the great American novel.” When not working in a library, he shares an old farmhouse with his wife, a reigning cat, and more than 80,000 books. Ed’s most recent novels include Falconfar from Solaris Books and Bury Elminster Deep! from Wizards of the Coast. Books: Tesseracts Fifteen: A Case of Quite Curious Tales (2011 - story) Gregory, Roxanne [UPDATED 2020-07-04] Roxanne Gregory is an award winning Writers Guild of Canada screenwriter (Banff World Television Festival 2005), author, and journalist. She has written for Canadian Press, The Vancouver Sun and The Province, Vancouver’s The Georgia Straight, and formerly for CanWest Global Newswire services. She is the author of Boudicca’s Revenge, Klondike King and Queen’s Mate, Sketches from Haida Gwaii, Dark Angel of Whitechapel and stories in Working the Tides and Compostela (Tesseracts Twenty). A former paramedic, she is also the co-author/illustrator of Meet Corona a child’s picture book about the new virus. Her Otherworld art has been exhibited internationally.You can find her at: https://roxannegregory.wordpress.com or on twitter at: https://twitter.com/RoxGregory01 Books: Compostela (Tesseracts Twenty) (2017 - story) Gresh, Lois Lois Gresh is the New York Times Best-Selling Author of 27 books and 60 short stories. Her books are in 22 languages and include Eldritch Evolutions and Dark Fusions. Lois has received Bram Stoker Award, Nebula Award, Theodore Sturgeon Award, and International Horror Guild Award nominations. Books: Expiration Date (2015 - story) Greylyn, Jennifer Jennifer Greylyn has been writing for most of her life, mainly because her characters discovered early on that they could drive her crazy if she didn’t. (They wouldn’t necessarily mean to, but they could be quite insistent.) She started publishing her stories about three years ago, and they have appeared in markets as diverse as the magazines Abyss and Apex, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Neo-opsis to numerous print collections, most notably another EDGE anthology Evolve: Vampire Stories of the New Undead. She has several writing projects on the go, again due to the demands of her characters who like the idea of seeing their stories reach a wider audience. She has tried to persuade them she could get more done if they’d let her concentrate on one project at a time, but they don’t seem inclined to cooperate. Talks are ongoing. Books: Evolve: Vampire Stories of the New Undead (2010 - story) Tesseracts Fifteen: A Case of Quite Curious Tales (2011 - story) Gurgu, Costi Costi Gurgu was born in Constanta, the 2600-year-old city on the Black Sea shore, and lives in Toronto with his wife, on the Ontario Lake shore. It is suspected that large bodies of water help Costi glimpse into other realms. That and some Dacian magic. His fiction has been published in Canada, the United States, England, Denmark, Hungary and Romania. He has sold three books and fifty-eight stories for which he has won twenty-four awards. He is currently working on two novels and his first screenplay. Books: Tesseracts Seventeen: Speculating Canada from Coast to Coast to Coast (2013 - story) Gustainis, Justin Justin Gustainis has been an Army officer, speechwriter and professional bodyguard. He is currently a college professor living in upstate New York. He is the author of The Hades Project, Black Magic Woman, Evil Ways. Hard Spell and Sympathy for the Devil. He has also published a number of short stories, two of which won the Graverson Award for Horror in consecutive years. He is a graduate of the Odyssey Writing Workshop. Books: Those Who Fight Monsters: Tales of Occult Detectives (2011 - editor and story) The Devil Will Come (2016 - editor) Hambly, Barbara Since publishing her first fantasy novel, The Time of the Dark, Barbara Hambly has published more than 40 novels. Although she’s written across many genres, her work displays a special fondness for both fantasy and historical mysteries. A Guest of Honor at the 2008 World Fantasy Convention, Barbara’s recent projects include Renfield: Slave of Dracula and the historical Patriot Hearts. Books: Gaslight Grimoire: Fantastic Tales of Sherlock Holmes (2008 - story) Handman, Misha [UPDATED 2019-08-2] Misha Handman has been involved in writing for most of his life. He started by writing comics for his friends in elementary school and was promptly drawn into the artistic world by their approval, moving on to produce short stories and collaborative works. He has lived in cities across Canada, including Victoria, Ottawa, and Toronto, and refuses to pick a favourite no matter how much his friends bother him about it. For now, Victoria is his home. Misha is a firm believer in the power of genre fiction to both entertain and provoke thought and is a voracious reader of a wide variety of works. Shadow Stitcher is his first novel. Books: Shadow Stitcher (2019 - novel) Pawns and Phantoms (2022 - novel) Hampton, Sr., S. S. S. S. Hampton, Sr. is a Choctaw from Oklahoma, a divorced grandfather to twelve grandchildren (one more on the way), and a published photographer and photojournalist. He is a veteran of Operations Noble Eagle and Iraqi Freedom. His fiction has appeared in Horror Bound Magazine, Ruthie’s Club, Lucrezia Magazine, and The Harrow, among others, and in anthologies from Melange Books and Dark Opus Press. Forthcoming stories will be published by Ravenous Romance, MUSA Publishing, and MuseItUp Publishing. He lives in Las Vegas, Nevada. Books: Danse Macabre: Close Encounters with the Reaper (2012 - story) Hannett, Lisa Lisa Hannett grew up in Ottawa, Canada but now lives in Adelaide, South Australia — a city of churches, bizarre murders, and pie floaters. Her stories have appeared in Clarkesworld Magazine, Fantasy Magazine, Weird Tales, ChiZine, Shimmer, Electric Velocipede, On Spec, Midnight Echo, Steampunk II: Steampunk Reloaded, and the Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2010. She has won three Aurealis Awards, including Best Collection 2011 for her first book, Bluegrass Symphony (Ticonderoga). Midnight and Moonshine, co-authored with Angela Slatter, will be published in 2012. She is a graduate of the Clarion South. Books: Tesseracts Fourteen: Strange Canadian Stories (2010 - story) Chilling Tales: In words, alas, drown I (2013 - story) Hanolsy, Christine [UPDATED 2021-01-30] Christine Hanolsy is a (primarily) science fiction and fantasy writer who simply cannot resist a love story. Her flash fiction, short stories, and personal essays have been published various places online and in print. She currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of the online writing community YeahWrite; past roles have included Russian language scholar, composer, interpreter, and general cat herder. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her wife and their two children. Books: Fantastic Trains      An anthology of Phantasmagorical Engines and Rail Riders (2019 - story) Hargraves, Peter [UPDATED 2019-07-22] Peter Hargraves has a Ph.D. in Physics and has spent most of his working life in the high tech sector of Ottawa, Canada. Somewhere along the line he decided he preferred writing to Physics and turned to corporate writing and (in his spare time) to fiction. Books: Fantastic Trains      An anthology of Phantasmagorical Engines and Rail Riders (2019 - story) Harley, Jason M. Jason M. Harley is a professor of educational technology and psychology. He spends his days hopping between university labs and lectures and his nights hopping between fictional worlds. Sometimes it’s tricky to tell where his days end and his nights begin, however, given the nature of his research. His fiction has previously appeared in or is forthcoming from Perihelion Science Fiction, Liquid Imagination, Every Day Fiction, SQ Mag, Polar Borealis, and 101 Words. Jason grew up outside of Ottawa, Ontario, completed his post-secondary education, graduate studies, and postdoctoral work in Montréal, Québec, and now lives in Edmonton, Alberta with his partner. Books: Nevertheless: (Tesseracts Twenty-One) (2018 - story) Harris, Mary-Jean [UPDATED 2019-05-18] Mary Jean-Harris writes historical and other-world fantasy stories. She is the owner of Fairytale Princess Parties in Ottawa, Ontario, and has a Masters degree in theoretical physics. Mary-Jean has published various short stories in anthologies and online such as the Tesseracts anthologies, Polar Expressions, SciPhi Journal, and Allegory Ezine. Mary-Jean is also the author of the series The Soul Wanderers. Books: Wrestling With Gods (Tesseracts Eighteen) (2015 - story) Compostela (Tesseracts Twenty) (2017 - story) Tesseracts Twenty-Two Alchemy and Artifacts (2019 - story) Harse, Katie In 1998, IFWA member Katie Harse was nominated for an Aurora Award for her 1997 story The Fishmonger's Emeralds.The Auroras are the "people's choice" awards of Canadian Science Fiction. She holds a Master of Arts degree specializing in Gothic and Speculative Fiction. Books: Tesseracts Thirteen: Chilling Tales From the Great White North (2009 - story) Hart, Geoff [UPDATED 2020-07-10] Startled by an aggressive dictionary during the 9th month of her pregnancy, Geoff’s mother was shortly delivered of a child who showed a precocious antipathy towards words. Over time, he transformed this antipathy into a more functional, if equally passive-aggressive, career as an editor. After more than 30 years of editing, the verbal flame still burns as brightly, leading to an errant, semi-evangelical career ranting against the evils of words from pulpits at any editing or technical writing conference that will have him, tirelessly seeking new recruits for his cause. In his spare time, he roams the globe, entertaining and enlightening locals with his creative and unrestrained interpretations of their linguistic conventions. He also commits occasional fictions, and at time of writing, has sold 21 stories. Books: Land/Space (2002 - story) Superhero Universe (Tesseracts Nineteen) (2016 - story) Compostela (Tesseracts Twenty) (2017 - story) Tesseracts Twenty-Two Alchemy and Artifacts (2019 - story) Harvey, Alyxandra Alyxandra Harvey was born during an ice storm in Montreal. She lives in Ontario with her husband, dogs and a few resident ghosts who are allowed to stay as long as they keep company manners. She likes caramel lattes, tattoos and books. She is the author of The Drake Chronicles, Haunting Violet, Stolen Away and a poetry collection Briar Rose. Her first novel "Waking" (Orca Books)is a Young Adult modern-day retelling of Sleeping Beauty. She has had poetry published in such magazines as OnSpec, Room of One's Own and The Antigonish Review. When not writing, she is a bellydancer and bellydance instructor. She loves medieval dresses, Pride and Prejudice, used to be able to recite all of The Lady of Shalott by Tennyson, and has been accused, more than once, of being born in the wrong century. Books: Tesseracts Eleven: Amazing Canadian Speculative Fiction (2007 - story) Urban Green Man (2013 - story) Tesseracts Seventeen: Speculating Canada from Coast to Coast to Coast (2013 - story) Wrestling With Gods (Tesseracts Eighteen) (2015 - story) Hayward, Amber Amber Hayward lives in rural northern Alberta where she writes novels, short stories and poems. "Even before I started school, I knew I would be a writer. Reading was a great part of my life and I knew that writers were needed to create those intriguing books. I wrote stories, poems, plays, and achieved publication in student newspapers and yearbooks. My first big success was an essay read on Peter Gzowski’s Monringside radio show, followed by a story published in one of his anthologies. Publication of many of my poems and some short stories gave me the impetus to attempt a novel.” -- Amber Hayward. Amber Hayward is an internationally published author and poet. Somehow she finds time to write despite the demands of managing the Black Cat Guest Ranch in the beautiful foothills of the Canadian Rockies, where she hosts and presents murder mystery weekends and flexes her fiction muscles with her Story 365 project: where she is writing a short story every day (for a year) and posting them on her website: amberhayward.ca. Living in the scenic foothills of the Canadian Rocky Mountains, Amber finds inspiration in hiking and backpacking through the magnificent mountain parks. Books: The Healer (Children of the Panther: Part One) (2002 - novel) Darkness of the God (Children of the Panther: Part Two) (2007 - novel) Stolen Children (Children of the Panther: Part Three) (2011 - novel) Hayward, Brent Brent’s short fiction has appeared in several publications. He is a graduate of the Clarion SF Workshop, at Michigan State, and is the author of the novels Filaria, published in 2008, and The Fecund’s Melancholy Daughter, forthcoming. UK born, raised in Montreal, he is a recently returned expatriate. Currently, he lives in Toronto with his family. Books: Tesseracts Fourteen: Strange Canadian Stories (2010 - story) Chilling Tales: Evil Did I Dwell; Lewd I Did Live (2011 - story) Healy, Michael Michael Healy was born in Toronto, Ontario but currently makes his home in the much colder Owen Sound, Ontario with his wife and her senile cat. Raised on a steady diet of superheroes, fantasy and science fiction from young childhood he was shaped into a writer from a young age. He is also three year member of the Academy of the Impossible’s Toronto Street Writer program. Books: Urban Green Man (2013 - story) Heartfield, Kate [UPDATED 2019-02-21] Kate Heartfield writes fantasy, science fiction and non-fiction, including the historical fantasy novels Armed in Her Fashion (ChiZine Publications 2018) and The Humours of Grub Street (ChiZine Publications 2020), and the time-travel novellas Alice Payne Arrives (Tor.com Publishing 2018) and Alice Payne Rides (Tor.com Publishing 2019). Her novella The Course of True Love was published by Abaddon Books in 2016. Choice of Games released her interactive novel, The Road to Canterbury, in 2018. A former newspaper journalist, Kate now teaches journalism at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, and is a freelance editor and writer. Books: Nevertheless: (Tesseracts Twenty-One) (2018 - story) Tesseracts Twenty-Two Alchemy and Artifacts (2019 - story) Held, Rhiannon [UPDATED 2020-08-24] Rhiannon Held is the author of the Silver series of urban fantasy novels published by Tor. As R. Z. Held, she writes the Amsterdam Institute series of space opera novellas. Her short fiction, also under R. Z. Held, has most recently appeared in Beneath Ceaseless Skies. She lives in Seattle, where she works as an archaeologist and technical editor for an environmental compliance firm. Books: Urban Green Man (2013 - story) Henderson, C. J. With some 60 books under his belt, author C. J. Henderson, creator of supernatural detective Teddy London and, now occult investigator Piers Knight, welcomes all to come to his website, to comment on his story here, and to read others which he posts for the enjoyment of all. Books: Those Who Fight Monsters: Tales of Occult Detectives (2011 - story) Henighan, Tom Viking Terror and Demon in My View, both YA novels (2006-7), are his 14th and 15th published books. His fiction includes The Well of Time (1986), an adult novel about the Vikings in North America, short-listed for the Seal Books first novel award; Mercury Man (2004), short-listed for the Red Maple award for YA fiction; Viking Quest (2001), the first novel of the Rigg series of YA novels about the Vikings. In addition, he has published two volumes of short stories, Tourists from Algol (1983) and Strange Attractors (1991). He has also published three books on Canadian arts and culture: The Maclean's Companion to Canadian Arts and Culture (2000), Ideas of North (1997), and The Presumption of Culture (1996). Tom was formerly Associate Editor of Ottawa Revue, an influential arts and entertainment journal of the 1970s-80s. Some of his articles and reviews have appeared in other Canadian journals and newspapers, including the Globe and Mail, The National Post, The Toronto Star and the Ottawa Citizen. His report on arts and culture for the City of Ottawa resulted in the founding of Arts Court, the city's municipal arts centre, and he continues to take an interest in neighbourhood matters. Books: Strange Attractors (1991 - collection) Hernandez, Alex Alex Hernandez is a Cuban-American science fiction writer based in South Florida, and the first of his family to be born in the U.S. His most influential experience with (written) science fiction was as a kid, when he checked out a collection of Isaac Asimov short stories from the public library and immediately connected with the author’s immigrant story. Perhaps because of that, the themes of migration, colonization and posthumanism permeate his work, which usually blend the subgenres of space opera and biopunk. His stories have previously been published by Bean Books, The Colored Lens, Interstellar Fiction and others. Books: Tooth and Talon (2017 - novel) Hetherington, Miriah Miriah Hetherington lives outside of Seattle, Washington with her husband, three daughters, and two cats. She’s a vegetar­ian, recycles compulsively, and earned a BA in physics long ago. Miriah’s interest in writing snuck up, pounced, and took over mid-way through her life. Her first published short story "Dream Catcher" appeared in the September 2012 issue of Penumbra eMag, and she has another story forthcoming on the Drabblecast. Books: Urban Green Man (2013 - story) Hiebert, Michaela Michaela Hiebert is a recent University of Calgary graduate who is already missing the stimulation that her English degree had to offer. She spends her new-found free time reading, writing, and yelling at the television. Born in Brooks, Alberta, Michaela enjoyed the prairie life until she was nine, when her family picked up and moved to the small northern town of Fairview, Alberta. It’s been a nomad’s life ever since, and she wouldn’t have it any other way. Books: Compostela (Tesseracts Twenty) (2017 - story) Hodge, Brian Brian Hodge is the award-winning author of ten novels of horror and crime/noir, over 100 short stories, novelettes, and novellas, and four full-length collections. His most recent collection, Picking The Bones, from 2011, was honored with a Publishers Weekly starred review. Of his story in Danse Macabre, he says, "This was inspired by an incident in the life of notorious mob killer Richard Kuklinski, who really did make a man await his murder to see if his prayers would be answered." Books: Danse Macabre: Close Encounters with the Reaper (2012 - story) Hodgson, R. W. [UPDATED 2019-02-21] R. W. Hodgson lives with her husband and two children in Ottawa. She spent her childhood in Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia. Her short fiction has appeared in Tesseracts Twenty-One: Nevertheless and FIRE: Dragons, Demons and Djinn. Books: Nevertheless: (Tesseracts Twenty-One) (2018 - story) Tesseracts Twenty-Two Alchemy and Artifacts (2019 - story) Hogan, Liam [UPDATED 2019-07-22] Liam Hogan is an Oxford Physics graduate and award winning London based writer. His short story "Ana", appears in Best of British Science Fiction 2016 (NewCon Press) and his twisted fantasy collection, Happy Ending Not Guaranteed, is published by Arachne Press. Books: Fantastic Trains      An anthology of Phantasmagorical Engines and Rail Riders (2019 - story) Holder, Nancy [UPDATED 2020-09-24] Nancy Holder, BSI, is the New York Times bestselling author of over 80 novels and 200 short stories and essays. She has received 5 Bram Stoker awards for her supernatural fiction as well as a Scribe award. She has novelized films such as Wonder Woman and Crimson Peak. She is known for her contributions to the world of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, including the Buffy Encyclopedia, written with Lisa A. Clancy. An avid Sherlockian, she is a Baker Street Irregular, and has written stories and comic books featuring The Master. She is currently working on the next issue of Mary Shelley Presents, her comic book series for Kymera Press. Books: Danse Macabre: Close Encounters with the Reaper (2012 - story) Expiration Date (2015 - story) nEvermore: Tales of Murder, Mystery and the Macabre (2015 - story) Gaslight Gothic: Strange Tales of Sherlock Holmes (2018 - story) Holt, Erika Erika Holt writes and edits speculative fiction and has stories in Shelter of Daylight and Tesseracts Fifteen: A Case of Quite Curious Tales. Recently she co-edited Rigor Amortis, a flash fiction anthology of zombie erotica, and her current anthology project, Broken Time Blues: Fantastic Tales in the Roaring ‘20s, is now out. She also interns for award-winning anthologist Jennifer Brozek, reads slush for Scape, and contributes to the Inkpunks blog. When not writing or editing fiction, Erika likes to snuggle her dog, paint her toenails strange colors, and, of course, dance (ballet mostly, though she’s taken jazz, tap, and Bollywood classes, as well). Erika was born and raised in Calgary. Books: Evolve Two: Vampire Stories of the Future Undead (2011 - story) Tesseracts Fifteen: A Case of Quite Curious Tales (2011 - story) Rigor Amortis (2011 - editor) Broken Time Blues: Fantastic Tales in the Roaring ’20s (2011 - editor) Holt, Kay T. While in school. Kay T. Holt was described as "incorrigible," and she’s been a living definition of that ever since. She loves deserts far more than she enjoys desserts, and if the opportunity arose, she’d trade a lifetime eating the latter for a lifetime dwelling in the former. She’s known for being maniacally kind and ruthlessly irregular. Books: Rigor Amortis (2011 - story) Homan, Dianne [UPDATED 2020-09-17] Dianne Homan was born in Englewood, NJ, across the river from the bustling-est city on earth. She now lives a world, and a continent, away in a log cabin off-grid in the wilderness outside Whitehorse, Yukon. She is a retired teacher and arts education advocate and she has enjoyed nothing more than incorporating art, drama, music and dance in her work as a teacher and in her imaginings as a writer. Her stories and essays have appeared in anthologies and magazines, and she co-edited two volumes of Urban Coyote. She is also the author of Walk Your Own Camino. She has walked the Camino de Santiago in Spain six times so far. Books: Tesseracts Seventeen: Speculating Canada from Coast to Coast to Coast (2013 - story) Hopkinson, Nalo Nalo Hopkinson has many nationalities and identities. This makes her as Canadian as they come. She is the author of three novels (Skin Folk, Brown Girl In the Ring and Midnight Robber - both of which were nominated for the Philip K. Dick award)and a short story collection, any of which you may or may not agree is science fiction. She has edited two fiction anthologies and co-edited two more. She is the recipient of the Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, the World Fantasy Award, and the Gaylactic Spectrum Award, and at this writing is currently shortlisted for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Black Writing. She thinks plurality rocks. She currently lives in Toronto, Canada. Books: Tesseracts Nine (2005 - editor) Hore, Ronald Ronald Hore, from Winnipeg, Manitoba, can be found sailing on Lake Winnipeg when he’s not writing or critiquing for an on-line magazine. Two of Ron’s short stories and a poem were published in a collection issued by a writer’s group and he won first prize in a Canadian Authors Association contest for a ghost story published in their 2006 anthology. Supervised by his wife and a large, demanding cat, Ron has “waiting-to-be-published” novels on topics such as reincarnation, alternate history, fantasy, and a detective who tangles with vampires. Books: Evolve: Vampire Stories of the New Undead (2010 - story) Howells, Sacha A. Fredericton expat Sacha A. Howells was a 2014 National Endowment for the Arts Distinguished Fellow at the Hambidge Center. Books: Superhero Universe (Tesseracts Nineteen) (2016 - story) Hubbard, Lee Danielle “Well, to begin with, I could not really read until grade five. I continued on as an atrociously creative speller until well into middle-school. I always told stories in my head. I attempted my first novel in grade five, back when I spelled fire like ‘fyr’ half the time and could not master words like ‘they’. That one didn’t work so well. In grade eight I finished my first long piece. I have written one a year ever since, barring my nomad year in Australia.” — Lee Danielle Hubbard Lee Danielle Hubbard was born in Victoria, BC, and still considers the Island her home. She lived in Victoria until the age of nineteen, before striking out for Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong, safe with her backpack and notebook for company. After a few more adventures around Canada, she has now returned to the Island to resume her studies in art history at the University of Victoria. Danielle’s poetry has appeared in many literary magazines, including Event and the Claremont Review. She has jointly compiled several chapbooks, the most recent of which is entitled “We Have Osmosed”. Clan of the Dung-Sniffers is Danielle’s first novel. She prefers to write early in the morning. After an hour’s run, swim, or bicycle adventure, dawn’s first light will find Danielle curled up on the couch with a pen in one hand and an apple in the other. When Danielle is not writing, adventuring or eating she is most likely to be found at her easel, indulging in the joys of oil paints. Books: Clan of the Dung Sniffers (2008 - novel) Huff, Tanya Following three years in the Canadian Naval Reserve, a year studying forestry, a winter hanging around Universal studios, a degree in Radio and Television Arts, and time spent managing North America's oldest surviving SF&F bookstore (Bakka-Phoenix back when it was only Bakka), Tanya Huff moved to rural Ontario with her partner Fiona Patton and began writing science fiction and fantasy full-time—or as full-time as possible around the needs of nine cats and eighty acres of land. Her twenty-five books range from heroic fantasy (the Quarters books) through humour (the Keeper Chronicles) to military SF (the Torin Kerr Confederation series) and include Scholar of Decay a novel set in TSR's Ravenloft universe as well as four short story collections.>/P> Her books have been translated into seven languages (eight if you include British English) and her five book Blood series, an urban fantasy/vampire/mystery mix which predated the current vampire craze by about fifteen years, was adapted into the 22 episode television series Blood Ties—a process she enjoyed every moment of. And not only because it was the first time in twenty-five years she actually got to use her degree. The three book Smoke series has now also been optioned for television so we'll see where that goes. She tends to watch more action than drama—Supernatural, Castle, Bones, Fringe, NCIS—loves Guy Ritchie movies, and thought the Star Trek reboot rocked. Her tastes in books ranges across the board depending on mood at the time. When she's not writing, or gardening, or dealing with the cats, or watching TV, or reading, she practices the guitar and spends far too much time connecting with the world one hundred and forty characters at a time. Books: Stealing Magic (2005 - collection) - OOP Evolve: Vampire Stories of the New Undead (2010 - story) Those Who Fight Monsters: Tales of Occult Detectives (2011 - story) Hughes, Jeff Jeff Hughes was born and raised in the small farming community of Shamrock, Prince Edward Island, Canada, by his parents Edwin and Lynn, and with his brother and sister, Jason and Jennifer. After completing his academic studies, Jeff has been an environmentalist, a researcher, and even a school teacher, but his passion has always been for writing. Now, he lives in the frigid climate of Northern Alberta, Canada, with his beautiful wife Virginia and their precious baby girl Kaleigh. Any free time Jeff now has, which is rare, is still spent planning, writing, and editing his next story. Books: Tesseracts Sixteen: Parnassus Unbound (2012 - story) Hughes, Matthew [UPDATED 2020-08-19] Matthew Hughes is a Canadian author of science fiction and fantasy. His novels are: Fools Errant, Fool Me Twice, Black Brillion, Majestrum, The Commons, The Spiral Labyrinth, Template, Hespira, The Other, The Damned Busters, Costume Not Included, Hell to Pay, Song of the Serpent (as Hugh Matthews), A Wizard’s Henchman, and A God in Chains. His most recent novel is What the Wind Brings, a historical novel with magical realism elements. His short fiction has appeared in Asimov’s, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Lightspeed, Pulp Literature, Postscripts, Storyteller, Interzone, Amazing, Unfit, and several anthologies edited by Gardner Dozois and George R.R. Martin, including the bestseller, Rogues. His works have been short-listed for the Aurora, Nebula, Philip K Dick, A.E. Van Vogt, Neffy, Alberta Book Publishing, and Endeavour Awards. In 2020, he was inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association’s Hall of Fame. Before turning to writing fiction, he spent three decades as the top-ranked speechwriter in British Columbia, writing for leaders of all three provincial political parties and CEOs of the province’s largest corporations. Since 2007, he has traveled the world as a housesitter, living in twelve countries. His web page is at https://www.matthewhughes.org Books: Tesseracts Ten (2006 - story) Wrestling With Gods (Tesseracts Eighteen) (2015 - story) Compostela (Tesseracts Twenty) (2017 - story) A God In Chains (2019 - novel) Hume, M. K. M. K. Hume is based in Brisbane, Queensland, where she has put her PhD in Arthurian literature to good use, writing the three books comprising the King Arthur Trilogy (Dragon's Child, Warrior of the West and The Bloody Cup), the three novels of the Merlin books (Clash of Kings, Death of an Empire and Web of Deceit), three novels in her Twilight of the Celts series (The Last Dragon, The Storm Lord and The Ice King) and two novels in the Tintagel Cycle (The Blood of Kings and The Poisoned Throne). Books: By the Light of Camelot (2018 - story) Hunter, Tina [UPDATED 2021-01-19] Tina Hunter is a Science Fiction and Fantasy author. She’s been published in several anthologies, and her first novel length work was released in 2018. Tina worked as a researcher and reader for Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy publishing before co-founding her own small Canadian science fiction and fantasy publishing house. Basically she is; a geek, a mother, a science fiction fan, and a super cool lady who loves to tell stories. Books: Seven Deadly Sins (2009 - story) Creatures of the Night (2009 - story) Hutton, Nadia Nadia Hutton is a social service worker, science fiction writer, and playwright. Her debut play Liar premiered to a sold out run at the Theatre on King in Peterborough, Ontario. She has also been published in Good Mourning Media's anthology No Place For Us. She currently lives in Waterloo where she juggles her many paid and volunteer social service gigs. Books: Stranger King (2015 - novel) - OOP Immega, Guy Guy Immega is a retired aerospace engineer and entrepreneur, living in Vancouver, Canada. His company, Kinetic Sciences Inc. built experimental robots for the space station, robots to clean up nuclear waste and miniature fingerprint sensors for cell phones. In 2005, he sold the corporate intellectual property to a Californian company. Since that time Guy has published several science fiction short stories, completed a SF novel (now represented by Spectrum Literary Agency) and other nonfiction essays. Guy specializes in hard SF and realistic aliens. For more, see his website at: www.guyimmega.com. Books: Compostela (Tesseracts Twenty) (2017 - story) Super-Earth Mother (2023 - novel) Jackson, Neil Neil Jackson runs the small press publisher ‘Ghostwriter Publications’ on the Jurassic Coast in Southern England, with his partner, Sarah. A self confessed addict of creature features and crytozoology, as well as an obsession with the folklore surrounding the yeti and sasquatch, he has recently edited his first anthology, with the the apt title, Creature Feature. When the workaholic is not at his desk or working at various book fairs, he can be found in any number of local bookstores searching for tomes on his heroes, Robert Falcon Scott or Lord Horatio Nelson. His first novel, Boar, was released in November 2009. Books: Gaslight Grotesque: Nightmare Tales of Sherlock Holmes (2009 - story) Jakober, Marie Award winning author Marie Jakober graduated with honors from Ottawa’s Carleton University. She has written nine novels, including The Demon Left Behind, Even the Stones, The Mind Gods and Sandinista. Her novel The Black Chalice was awarded the Independent Publisher Book Award and Only Call Us Faithful received the Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War Fiction. Marie was born and raised on an isolated homestead farm in northern Alberta. Few neighbors, no school; she took her first eight grades by correspondence. Books were scarce until she was fifteen or thereabouts, when she was able to take advantage of a 'borrowing by mail' library. "In such an environment, the life of the imagination takes on a central importance." At age thirteen, Marie won an international competition based in India with a poem called The Fairy Queen. This attracted a great deal of attention and many rewards, including a scholarship which enabled her to attend university. Marie graduated from high school in Edmonton, and from university (Carleton) in Ottawa, with distinction. Since then she has held a variety of jobs but has always considered her real work to be writing. All of her work is, in one way or another, about power. Who has it and why? Who doesn't have it and why? What happens to people and societies when power relationships become seriously unequal? How are power structures and power relationships created, how are they maintained, how are they changed? What ideas and myths form their foundations? What are the connections between power and religion? Power and sexuality? Power and ethics? Power and the use of violence? Jakober's first book, The Mind Gods, set in 2350, explores what happens when the inhabitants of a small colony planet develop extraordinary psychic powers along with their severe, mind-centered religion. Sandinista and A People in Arms are contemporary novels dealing with the Nicaraguan revolution. Even The Stones examines the coming of patriarchy to an ancient realm of the Goddess. The Black Chalice, a man's belief in his own right to total power threatens the entire medieval world. And The Demon Left Behind is an urban fantasy. Where do these ideas come from? "The gods, I presume. The Unknown. Chaos. Certainly no place to which I can draw a map. It feels as though I do not choose my stories; rather, they choose me. And when they decide they want to be written, they're very insistent about it." "As a result I'm very disciplined when I have a work in progress. Get up early (sixish) and maybe an early morning walk. I almost always sit down with a pot of coffee and some appropriate music (medieval, American Civil War-whatever 'links' with the work in hand) and spend the first thirty or forty minutes just listening, letting the music create a mindspace and focus my concentration." "Once a project is well underway, most of my available time goes toward it-daytime to writing, evenings to related reading and research. I still see my friends, but most everything else suffers." When time allows, Marie is addicted to music, good ethnic food, challenging conversations, and yes, believe it or not, hockey. Marie Jaober passed away March 26, 2017. Books: The Black Chalice (2000 - novel) Even the Stones (2004 - novel) The Demon Left Behind (2011 - novel) Jecks, Michael Michael Jecks is the author of thirty-five novels published by Headline, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster; he has been writing for twenty years. A past chairman of the Crime Writer’s Association, he was also a founder of the Historical Writers’ Association and created Medieval Murderers— a performance group of historical crime writers. In quieter moments he has written short stories and novellas for anthologies, and a modern spy ebook, Act of Vengeance. His books are translated and pub­lished all over the world. Books: nEvermore: Tales of Murder, Mystery and the Macabre (2015 - story) Jeffries, Sagan [UPDATED 2020-09-21] Sagan Jeffries is the pen name of former world curling champ Ed Lukowich. Ed wrote his futuristic fiction sci-fi novel 'The Trillionist' under pen name Sagan Jeffries in 2013. That novel formed the basis for his coming non-fiction Trillion Theory series. Since then, Ed Lukowich has published 7 non-fiction books in his Trillion Theory series which can be viewed on his website www.trillionist.com. The books in Ed’s Trillion Theory series are available on Amazon, Chapters, Smashwords, Barnes and Noble, and city libraries. As well, Ed has his own YouTube channel entitled 'Universe New Trillion Theory' with over 30 cosmic videos in his Trillion Theory series viewable through his channel. Ed’s Trillion Theory series focuses on the importance of Black Holes in building the spheres, solar system, and galaxies of our cosmos while setting the age and origin of our universe at a trillion years. "I've been interested in science-fiction since I was a kid," said Lukowich, who lists Carl Sagan and Arthur C. Clarke among his favourite science-fiction authors. "Some 20 years ago, I began formulating Trillion Theory due to the Big Bang totally failing to properly explain our universe." Books: The Trillionist (2013 - novel) Jenkins, Michele Ann Michele Ann Jenkins was born and raised in California, just north of the Golden Gate Bridge, but has spent most of her post- University life living and travelling abroad. She was drawn to computer programming because of her love of science fiction and now writes science fiction when she needs a break from computer programming. Recently, it dawned on her that writing elegant code has a lot in common with composing functional stories. She lives in Montreal with her husband, two children, two cats, and too many books. Books: Tesseracts Fifteen: A Case of Quite Curious Tales (2011 - story) Jerreat, Jerri Jerri Jerreat's fiction has appeared in The New Quarterly, The Dalhousie Review, The Antigonish Review, Fireweed, Canadian Storyteller Magazine, and won a Room fiction competition. She has a Masters degree in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and has taught a variety of writing courses at St. Lawrence College, in Kingston, Ontario. She now teaches younger students, and each year, mentors a class to create a play together, then directs it. She read A Wrinkle in Time and other fine books aloud to her own kids, Tanner, Adan and Haven, walking them to school, and is proud to say she can still walk and read at the same time. When her family canoe trips somewhere like Algonquin Park, they all stuff massive books secretly into their packs. Books: Nevertheless: (Tesseracts Twenty-One) (2018 - story) Jim, Calvin Calvin D. Jim is an Asian-Canadian writer and editor of Asian speculative fiction whose works have appeared in Rigor Amortis and Crossed Genre Quarterly. He lives in Calgary with his wife and two children, no pets and no garden gnomes. Books: Rigor Amortis (2011 - story) Shanghai Steam (2012 - editor) Jiwa, Arun A graduate of the 2012 Viable Paradise SFF Workshop, Arun Jiwa lives in Edmonton, Alberta. Books: Superhero Universe (Tesseracts Nineteen) (2016 - story) Johanneson, Patrick Patrick Johanneson was born, raised, and still lives in Manitoba. He works as a webmaster as a small university, volunteers at a second-run/art-house theatre, teaches judo, and writes SF and fantasy. His short stories have appeared in On Spec and online in Ecclectica and InterText. He is working on a novel, Everything that Never Happened, about sailors and the undead (but not, it must be noted, about pirates and zombies). Books: Tesseracts Fourteen: Strange Canadian Stories (2010 - story) Johanson, Paula Paula Johanson is a professional writer and editor who also teaches creative writing in Victoria, Canada. Her critical essays on Science Fiction and Fantasy have appeared in Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults and in Supernatural Fiction Writers. Books: Tesseracts7 (1998 - editor) Opus 6 (2012 - editor) Johnson, Matthew Matthew Johnson is a writer and teacher who lives in Ottawa with his wife Megan. He has published stories in Asimov’s Science Fiction, On Spec, and Space and Time, as well as the anthologies Time for Bedlam and Deathgrip: Exit Laughing. He has written two novels, both of which reside currently in Slush Pile Limbo, and is at work on a third. “Closing Time” was workshopped in its early stages by the Stone Stories workshop group at Queen’s University, to whom many thanks are due. Books: Tesseracts Ten (2006 - story) Johnson-Koehn, Garnet Garnet Johnson-Koehn is a graduate of McMaster University’s Political Science program. He resides in Hamilton, Ontario, watching the city slowly change shape, from steelworkers and heavy industry to art and the knowledge economy. At the moment he toils, in pleasant enough obscurity, at a customer service firm, and occasionally manages to remember that social media is a thing; his irregular updates can be found at: http://garnet-forwardthefuture.blogspot.ca/ Books: Compostela (Tesseracts Twenty) (2017 - story) Johnstone, Michael [UPDATED 2019-07-22] Michael Johnstone has short stories published in On Spec, Tesseracts Twenty: Compostela (EDGE; ed. James Alan Gardner and Spider Robinson), and Andromeda Spaceways Magazine. He teaches speculative fiction as well as nineteenth-century literature at the University of Toronto. Books: Compostela (Tesseracts Twenty) (2017 - story) Fantastic Trains      An anthology of Phantasmagorical Engines and Rail Riders (2019 - story) Jordyn, Ace Ace Jordyn is a YA fantasy and mystery author, editor and contest judge who believes in firing imaginations and empowering the dreams of children of all ages. Books: Shanghai Steam (2012 - editor) Judson, Theodore Theodore Judson is an American science fiction writer. He is the author of Tom Wedderburn's Life (2002), Fitzpatrick's War (2004) and The Martian General's Daughter (2008). He grew up in a farming community in western Wyoming and graduated from the University of Wyoming. Books: Hell Can Wait (2010 - novel) [NEXT PAGE]

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