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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Robin Bridges, who thought she had seen everything working nights at a grocery store, now works nights as a nurse and sees even weirder things. She lives on the Mississippi Gulf Coast with her husband, two kids, and two English Mastiffs named Grendel and Monster.
Clint Collins lives and writes in northern Virginia. He was previously published in Under The Fang, an anthology of vampire tales.
Elaine Cunningham is a New York Times best selling author who has published over twenty fantasy books and nearly three dozen short stories. Shadows in the Starlight, the second book in her urban fantasy series Changeling Detective (Tor), appeared on the Kirkus Review list of Top Ten SciFi Books of 2006. This anthology is her first time on the editorial side of the desk.
Eirene Donahue was born and raised in Rhode Island. A class of 2000 graduate of Brown University, she has spent the past eight years traveling, teaching, and learning. She is currently at work on her first novel.
Lorne Dixon lives and writes somewhere off an Exit of Route 78 in residential New Jersey. He grew up on a diet of yellow-spined paperbacks, black and white monster movies, and the thunder lizard backbeat of rock n' roll.
Marcus Ewert is a Capricorn who lives in an honest-to-god turret. His first children’s book, 10,000 Dresses, is coming out in 2008. He also created the fantastical animated series Piki & Poko, currently playing on MTV’s LOGO channel.
Ed Greenwood is a librarian, avid reader, and a writer. He created The Forgotten Realms® fantasy world, and has written over a hundred and fifty game adventures, sourcebooks, and novels, including the bestselling Spellfire and the Elminster series, and (with Elaine Cunningham) The City of Splendors: A Waterdeep Novel. He keeps busy writing fantasy novels for Wizards of the Coast (Forgotten Realms® books), Tor Books (the Band of Four saga and his current Niflheim series), Solaris (his Falconfar stories), and for fun, lots of short stories for anthologies like this one.
Hannah Goodman is the author of five books, the first of which, My Sister’s Wedding, won the first place award for The Writer’s Digest International Self-Publishing Contest, 2004, YA division. The second, My Summer Vacation, won an IPPY in 2007. Visit her website for more information. www.hannahrgoodman.com.
Lara Gose lives with her husband, Ed Gentry, and two cats in the Midwest, where she works full-time as a university administrator and part-time as a freelance editor. Unclaimed hours left in the day are given over to writing, reading, knitting, or cooking.
Jennifer Greylyn has been writing almost as long as she's been reading—that is, most of her life-but it's only recently family and friends have convinced her she should share her stories. (She hopes this will stop them nagging her, but she doubts it.) In another life and under another name, she works as a university lecturer and publishes nonfiction in the fields of medieval and early modern history. She lives in Canada.
Lynn Hawker has worked as a newspaper reporter, a psychotherapist, and as clinical manager of the counseling department at a women's domestic violence shelter. She is co-author of End the Pain: Solutions for Stopping Domestic Violence. An avid reader of fantasy and science fiction, she has had two stories published in Triangulation, an anthology by Parsec, the Pittsburgh area science fiction group. She first wrote about Lilith fifty years ago for her senior tutorial at Chatham University.
Lily Hoang is the author of Parabola (Chiasmus Press, 2007, winner of the Chiasmus Press First Book Contest) and Changing (Fairy Tale Review Press, forthcoming late 2008). Her writing has recently appeared in Black Warrior Review, Quarter After Eight, and Fairy Tale Review. She teaches writing and Women's Studies in Indiana.
Jackie Kessler is the author of the Hell on Earth series, in which Lilith (or Lillith) plays an important role (loosely defined as pulling all stops in trying to destroy the heroine, the former demon Jezebel). Jackie lives in Upstate New York with her Loving Husband, her Precious Little Tax Deductions, and two geriatric cats, one of whom is senile and caterwauls at three in the morning, every morning, until Jackie picks her up and cuddles with her (so it’s little wonder that Jackie is grumpy and is all too happy to write about demons). For excerpts of Jackie’s books, and for more information about Jackie than you probably want, visit her website: www.jackiekessler.com.
Twenty years ago, J. Robert King earned a degree in Theology and the Humanities. He didn't go into the ministry, so his Theology degree hasn't had much use, and acquaintances often question his Humanity. Bound is the Bewitching Lilith has finally allowed Rob to use his degree—for all of six thousand words. Rob has written a few million other words, including the Mad Merlin trilogy and two upcoming hardcovers: The Shadow of Reichenbach Falls and The Angel of Death in Chicago.
Since being born in Hollywood, California.
in the late 1970's, Christina McCoy's life has
only become more eccentric and intriguing. She currently resides in
southwest Florida and has conceded that she will never
experience seasons. Her
occupations include teaching high school students how to pass
state exams, co-owning Mad Scotsman Games, and being entertained endlessly by
her husband. Christina has a BA in English Literature with a background in Mass
Communications. Her interests include high fantasy, low humor, and too
many role-playing games. “Death of the Madonna” is much in debt to Peter Kurth
and his marvelous book, Isadora: A Sensational Life, and is dedicated to
Irene, the greatest martyr she knows, and Najila, her dancing grandmother who
taught her of their divine ancestor: Miss Duncan.
Jonathan Moeller lives somewhere in the trackless wastes of Minnesota. He wrote the novel Demonsouled from Gale/Five Star, and occasionally writes short fiction, most recently in Sword & Sorceress 22. For obvious reasons, all the mirrors in his apartment are covered.
T. L. Morganfield lives in Colorado with her husband and two children. She attended Clarion West in 2002 and her short fiction has appeared in Dragons, Knights & Angels, Dark Recesses, Atomjack, and Paradox. Her website can be found at www.tlmorganfield.com.
Mike Resnick is the all-time leading award-winner, living or dead, for short science fiction (according to Locus). He was won five Hugos, a Nebula, and other major awards in the USA, France, Spain, Japan, Croatia and Poland. He is the author of 53 novels, 12 collections, almost 200 stories, and two screenplays, and he has edited 46 anthologies. He is currently the executive editor of Jim Baen’s Universe, and recently served a stint as science fiction editor for BenBella Books. His work has been translated into 22 languages. In his spare time, he sleeps.
Kate Riedel was born and raised in Minnesota, but is now a card-carrying Canadian and lives in Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada. Her most recent publications are in the anthologies Tesseracts 11 from Edge Press, and New Writings in the Fantastic from Pendragon Press, with upcoming stories in On Spec and Realms of Fantasy.
Lawrence Schimel is a full-time author and anthologist who's published over 80 books, including Fairy Tales for Writers, Vampire Stories from the American South, Two Boys in Love, and Little Pirate Goes to School. He's won a Lambda Literary Award and the Rhysling Award for poetry, and his children's books have been chosen for the White Ravens by the International Youth Library in Munich and for IBBY's Outstanding Books for Young People With Disabilities 2007. His writings have been translated into 22 languages, including Basque, Esperanto, and Icelandic. He lives in Madrid, Spain, with his husband, Ismael Attrache.
Nancy Schmidt’s M.A. in literature and fiction has set her on an itinerant career path of freelance everything. Her publications include several speculative fiction pieces that explore manifestations of the Goddess, particularly the insubordinate ones. She is currently working on a novel that brings the ten Mahavidyas, wisdom goddesses from India, into modern-day Vancouver.
Nisi Shawl’s story “Cruel Sistah” was included in The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror #19. Her work has also appeared in So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction and Fantasy and both Dark Matter anthologies. Recent online publications include “Women of the Doll” for GUD Magazine and “But She's Only a Dream” at the Trabuco Road website. With Cynthia Ward she co-authored Writing the Other: Bridging Cultural Differences for Successful Fiction (Aqueduct Press). A board member for the Clarion West Writers Workshop, one of the Carl Brandon Society’s founders, and a guest speaker at Stanford University and Smith College, Nisi likes to relax by pretending she lives in other people’s houses.
By day, Lester Smith is a writer and technologist for the Sebranek Group, an educational design house that creates textbooks for the Houghton Mifflin Company. In that capacity, he has written poetry chapters for children from third grade through high school. By night, Les fights crime as president of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, as a founding member of the Alliterates, and as a member of the One Campaign and Amnesty International. You can learn more about him at www.LesterSmith.com.
Stephen D. Sullivan is the award-winning author of over 30 books. He is married and has two children, a son and a daughter. He has never locked either of his children in a tower—though, since they have become teenagers, he has been tempted to do so more than once. Steve and his non-captive family live in haunted Wisconsin. He dedicates this story to Joss Whedon and Ang Lee, for reasons that seem obvious to the author. More information about Steve and his work can be found at: www.stephendsullivan.com
Tracy Woelfel is a lifelong Alaskan and graduate of Montana State University. If asked, she will attribute her storytelling to research and her family's tendency to provide events that are worth retelling.