Shimmery People

Beth Wodzinski’s fiction has appeared in Flash Fiction Online, Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest, and Fictitious Force recently. She tests software for a living and admits to a fondness for reality TV.

Anne Zanoni is a voluble person who prefers to be behind the scenes, unless her passions — SCA, dancing, rapier, cons, reading, etc. — get involved.  Her cat complains when she “types too much” for his taste.  She helps run the Sanctuary Press Writing Workshop, which is held in Michigan annually, and will tell you stories about Penguicon, ConFusion, and ConClave, plus Pennsic War, and sundry other matters… at length.

E. Catherine Tobler climbed mountains in her youth, in a bright yellow coat, with shoes that were red, yellow, and blue, and made her feel like a clown. She endured. Writing, she decided, is not that much different. She is a member of Codex Writers’ Group.

When Grá Linnaea was a kid, he wanted to be Evel Knievel. Now he lives in an intentional community in Eugene, OR. He’s a graduate of the Clarion Writers Workshop and winner of Writers of the Future. In his many working lives he has been a recording engineer, a composer, a counselor and a guitarist in a touring heavy metal band. He currently works as a queer-rights activist, open source advocate and teaches classes on how to be happy. He didn’t become a stunt man, but that’s probably for the best.

Grant Simmons is a number man by day, writer by night. In the spare time he tries to cook unburned meals, tackle his unread book pile, and keep up with his cat.

Stephen Stanley is an award winning graphic designer who also happens to be an award winning illustrator and writer. His career as a publications designer stretches back to his 1973 BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute, with over 100 corporate annual reports, ten years of consumer and trade magazines, and too many brochures, booklets and other design projects to list. In 2004 he won Writers of the Future and in 2007 he won Illustrators of the Future, becoming the first to win both contests. He continues to write and draw and design (to pay the bills), throwing Shimmer into the mix for the extra spice and love of it. Soon he’ll finish his new website and you’ll be able to see what all the fuss is about, if you want.

Cheryl is a marketing and technical writer by trade; she occasionally writes fiction to amuse herself, owns a pair of leather jeans and two poodles, and claims she’ll work for margaritas.

Sunil is a technology consultant who can’t really explain his job but assures you that he’s really good at it. He writes fiction with the hope of one day being successful enough that people will call him “eccentric” instead of “crazy.”

Sean Markey lives in Salt Lake City, UT, where he is a student teacher in a third grade classroom. He also reads slush for Clarkesworld Magazine. His fiction has appeared in Fantasy Magazine, Strange Horizons, and most recently, Sybil’s Garage. You can follow along at http://www.mrmarkey.com.

Catherine Knutsson is a graduate of the University of Victoria (Art History) and the Royal Conservatory of Music. She divides her time between teaching singing, writing, and hiking on Vancouver Island. Her writing has been featured in DKA, Quantum Muse, and Forgotten Worlds.

A Writers of the Future Contest winner, Eric James Stone has had stories published by Analog and Intergalactic Medicine Show.  His website is www.ericjamesstone.com.

Lisa Mantchev casts her spells from an ancient tree in the Pacific Northwest. Her work has also appeared at Strange Horizons, Futurismic.com, and in the SFWA anthology New Voices in Science Fiction. She has stories slated to appear in Weird Tales, Fantasy, Electric Velocipede and in Spicy Slipstream Stories.

You can Taste the Bad Candy at her website.

David Edwards is described by friends as eccentric, moody and in need of a shave. He loves stories that drop a pinch of magic into the ordinary and make it extraordinary. He joined Shimmer because he was promised daily Perrier and bon-bons, and because that’s where such stories are found in abundance. He is a member of Codex Writers’ Group.

Mary Robinette Kowal is a professional puppeteer who moonlights as a writer. Since 1989, she has performed for LazyTown (CBS), the Center for Puppetry Arts, Jim Henson Pictures and founded Other Hand Productions. Her design work has garnered two UNIMA-USA Citations of Excellence, the highest award an American puppeteer can achieve. Meanwhile, Mrs. Kowal has published stories in All-Star Stories: Presents Twenty Epics, Strange Horizons and Apex Digest.