Autumn 2006 contributors
Writers
 Through the Obsidian Gates—Aliette de Bodard studies in Paris to become an engineer in Data and Image Processing. French-born, she decided to write in English after a two-year stay in London. Her fantasies have an emphasis on Aztec, Chinese, and Indian cultures. Her short stories will appear in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Fantastical Visions IV, and Deep Magic. Visit perso.wanadoo.fr/aliettedb. |
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 Voices of the Gods—Monica Eiland has a PhD in neuroscience from UCLA, where she studied brain mechanisms of sleep. Presently she’s a medical writer in the Boston area, where she lives with her husband and a positive dearth of pets and children. She has written and published in small press publications including Forbidden Lines, the Finnish magazine Spin, The Daily Tar Heel, and The Sleep Research Society Bulletin. She has several unpublished novels lying dormant, or not-so-dormant, in her computer.
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 Pray for Us, St. Dymphna—Bryan Lindsey spends his days teaching high school students how to appreciate serious literature, and his nights writing his own stories about monsters and crazy people. When he’s not doing either of these things he can be found climbing a rock or riding a bicycle down a steep, bumpy hill. He lives in Dallas with his dog (or possibly coyote), which he found in a swamp, and his wife, who he didn’t find in a swamp. This is his first publication.
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 King of Sand and Stormy Seas—Silvia Moreno-Garcia grew up in Mexico wishing to become a writer. She studied Communications in the United States and eventually moved to Canada where she now lives with her husband, son, and two cats. She works for a post production company and writes fantasy fiction in her spare time. |
 Angel Wood—Angela Slatter is a Brisbane writer. Her Masters (Research) in Creative Writing is under examination. She doesn’t know where The Angel Wood came from—possibly the result of too many late night cheese binges and watching programs on the ABC at 2 in the morning. Her fiction has appeared in Shimmer and Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet.
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 Skeletonbaby Magic—Kathy Watts lives in northern California, loves the Pacific Northwest, but is beginning to think seriously about Mars. She has short fiction and poetry scattered through time and space, and her column “Heads Up!” (The Writer’s Astrological Almanac) appears in a couple of places on the Web. Her novel Cemetery Boy is facing rewrite number eight, but her agent is optimistic. Email Kathy anytime at direwolf@stratlabs.com. (Photo by Harvey Morrison)
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 A Wizard on the Road—Nir Yaniv is an Israeli writer, editor, and musician. His stories were published in several Israeli printed and online magazines, he is the chief editor for the online magazine of the Israeli Society for SF&F, and his story collection One Hell of a Writer was recently published by Odyssey Press. As a musician he has performed in several jazz festivals, was the lead singer and/or bassist of several rock and funk groups, and is an a capella machine on acid. He lives in Tel Aviv. His home site (including stories, articles, and free music): www.nyfiction.org
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Artists
 David Ho started working digitally over 10 years ago. His works appear in Spectrum Annuals, EFX Art and Design, Digital Photo User (UK), Tear Magazine, PEI, Digital Fantasy Painting, and Heavy Metal. He works in northern California as an illustrator and designer.
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 Stephen Stanley draws, writes, and creates graphic design projects for clients. He lives on five forested acres outside of Eugene, Oregon. He workshops with Wordos. Visit www.courtjesterpress.com to find out more about him.
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 Cybele Collins was born at the foot of the Rocky Mountains and lives in Providence, RI, near the mouth of a bay. She works as an illustrator, teacher, and artists’ model, and plays fast violin in Blue Shift and Bone Rattle.
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 Sandro Castelli was born and lives in São Paulo, Brazil. Working as a free-lance illustrator, he collaborates with several national and international magazines and companies. The obscure and the fantastic are his subjects of choice, coupled with a deep obsession for human anatomy.
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| Joseph Remy has taken refuge from the Silicon Valley on the North Shore of Massachusetts. To blend with the locals he developed a love for bipolar weather, limp produce, and the Red Sox. Read Joseph’s weekly comic strip, a sociological analysis of nerd culture, at: www.podmonkeys.com. |
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