In addition to working all-night shifts as a doctor in Madrid, Sara Genge writes speculative fiction for the sleepless mind. Her work has appeared in Strange Horizons, Transcriptase. org, Cosmos Magazine, Apex Digest, and others, including translations into Greek, Czech, Hebrew, and Spanish. Recently, she had a story published in Asimov’s Science Fiction and Fantasy which was described by a similarly sleep-deprived critic as “…engrossing, thought-provoking SF in the tradition of Octavia Butler and Ursula K. Le Guin….”

Sara Genge’s Shimmer stories:

• “The Story In Which Dog Dies,” The Clockwork Jungle Book (Issue #11)
• “Counting Down to the End of the Universe,” Issue #10

Claude Lalumière’s fiction appears in Year’s Best Fantasy 6, Year’s Best SF 12, several volumes of The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica, Interzone, SciFiction, On Spec, Electric Velocipede, and others. His stories have been translated into French, Italian, and Polish. Claude’s eighth book is Tesseracts Twelve (Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, 2008). Objects of Worship, the first collection of his own fiction, will be released in summer 2009 from ChiZine Publications. He’s not dead yet.

Becca De La Rosa lives in Dublin, Ireland, in a house without central heating. Her work has previously appeared in The Best of Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, Strange Horizons, and the Fantasy Magazine Anthology, among other places.

Becca’s Shimmer stories:

• River Water, 2009
• Dead Things, Shimmer #45, September 2018

Jessica Paige Wick lives near where Firefly filmed. This is coincidence. She co-edits the poetry ‘zine Goblin Fruit with Amal El-Mohtar and collects masks. She is not a Tolkien fan, preferring Dunsany. Her work appears in Cabinet Des Fees, Mythic Delirium and Jabberwocky.

Mr. Crawford lives in an appropriately ancient and drafty house in Sacramento, California, with his wife and six nearly normal cats. He spends his days bringing websites to life in the dusty laboratories of UC Davis. More information about him, including other published stories, can be found at www.mossroot.com.

Shweta Narayan is a cultural crazyquilt; she’s lived in six countries on three continents, and read and loved folk tales and fables in all of them. The Artificer’s story here is based on a South Indian epic (and the original is quite a bit stranger).

Shweta has work in places like Shimmer(!), Coyote Wild, and the Journal of Mythic Arts, and forthcoming in Goblin Fruit and the Beastly Bride anthology. She was the Octavia Butler Memorial Scholarship recipient at the Clarion workshop in 2007.

Shweta’s Shimmer stories:

• “The Mechanical Aviary of Emperor Jalal-ud-din Muhammad Akbar,” in The Clockwork Jungle Book (Issue #11) (Click here to listen to her read it! 2mb MP3 file.)
• “One for Sorrow,” Issue #10

Stephanie Burgis is a Croatian-American author who lives in Yorkshire, England, with her husband, Patrick Samphire, and their crazy-sweet border collie, Maya. Her short fiction has been published in several magazines and anthologies, including Strange Horizons and Aeon, and her YA historical fantasy trilogy will be published by Atheneum Books in 2010, 2011, and 2012. Please visit www.stephanieburgis.com.

Alex Wilson is a writer, actor, and Shimmer subscriber in Carrboro, North Carolina. Fiction, comics, and poetry appear in Asimov’s, Weird Tales, The Rambler, The Florida Review, and LCRW. He runs Telltale Weekly and the writer wiki Guidevines. Visit him at www.alexwilson.com or follow him on Twitter at @alexotica.

Caroline M. Yoachim is a writer and photographer who lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband, Peter. She is a graduate of the 2006 Clarion West Writers Workshop, and her fiction has appeared in Fantasy Magazine. For more about Caroline, visit carolineyoachim.com.