Rachel Swirsky’s short fiction has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies; been collected in Year’s Best anthologies from Dozois, Horton, Strahan, and the VanderMeers; won a Nebula Award; and been nominated for the Hugo, the Locus, and the Sturgeon Memorial awards. Her first collection, Through the Drowsy Dark, came out from Aqueduct in 2010. A [...]

Patricia A. McKillip was born in Salem OR. She went to San Jose State University in California, receiving a BA in 1971 and an MA in English in 1972. Her first publications were short children’s books The Throne of the Erril of Sherill and The House on Parchment Street (both 1973). Her first longer novel, [...]

Saladin Ali Ahmed – ‘‘descended from Arabs and Irishmen’’ – was born in Detroit MI. He worked at a Dearborn MI library during high school before attending first Henry Ford College and then the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, majoring in American Studies. He studied poetry at Brooklyn College, earning an MFA, then went [...]