Nikolaus Mamatas was born February 20, 1972 in Port Jefferson NY, and grew up in Brooklyn. He attended SUNY Stony Brook (now Stony Brook University), earning a degree in multidisciplinary studies, then went to grad school at New School for Social Research (now New School University) for an MA in Media Studies. In 2008 he [...]

Seanan McGuire was born January 5, 1978 in Martinez CA. She studied folklore and herpetology – ‘‘folktales and snakes’’ – at the University of California, Berkeley. She has worked as a phone sex operator, a technical support engineer, an exotic animal rescuer, and a process engineer for communications company SBC, but in recent years has [...]

From the May 2012 issue of Locus Magazine Back in 2005, I did something weird. I decided that I would embark on a project to write short stories with the same (or similar) titles to famous science fiction books and stories. My initial motivation for this was Ray Bradbury objecting to Michael Moore calling a [...]