TERRI-LYNNE DEFINO began her writing career at age seven with the short story "The Fire-Breathing Dragon." Her mother still has all ten stapled-together pages in a box someplace. Terri attended the 2006 Viable Paradise X workshop, where she studied with Teresa and Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Laura Mixon, Steven Gould, Debra Doyle, James Macdonald, James Patrick Kelly and Corey Doctorow. Her novel
FINDER is currently available from Hadley-Rille Books. Terri-Lynne currently lives in rural Connecticut with her family, her cats and the various magical creatures that end up in her stories or on her walls. She runs an additional blog at
http://bogwitch64.livejournal.com/.
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KARIN RITA GASTREICH lives part of the year in Kansas City and part of the year in Costa Rica. She is an ecologist with a specialization in animal behavior, and an Assistant Professor of Biology at Avila University. Her past times include camping, hiking, music and flamenco dance. In addition to the novel
EOLYN, Karin has published fantasy fiction short stories in
Zahir, Adventures for the Average Woman, and
69 Flavors of Paranoia. Her new novel
High Maga is scheduled for release in 2014. Karin is a recipient of the Spring 2011 Andrews Forest Writers Residency.
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MARK NELSON is a career educator and for the last twenty-two years has been teaching composition and literature at a small high school located in the rain shadow of the Cascade Mountains in eastern Washington State. He is happily married to his best friend and fellow educator, and together they have raised three beautiful daughters and one sem-retired cat. Wrods, music, food and parenting permeate his life and serve as a constant source for inspiration, challenge and reward. To temper such unremitting joy, Mark plays golf: an addition that provides a healthy dose of humility.
KIM VANDERVORT began writing at the age of eleven as an outlet for her overactive imagination. Since then, she has written a variety of mostly-unpublished pieces that will never see the light of day. After attending Viable Paradise XI in 2007 her writing and marketing skills improved, enabling her to transition into publication. Her first short story, "The Librarian of Talimbourne," appeared in the anthology
Ruins Metropolis in 2008. Since then, she has published a Renaissance Faire fantasy novella entitled "Faire Aria" and the first two novels in an ongoing fantasy series:
THE SONG AND THE SORCERESS and
THE NORTHERN QUEEN. CHRONO MECHANICS, a collaborative departure from more traditional fantasy settings into the bold new worlds of time and space, is her third novel, and will be released later this year. She currently lives in Southern California, where she spends a great deal of her spare time operating a taxi service for her two beautiful daughters. When not writing, she teaches English Composition at California State University, Fullerton, where she earned a Master’s degree in Medieval Literature in 1999.
