P1= Panverse One; P2= Panverse Two; P3= Panverse Three; 8AR= Eight Against Reality; AD=Aegean Dream


Aliette de Bodard (8AR)

Aliette de Bodard lives and works in Paris, where she has a job as a Computer Engineer. In her spare time, she writes speculative fiction. She is the author of the Aztec fantasy Servant of the Underworld (Angry Robot/HarperCollins), as well as numerous pieces of fiction published in venues such as Asimov's, Realms of Fantasy and Gardner Dozois' Year's Best Science Fiction. She is a Campbell Award finalist and a Writers of the Future winner, as well as a nominee for the Nebula Award. Visit her website at www.aliettedebodard.com


Keyan Bowes (8AR)

Keyan Bowes is a peripatetic author whose stories are set in Delhi, California, Dagon, Tokyo, Singapore, Dubai, Outer Space, and several fantasy lands. A graduate of the 2007 Clarion workshop, Keyan maintains a website at www.keyanbowes.org and is currently working on two novels for teenagers.


Amy Sterling Casil (P2)

Amy Sterling Casil is a 2002 Nebula Award nominee and recipient of other awards and recognition for her short science fiction and fantasy which has appeared in publications ranging from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction to Zoetrope. She is the author of 21 nonfiction books, 100 short stories, primarily science fiction and fantasy, one fiction and poetry collection, and two novels. She lives in Playa del Rey, California with her daughter Meredith and a Jack Russell Terrier named Badger. Amy has worked since 2005 as the Vice President for Development for Beyond Shelter in Los Angeles, and she currently teaches writing and composition at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, CA. She is currently the Treasurer of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and a co-founding member of internet author cooperative Book View Cafe. Amy's website, Incipit Vita Nova can be found at www.asterling.typepad.com

Also see Book View Cafe at www.bookviewcafe.com


Jason K. Chapman (P1)

Jason K. Chapman lives in New York City where he works as the IT Director for Poets & Writers Magazine. He is the author of the cyber-thriller /The Heretic/ and his short fiction has appeared in Cosmos Magazine, Jim Baen's Universe, Clarkesworld Magazine, and others. You can learn more at his Web site: www.jasonkchapman.com


J. Kathleen Cheney (P2)

Nebula Award nominee J. Kathleen Cheney is a former teacher and has taught mathematics ranging from 7th grade to Calculus, with a brief stint as a Gifted and Talented Specialist. She is a member of SFWA, RWA, and Broad Universe. Her works have been published in Jim Baen's Universe, Writers of the Future XXIV, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Fantasy Magazine, among others. Her website can be found at www.jkathleencheney.com


Dario Ciriello (8AR; AD; fiction editor)

Like most writers, Dario Ciriello has lived several lives in one and enjoyed an eccentric career trajectory. He’s worked in a warehouse, driven trucks, drag raced motorcycles, had a small import business, enjoyed a twenty-five year career as a decorative painter, and currently divides his time between writing and CAD design.

A graduate of the Clarion West writing program, Dario has been a finalist in the prestigious Writers of the Future Contest, sold several short science fiction and fantasy stories, and edited three critically-acclaimed anthologies for Panverse Publishing. Aegean Dream is his first nonfiction work.

Dario lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his loving and exceedingly patient wife, Linda.


Don D'Ammassa (P3)

Don D'Ammassa is the author of seven novels and three non-fiction books. He has sold over 150 short stories to Isaac Asimov's SF, Analog, and a variety of anthologies and other magazines. He was book reviewer for Science Fiction Chronicle for almost thirty years and currently reviews for his website. He has been writing full time since 2001 and keeps a website at www.dondammassa.com


Janice Hardy (8AR; also layout artist for all titles)

Janice Hardy is the author of The Healing Wars trilogy (publ. Harper Collins). Book One: The Shifter and book two: Blue Fire are in print, with book three: Darkfall due in October 2011. Janice lives in Georgia with her husband, three cats and one very nervous freshwater eel. She blogs about writing at The Other Side of the Story www.storyflip.blogspot.com You can also visit her online at www.janicehardy.com


Ken Liu (P3)

Ken was a programmer before he became a lawyer, and he still thinks that legal drafting can benefit from some of the best software coding practices. His fiction has appeared in Fantasy & Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, Science Fiction World, Writers of the Future, Polyphony, and The Dragon and the Stars, among other places.

Ken lives in the Greater Boston Area with Lisa, his wife, and Esther, their daughter. More about his fiction can be found at: www.kenliu.name/stories


Reggie Lutz (P1)

Reggie Lutz is a sometimes Pisces, sometimes Aquarius, and frequently both depending on which chart you are looking at. Some of her day jobs have included on-air radio-personality, coffee barista, and customer service call-center grunt. Her high school years were spent in the coal region of PA where she learned to appreciate the aesthetic value of the slag heap and she has her B.A from Penn State University.

The Lutz-Morrow Affair - a collaborative book of poetry co-penned with Kathleen Morrow was published by Eiderdown Press in 2006. Reggie received the Publisher's Choice designation for the Eric Hoffer Award in 2008 for the short story Ice Masons.


T.L. Morganfield (8AR)

T. L. Morganfield lives with her husband and two children in Colorado, where she attended Metropolitan State College of Denver and discovered a love for all things Aztec while studying for a BA in History (she also has a BA in English). She attended Clarion West in

2002 and her short fiction has since appeared in magazines such as GUD, Paradox, and Realms of Fantasy. For more information on her work or to visit her blog, go to www.tlmorganfield.com


Tochi Onyebuchi (P3)

Tochi Onyebuchi is a recent university graduate whose degree in Political Science is only a clever disguise for his narrative impulses. A burgeoning interest in the intersection of political economy and crime sent him, during the summer of 2008, on a tour of the Balkans where he researched the evolution of smuggling networks in the region and how they tied into local organized crime syndicates. The trip spawned an entire novel as well as a feature length screenplay. It seems only natural his love of story and his wanderlust should go hand in hand. Ever since he discovered them both, he’s had trouble sitting still.


Uncle River (P1)

Uncle River lives on the Continental Divide in New Mexico, where he grows squash, turnips and dill, and serves in his local Volunteer Fire and EMS Department.

River’s Counting Tadpoles, due out from PS Publishing in late 2009, includes tales originally in Analog, Asimov’s, and Amazing Stories. His Camp Desolation and An Eschatology of Salt, also from PS, appeared earlier this year. The fictitious Mogollon News, set in the real New Mexico ghost town where River lived for five years, originally a newspaper and Public Radio feature, is published by the LBF Books imprint of Lachesis Publishing.


Gavin Salisbury (P3)

Gavin Salisbury studied chemistry at Lincoln College, University of Oxford, and obtained a PhD in atmospheric chemistry from the University of Leicester in 1998. He has lived for extended periods in both the Netherlands and Germany, and his other interests include natural history, music and art. He currently lives and works in North Wiltshire, UK.

Gavin's previous publications include: Gravity's End (Hilltop Press, 1997), Europa (Sam’s Dot Publishing, 2004) and The Mouths That Remain (Sam’s Dot Publishing, 2007), all chapbooks of speculative poetry; Virtual Landmarks (Flarestack Publishing, 2004), a collection of mainstream poetry; and Foreign Parts (D Press, 2004), a chapbook collection of short stories. His first full-length collection of short stories, The Far Sense, appeared from Sam's Dot in October 2010. Gavin’s website can be found at www.gavin-salisbury.com


Doug Sharp (8AR)

Doug Sharp, old-school computer game developer (ChipWits, King of Chicago) and Clarion West grad (2002), is an ornamental hermit living in a remote lakeshore cabin with two horrible dogs. He has just finished the novel Hel’s Bet ("Kickstart the Singularity by stealing space shuttle Enterprise!") and is furiously scribbling Palin/Cheney 2012, a scurrilous tour of a nightmare future.


J. Michael Shell (P2)

Southern writer J. Michael Shell is a serious and dedicated artist. At the University of South Carolina (B.A. in English) he studied under the great American poet and novelist James Dickey. Internationally published, Shell’s fiction has appeared in Tropic: The Sunday Magazine of the Miami Herald, Space and Time Magazine, Hadley/Rille Books' Footprints anthology, Spectrum Fantastic Arts Award winning Polluto magazine, and the Shirley Jackson Award nominated Bound for Evil anthology (Dead Letter Press), to name just a few. His fiction has also been audio produced for MP3 download by Sniplits (www.sniplits.com).


Alan Smale (P1, P2)

Alan Smale grew up in Yorkshire, England, but is now in America to stay. By day he labors as a research scientist for a well-known US Government Agency; by night he sings bass with high-energy vocal band The Chromatics and performs occasionally in community theater. His tales of fantasy and horror, alternate and twisted history have appeared in many magazines, including Realms of Fantasy, Paradox, Abyss & Apex and Dark Regions, and original anthologies Book of Dead Things, Writers of the Future #13, Low Port, A Wizard’s Dozen and A Nightmare’s Dozen. Check out his Web site (including free fiction) at www.alansmale.com.


Jason Stoddard (P3)

Jason Stoddard is trying to answer the question, "Can business and writing coexist?" Writing-wise, he has two books coming out in 2010: Winning Mars and Eternal Franchise. He’s also been seen in Sci Fiction, Interzone, Strange Horizons, Futurismic, Talebones, and other publications. He’s a finalist for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award and the Sidewise Award. On the other side, Jason leads Centric / Agency of Change. In this role, he’s a popular speaker on social media and virtual worlds at venues like Harvard University, The Directors Guild of America, and The Internet Strategy Forum. Jason's website/blog is at www.strangeandhappy.com


Andrew Tisbert (P1)

Andrew is the author of the dystopian political farce The Rise and Falling Out of Saint Leslie of Security, as well as short fiction in various magazines and anthologies such as Barren Worlds and the award-winning Subtle Edens. His first professional sale was a story about masturbating monks on Mars for L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future, Vol. XX, and he was shortlisted for the Sidewise Award for a novelette that appeared in Paradox Magazine, Issue 9, titled The Meteor of the War, about John Brown, Malcolm X and elephants. Andrew is a musician in the band Attic of Love, and is a miserable son of a bitch.


Juliette Wade (8AR)

Juliette Wade creates sociocultural reality for fictional worlds when she's not busy at her full-time job as mother of two. Her science fiction has appeared in Analog magazine. She brings her writing together with her experience in Linguistics and Anthropology by blogging about language and culture in science fiction and fantasy at TalkToYoUniverse www.talktoyouniverse.blogspot.com


Genevieve Williams (8AR)

Genevieve Williams is a 2002 graduate of Clarion West and an academic librarian with research interests in the representation of knowledge networks and communication of information in science fiction. Among her scholarly publications is "Antelopes of Desire: Knowledge, Documentation, and Love in the Novels of Geoff Ryman", which appeared in the journal Extrapolation in 2008. "Kip, Running" is her first professional fiction publication.


Michael D. Winkle (P2)

Michael D. Winkle was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and has lived in the same general area ever since. He received a B.A. in English from Oklahoma State University and is now working on an Associate’s in Accounting. He has worked in institutions such as the University Center at Tulsa and Tulsa Community College. He has had over two dozen short stories and articles published, including Wolfhead (Tales of the Witch World 3) and Typo (Cthulhu’s Heirs). He has also written several novels which slowly creep toward publication.

Michael’s website can be found at www.fantasyworldproject.com/