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

AUTHORS

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. Visit her website at http://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)

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

Dario Ciriello is a British-born author and artist, as well as the founder of Panverse Publishing. He has moved far too often, and whimpers when he sees packing crates and tape guns. After twenty years of utterly failing to educate Americans about the need for slow food and mass transit, he's decided that succeeding as a writer and publisher is far easier. His Science Fiction website can be found at www.dario1.com/sf.htm, where visitors are always welcomed with a chilled Martini and a selection of molecularly-crafted hors d'ouevres. Dario lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his loving and exceedingly patient wife, Linda.

Janice Hardy (8AR; also layout artist for P1 and 8AR)

Janice Hardy is the author of The3 Healing Wars, Book One: The Shifter. Book Two: Blue Fire is due out October 2010. She is currently hard at work on book three, thinking up terrible things to do to imaginary people. She 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)

Bio: 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.

Doug Sharp (8AR)

Bio: 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.

Website/Blog: 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/

Vitaly S. Alexius (Cover Artist, P1)

Vitaly S. Alexius was born in Novokuznetsk, located on the Tom River in south central Siberian Russia in the year 1984.

Early in his life, Vitaly grew up in a city of European architecture, forests and universities surrounded him, and he immersed himself in a clash of socialist communism and capitalism, furious beauty of nature and man-made steel citadels of Siberian factories. In the late 90s Vitaly found himself inexplicably launched overseas to Toronto, Canada, where he completed his artistic education and gave rise to his style which he named ’Dreaminism’. With a fascination for all things celestial and a wide range of artistic backgrounds, add a dash of Photoshop enthusiasm, and Vitaly has created a unique artistic voice.

Vitaly is currently working in illustration and photography exploring a variety of outlets such as CD/book/comic covers, posters, concept art and more. To see more of Vitaly's extraordinary artwork, visit his website at: www.vs.darkfolio.com

Vladimir Krizan (Cover Artist, 8AR)

Vladimir lives and creates Art in Bratislava in the Czech Republic. Since graduating from university, Vladimir works in advertising and as a freelance digital painter. Most of his commissioned works are book cover art for local publishers. You can see a selection of Vlado's work at his website at: www.vladokrizan.daportfolio.com

Susan McKivergan (Cover Artist, P2)

Susan studied Fine Arts at St. Petersburg College in Florida, and is a self-taught Digital Artist and the mother of 2 beautiful children. Susan takes commissions, including backgrounds for greeting cards, websets, artworks, photography, etc. All Susan’s designs are original, created by combining 3D elements, brushwork, and hand painted details. She also offers image licensing for CD covers, magazines, book covers, etc. You can find Susan’s website at www.thedigitalmuse.net

Dmitri Sled (Layout Artist, P2)

An erstwhile resident of Moscow's rain-drenched outskirts, Dmitri has lived in the United States for over a decade and a half. A relatively recent graduate of Bennington College, young Dmitri cannot yet claim any significant achievements in his chosen fields of science fiction writing and metal music (though he finally does have his own band--Kulak). To compensate for this scant info, he invites the interested reader to fill in the mysteries of his persona with their own conjectures and imaginings.