Kent M. Peterson lives in Virginia, where he worked for many years as a software tester. He now focuses on gardening and writing.
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J.F. Posthumus writes tales where mystery tangles with magic, shadows whisper secrets, and danger always lurks just out of sight. A lifelong lover of the strange and fantastical, Posthumus blends crime, fantasy, and the supernatural into page-turning adventures. When not plotting new twists, she can usually be found wrangling her four younger “monsters” (her eldest, a police officer, passed in June 2023), crafting, creating digital art, or drinking too much tea while dreaming up her next story.
Born in Nottingham, England, Jennifer R. Povey (she/her) now lives in Northern Virginia, where she writes everything from heroic fantasy to stories for Analog. She has written a number of novels across multiple sub-genres. She is a full member of SFWA. Her interests include horseback riding, Doctor Who, and attempting to out-weird her various friends and professional colleagues. Find her on Facebook at facebook.com/jrpovey/, Mastodon at @NinjaFingers@universeodon.com, or Bluesky at @NinjaFingers.
Maya Preisler has been creating art and telling stories since they were old enough to hold a pen, writing and illustrating their first science fiction novel at age eight. Their art has been featured on book covers, convention badges, and in numerous art shows. Their professional credits include cover design, book layout and editing, videography, video editing and special effects, podcasting, acting, illustration, IT, and political campaign management. In 2020, they published their first novel: The Laws of Entanglement. They are also the author of three published short stories, including “Daughter of the Birds,” which was included in CORVID-19: A RavenCon Anthology. Maya is the Art Director for Mocha Memoirs Press. Learn more at mayarenee.com.
A twenty-year veteran of the industry, Stella Price has explored many avenues of the industry including owning a small press, and working as a cover designer for several small presses and traditional publishers on top of being a published author. An author of over 100 books, with a specific focus on paranormal and romance, she believes “happily ever after” isn’t just for fairy tales, and monsters need love too. She lives in South Carolina with her husband and dogs in a house where everyday is Halloween.
M.T. Reiten served in the military, with deployments to Bosnia and Afghanistan, and worked as a scientist at a national lab in NM for over a decade proving that there is such a thing as too much research for writing science fiction. He practices aikido, makes pizza, and now lives near Washington, DC with his family. A Writers of the Future and Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Contest winner, he has published stories in Analog and DreamForge and several anthologies to include S. M. Stirling’s The Change, “Higher Ground” in Robosoldiers: Thank You for Your Servos, and the newly released “Defense of Waygo Port” in Tales of the United States Space Force. Visit him online at mtreiten.com.
Kate Ressman has been writing for her entire life. It’s true—she has proof of a second grade story where a cat inherits his human’s money. She is the author of Cherry Blossom Express, To Market, and Sugar and Spice. A bit of a nomad in the past, she has settled down and currently lives in Northern Virginia. She has two businesses, a day job, and an imaginary cat.
Sam Scheiner is a long-time fan and scientist. He grew up in the Pittsburgh area and got involved in fandom during college. At the University of Chicago, he reincarnated their science fiction club. He met his wife at Windycon in Chicago, and his child attended their first con at the age of 4 weeks, sleeping underneath a huckster table. He was the CFO for DisCon III and currently is involved in the Washington Science Fiction Association and is a past chair of the local convention—Capclave.
His scientific areas of expertise are ecology and evolution, and he has published 11 books, including The Ecology of Plants and The Theory of Ecology, and over 120 scientific papers. He also co-authored a book with SF author Phyllis Eisenstein on arthritis. He retired after working for 26 years as a Program Director at the U.S. National Science Foundation, having escaped just in time, but continues as an active researcher.
Introduced to the art of writing by her fourth grade teacher, Kat’s been an obsessive writer for most of her life. She started out writing for herself, then her characters, and began pursuing publication in 2014. She’s a firm believer that everyone has a story to tell.
Holding her degree in Animal Science, Kat planned on attending veterinary school until incisions started making her faint. She is now a roving writer, living with her husband, son, and their family of critters.
Kat is the author of The Afflicted Saga, a character-driven epic fantasy for epic readers.
Lawrence M. Schoen holds a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology, is a past Astounding, Hugo, and Nebula finalist, twice won the Cóyotl award for best novel, founded the Klingon Language Institute, and occasionally does work as a hypnotherapist specializing in authors’ issues.
His science fiction includes many light and humorous adventures of a space-faring stage hypnotist and his alien animal companion. Other works take a very different tone, exploring aspects of determinism and free will, generally redefining the continua between life and death. Sometimes he blurs the funny and the serious. Lawrence and his wife live just outside Philadelphia, PA. He has bested both Multiple Myeloma and Leukemia and is a chimeric cancer survivor.
