Marge Simon’s works appear in publications such as DailySF Magazine, Pedestal, Dreams & Nightmares. She edits a column for the HWA Newsletter, “Blood & Spades: Poets of the Dark Side,” and serves as Chair of the Board of Trustees. She won the Strange Horizons Readers Choice Award, 2010, and the SFPA’s Dwarf Stars Award, 2012. In addition to her poetry, she has published two prose collections: Christina's World (Sam’s Dot Publications, 2008) and Like Birds in the Rain (Sam’s Dot, 2007). She has won three Bram Stoker Awards® for Superior Work in Poetry. Her poems appear in Qualia Nous (Written Backwards), The Dark Phantastique (Jasunni Productions) and more poems will appear in Chiral Mad (Written Backwards) anthology and the HWA/Simon & Schuster Y/A collection, 2015. margesimon.com

Mary Turzillo’s 1999 Nebula-winner, “Mars Is no Place for Children,” and her Analog novel, An Old-Fashioned Martian Girl, were chosen as recommended reading on the International Space Station. Her poetry collection, Lovers & Killers, won the 2013 Elgin Award. She been a finalist on the British Science Fiction Association, Pushcart, Stoker, Dwarf Stars and Rhysling ballots. She's working on a novel, A Mars Cat and his Boy. and another poetry collaboration with Marge Simon, this one about truly evil women. She lives in Berea, Ohio, with her scientist-writer husband, Geoffrey A. Landis.

Mary McMyne is a writer, poet, editor, and professor living in northern Michigan. Her poetry and stories have appeared widely, including in Los Angeles Review, Apex Magazine, Pedestal Magazine, Chattahoochee Review, Poetry International, New Delta Review, and Painted Bride Quarterly. She has won the Faulkner Prize for a Novel-in-Progress, the Sustainable Arts Foundation Promise Award, and the second-place Marguerite McGlinn Prize for Fiction. Since 2011, she has lived in Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan, where she is an Assistant Professor of English and co-editor of Border Crossing at Lake Superior State University. Before joining the faculty at Lake State, she taught writing and literature at New York University, New Jersey City University, and other institutions. She edits poetry for Faerie Magazine and is currently at work on a novel. Visit her online at marymcmyne.com or on Twitter @marymcmyne