About the Contributors

(for Nova Express, Volume 6, Number 2, Summer 2002)

• Russell Blackford writes about philosophy, science and SF. His own fiction has won the Ditmar Award and the Aurealis Award. He lives in Melbourne, Australia.

• Cathy Buburuz, a Canadian, serves as the editor of "Champagne Shivers," "Expressions," and a bizarre print anthology tentatively titled "Side Show." She has horror stories forthcoming in the "UnderWorld" and "Tourniquet Heart" anthologies, and in the premiere issue of "City Slab," a new magazine scheduled for release in October 2002. Her fantasy art is currently available on a variety of products at dirt cheap at http://promartian.com/aoife/merchandise2.htm. Editors needing art can e-mail her at Cathyartist@hotmail.com.

• Artist Michael Csontos has a number of works available for sale on his website.

• Scott Cupp has moved from the wilds of the Dallas/Ft. Worth metroplex to the wilds of San Antonio, where giant platters of TexMex and heavy metal bands roam wild and free.

• Stephen Dedman is a prolific short story writer and associate editor of Eidolon. His books include The Art of Arrow Cutting, Foreign Bodies, and The Lady of Situations. He lives in Australia.

• Paul Di Filippo is author of the novels Ciphers, Joe's Liver and A Mouthful of Tongues, as well as the short story collections Destroy All Brains, The Steampunk Trilogy, Fractal Paisleys, Ribbofunk, Lost Pages and Strange Trades. He's also a regular columnist for Asimov's, F&SF, Science Fiction Weekly, Time, The Christian Science Monitor, Playboy, Penthouse, Fortean Times, Good Housekeeping, TV Guide, Fortune, Byte, Whole Earth Review, Wired, The Chicago Sun Times, National Review, Smithsonian, The Nation, American Rifleman, High Times, Sports Illustrated, Tiger Beat, The New Oxford Review, Lowrider, Newsweek, The Weekly World News, Highlights, Scientific American, Field & Stream, Car & Driver, Opera News, Atlantic Monthly, Teddy Bear Review, People's Weekly World, The New American, Discover, Rolling Stone, Money, Ladies Home Journal, Psychology Today, Proceedings of the IEEE, The Stark Fist of Removal, Origami Whippet Weekly, and Reader's Digest.

• GAK has illustrated S. P. Somtow's Tagging the Moon, John Pelan's An Antique Vintage, Tom Piccirilli's A Student of Hell and Gerard Houarner's Dead Cat Bounce. He lives in California.

• Nick Gevers lives in Cape Town, South Africa, and is Associate Editor of Infinity Plus. He reviews for Locus, Interzone, Infinity Plus, Foundation, and The New York Review of Science Fiction.

• Bruce Gillespie won two more Ditmar Awards (Best Fanzine and Best Fan Writer) at the 2002 Australian national convention, held in Melbourne in June, for a total of 15 Ditmars and 2 William Atheling Awards for criticism. He is the editor of SF Commentary, co-editor of Steam Engine Time, and was the 1999 Melbourne Worldcon Fan Guest of Honor.

• For Glenn Lewis Gillette, science fiction started with Verne during elementary school. The early '70s saw three stories published, now available on-line at www.alexlit.com, but family and career took over. Now, he consults part-time and actively markets his business-related SF novel "Seeds of Disaster" on his web-site http://www.glgwrites.com.

• Howard Hendrix is author of Lightpaths, Standing Wave, Better Angels and Empty Cities of the Full Moon.

• Shane Humbarger lives in Illinois.

• Steve Jackson is The Big Enchilada of Steve Jackson Games. The games Jackson has designed or co-designed include Ogre, The Fantasy Trip, Car Wars, GURPS, and Illuminati.

• Derek Johnson lives with his family in Austin, Texas, where he avoids writing by renovating his house, watching Monty Python with his oldest son, and reading way too much.

• The lovely and talented Fiona Kelleghan is a librarian at the University of Miami and has written a book, plus numerous articles and reviews, on science fiction, fantasy, and horror.

• David Langford owns more rockets than NASA.

• Artist Angela Mark lives in Boston.

• Chris Nakashima-Brown's suburban surrealism has appeared in various forgotten oracles of the adolescent avant-garde; some of his more recent forays into spelunking the mediascape can be found at revolutionsf.com. He is currently shopping his first novel, Clickless, a near-future technology business thriller. He lives in Austin under a tower of klieg lights infested with escaped parakeets.

• Lawrence Person is Editor of Nova Express. His fiction has appeared in Asimov's, Analog, Fear (UK), and the Midnight Graffiti, Alternate Presidents and Horrors: 365 Scary Stories anthologies, while his nonfiction has appeared in National Review, The New York Review of Science Fiction and SF Eye.

• Bruce Sterling actually gets paid to blog. When not blogging, or flying off on paid junkets to exotic locales for Wired magazine, or hosting the Turkey City Writers Workshop, he writes science fiction novels such as Holy Fire, Distraction, Zietgeist, and the forthcoming The Zenith Angle.

• Lavie Tidhar grew up in Israel and South Africa. He travelled widely, subsequently publishing his first Hebrew poetry collection, 'Remnants of God', in Israel in 1998. In 2002 he won the James Ragan Poetry Prize for some of his (English) poetry. He is co-founder of Last Call Publishing ltd, and book reviewer of online Dusksite.com He lives in London and runs the offical Michael Marshall Smith website.

• Jeff VanderMeer won a World Fantasy Award in the novella category in 2000. His current book is the hardcover edition of City of Saints & Madmen, a collection of stories set in his imaginary city of Ambergris. VanderMeer reviews books for The Washington Post, The New York Review of Science Fiction, and many others.

• Allen Varney (www.allenvarney.com), longtime writer and game designer based in Austin, wants it known that though the deplorable tech-writing job market has temporarily reduced him to retail bookselling, he is still in the game, writing stories and designing games. "The sun'll come out tomorrow/ Bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow there'll be sun...."

• Hank Wagner is currently on assignment in Germany. His work has appeared in The Overlook Connection, Cemetery Dance, Horror, Wetbones, and Dark Echo.

• Cynthia Ward lives in the Seattle area, where she is working on various stories and an SF mystery novel, The Killing Moon.

• Zana lives in Salem, Massachusetts, with multiple pets including cats,rats, and tarantulas. Her work has been published in Night's Children: Erotic Fantasies, Not Exactly Human, Evernight, The Rift, Nocturnal Lyric: Journal of the Bizarre, and Scorpion Dreams.

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