Benjamin Rosenbaum's stories have been translated into 25 languages and nominated for the BSFA, Hugo, Locus, Nebula, World Fantasy, and Sturgeon Awards. Films made from his stories have won Best Animated Film at SXSW and Best Sci-Fi Film at the Sick Chicks Filcks Film Festival.

His Jewish historical fantasy tabletop roleplaying game, Dream Apart (published alongside its inspiration, Avery Alder's Dream Askew), was nominated for three Ennie Awards: Best Setting, Best Game, & Product of the Year.

His collection The Ant King and other stories was published by Small Beer Press in 2008, and his first novel, The Unraveling, a far-future comedy of manners and social unrest, appears from Erewhon Books in May 2021.

He is also a dad, spouse, programmer, and former synagogue president, rugby flanker, & party clown.

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Glen Hirshberg received his B.A. from Columbia University, where he won the Bennett Cerf Prize, and his M.A. and M.F.A. from the University of Montana. His first book, THE SNOWMAN'S CHILDREN, was a Literary Guild Featured Selection, and his second, THE TWO SAMS, was a PUBLISHERS' WEEKLY Best Book of 2003. He has won three International Horror Guild Awards (including two for Outstanding Collection), and his novella, "The Janus Tree," won the inaugural Shirley Jackson Award in 2008. He also has been a Bram Stoker Award finalist and a five-time World Fantasy Award finalist. With Peter Atkins and Dennis Etchison, he co-founded the Rolling Darkness Revue, an annual reading/live music/performance event that tours the West Coast every fall. While teaching at Cal State San Bernardino and at Campbell Hall in Studio City, he developed the CREW Project, through which he trains his advanced students to run intensive creative writing workshops for secondary and elementary schools that have no programs of their own. He lives in the Los Angeles area with his wife and family.

Max Sparber is an author, journalist, and playwright from Minneapolis. His speculative fiction has appeared in “The Best of Strange of Strange Horizons: Year One” and “People of the Book: A Decade of Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy.” Publications in 2018 include having stories anthologized in “Fangs and Broken Bones,” “Strangely Funny,” “Sanctuary,” “Black Buttons Vol. 3,” “Ye Olde Magik Shoppe,” and “Under the Full Moon’s Light.”

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Matthew Kressel is a multiple Nebula and World Fantasy Award nominated author and coder. His many works of short fiction have appeared in Analog, Asimov's, Lightspeed, Clarkesworld, Tordotcom/Reactor, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and many other publications and anthologies, including multiple Year's Bests. Eighteen of his stories will be included in his debut collection, Histories Within Us, coming from Senses Five Press in February. His far-future novel Space Trucker Jess is coming in 2025 from Fairwood Press. And his Mars-based novella The Rainseekers is forthcoming from Tordotcom in early 2026. Alongside Ellen Datlow, he runs the Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series in Manhattan. And he is the creator of the Moksha submissions system, used by many of the largest fiction publishers today.

Jonathon Sullivan MD, PhD, FACEP, SSC is an emergency physician, physiologist, and Starting Strength Coach. Sully is the owner-operator of Greysteel Strength and Conditioning, a coaching practice dedicated to improving the strength and fitness of adults from their forties to their nineties. He writes frequently on health, strength and fitness, and his articles can be found at startingstrength.com and greysteel.org. He is the host of the Greysteel Channel on YouTube (www.youtube.com/greysteel), which is devoted to information on healthy aging. He is a founding member of the Starting Strength Coaches Association, and has served on several of its committees, including the Science and Maintenance of Certification Committees.

He has been known to publish the occasional science fiction story.

Sully never finished college, but he DID graduate from the University of Arizona College of Medicine in 1992, and earned his PhD in physiology from Wayne State University in 1998. He is Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Wayne State University, and Attending Physician at Detroit Receiving Hospital, a Level I Trauma Center in SE Michigan. He served as Associate Director of the WSU Emergency Medicine Cerebral Resuscitation Laboratory, where his research focused on brain injury and repair after stroke, trauma, and cardiac arrest. He has published dozens of articles, abstracts, and book chapters on these topics.

Sully served in the US Marine Corps during his feverish youth, and Saw The World. He holds the rank of 3d Dan in Tang Soo Do, and he has no musical or artistic talent whatsoever.

Rachel Swirsky holds an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers Workshop, and she graduated from Clarion West in 2005. Her short fiction has been nominated for the Hugo, Locus, World Fantasy and Sturgeon Awards. She’s twice won the Nebula Award: for her 2010 novella, “The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen’s Window” and her 2014 short story, “If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love.”