About Us
Staff Bios
Jonathan Alexander, PhD
Jonathan Alexander is Associate Professor of English at the University of
California, Irvine, where he also serves as Campus Writing Coorindator.
Jonathan's work focuses primarily on the use of emerging communications
technologies in the teaching of writing and in shifting conceptions of
what writing, composing, and authoring mean. Jonathan also works at the
intersection of the fields of writing studies and sexuality studies, where
he explores what it means to "compose queerly" as well as what theories of
sexuality, particularly queer theory, have to teach us about literacy and
literate practice in pluralistic democracies.
He is the co-editor of two collections, Bisexuality and Transgenderism:
InterSEXions of the Others (Harrington Park Press, 2004), and Role Play:
Distance Learning and the Teaching of Writing (Hampton Press, 2005); the
co-author of a textbook about teaching writing with computer technologies,
Argument Now (Longman, 2005); and the author of Digital Youth: Emerging
Literacies on the World Wide Web (Hampton Press, 2005), which examines how
tech-savvy youth represent themselves and their electronic literacy
practices on the Web. Jonathan is twice the recipient of the Ellen Nold
Award (2003, 2005) for the best articles in the field of Computers and
Composition Studies. Forthcoming work includes the following books:
Literacy, Sexuality, Pedagogy (Utah State University Press, March 2008);
and Finding Out: An Introduction to LGBT Studies (Sage), co-written with
Deborah Meem and Michelle Gibson.
Joseph Armstead
Joseph Armstead is an Affiliate Member of the Horror Writers' Association and author of five novels, all of which are currently available at the Barnes & Noble.com, Amazon.com and Borders.com web-sites: NOCTURNES AND NEON, a Novel of the Vampiric [ISBN: 0595201733, Publisher: iUniverse, Incorporated], PAINMAKER: First Tale in the Book of Dark Memory [ISBN: 0738851965, Publisher: Xlibris Corporation], BLEEDING TWILIGHT [ISBN: 1931391394 Publisher: Booklocker.com, Incorporated], DARKNESS FEARS [ISBN: 0-595-26315-1 Publisher: Writers Club Press/IUNIVERSE], THE SCREAMING SEASON [ISBN: 1-59088-213-X], a NEW novel through WINGS ePRESS BOOKS.
Joseph has also published a poetry collection entitled THE 45 APOCRYPHA. He is a member of The Horror Authors Network and has two stories e-published on their "Gallows" web-page: "Church of the Broken Cross" and "Nightblooded".
He is almost constantly enshrouded in a shifting cloak of swirling mist and is dangerously in need of a real life..."
Gregory Banks
Gregory Banks has worked as moderator for Zoetrope All-Story Writers Workshop, as site administrator for Scrawl: The Writer's Asylum, and as webmaster for WRITER and MARKET Literary Search Engine. He's now co-Webmaster for the
Speculative Literature Foundation. His recent publishing credits include The Rose & Thorn, Story House, StoneGarden.net, Creative Brother's Sci-Fi Magazine, and The Writers Post Journal. His first collection, Crossroads and Other Tales, is available from bookstores worldwide or from: www.wheelmansplace.com/CrossroadsBook.
Deborah Biancotti
Deborah Biancotti grew up reading fantasy & science fiction and never really stopped. Her first grade teacher told her she was a 'day dreamer', and it was sometime after that she decided to become a writer. At university, she studied literature and psychology, figuring a writer should know about both prose and people. Her first published story won the Aurealis Award for Best Horror Short Story in 2000, and she won the Ditmar Award for Best New Talent the following year. She has a full-time job with the government, a casual job as a website developer, and oh, yes, she's still busy writing. Her work has appeared in such magazines as Altair, Redsine, Agog!, Borderlands and Orb, as well as the anthologies Ideomancer Unbound, Southern Blood and Passing Strange. She lives in Sydney Australia and her website is at: http://deborahbiancotti.net.
Jennifer Dawson
Jennifer Dawson has always had a love of the written word. Her passion for reading inspired her career as a writer and an editor. Concentrating mostly on fantasy works, she occasionally dabbles in science fiction and poetry. Her work has been published online in places like EOTU Magazine and Flashshot. She is the owner of Winged Halo Productions (http://www.wingedhalo.com/info.html), a web design and publishing company. She is also the Editor-in-Chief of Flash Me Magazine (http://flashme.wingedhalo.com), an online magazine exclusively for stories under 1,000 words. She currently resides with her husband and their three children in Illinois.
Kaolin Fire
Kaolin Fire is the founder of Poemranker, co-founder of NFG, long-term guru and moderator of imaginaries (formerly The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Co-operative), and co-webmaster for the SLF. He enjoys creation with pixels, words, oil paints, and generally any other sort of thing he can get his hands on or wrap his mind around. His favorite topics in fiction (and in life) are consciousness, dreams, social networking, artificial intelligence, and software development. You can sample his existence at eriF.org, see some of his comic thoughts, or help yourself to some of his tools, like writer's planner.
Colin Harvey
Colin Harvey has appeared in a number of semi-professional e-zines, and is a regular reviewer for Strange Horizons.
His novel Vengeance was published electronically in 2001. He has written a second novel, Lightning Days.
He lives just outside Bristol in the UK, with his wife and two dogs.
Tiffany Jonas
Tiffany Jonas is the editorial director and founder of Aio Publishing Company, LLC, located in Charleston, South Carolina, most recently the publisher of Ian R. MacLeod's The Summer Isles. She earned a Bachelor of Journalism in advertising, magna cum laude, from the University of Missouri School of Journalism, a top three journalism school, and a Bachelor of Arts in English with an emphasis in creative writing, and has also taken courses toward an MBA. Her articles have appeared in the Charleston Regional Business Journal and the Independent, the newsletter of the Publishers Marketing Association. She currently serves as a travel grant coordinator for the Speculative Literature Foundation and as the coordinator of the Yahoo! Group SP Review Exchange, an authors. and publishers. review cooperative.
David Lunde
David Lunde was born in Berkeley, California, a fact which during the late '60s was enough to get him strip-searched ("Bend over and spread 'em!") at the Canadian side of the Peace Bridge over the Niagara River, just above the famous Falls. He grew up twenty miles from legendary Dilmun, the Sumerian precursor of the Garden of Eden and the retirement home of Ziusudra, the immortal who built the great Ark and survived the Flood (see the Epic of Gilgamesh—the version starring Noah is a dumbed-down copy written more than a thousand years later). His hometown was Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, and Dilmun is now the somewhat less fabulous island nation of Bahrain. Lunde followed Gilgamesh's footsteps (had to stretch his legs considerably) across Dilmun, but he never managed to locate Ziusudra whom he would have liked to thank for saving the Sumerian recipe for beer—no doubt he is wisely lying low these days to avoid paparazzi and religious zealots.
In later years Lunde earned a B.A. in English from Knox College, then put himself through the M.F.A. program at the U. of Iowa Writer's Workshop by inking graphs and charts of satellite data for Dr. James Van Allen and other faculty and grad students of the Physics and Astronomy Department. Upon graduating in 1967, he took a job at the State University of New York at Fredonia, where he taught creative writing and modern literature and directed the creative writing program until his retirement in 2001. He and his wife Patricia McKillip now live and write in North Bend, Oregon.
Lunde has been Co-Editor and Publisher of The Basilisk Press, Managing Editor of Drama & Theater, and Poetry Editor of The Riverside Quarterly. He is the author of seven books of poetry, the most recent of which are Blues for Port City (Mayapple Press), Heart Transplants & Other Misappropriations (Mellen Poetry Press), and Nightfishing in Great Sky River (Anamnesis Press). He has won the Academy of American Poets Prize and two Rhysling Awards for Best SF Poem of the year. Lunde's poems and translations have appeared in Poetry, TriQuarterly, Feminist Studies, Renditions, Field, Northwest Review, Asimov's SF and more than 230 other magazines and anthologies.
Mary Anne Mohanraj
Mary Anne Mohanraj is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Utah,
specializing in post-colonial literature and creative writing. She is
the author of several books, including TORN SHAPES OF DESIRE, AQUA EROTICA
(ed.), and THE BEST OF STRANGE HORIZONS (ed.). Her most recent
publications include "A Gentle Man" (HARPUR PALATE). Mohanraj founded and
served as editor-in-chief from 2000 - 2003 for STRANGE HORIZONS, a
Hugo-nominated speculative fiction magazine. She currently serves as a
referee for FOUNDATION, THE INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF SCIENCE FICTION, and
as Director of the SPECULATIVE
LITERATURE FOUNDATION. She served as a juror for the Tiptree
Award in 2003, given for science fiction and fantasy which explores and
expands our ideas of gender. Mohanraj has recently received a Neff
fellowship in English, a Steffenson-Canon fellowship in the Humanities,
and the Scowcroft Prize for Fiction. She lives in Chicago and is
currently finishing her dissertation, BODIES IN MOTION, an exploration of
sexuality, marriage, and Sri Lankan/American immigrant concerns.
Cheryl Morgan
Cheryl Morgan's native habitat is the U.K., but the species has also been found in Australia and California. Naturalists believe that the species is migratory and that it follows the publication patterns of science fiction novels. Ms. Morgan is also the editor of the Hugo and BSFA-nominated online science fiction and fantasy book review magazine Emerald City and is an occasional reporter for Locus and reviewer for Foundation.
Vera Nazarian
Vera Nazarian immigrated to the USA from
the former USSR as a kid. She sold her first short story at the age of 17,
and since then has published numerous works of speculative fiction in
anthologies and magazines such as the Sword and Sorceress and Darkover
series edited by the late Marion Zimmer Bradley, MZBFM, Talebones, OUTSIDE
THE BOX, On-Spec, THE AGE OF REASON, Fictionwise.com, BEYOND THE LAST STAR,
STRANGE PLEASURES 2 and has seen her work on Nebula Awards® Preliminary
Ballots, honorably mentioned in Gardner Dozois' YEAR'S BEST SF volumes, and
translated into French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Czech, and
Hungarian. She is an active SFWA member, and made her novelist debut in
2002 with the critically acclaimed mythic fantasy DREAMS OF THE COMPASS
ROSE. Her second novel, LORDS OF RAINBOW, about a world without color is
available now. Look for her upcoming novella THE CLOCK KING AND THE QUEEN
OF THE HOURGLASS, with an introduction by Charles de Lint, in a signed
limited edition from PS Publishing.
Ariana M. Osborne
Ariana doesn't like it when she gets mail addressed to "Artana". She's not sure what that's all about. She does like it when she finishes a writing or image project. Her cat doesn't seem to dislike mail or art. Both are, apparently, edible.
Corie Ralston
Corie Ralston is a staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, and likes to describe herself as a
"customer support scientist". She manages several x-ray crystallography beamlines and helps other scientists
collect x-ray data which is used to solve protein structures. She has always loved reading and writing speculative fiction, and she manages to squeeze in writing time
between work, karate, running, and fostering high-energy kittens. She has sold stories to Strange Horizons,
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, and a variety of other venues. She can be found in more detail at:
http://www.sff.net/people/cyralston/.
Rebecca K. Rowe
Rebecca K. Rowe is an author and freelance writer working in Denver, Colorado. Her first science fiction novel, Forbidden Cargo [ISBN: 1894063163, Publisher: EDGE Science Fiction & Fantasy Publishing], debuts in the United States in August 2006, and is available in Canada. She also writes poetry and short stories, inspired by her travels overseas and her more frequent armchair explorations at the keyboard. At one point, she got an education—Master's in Mass Communications/Journalism from the University of Denver and a Master's in International Relations from the University of Southern California. Now she enjoys writer workshops like Clarion in 2004. Her favorite places to work have remained the university library late at night or a coffeehouse on a slow afternoon.
Jeremy Smith
Jeremy Smith is Director of the Independent Press Development Fund in San Francisco, a project of the Independent Press Association. He also currently serves on the Board of Directors of Media Alliance, and is the former publisher of Dollars & Sense, the progressive economics magazine. Jeremy's journalism, essays, and criticism have appeared in the AlterNet, Interzone,The Nation, San Francisco Bay Guardian, SF Chronicle, Z Magazine, Strange Horizons (where his essay "The Failure of Fahrenheit 451" won the 2003 Readers' Choice Award), and numerous other publications. He is at work on a science fiction novel, The Pym Narratives, as well as a study of the relationship between social movements and the independent press.
