Dev Agarwal used to work for a dysfunctional company in the UK. He now works for the government (a step up). He is currently revising his first novel, which continues the story of life after the Salusa.

Dev has a column on writing for the BSFA magazine, Focus (edited by Martin McGrath). His story “Queen of Engines” was an honourable mention in the Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror for 2006. He has also published fiction in Albedo One and Altair.

Dev’s novelette “Angels of War” appears in Æon Three, and “Toys” - set in the same universe - appears in Æon Twelve.

Elizabeth Bear shares a birthday with Frodo and Bilbo Baggins. This, coupled with a tendency to read the dictionary as a child, doomed her early to penury, intransigence, friendlessness, and the writing of speculative fiction. She was born in Hartford, Connecticut, and grew up in central Connecticut with the exception of two years (which she was too young to remember very well) spent in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, in the last house with electricity before the Canadian border. She is the recipient of the 2005 John W. Campbell Award and the author of several published novels, a short story collection, a number of other short stories, and a general sense of confusion.

Elizabeth’s story “The Ile of Dogges” (with Sarah Monette) appears in Æon Seven, and was reprinted in Year’s Best Science Fiction: the Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois.

Elizabeth can be found on the Web at http://www.elizabethbear.com/

Greg Beatty is recently married. He and his wife live in Bellingham Washington. Greg has a BA from University of Washington and a PhD from the University of Iowa, both in English, and attended Clarion West 2000. His work has appeared in 3SF, Absolute Magnitude, Abyss & Apex, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Asimov’s, Fortean Bureau, HP Lovecraft’s Magazine of Horror, the Internet Review of Science Fiction, Ideomancer, Oceans of the Mind, Paradox, SCI FICTION, Shadowed Realms Strange Horizons, Star*Line, and The New York Review of Science Fiction, among other venues. In 2005 Greg won the Rhysling Award in the short poem category.

Greg’s poem “Seeking the Lovetrino” appears in Æon Six, “The Dolls of Mother Ceres” in Æon Seven, and “Unnatural Poetry Workshop in Æon Eight. “Two Cairns for Apollo” appeared in Æon Eleven, and “What Do We Pay the Moon?” in Æon Thirteen.

Visit Greg on the Web at http://home.earthlink.net/~gbeatty/

S. Hutson Blount has had the usual odd employment history common to those engaging in the disreputable business of fiction. Though possessing no higher education, he pretends that his Navy technical training counts as college. He was spotted in Seattle in the summer of 2005 associating with more talented graduates of his Clarion West class. When he's not thinking up more ways to tell lies to people for money, he masquerades as a devoted husband. Another example of his “work” can be found in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine.

S. Hutson’s story “One Avatar, Hold the Anchovies” appears in Æon Thirteen.

Three of Bruce’s poems and an exclusive Bruce Boston interview by Michael Lohr appear in Æon Four. Two more poems are scheduled for future issues.

Visit Bruce’s website at http://hometown.aol.com/bruboston

Mark Bourne has published short fiction in Asimov’s Science Fiction, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and assorted anthologies such as Sherlock Holmes in Orbit, Full Spectrum 5, the Chicks in Chainmail series, and a university textbook of world literature. An erstwhile astronomy and English teacher with a theater background, he has also written and produced work for video, science museums, and multimedia planetariums nationwide. The first collection of his short fiction, Mars Dust & Magic Shows, is available as an eBook from Scorpius Digital Publishing. HWith his wife Elizabeth, he lives in Seattle, Washington, and at

http://www.markbourne.com.

Mark’s Novelette “The Nature of the Beast” appears in Æon Five, and “The Case of the Detective’s Smile” in Æon Ten

Steve’s short story “Emerald City Blues” is reprinted in Æon On.

Visit Steve’s website at http://www.steveboy.com/

Mark’s story “The War Inside” appears in Æon Ten.

Stephanie Burgis is an American writer who lives in England with her husband, Patrick Samphire, and their amazing border collie, Nika. Her short fiction has appeared in several magazines and anthologies, including Strange Horizons, The Fortean Bureau and Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine.

To find out more, please visit her website: http://www.stephanieburgis.co.uk.

Stephanie’s story “Foxwoman” appears in Æon Eight.

Daphne Charette has written poetry, magazine articles, plays, newspaper columns, short stories, song lyrics, screenplays, and smut. After four years spent pursuing Hollywood from Maine (thereby proving once again her insistence on doing things the hard way), she turned her attention back to writing prose fiction in 2005. Since then, her work has appeared in Byzarium, AlienSkin, and The Sword Review among others, and she has stories appearing in the upcoming Justice Wears a Dress anthologies from RageMachine Books. Website: http://www.geocities.com/daphnecharette/

Daphne’s story “Eat the Rich” appears in Æon Nine.

DJ has published fiction in Kenoma and Albedo One. His story “Virulence” appears in Æon Six.

You can visit Stephen online and pelt him with virtual rocks at http://www.stephencouch.com.

Tom’s stories have appeared in Strange Horizons and Futurismic, and he has contributed to a forthcoming book on millennial studies. He writes in a creepy turret in Washington, DC, and is currently working on a novel.

Tom’s story “The Garuda Bird” appears in Æon Three.

Visit Tom’s website at http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/tmdoyle2

“Little Moon, Too Goes Round” appears in Æon Thirteen.

Although Sarah L. Edwards graduated with a degree in mathematics, she likes to point out that she began college as an English major. She writes science fiction, fantasy, and an occasional unidentifiable piece, and has had work published in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine and Hub. She was also a finalist for the Writers of the Future contest. She is presently studying graduate mathematics, learning new recipes, and ignoring a half-knitted sock

Sarah’s novelette “The Butterfly Man” appears in Æon Twelve, and “Wild Among Hares” - set in the same universe - will appear in Æon Fourteen.

For twenty-five years Craig worked as a professional actor. He has done more than 50 television and radio commercials, CD ROM game voice-overs, and has acted in more than 20 productions of Shakespeare.

Craig’s short story “Tribes” appears in Aeon Five.

Visit Craig’s website at http://www.craig-english.com

Marina is the author of Seventh Heart and The Border, available at fine garage sales everywhere. A collection of her short fiction, Pieces of the , is available through Scorpius Digital. Her short fiction has appeared in F&SF, Asimov’s, Pulphouse, The Immortal Unicorn and Desire Burn. She is currently working on a novel.

Marina’s Novelette “The Scarecrow’s Bride” appears in Aeon Ten.

Dr. Rob Furey (“Parallax”) worked on his PhD in Gabon, West Africa, on social spiders. He has returned to his study site several times for his own research, with students and once as a forest guide for a natural history film crew from the UK. He has faced down cobras, retreated from army ants and slept on open wooden platforms in African swamps. Later he went to French Amazonia to work on another social spider species. Not only did he spend time with the spiders, but he watched a gunfight between gold prospectors and French army troops while he ate a meal of roasted tapir. Since then Rob has returned to the tropics several times, usually with students. He spent time as a student himself attending Clarion West. He has published a couple of stories in anthologies since then in addition to articles for dusty tomes on arcane spider behavior. He is currently part of the charter faculty at Harrisburg University, the first new private university in Pennsylvania in over 100 years.

Rob’s colum “Parallax” appears in every new issue of Aeon.

Laura’s short fiction has been published in the magazines Realms of Fantasy, Oceans of the Mind, and ChiZine: Treatments of Light and Shade in Words, and the anthologies Did You Say Chicks?, Powers of Detection, and Murder by Magic, among many others. Her story “End of Day” appears in Æon Four

Laura can be found online at http://www.sff.net/people/lauraanne.gilman

Scott’s Poem “Corvus Nation” appears in Æon Five.

Gordon Gross is actually the long-time writing team of Eve Gordon and Harold Gross, whose work has appeared in Fantasy Fiction, Analog, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds III, the cookbook, A Cup of Comfort, and most recently in the anthology Absolutely Brilliant in Chrome (Phobos Books).

Harold Gross has been a professional actor and a computer professional for many years. Besides writing as half of Gordon Gross, he has been awarded top honors in the 2nd Annual Phobos Fiction Contest, and received an Honorable Mention in The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror: 16th Ed.

Eve Gordon worked as an independent computer programmer and certified trainer in a previous life, but with the formation of Literary Ends has been reborn as a clothing designer and seamstress. Besides writing as half of Gordon Gross, Eve’s other interests include obsessive gardening, reading, stand-up comedy and SCUBA diving.

Gordon Gross’s short story, “Little House on the Accretion Disk,” appears in Æon One.

Visit Gordon Gross’s website at http://www.gordongross.com/

Joseph Paul Haines has at one time been a police officer, a restaurant manager, a professional bodyguard and a title officer. Discovering he was no good at any of the above, he fell from grace into a life of fiction and hasn’t even considered seeking redemption. He lives in the Pacific Northwest with his beautiful wife Catherine, and Gryffyn, the notorious feline Schattenjaeger.

Joseph’s short story “Copper Angels” appears in Æon Four.

Kelly Hale is the author of Erasing Sherlock, recently accepted for publication, and one co-authored novel, Grimm Reality with Simon Bucher-Jones, published October 2001 by BBCWW. Her play, Mogo Mansion, enjoyed a limited, mildly successful run in Seattle several years ago.

The publication of Blood Pith Crux is the the culmination of twenty-five years of having nothing to fall back on. Parental advice be damned.

Kelly’s short story “Blood Pith Crux” appears in Æon Four.

Terry Hayman lives with his family in the Canadian wilds of North Vancouver, beating back beauty with his bare hands, soaking up the liquid sunshine. His short stories have appeared in magazines ranging from Woman’s World and Boys’ Life, to On Spec, Altair, and Dreams of Decadence. You can also find him in the recent anthology Hags, Sirens, & Other Bad Girls of Fantasy and the upcoming Mystery Date and From the Trenches.

Terry’s story “The Girl Who Left” appears in Æon Nine.

Liz Holliday lives in London with the obligatory cat. In past lives she has been a teacher and a youth leader, owned a (tiny) bookshop and run (an even tinier) theatre company. She was once in the Guinness Book of Records for playing marathon Dungeons and Dragons (84 hours non-stop!). These days she writes full-time, mostly things like web content and educational materials. For fun and occasional profit she writes science fiction, fantasy, and sometimes crime. Her stories have appeared in magazines and anthologies in the UK, US and Europe. One was nominated for the Crime Writers’ Association (UK) short story dagger and adapted for the US tv show The Hunger. She has also written ten tv novelisations, a stack of sf/f journalism, and was the editor of the British magazines Odyssey and 3SF.

Online, Liz can mostly be found at www.sff.net. She would love it if Aeon readers visited her newsgroup there - go to sff.net’s webnews and look for sff.people.liz.

Liz’s story “All of Me” appears in Æon Eight.

Robert J. Howe has published short fiction in Salon.com, the Russian science fiction magazine Esli (If), the magazines Weird Tales, Pandora, Pulphouse, Tales of the Unanticipated, and the anthology Newer York. He has also published a handful of stories in Analog, most recently “From Wayfield, From Malagasy,” in the October 2006 issue. Howe, a native of Brooklyn, New York, is a former coastguardsman and merchant seaman. He is a graduate of the journalism program of Brooklyn College, of the City University of New York, and the Clarion Writer’s Workshop at Michigan State University. He is the editor, with John Ordover, of the Wildside anthology Coney Island Wonder Stories.

Bob’s story “Life Sentences” appears in Æon Nine.

http://www.rjhowe.net

Rob Hunter is the sole support of a 1993 Geo Metro and the despair of his young wife. With the onset of late middle age he does dishes, mows the lawn and keeps their Maine cottage spotless by moving as little as possible. In a former life he was a newspaper copy boy, railroad telegraph operator, recording engineer and film editor. He spent the 70s and 80s as a Top-40 disc jockey. Rob’s wife, Bonnie, is the secretary at a nearby rural elementary school. She is a gifted quilter who beguiled her new husband with the kaleidoscope of patchwork geometry. The nearest town to the Hunters that anybody is likely to have ever heard of—because of Stephen King’s The Langoliers—is Bangor, Maine where there are real parking meters and a traffic light. They drive down every six months or so to watch the light change and see the trains come in.

Rob’s stories have appeared in Ideomancer (“The Ninepatch Variation”) and OnSpec—The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic (“Boys’ Night Out”).

Rob’s novelette “The Song of the Rice Barge Coolie” appears in Æon Eleven.

Visit his website at http://www.onetinleg.com.

L. Blunt Jackson is a Philadelphia native transplanted into the pacific northwest where he writes, reviews, and edits genre fiction between bouts of composing internet software.

He is also Associate Editor at Æon Speculative Fiction.

http://www.bluejack.com

His Web site is http://www.michaeljasper.net

Michael’s short story “The Brotherhood of Trees” appears in Æon Six.

Her Web site is http://www.sff.net/people/kij-johnson/

Kij’s story “The Knife Birds” appears in Æon Four, and “Dia Chjermen’s Tale: the Delmoni Atrocity” in Æon Ten.

Visit her online at http://www.jeffekennedy.com/.

Jeffe’s short story “Pearl” appears in Æon Thirteen.

John’s fiction has appeared in Jim Baen’s Universe and Northwest Passages: A Cascadian Odyssey.

Check out his website and blog at http://johnkratman.com

John’s short story “Harry the Crow” appears in Æon Twelve.

Jay Lake lives in Portland, Oregon with his books and two inept cats, where he works on numerous writing and editing projects. His recent novels include Trial of Flowers from Night Shade Books and Mainspring from Tor Books, with sequels to both books in 2008. Jay is the winner of the 2004 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and a multiple nominee for the Hugo and World Fantasy Awards. Jay can be reached through his blog at jaylake.livejournal.com.

Jay’s story “A Mythic Fear of the Sea” appears in Æon One. His article “Genre is Dead, Long Live Genre” appears in Æon Two, his story “You Will Go On,” appears in Æon Three, “Green” in Æon Five, and “Whyte Boyz” in Æon Seven. “A Very Old Man With No Wings at All” appears in Æon Eleven.

http://www.jlake.com/

David D. Levine is a lifelong SF reader whose midlife crisis was to take a sabbatical from his high-tech job to attend Clarion West in 2000. It seems to have worked. He made his first professional sale in 2001, won the Writers of the Future Contest in 2002, was nominated for the John W. Campbell award in 2003, was nominated for the Hugo Award and the Campbell again in 2004, and won a Hugo in 2006 (Best Short Story, for “Tk’Tk’Tk”). He is currently working on a novel. He lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife, Kate Yule, with whom he edits the fanzine Bento.

David’s story “Moonlight on the Carpet” appears in Æon Twelve. “The True Story of Merganther’s Run” will appear in a future issue of Æon. David’s website is at http://www.BentoPress.com/sf/.

Marissa K. Lingen’s second sale to Aeon was her fiftieth short story sale. She has been published in Baen’s Universe, Analog, Ideomancer, Oceans of the Mind, and other venues. She has just finished writing a young adult novel that had an unplanned and unfortunate outbreak of accidentally magical puffins in the early chapters; she didn’t mean to. She lives in the Minneapolis area with two large men and one small dog.

Marissa’s story “Things We Sell To Tourists” appears in Æon Six, and “Michael Banks, Home From the War” in Æon Nine. “Swimming Back From Hell by Moonlight” appears in Æon Thirteen.

Michael Lohr is a writer, university researcher and folklorist. He has published nonfiction, fiction and poetry in over 28 countries. His writings have been translated into 23 languages, including Icelandic, Welsh, Hebrew, Romanian, Croat, Latvian, Estonian, Malay and Tamil. His work has appeared in such diverse places as Rolling Stone, The Economist, Outside Magazine, Outdoor Life, Brutarian Quarterly, Cemetery Dance, Marsdust, Albedo One, Interzone, The Third Alternative, and Midnight Street.

Michael’s interview with Bruce Boston, “Language and Music in the City of the Trees” appears in Æon Four. His interview with Bruce McAllister, “California Daydreaming,” appears in Æon Seven.

Patricia MacEwen is a physical anthropologist (translation: bone freak) who has worked in the forensic field for the past 13 years, including 9 years as a crime scene specialist for the Stockton Police Department and a stint as a Scene of Crime Officer for the UN’s War Crimes Tribunal. Currently working on various archaeological digs in Central California, Ms. MacEwen holds a B.S. in Marine Biology from Long Beach State and is finishing a master’s thesis in forensic anthropology at Cal State University Sacramento. Her interests include alien sex, cathedrals, Darwin Award winners and stupid crook stories.

Pat’s nonfiction article on gender reassignment in the animal kingdom, “Sex Change: a Few Simple Rules,” appears in Æon One. Her short story “A Voice for the Goddess of Mercy” appears in Æon Two.

When not scribbling, Lisa Mantchev can be found on the beach, up a tree, making jam or repairing things with her trusty glue gun. Her stories have appeared in Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, Weird Tales, Fantasy Magazine, Æon, and Abyss & Apex. More will be appearing soon in Japanese Dreams and Electric Velocipede. She is currently at work on the third novel in the Théâtre Illuminata trilogy.

Lisa’s story “Mirror Bound” appears in Æon Nine, and “Her Box of Secrets” appears in Æon Twelve. You can Taste the Bad Candy at her website: http://www.lisamantchev.com.

Will McIntosh has sold stories to Interzone, CHIZINE, Black Static, On Spec, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, and a dozen other magazines since graduating from Clarion in 2003. His story "Soft Apocalypse" was shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Association award for best short story of 2005. By day, he is a psychology professor in the southeastern U.S.

Will’s story “Oxy” appears in Æon Eight.

Daniel Marcus has published short stories in many literary and genre venues and was a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. He has taught in the creative writing programs at the U.C. Berkeley Extension and Gotham Writers’ Workshop and is a graduate of the Clarion West Writers’ Workshop. His first short story collection, Binding Energy, is forthcoming from Elastic Press in Spring 2008. He can be found on the web at http://www.danielmarcus.com/.

Daniels’s story “Echo Beach” appears in Æon Eight. “The Dam” appears in Æon Thirteen.

Holly Wade Matter’s stories have appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Century, the fantasy and horror volumes of the award-winning Bending the Landscape anthology series, and most recently the Crossings anthology from Double Dragon Press. Ms. Matter lives in Seattle with her husband and four recalcitrant house-rabbits.

Holly’s short story “The Russian Winter” appears in Æon One.

Visit Holly’s website at http://home.comcast.net/~weemallard/

Bruce McAllister began publishing f&sf in another lifetime, his first story, written at 16, appearing in l963 in Fred Pohl’s IF magazine and Judith Merrill’s "Year’s Best." Since then, seventy stories, two novels Humanity Prime and Dream Baby), twenty years teaching creative writing in university, and most recently, when not writing, coaching and consulting for new and established fiction and screenplay writers. He was out of the f&sf field for over a decade--the reasons too bizarre to synopsize--and is very happy to be back. Stories most recently in Aeon, Asimov’s, Fantasy and Science Fiction, Fantasy Magazine, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet and SciFiction.

Bruce’s story “The Passion: a Western” appears in Æon Seven. “Hit” appears in Æon Thirteen.

Website: www.mcallistercoaching.com

Martin McGrath is short, fat and hairy. Aged 37, you’d think he’d know what he wanted to do with his life, but instead he’s an unemployed (perhaps unemployable), over-qualified slug. He’s just finished a PhD in an utterly useless branch of political science, which means he now has three degrees – a fact that often has him humming “When Will I See You Again” as he wanders around his house, something he does a lot (not having a job and all). Originally from Northern Ireland, his only real talent is his ability to impersonate Ian Paisley. He currently lives in St Albans with Moira, his saint of a wife, his daughter Niamh (everyone says she looks just like him, which he thinks is a little unfair – on her, obviously) and the colony of ants that infests their house. He has recently had stories published in Fortean Bureau and Jupiter SF and has another forthcoming in Scheherazade. He is a former editor of Matrix, the news and reviews magazine of the British Science Fiction Association – some of his ranting about sf and fantasy films can be read at www.matrix-magazine.co.uk.

Martin’s story “Palaces of Force” appears in Æon Eight

Marti McKenna has written and edited on a variety of projects for Sierra OnLine, Electronic Arts, ImagiNation Network, Sony, RealNetworks, Microsoft, and other companies. Her short fiction has appeared in Tomorrow SF and the anthology More Amazing Stories, and with Lorelei Shannon she edited a horror anthology, Hours of Darkness (Scorpius Digital Publishing, 2001).

She also co-edits and co-publishes Æon Speculative Fiction.

Bridget McKenna is the author of six published novels and numerous works of short fiction. She reads, writes, and edits compulsively, loves Indian food, and lives wherever the winds blow her, apparently.

She also co-edits and co-publishes Æon Speculative Fiction.

Visit Bridget’s website.

John Meaney’s “Gothic SF” novel Bone Song is published by Gollancz SF in the U.K. The sequel, Dark Blood, is fortchoming in 2008. He is also the author of To Hold Infinity, Paradox, Context, and Resolution - the latter three titles being the Nulapeiron Sequence, published by Transworld/Bantam in the UK, and by Pyr SF in the US. He also has numerous short fiction publication credits, and has been shortlisted three times for the British Science Fiction Association Award.

John has a degree in physics and computer science, and holds a black belt in Shotokan Karate. He lives in Kent.

John’s novelette “Blood and Verse” appears in Æon One

http://www.johnmeaney.com/

Jeremy Minton still regards himself as young but will no longer formally commit to a specific date of birth. He lives in southern England with his wife and too many cats for comfort. He writes for love, programs for money and drinks champagne whenever the opportunity arises. He has previously sold stories to F&SF and to The Third Alternative.

Jeremy’s short story “The Wrong End of the Stick” appears in Æon Three

Sarah Monette was born and raised in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, one of the secret cities of the Manhattan Project. Having completed her Ph.D. in Renaissance English drama, she now lives and writes in a 99-year-old house in the Upper Midwest. Her first novel, Melusine, was published by Ace Books in August 2005; the sequel, The Virtu, is scheduled for July 2006, with two more novels to follow: The Mirador (2007) and Summerdown (2008). Her short fiction has appeared in many places, including Strange Horizons, Alchemy, and Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, and has received four Honorable Mentions from The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror.

Sarah’s short story “The Ile of Dogges” (with Elizabeth Bear) appears in Æon Seven, and was reprinted in Year’s Best Science Fiction: the Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois.

Visit Sarah’s website at http://www.sarahmonette.com/.

January Mortimer lives in London with her goldfish, Hedgehog, and a frightening number of house plants. She is currently employed at an ecologist, so where ever she is right now, it is probably muddy and full of frogs. When not standing in a field or ditch somewhere, she uses her spare time to collects old books, old photographs, and large quantities of utterly useless old junk. Her stories have appeared in publications such as Fantasy Magazine, Ideomancer and Heliotrope.

Online, January can be found at http://Januaryhat.Livejournal.com.

January’s story “Brighton Bay” appears in Æon Eleven

Jaime Lee Moyer lives next to a river in the wilds of Ohio. She writes books and stories as well as poetry, assisted by two warrior kittens who help her chase the Muse. In her spare time she is an Associate Editor for Ideomancer Speculative Fiction. On most days, she can honestly say life is good.

Jaime’s poem “Asha” appears in Æon Five, “Asp” appears in Aeon Seven, and “There is a Story” appears in Aeon Nine.

In addition, Jaime’s poetry has appeared in Kenoma, Between Kisses, The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Strong Verse and Raven Electrick, and she has work forthcoming in Star*Line, Dreams and Nightmares and Illumen.

Joe Murphy lives, writes, works, and dreams in Fairbanks Alaska. He’s fifty-two and been married to the ever amazing Veleta Murphy for thirty-three years. Together, they are owned by two Airedale terriers, Bailey and Chandu, and three cats, Kafka, Plato, and Sagan.

Joe has sold fiction to Age of Wonders, Altair, A Horror A Day: 365 Scary Stories, Bones of the World, Book of All Flesh, Book of Final Flesh, Chizine, Clean Sheets, Crafty Cat Crimes, Cthulhu’s Heirs, Dark Terrors 6, Demon Sex, Dreaming of Angels, Gothic.net, Ideomancer.com, Legends of the Pendragon, Lenox Avenue, Low Port, Nemonymous, Northwest Passages: A Cascadian Odyssey, Oceans of the Mind, On Spec, Path of the Bold, Realms of Fantasy, and many others. He’s a member of SFWA, HWA, and a graduate of Clarion.

Joe’s story “The Doom That Came to Smallmouth” appears in Æon Seven.

Ryan Neal Myers lives with his wife in a small town in Northern Idaho - a magical place where gray-haired hippies shake hands with well-educated farmers. Ryan is neither. He graduated from Clarion in 2001, has a degree in creative writing, makes short films in his living room, and writes everything from cyberpunk to children’s fantasy. He almost sold a big-budget screenplay to Hollywood, almost lived in Australia, almost flew a UH-60 Blackhawk, and almost looks cool in his leather jacket. His sunglasses are clip-ons.

Ryan’s story “The Underthing” appears in Æon Eleven, and his story “The Diesel Mnemonic” will appear in Æon Fourteen.

Rita Oakes experiences great difficulty answering the question, “So, where are you from?” A former Air Force brat, she writes horror, fantasy, and historical fiction. When she’s not writing, she works as a librarian in southern New Jersey. She enjoys history, travel, and Belgian beer, sometimes at the same time. She has previously sold to Paradox, The Many Faces of Van Helsing, and Dogtown Review.

Rita’s story “Lupercalia” appears in Æon Seven.

Visit Rita’s website at http://www.ritaoakes.com/

Richard Parks lives in Mississippi with his wife and three cats, though the number of cats is subject to change without notice. His stories have appeared in such places as Asimov’s SF, Realms of Fantasy, Weird Tales, Fantasy Magazine, and Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, as well as anthologies Not of Woman Born, Robert Bloch’s Psychos and Year’s Best Fantasy, among others. PS Publishing will bring out his novella, Hereafter and After, as a signed limited edition in late 2006. His first story collection, The Ogre’s Wife (Obscura Press, 2002), was nominated for the World Fantasy Award. His second collection, Worshiping Small Gods, is due out from Prime Books in 2006.

Richard’s story “Another Kind of Glamour” appears in Æon Six.

Craig D.B. Patton has published stories in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (Pocket Books), Book of Dead Things (Twilight Tales), Hell in the Heartland (Annihilation Press), Dred Tales, and Horrorfind. Additional stories are forthcoming in All Hallows and Until Someone Loses an Eye (Twisted Publishing). He lives in Connecticut with his wife and two young sons who insist that he read dozens of stories to them every day. He happily complies.

Craig’s story “Misery Loves” appears in Æon Thirteen.

Dana’s short story “The Buddha Lectures on Cosmology” appears in Æon Two. Three flash stories: “Appeal,” “The Visitors on the Fourth,” and “Adrift on the Mare Commutatio,” appeared in Æon Five, “Ex Muro” was reprinted in Æon Ten.

http://www.danapaxsonstudio.com/

John’s story “The Hanging of the Greens” appears in Æon Eleven.

Ken’s short story “The Henry and the Martha” appears in Æon Three, and “Here There Be Humans” in Aeon Seven.

Visit Ken’s Website at http://www.sfwa.org/members/Rand/

Carrie’s short story “A Game of Cards” appears in Æon Four, her poem “S.T.A.R.-Crossed Lovers” in Æon Six, and her story “The City in Morning” was reprinted in Aeon Ten.

Visit Ken’s Website at http://www.sfwa.org/members/Rand/

Bruce’s short story “Vocabulary Items” appears in Æon Two.

http://www.sff.net/people/bruce

Josh’s story “Remember” appears in Æon Nine.

For more information, visit http://www.joshrountree.com/

Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s novels (science fiction, fantasy, mystery/crime, and romance) have been published in 14 countries in 13 different languages. She is the only person in the history of the science fiction field to have won Hugo awards for both editing and fiction. Her short work has been reprinted in six Year’s Best collections. She has also been the recipient of the John W. Campbell Award, the Herodotus Award for Best Historical Mystery Novel, the Ellery Queen Reader’s Choice Award, the Science Fiction Age Reader’s Choice Award, and the Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Award, and been nominated for the Locus, Nebula, and Sturgeon awards, and the Asimov’s Reader’s Choice Award.

From 1991-1996 Kris was the editor of the prestigious Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Before that, she and Dean Wesley Smith started and ran Pulphouse Publishing, a science fiction and mystery press in Eugene, Oregon. She lives and works on the Oregon Coast.

Kris’s column, “Signals,” appears in every issue of Æon.

Visit Kris’s website at http://www.kristinekathrynrusch.com/

Ron’s short story “Playing Dice” appears in Æon Eight.

E. Sedia’s short story “Just Chutney” appears in Æon Three.

Visit E. Sedia’s website at http://www.ekaterinasedia.com

Lawrence’s story “The Game of Leaf and Smile” appears in Æon Four, and “Thinking” appears in Æon Eight.

Visit Lawrence’s website at http://www.klingonguy.com/

Ken’s first stand-alone project, the novella Last Flight of the Goddess, is available from Fairwood Press as a limited edition, signed and numbered hardcover. Order your copy at www.fairwoodpress.com.

Ken lives in Gresham, Oregon, with his amazing wonder-wife Jen West Scholes, two utterly worthless cats and a whole lot of books. He invites readers to get in touch with him through his website: www.sff.net/people/kenscholes.

Ken’s story “East of Eden and Just a Bit South” appears in Æon Six, and “One Small Step” in Æon Nine.

Lorelei’s short story, “Kingdom Come Kingdom Go,” appears in Æon Two, and “Another Saturday Night in Georgia” was reprinted in Æon Ten.

Visit Lorelei’s Website at http://www.psychenoir.com

Nisi’s novelette, “Wallamelon,” appears in Æon Three.

Visit Nisi’s Website at http://www.sfwa.org/members/shawl/

Gary’s short fiction has appeared in The Clarion Awards, (Damon Knight Ed., Doubleday, 1984), World’s Best SF (Donald A. Wollheim Ed., DAW 1985), Writers of the Future V (Algis Budrys Ed., Bridge, 1989), and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction,. Upcoming appearances include Exquisite Corpuscle, (Jay Lake and Frank Wu Ed.,Wheatland Press, forthcoming), SciFiction, (Fall 2004 issue), and a new story in F&SF to appear in spring of 2005.

Gary’s short story, “Dali, at Age 26, Believing Himself Heavyweight Champion of the World,” appears in Æon Two.

Visit Gary’s Website at http://www.garywshockley.com

Marge Simon freelances as a writer-poet-illustrator for genre and mainstream publications such as Nebula Awards 32, Strange Horizons, Flashquake, Flash Me Magazine, Dreams & Nightmares, The Pedestal Magazine, and Story House. She is former president of the Small Press Writers/Artists Organization and the Science Fiction Poetry Association. She has received the Rhysling Award for speculative poetry and the James Award for art. Her poetry collections, Night Smoke with Bruce Boston (2003) and Artist of Antithesis (2004), were Bram Stoker Award finalists.

Marge’s short sf/fantasy fiction collection, “Like Birds in the Rain” (Sam's Dot Publications) is self illustrated and will be out in 2007. Her collaborative dark sf poetry collection with Charlee Jacob, VECTORS: A Week in the Death of a Planet (Dark Regions) and Night Smoke with Bruce Boston (Kelp Queen Press) will also be available this year. Visit Marge on the Web at http://hometown.aol.com/margsimon/.

Marge’s poem “Yours or Mine?” appeared in Æon Two. “The Gate” appears in Æon Eleven.

Katherine Sparrow has sold stories to Escape Pod, Jeff and Ann Vandermeer's Fast Ships, Black Sails, Apex Digest, Cleis Press, and a few others. She works in a group home and lives in a commune, though sometimes it feels like those two verbs are switched. She is a slush reader for Pod Castle, attended the Clarion West Workshop in 2005, and tries to go to scifi conventions even though they make her feel nervous and awkward. Katherine is currently working on a scifi young adult novel about popularity, drug use, and rebellion told through the lens of an unusual alien invasion. Visit her website at http://www/katherinesparrow.net/.

Katherine’s story “Welcome to Oceanopia” appears in of Æon Twelve.

Full-time rancher, part-time snowplow driver, occasional musician and struggling writer, Justin Stanchfield’s fiction has appeared in more than seventy magazines and anthologies including Boys’ Life, Cicada, OnSpec and Black Gate. He lives with his wife and two kids, plus their ever growing menagerie of creatures, on a Montana cattle ranch a stone’s throw from the Continental Divide. Among his various bad habits he holds a private pilot’s license, and is considered by many to be the world’s worst snowboarder. He is currently serving his second term as Treasurer of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America.

Justin’s story “Gypsy Wings” appears in Æon Five.

Renee Stern is a former newspaper reporter turned free-lance writer, writing for trade publications on topics ranging from growing apples to building custom furniture. Her short story, "Nuevo Shine," appeared in the Spring 2005 issue of Oceans of the Mind. A member of Seattle’s Fairwood Writers Group, she is working on a historical fantasy novel.

Renee’s story “Fire and Ice” appears in Æon Five.

P.R.A. Stillman has had stories published in The Third Alternative, Aberrations, Pulphouse, and Thirteenth Moon. She has recently completed a fantasy novel about inadequate gods. She lives in the hills north of San Francisco with an assortment of formerly feral animals and a minimally house-trained archaeologist. Pras divides her time between writing fiction, creating sculptures out of old cars and earning a living in industrial medicine.

Pras’ novelette, “Eyes the Color of Earth as Seen From Above,” appears in Æon Two.

Marcie Lynn Tentchoff is an Aurora Award winning poet/author who lives with her family and other odd creatures in a small town on Canada’s west coast. Her stories and poetry have appeared in On Spec, Weird Tales, Aoife’s Kiss, Dreams and Nightmares, and Talebones, as well as in various anthologies and online publications.

Marcie’s poem “But You Don’t Remember” appears in Æon Six. “This Girl on a Train” appears in Æon Eight, “Passing Beneath Stars” appears in Æon Eleven, and “Holiday” in Æon Thirteen. More are scheduled for upcoming issues.

Lavie Tidhar writes weird fiction. He grew up on a kibbutz in Israel and can say “the dictatorship of the proletariat” without blinking. He has also lived in South Africa, the UK, and the remote Banks islands of Vanuatu, in the South Pacific. His short stories have appeared in Sci Fiction, Salon Fantastique, The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Best New Fantasy 2, Horror: The Best of the Year 2007, and many others. He can speak fluent Bislama, a South Pacific pidgin English, cook crème brulee, and grow his own tomatoes.

Lavie’s story “Midnight Folk” appears in Æon Six, “Angels Over Israel” in Æon Ten, and “Hard Rain at the Fortean Café” will appear in Æon Fourteen.

Lavie’s web site is at http://www.lavietidhar.co.uk

M. Thomas’ story “The Tinker’s Child” appears in Æon Four.

Visit M. Thomas’ Website at http://www.found-things.com

Mikal Trimm’s short stories and poems have appeared in numerous venues over the last few years. Recent or forthcoming works may be found in Helix, Postscripts, Weird Tales, Black Gate, and Interfictions, among others.

His novel, The Greatest Freaking Book Anyone Has Written EVER! is not forthcoming from any publisher at any time in the future.

Visit his blog here.

Mikal’s Rhysling Award-nominated Poem “Lost on the Shores of Avalon” appeared in Æon Six, “The Cathedral of the Never-Was” appears in Æon Eleven, and more are scheduled to appear in upcoming issues. His story “The Diadem” will appear in Æon Fourteen.

Melissa Tyler is a cheerful cynic who was raised by Yankees in the swamps of East Texas. She lived for twenty years in Austin, Texas, but has recently moved to the Pacific Northwest to delight in the novel experiences of changing seasons, regional foods that won’t try to kill you first, flora that’s not armed, and drizzle. She’ll fill her time with the three R’s: reading, writing, and researching, as well as the obligatory remuneration. Aeon has obliged her by being the first magazine to buy one of her stories, and thus will be her favorite magazine forevermore.

Melissa’s novelette “The Sky Spider” appears in Æon Eleven.

Lori Ann White lives with her husband, writer Gary W. Shockley, and her cats in a tiny house in Silicon Valley. When she’s not writing fiction, she works as a information technology drone, teaches martial arts, plays with hot glass, and plots to become the neighborhood eccentric.

Her stories have appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, The Best of the Rest 3, and Polyphony 3, her reviews in Strange Horizons, and a poem forthcoming in "Astropoetica" (www.astropoetica.com). She’s putting the finishing touches on a historical fantasy novel set in southern China during the Boxer Uprising and wondering what’s taking the agent who is looking at it so long to get back to her.

Lori’s novelette “Silver Land” appears in Æon One.

Visit Lori’s website at http://home.pacbell.net/pbwriter/

Walter’s short novel Logs, an excerpt from Conventions of War, Book Three of Dread Empire’s Fall, appears in Æon One.

http://www.walterjonwilliams.net

Gene Wolfe is the author of two dozen novels and hundreds of short stories. Possibly the most critically acclaimed SF/Fantasy author of our time, he is the winner of the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, as well as two Nebula Awards, two World Fantasy Awards, the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, the British Fantasy Award, and the Prix Apollo. He lives with his wife, Rosemary, in Barrington, IL.

Gene’s short story “Talk of Mandrakes” appears in Æon One.

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