Teeth_ Vampire Tales - Ellen Datlow [142]
GARTH NIX was born in 1963 in Melbourne, Australia. A full-time writer since 2001, he has previously worked as a literary agent, marketing consultant, book editor, book publicist, book sales representative, bookseller, and part-time soldier in the Australian Army Reserve. Garth’s novels include the award-winning fantasies Sabriel, Lirael, and Abhorsen and the YA SF novel Shade’s Children. His fantasy books for children include The Ragwitch; the six books of the Seventh Tower sequence; and the seven books of the Keys to the Kingdom series. His books have appeared on the bestseller lists of the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, The Guardian, the Sunday Times of London, and The Australian, and his work has been translated into thirty-eight languages. He lives in a Sydney beach suburb with his wife and two children.
LUCIUS SHEPARD’s short fiction has won the Nebula Award, the Hugo Award, the International Horror Guild Award, the National Magazine Award, Locus Awards, the Theodore Sturgeon Award, and the World Fantasy Award.
His most recent books are a short fiction collection, Viator Plus, and a short novel, The Taborin Scale. Forthcoming are another short fiction collection, Five Autobiographies, and two novels, tentatively titled The Piercefields and The End of Life as We Know It (the latter young adult), and a short novel, The House of Everything and Nothing.
DELIA SHERMAN’s most recent short stories have appeared in the Viking young adult anthologies Firebirds, The Faery Reel, and Coyote Road, and in the adult anthologies Poe: 19 New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe and Naked City: New Tales of Urban Fantasy. Her adult novels are Through a Brazen Mirror and The Porcelain Dove (winner of the Mythopoeic Award), and, with fellow fantasist and partner Ellen Kushner, The Fall of the Kings.
She has coedited anthologies with Ellen Kushner and Terri Windling, as well as Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing, edited with Theodora Goss, and Interfictions 2, edited with Christopher Barzak.
Changeling, her first novel for younger readers, was published in 2007, followed by The Magic Mirror of the Mermaid Queen in 2009. She is a past member of the James Tiptree Jr. Awards motherboard, an active member of the Endicott Studio of Mythic Arts, and a founding member of the Interstitial Arts Foundation board.
Delia has taught writing at Clarion, the Odyssey Workshop in New Hampshire, the Cape Cod Writers’ Workshop, and the American Book Center in Amsterdam. She lives in New York City, loves to travel, and writes wherever she happens to find herself.
Born in the Pacific Northwest in 1979, CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE is the author of more than a dozen works of fiction and poetry, including Palimpsest, the Orphan’s Tales series, Deathless, and crowd-funded phenomenon The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making. She is a winner of the Tiptree Award, the Mythopoeic Award, the Rhysling Award, the Andre Norton Award, and the Million Writers Award. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Spectrum Awards, and was a finalist for the World Fantasy Award in 2007 and 2009 and for the Hugo Award. She lives on an island off the coast of Maine with her partner and two dogs.
GENEVIEVE VALENTINE’s fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Clarkesworld Magazine, Strange Horizons, Fantasy Magazine, and anthologies Federations, The Living Dead II, and Running with the Pack. Her first novel, Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti, about a mechanical circus troupe, is coming in 2011 from Prime. She has an insatiable appetite for bad movies, a tragedy she tracks on her blog, www.genevievevalentine.com.
KAARON WARREN’s third novel, Mistification, was published by Angry Robot Books in 2010, following the award-nominated Slights and Walking the Tree. Her short fiction has appeared in a number of publications edited by Ellen Datlow, including Haunted Legends; Poe: 19 New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe; The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror; The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Two; and Tails of Wonder