About the Author
About The Editor
Since 1999, a good portion of Mark Leslie's writing and editing
efforts have been conducted during the three hours per day he
spends commuting via GO transit between his home in Hamilton and
his day job within the IT Supply Chain team at Indigo Books &
Music Inc. Mark is the author of the short story collection
One Hand Screaming and the online serial thriller
I, Death. He lives in Hamilton, Ontario,
with his wife, their son and a little dwarf rabbit named Mister
Bunny.
About The Contributors
Douglas Smith -- Douglas Smith is a Toronto-based
writer whose stories have appeared in over sixty professional
magazines and anthologies in twenty-four countries and twenty
languages around the world. In Canada, his work has appeared in the
literary magazine, Prairie Fire, and the speculative fiction
magazines, On Spec and Solaris, as well as the TESSERACTS, SKY
SONGS, and WONDER ZONE anthology series. Outside of Canada, his
work has appeared in The Third Alternative, InterZone, The Year's
Best New Horror, Amazing Stories, Cicada, and anthologies from
Penguin, DAW, and other publishers. In 2001, Doug was a finalist
for the international John W. Campbell Award for best new writer.
His stories have twice won the Aurora Award, Canada's top award for
speculative short fiction. Doug is currently working on his first
novel.
Stephen Graham King -- To drag himself from the
shadow of that other guy, Stephen Graham King has dabbled at many
things, from acting (most notably the Canadian premier of "Noises
Off"), to web design, blogging and graphic arts. Ironically,
writing is the one thing that stuck. After relocating from
Saskatoon to Toronto, Stephen began a career with Indigo Books and
Music where he was responsible for writing company wide
communications. When he can be dragged away from his computer for
long enough, he can be found indulging his sick fascinations with
crossword puzzles and home renovation shows on TLC (which is
especially odd, considering his great fear of power tools). Stephen
has recently published Just Breathe, the chronicle of his long
battle against synovial sarcoma, from diagnosis through the various
stages of treatment and surgeries.
Andrew Weiner -- Andrew Weiner has had more than
50 short stories published in magazines and newspapers, has also
been translated into French, Italian, Czech, Polish and Japanese,
and has had short stories filmed for two different television
programs. His most recent novel, Getting Near The End has been
hailed as a sharply sardonic and superbly crafted novel. Weiner
holds an M. Sc in social psychology from the London School of
Economics and lives in Toronto with his wife Barbara Moses.
Karen Danylak -- Karen Danylak is a Toronto-based
speculative fiction writer. When she's not writing, she works as a
marketing manager for a mutual fund company in Toronto's financial
district. She lives with her husband and a crazy black cat named
Max.
Bruce Golden -- As a television news producer and
radio reporter, Bruce Golden was awarded two Golden Mikes and a
number of honors from the Society of Professional Journalists,
including recognition for his radio documentaries Sex in the '90s
and Banned in the USA. For a change of pace, he wrote and produced
Radio Free Comedy, a program lampooning political correctness. At
the turn of the century Golden abandoned his long journalism career
to devote himself to his first love - fiction. He has since
published numerous short stories and completed three novels.
Asimov's Science Fiction called his first novel, Mortals All a
"fine blend of social satire and irreverent
anti-establishmentarianism," adding "Golden writes with zest and
good pacing". His second book, Better Than Chocolate (due out from
Zumaya Publishing), is a science fiction mystery revolving around
an alien conspiracy to take over Earth, a Marilyn Monroe
celebudroid turned detective, and an assortment of quirky
characters.
Nancy Kilpatrick -- Award-winning author Nancy
Kilpatrick has published 14 novels, over 200 short stories, and has
edited 8 anthologies. Her recent and upcoming works include the
non-fiction The goth Bible: A Compendium for the Darkly Inclined
(St. Martin's Press, October 2004); the dark fantasy anthology
Outsiders: An Anthology of Misfits, co-edited with Nancy Holder
(Roc/NAL, October 2005); the novel Jason X: Planet of the Beast
(Black Flame, October 2005), the short story "Our Lady of the
Snows" in Tesseracts 9 (edited by Nalo Hopkinson and Geoff Rymer).
She is currently working on an erotica novel for Blue Moon books
based on VIVID girl Mercedez, and another novel in the Jason X
world. Nancy lives in Montreal with her chat noire Bella.
A. M. Matte -- Trained in journalism and
communications, A.M. Matte's favorite form of expression is
creative writing, especially playwriting. A produced playwright at
the age of 12, she achieved notable attention for Slipping Mind, a
play about a family struggling with Alzheimer Disease, which was
produced in Ottawa at the National Arts Centre by Productions
Nemesis and in North Bay by the Nipissing Stage Company. Her homage
to French playwright Molière, Les fourberies de Molière ou Le
Molière imaginaire, won a Best of Venue crowd favorite award at the
2004 Ottawa Fringe Festival. Her freelance writing earning her
occasional publications and writing prizes, she is inspired to
continue her writing endeavors; she is currently working on a
novel, a play and her Master's thesis.
Robert H. Beer -- Robert H. Beer lives and writes
in Fergus, Ontario with a very understanding wife and two little
distractions, plus two cats who show what life can be like, if you
only believe. Robert has published about twenty stories in various
publications such as OnSpec and Tales of the Unanticipated. One of
his stories also appeared in the first book in the "North of
Infinity" series and another was in WP Kinsella's anthology
Baseball Fantastic. One of his stories was nominated for an Aurora
for Best Short Form Work. He has also attended Viable Paradise
writers' workshop on Martha's Vineyard, and has been on panels at
various cons, including the WorldCon in Toronto. He is currently
polishing his second novel, and working on a young adult fantasy
project. Robert is something of an expert in having far too many
activities to fit into limited time.
Zohar A Goodman -- Zohar A Goodman, who rarely
writes prose, produces poetry of various lengths (everything from
haiku to novellas) containing expressions of direct experience with
divine ecstasy & cross-cultural mysticism as well as outright
horror and/or erotic & speculative story-poems. He lives in
Cleveland, Ohio. His work has most recently appeared in Wallking
Bones Magazine, Quill-Pen.net Magazine of Unbelievable Stories, New
Genre Magazine, Contemporary Rhyme, Simulacrum Magazine and
Forbidden Texts.
Robert J. Sawyer -- Called "the dean of Canadian
science fiction" by the Ottawa Citizen and "just about the best
science-fiction writer out there" by the Denver Rocky Mountain
News, Robert J. Sawyer is one of only sixteen authors in history to
win the science-fiction field's two highest honors: the Nebula
Award for Best Novel of the Year (which he won in 1996 for The
Terminal Experiment) and the Hugo Award for Best Novel of the Year
(which he won in 2003 for Hominids). He has eight other Hugo
nominations to his credit, and has won nine Canadian Science
Fiction and Fantasy Awards ("Auroras"), an Arthur Ellis Award from
the Crime Writers of Canada, Analog magazine's Analytical
Laboratory Award for Best Short Story of the Year, and the Science
Fiction Chronicle Reader Award for Best Short Story of the Year.
His sixteenth novel, Mindscan, was released in 2005 by Tor, and
twenty-two of his forty published short stories were recently
collected as Iterations (Red Deer Press).
Stephanie Bedwell-Grime -- Five-time Aurora Award
finalist, Stephanie Bedwell-Grime, is the author of seven published
novels and over fifty short stories. Her most recent releases are
Guardian Angel and Fallen Angel from Telos Publishing, and The
Bleeding Sun and Wishful Thinking from New Concepts Publishing.
Kimberly Foottit -- Originally from out West,
Kimberly Foottit has lived in Ontario for the last fifteen years.
She has an Honours BA in history from McMaster University, but her
first love is writing, having been obsessed by the craft since the
age of eleven. Walter's Brain is her first published story. Kim
currently resides in the west end of Hamilton with her cat, Ben.