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Jack Dann is a multiple award-winning author and editor with over seventy books to his credit, including The Man Who Melted, The Silent, The Rebel and the international bestseller The Memory Cathedral. Dreaming Down-Under, edited by Jack and his partner, Dr Janeen Webb, was the benchmark by which other anthologies are measured, and the book was a winner of the World Fantasy Award in 1999. Jack Dann lives in Melbourne and ‘commutes’ back and forth to Los Angeles and New York. His website is www.jackdann.com

Allan Dyen-Shapiro is a Ph.D. biochemist, currently working as an educator in Southwest Florida. He has published once before with Dragon Gems, "Magic Notwithstanding, The Family Lawyer Does as Instructed" ran in the Summer 2023 anthology. He has also sold short fiction to venues including Flash Fiction Online (where he is a First Reader), Dark Matter Magazine, Factor Four, Small Wonders, and numerous anthologies.His standalone eco-fiction novelette "The Day We Said Goodbye to the Birds" came out digitally and in paperback from Rampant Loon Press in 2025. He also co-edited an anthology of speculative fiction set in the Middle East.Allan is an active member of SFWA and Codex. He blogs on issues of interest to his readers at allandyenshapiro.com, where you'll also find links to his stories.

Gwynne Garfinkle is the author of People Change (2018), a short fiction and poetry collection. Her work has appeared in Strange Horizons, Uncanny, Apex, and other publications.

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. 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.

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Jessica Reisman, CSW, is the Senior Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Social Worker at New York University Medical Center/Hassenfeld Children's Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders. Ms. Reisman graduated with a BA in Psychology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and received her Master of Social Work at New York University. She received post-graduate training in family therapy at the Ackerman Institute for the Family. Ms. Reisman created and co-facilitates a teen/young adult support group and is co-leader of the Bereavement Program at HCC. She has lectured and presented domestically and abroad on the needs of inner-city youth with cancer and chronic illness. Ms. Reisman was nominated for APOSW (Association of Pediatric Oncology Social Workers) Pediatric Oncology Social Worker of the Year in 2003.

Alex Shvartsman is the author of over 120 short stories, published in Analog, Nature, Strange Horizons, and elsewhere. He won the WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction in 2014 and was a two-time finalist (2015 & 2017) for the Canopus Award for Excellence in Interstellar Fiction. His translations have appeared in F&SF, Apex, and Samovar. Alex has edited over a dozen anthologies, including the Unidentified Funny Objects series, and is the editor-in-chief of Future Science Fiction Digest.

Robert Silverberg has won five Nebula Awards, four Hugo Awards, and the prestigious Prix Apollo. He is the author of more than one hundred science fiction and fantasy novels -- including the best-selling Lord Valentine trilogy and the classics Dying Inside and A Time of Changes -- and more than sixty nonfiction works. Among the sixty-plus anthologies he has edited are Legends and Far Horizons, which contain original short stories set in the most popular universe of Robert Jordan, Stephen King, Ursula K. Le Guin, Gregory Benford, Greg Bear, Orson Scott Card, and virtually every other bestselling fantasy and SF writer today. Mr. Silverberg's Majipoor Cycle, set on perhaps the grandest and greatest world ever imagined, is considered one of the jewels in the crown of speculative fiction.

Harry Turtledove is an American novelist of science fiction, historical fiction, and fantasy. Publishers Weekly has called him the "master of alternate history," and he is best known for his work in that genre. Some of his most popular titles include The Guns of the South, the novels of the Worldwar series, and the books in the Great War trilogy. In addition to many other honors and nominations, Turtledove has received the Hugo Award, the Sidewise Award for Alternate History, and the Prometheus Award. He attended the University of California, Los Angeles, earning a PhD in Byzantine history. Turtledove is married to mystery writer Laura Frankos, and together they have three daughters. The family lives in Southern California.

Jane Yolen is a highly acclaimed author who has written hundreds of books for children and adults and has won numerous awards. She and her husband divide their time between Massachussetts and Scotland.