Particulates

ELIZABETH BEAR was the recipient of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2005, and is the author of The Eternal Sky trilogy, including Range of Ghosts and Shattered Pillars. She has won two Hugo Awards for her short fiction, a Sturgeon Award, and the Locus Award for Best First Novel. Bear lives in Brookfield, Massachusetts.

Novelist, journalist and Afritopian writer Minister Faust is best known for his cult-classic novel The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad, a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award and Locus Best First Novel Award, and Shrinking the Heroes, which won the Kindred Award and Philip K. Dick Special Citation.

Nicola Griffith is the author of the award-winning books Hild, Spear, and So Lucky, among others. Her essays, opinion pieces, reviews, and short fiction have appeared in an assortment of academic texts and a variety of journals and media outlets, including the New York Times, Nature, New Scientist, Los Angeles Review of Books, NPR, Electric Lit, Literary Hub, and Out.

Kameron Hurley is the Hugo Award-winning author of The Light Brigade, The Stars Are Legion, the Worldbreaker Saga, and other titles. In addition to winning the Locus Award, Kitschy Award, and Sydney J. Bounds Award, her work has also been a finalist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Nebula Award, Dragon Award, Gemmell Morningstar Award, and Ohio Book Award. Her short fiction has appeared in Popular Science, Lightspeed, and numerous anthologies. Hurley has also written for The Atlantic, Writer's Digest, Entertainment Weekly, The Village Voice, LA Weekly, Bitch, and Locus Magazine. Find her online at KameronHurley.com.

Victor LaValle is the author of The Changeling and The Ballad of Black Tom, among many other books. He has been the recipient of numerous awards, including a Whiting Writers' Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Shirley Jackson Award, and an American Book Award.

Ken MacLeod holds a degree in zoology and has worked in the fields of biomechanics and computer programming. His first two novels, The Star Fraction and The Stone Canal, each won the Prometheus Award; The Cassini Division was a finalist for the Nebula Award; The Sky Road won the British Science Fiction Association Award, and it and Cosmonaut Keep were finalists for the Hugo Award. His novella The Human Front won the Sidewise Award. Ken MacLeod lives near Edinburgh, Scotland, with his wife and children.

Annalee Newitz is an American journalist, editor and author of both fiction and non-fiction. They are the recipient of a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship from MIT, and have written for Popular Science, Wired and the San Francisco Bay Guardian. Annalee co-founded the science fiction website io9 and served as editor-in-chief from 2008-2015, and subsequently edited Gizmodo. As of 2016, Annalee is tech culture editor at the technology site Ars Technica.

Sofia Samatar's first novel, A Stranger in Olondria, won the 2014 William L. Crawford Fantasy Award, the British Fantasy Award, and the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, and was included in Time Magazine's list of the 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time. She also received the 2014 Astounding Award for Best New Writer. Her novel The Winged Histories completed the Olondria duology, and was followed by Tender: Stories, Monster Portraits (with the artist Del Samatar), and The White Mosque: A Memoir. Sofia lives in Virginia and teaches at James Madison University.