Jack Skillingstead is the Sturgeon Award nominated writer of two novels and one collection. Since 2003 he has published more than thirty short stories in various magazines, Year’s Best volumes and original anthologies. His work has been translated into Polish, Russian, Spanish, French and Czech. He lives in Seattle with his wife, writer Nancy Kress.

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Mercedes M. Yardley I’m a dark fantasist who writes pretty things. She works for Shock Totem and authored book Beautiful Sorrows and her novella Apocalyptic Montessa and Nuclear Lulu: A Tale of Atomic Love.

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