H.N. Janzen has lived all over, from Beausejour, Manitoba, to Revelstoke, B.C., and is currently attending the University of British Columbia, Okanagan. A compulsive writer, Hilary has written some of her best pieces when she was supposed to be doing something more important. She works in a used bookstore and co-manages a live action roleplay based in Kelowna.
Arun Jiwa lives in Edmonton, Alberta, where he practices at making things up and writing them down. Arun is a graduate of the 2012 Viable Paradise SFF Workshop. He is currently working on his first novel. www.arunjiwa.com
Claude Lalumière is the author of the collections Objects of Worship (ChiZine Publications, 2009) and Nocturnes and Other Nocturnes (Infinity Plus, 2013) and of the mosaic novella The Door to Lost Pages (ChiZine Publications, 2011). He’s the co-creator of the multimedia cryptomythology project Lost Myths (lostmyths.net), and he has edited 12 anthologies, the most recent of which is Super Stories of Heroes & Villains (Tachyon Publications 2013); he’s currently working on his 13th, with David Nickle, The Exile Book of New Canadian Noir (Exile Editions, forthcoming in 2015). www.claudepages.info.
Jamie Mason, author of ECHO (Drollerie Press, 2011), is a Canadian sci-fi/fantasy writer whose short stories have appeared in On Spec, Abyss & Apex, AE: The Canadian Science Fiction Review and Exile Editions’ 2013 release Dead North: Canadian Zombie Fiction. www.jamiescribbles.com
Michael Matheson is a gender fluid Toronto writer, editor, anthologist, and book reviewer, as well as a managing editor (CZP eBooks) with ChiZine Publications, and a submissions editor with Apex magazine. As an anthologist, he is putting together three books for 2015: Start a Revolution (Exile Editions), This Patchwork Flesh (Exile Editions), and The Humanity of Monsters (ChiZine Publications). Michael’s own work is published or forthcoming in Ideomancer, and the anthologies Chilling Tales 2 (EDGE, 2013), Dead North: Canadian Zombie Fiction (Exile Editions, 2013), Future Lovecraft (Innsmouth Free Press, 2011), and Masked Mosaic (Tyche, 2013). www.michaelmatheson.wordpress.com, and twitter.com/fomcontest.
Christine Ottoni is an emerging writer and poet living in Toronto. Her work has appeared in Canadian journals, magazines and anthologies. She completed her undergraduate education at the University of Toronto, where she studied English Literature and Philosophy. She is currently working on her first collection of short stories at the Humber School for Writers. A lover of cheese, hummus and beer, Christine spends her free time snacking in Toronto’s West End. Twitter.com/chrissiottoni.
Miriam Oudin is a teacher and avowed Hansard addict who has published academic articles about ancient economics and short stories that always end up being dystopian for some reason. Her study of marriage in computer games, “Leopards at the Wedding,” will appear in the Mad Norwegian Press anthology Chicks Dig Gaming in the fall of 2014. Miriam spends most of her time discovering creative ways to die in roguelikes and writing double dactyls about TV shows.
Michael S. Pack fled the Deep Southern U.S. after an encounter with a particularly fierce mosquito swarm. He now resides in northern B.C. with his wife and a small herd of cats. Michael writes science fiction, fantasy, and other weird stories. He is currently working on an epic fantasy novel. His stories have appeared in various anthologies including Metastasis (WolfSinger Publications, 2012) and Shapeshifters (Fox Spirit Books, 2012). www.rivenlucidity.wordpress.com
Morgan M. Page is a writer, performance + video artist, activist, and Santera in Toronto. She is the winner of two 2013 SF MOTHA awards (New/Upcoming Artist of the Year and Group Exhibition of the Year), and her video work has screened across the world. Her first novel is due out from Topside Press in late 2014. www.Odofemi.com and twitter.com/morganmpage.
Amanda M. Taylor is a speculative fiction writer and research scientist born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She was an apprentice in the 2014 Sheldon Oberman Mentorship Program with the Manitoba Writer’s Guild, and is currently pursuing a doctorate in soil science. This is her debut publication, and she is working on her first novel.
E. Catherine Tobler is a Sturgeon Award finalist and the senior editor at Shimmer Magazine. Among others, her fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Her first novel, Rings of Anubis, was published in 2014. www.ecatherine.com and twitter.com/ECthetwit
Jean-Louis Trudel was born in Toronto. He holds degrees in physics, astronomy, and the history and philosophy of science. Since 1994, he has authored (alone or in collaboration with Yves Meynard as Laurent McAllister) a trio of novels published in France, four fiction collections, and 26 young adult books published in Canada. His short stories in French have appeared in magazines like imagine… and Solaris, and in various other venues. In English, his short fiction has been published in several Canadian and U.S. anthologies, but also in magazines like ON SPEC. When time allows, he also translates and reviews science fiction. This story, in its original French version, was published as “Le dôme de saint Macaire” in Solaris (2008). www.culturedesfuturs.blogspot.ca
Frank Westcott lives in Alliston, Ontario. He has published prose, poetry, short stories and book-length non-fiction for both children and adults. In 2011, his short story “The Poet” was a co-winner of Exile’s inaugural Carter V. Cooper Short Fiction Competition; the story appeared in the CVC Short Fiction Anthology, Book One (Exile Editions, 2011). Frank is also a singer, writes lyrics and composes music. In 1984, McMaster University selected him for their Alumni Gallery in recognition of his music and writing. www.frankwestcottpoet.com