Karl Rademacher is currently a computer forensic examiner by day, and avid writer by night. He is the former chief editor of a midwestern university newspaper and staff writer for the Independent Music Network.

Susan Babcock has a PhD in Engineering and learned her editing skills on dry technical tomes. She is delighted to now write and edit fantastic stories about knights and beasts that live only in our imaginations.

Niccole Segura is a medical-type by education, a writer by inclination, and cheerfully morbid by nature. Most days she would happily trade this world for a fantasy one--dragons cannot possibly be as dangerous as anatomy exams.

Kellee Kranendonk is a Canadian writer. She's a graduate of the Institute of Children's Literature. Currently she's the moderator of an online critique group called The Writers' Pen.

John C. Mannone is a widely published award-winning poet. His poetry appears in mainstream journals such as the Iodine Poetry Journal, Thrift Poetic Arts Journal, Main Channel Voices: A Dam Fine Literary Magazine, and MO: Writings from the River. His work also appears in speculative fiction venues: Astropoetica, Sonar4 Science Fiction and Horror Ezine, Static Movement, and Liquid Imagination.

Professor Mannone teaches physics in east Tennessee and is a nuclear consultant. He is a frequently sought speaker in astronomy outreach events. He also founded PoeticWord Ministries through which he shares his spiritual poetry and Biblical commentary with local churches (http://home.earthlink.net/~poeticword).