Alameda, Courtney: - Courtney
Alameda is a horror novelist and comic book writer. Born and raised in
the San Francisco Bay Area, she now resides in the northwestern United States
with her husband, one Welsh corgi, two cats, three library rooms, and whatever
monsters lurk in the rural darkness around her home.

Dawson, Delilah S.: - Delilah S.
Dawson is the author of the New York Times bestseller Star
Wars: Phasma and Star Wars Galaxy's Edge: Black Spire, The
Violence, Mine, Camp Scare, the Minecraft: Mob Squad series,
the Hit series, the Blud series, the Tales of Pell series (with Kevin Hearne),
and the Shadow series (written as Lila Bowen), as well as the creator-owned
comics Ladycastle, Sparrowhawk, and Star Pig, plus comics in the worlds of Firefly,
Star Wars, The X-Files, Adventure Time, Rick and Morty,
Marvel Action: Spider-Man, Disney's Descendants, Labyrinth,
and more. Find her online at delilahsdawson.com.

Evenson, Brian: - Brian
Evenson is the author of more than a dozen books of fiction, most
recently the story collection The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell. His
collection Song for the Unraveling of the World won the Shirley Jackson
Award and the World Fantasy Award and was a finalist for the Los Angeles
Times' Ray Bradbury Prize. Other prizes include the 2009 American Library
Association's RUSA award for Last Days and the International Horror
Guild Award for The Wavering Knife. He is the recipient of three O.
Henry Prizes, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a Guggenheim
Fellowship. His work has been translated into more than a dozen languages. He lives
in Los Angeles and teaches in the Critical Studies Program at CalArts.

Foshko, Adam: - Adam Foshko is an
acclaimed screenwriter, story director, and narrative designer. Having
developed and written on the long-running Skylanders, Call of Duty, Destiny,
James Bond, and Medal of Honor franchises, as well as with MGM, Paramount,
DreamWorks, and HBO, he now works with Blizzard in the Story and Franchise
Department on Diablo, Overwatch, and others. He continues to
write and develop for film, television, and games.

Kirby, Matthew J.: - Matthew J.
Kirby is the critically acclaimed author of more than a dozen novels
for teens and young readers, including The Clockwork Three, Icefall,
A Taste for Monsters, and the Assassin's Creed series Last Descendants,
as well as Geirmund's Saga, an original story connected to the world of
the Assassin's Creed game Valhalla. He has won several awards, including
the Edgar Award and a PEN Center USA Award, and his books have been selected by
the Junior Library Guild and the American Library Association for their lists
of best fiction for young adults. He and his family currently live in Idaho.

Lyga, Barry: - Barry Lyga has been
gaming since the age of ten, when his father foolishly bought an Atari 2600 and
set it up in the basement. He started reading short story collections around
the same time, so this was fated. Called a "YA rebel-author" by Kirkus
Reviews, Barry has published twenty-five novels in various genres in his
fourteen-year career, including the New York Times bestselling I Hunt
Killers and the origin of the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Thanos in Thanos:
Titan Consumed. He lives on the outskirts of New York City with two
children who are smarter than he is and his wife, the novelist Morgan Baden.

Valente, Catherynne M.: - Catherynne
M. Valente is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling
author of forty books of fantasy and science fiction, including Space Opera,
the Fairyland series, Deathless, and The Orphan's Tales. She
lives on a small island off the coast of Maine with her partner and child.

Muir, Tamsyn: - Tamsyn Muir is the
bestselling author of the Locked Tomb series. Her fiction has won the Locus
Award and the Crawford Award and has been nominated for the Hugo Award, the
Nebula Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, the World Fantasy Award, the Dragon
Award, and the Eugie Foster Memorial Award. A Kiwi, she has spent most of her
life in Howick, New Zealand, with time living in Waiuku and central Wellington.
She currently lives and works in Oxford, in the United Kingdom.