Ride the Moon: An Anthology, page 23
Vancouver Island’s magical rain forest climate with its ancient red cedars, red-barked arbutus trees and giant weeping sequoias inspired Aloha Moon’s west coast setting. (ShereenVedam.com)
Amy Laurens is an Australian author of fantasy fiction for both adults and young adults. She has lived in the same city all her life, which other people think is boring; she prefers to think of it as stable. At present, Amy lives with husband, brand new baby, and two yellow Labradors who think they are lapdogs. Surprisingly, the dogs are the most jealous of the time Amy spends on the laptop.
After a university education involving many twists and turns, Amy is a high school English teacher at an all-girls school by day. By night, she is a story-writing goddess; at least, that’s what she tells herself to get the words done, and since it seems to work, let’s not disillusion her. Her short fiction has appeared in magazines such as Allegory, Tower of Light Fantasy, and AlienSkin. (ink-fever.blogspot.com)
Chrystalla Thoma—Greek Cypriot with a penchant for dark myths, good food, and a tendency to settle down anywhere but at home, Chrystalla likes to write about fantastical creatures, crazy adventures, and family bonds. After having lived in France, England, Germany and Costa Rica, she now lives in Cyprus with her husband Carlos and enjoys wandering the countryside sampling local food and wine. She writes mainly fantasy and science fiction, primarily for a young adult public. When not reading or writing, she works as a freelance translator and text editor. (ChrystallaThoma.wordpress.com)
Edward Willett is the award-winning author of more than 40 books of fiction and nonfiction for children, young adults and adults. He won the Regina Book Award at the 2002 Saskatchewan Book Awards for his YA fantasy Spirit Singer, and the 2009 Prix Aurora Award (Canada’s top award for science fiction and fantasy writing) for Best Long-Form Work in English for his adult science fiction novel Marseguro (DAW Books); the sequel, Terra Insegura, was shortlisted for the 2010 Aurora. His nonfiction book Historic Walks of Regina and Moose Jaw (Red Deer Press) won the City of Regina Municipal Heritage Award. His latest novel is fantasy/steampunk epic Magebane (DAW Books), written as Lee Arthur Chane. A former newspaper reporter and editor, Ed writes a weekly science column for the Red Deer Advocate and online subscribers, and is also a professional actor and singer. He’s married and has one daughter. (EdwardWillett.com)
Ada Hoffmann is twenty-four years old, and has been publishing speculative fiction short stories since 2010. She currently attends graduate school in Ontario, working towards a Master’s degree in computer science. When the computers and short stories aren’t eating her soul, she feeds the leftovers to online roleplaying games, church music, and her book collection. She enjoys blood and alone time, but would probably not kill people over them. Probably. Unless she was in a really bad mood that day.
Ada’s previous short story sales include work in Basement Stories and One Buck Horror, as well as an upcoming tale in Machine of Death 2. (ada-hoffmann.livejournal.com)
M. L. D. Curelas, Ride the Moon: An Anthology
