Leona Wisoker
Leona Wisoker got her start as a writer when she was eight years old, with a story about all the vacuum cleaners in the world breaking down at the same time. Her family made the deadly mistake of praising the effort, and have had to wade through piles of her work ever since. She also learned from that experience how to successfully use the excuse of writing to avoid housework, which has stood her in good stead over the years. Leona’s work is fueled equally by coffee and conviction; she researches erratically and eclectically, often choosing subjects alphabetically rather than by subject or author. This has led her to read about aardvarks, Buddhism, child-warriors, and many more bizarre subjects. Her debut novel, Secrets of the Sands, the first of a four book series (Children of the Desert) has been praised by such diverse outlets as Library Journal, SF Site, SF Revu, Dark Wolf’s Fantasy Reviews, Green Man Review, and by notable authors C.J. Henderson, Michael Sullivan, and Janine Cross. Guardians of the Desert adds to that list Tamora Pierce and C.J. Cherryh, while continuing to draw praise from the previous reviewers.
(http://www.leonawisoker.com/about.html)
Jack McDevitt 
Jack McDevitt is an American science fiction author whose novels frequently deal with attempts to make contact with alien races, and with archaeology or xenoarchaeology.
McDevitt’s first published story was “The Emerson Effect” in The Twilight Zone Magazine in 1981. Two years later, he published his first novel, The Hercules Text, about the discovery of an intelligently conceived signal whose repercussions threaten human civilization. This novel set the tone for many of McDevitt’s following novels, which focused on making first contact. Frequently this theme is mixed with both trepidation before the unknown and a sense of wonder at the universe.
With The Engines of God (1994), McDevitt introduced the idea of a universe that was once teeming with intelligent life, but contains only their abandoned artifacts by the time humans arrive on the scene. Although it was initially written as a standalone novel, the main character of The Engines of God, pilot Priscilla Hutchins, has since appeared in five more books, Deepsix (2001), Chindi (2002), Omega (2003), Odyssey (2006), and Cauldron (2007). The mystery surrounding the destructive “Omega Clouds” (which are introduced in The Engines of God) is left unexplored until Omega.
McDevitt’s novels frequently raise questions which he does not attempt to answer. He prefers to leave ambiguities to puzzle and intrigue his readers: “Some things are best left to the reader’s very able imagination.”
His novel Seeker won the 2006 Nebula Award for Best Novel, given by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. He has been nominated for the Nebula Award fifteen times; Seeker is his only win.
(http://jackmcdevitt.com/default.aspx)
Jonah Knight
Jonah is a singer/songfighter focusing on songs about being haunted. Ghosts and monsters, angels and demons, empty places and empty people. He is an accomplished sci-fi/fantasy/ horror songwriter. His albums include:
Ghosts Don’t Disappear, about hauntings.
The Exploration of Dangerous Places, a collection of haunted songs (mostly) about supernatural danger.
Nobody Gets The Girl: songs for the novel by James Maxey, is a sort-of soundtrack for a very cool super hero book. It is a bit different from the others in a few ways. It is an on-line exclusive, stripped down guitar & voice only, and it is tied to another persons work. If you think a super hero novel about a living ghost sounds cool, look for it on Amazon.
The Age Of Steam: Strange Machines, is supernatural steampunk. Set between 1880-1920, these stories of gears and ghosts represent a theme and a world which he will be revisiting in later works.
(http://www.jonahofthesea.com/about.cfm)
Danny Birt
Award-winning author Danny Birt was born about three decades ago in Washington State to Irish and Californian parents, and has since lived in Idaho, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, Florida, Hawaii, Virginia, and North Carolina. He attended high school at New Mexico Military Institute, studied music therapy and psychology at Loyola University New Orleans, and most recently graduated from Shenandoah University with his Master’s Degree in Music Therapy.
Danny has been a contributing author to several sci-fi, fantasy, and professional magazines, anthologies, and journals. He is also an editor for small-press publisher Cyberwizard Productions. His fantasy series “The Laurian Pentology” is being published through Ancient Tomes Press, starting with “Ending an Ending.” His first children’s/YA novel “Between a Roc and a Hard Place” has won The National Parenting Center’s 2010 Seal of Approval, Creative Child Magazine’s 2010 Seal of Excellence, and was named one of Dr. Toy’s Best Picks of 2010.
In addition to literary publication, Danny composes classical and filk music, such as his nonstop hour-long piano solo “Piano Petrissage,” and the ever-peculiar album “Warped Children’s Songs.”
Danny has now settled in eastern North Carolina where he is a faculty member at a local college. In his spare time, Danny’s hobby is finding new hobbies.
Kelly Turnbull 
Her name is Kelly Turnbull, but the internet calls her Coelasquid. She is the author of the immensely popular webomic Manly Guys Doing Manly Things. She likes drawing comics about unapologetically macho things because she’s not on board with this modern trend of telling men that they should act less like men. Kelly dreams of a world where the beer is cheap and plentiful, violence can still be an acceptable solution to life’s problems, and no one ever has to talk about their feelings.
Sometimes this is a comic about macho action heroes. Sometimes this is a slice of life comic about a time traveling Navy SEAL single dad from the nonspecific spacefuture. Really, it just depends on how things were going that day.
