The Book of Apex: Volume 1 of Apex Magazine (43 page)

You can visit Geoff at
www.geoffreywcole.com.

Jason
Fischer
is
based in Adelaide, South Australia. He is a graduate of the 2007 Clarion South
workshop, and a recent finalist in the Writers of the Future contest. He has a
story in Jack Dann’s new anthology
Dreaming
Again
, and
stories in
Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine
and
Aurealis
Magazine
. Jason likes zombies and post-apocalyptic settings, and when he’s
not writing he wishes he was. He can be found lurking online at
http://jasonfischer.livejournal.com/, and is a contributing member of the Daily
Cabal.

Jennifer
Pelland
is
a Waltham, MA based writer of dark science fiction and fantasy. Her work has
been nominated for the Nebula and Gaylactic Spectrum awards. In 2008, her first
collection of stories,
Unwelcome
Bodies
, was
published by Apex Book Company.

Visit her blog at
jenniferpelland.livejournal.com.

Joy
Marchand
holds
a B.A. in Classical Studies from the University of the Pacific. She lives in
Salem, Massachusetts, where she takes photos of odd signage, churchyards and
the occasional roadside shrine. Joy’s poems and short stories have been
featured in
Bare
Bone
,
Writers
of the Future Volume XX
, the
Elastic Book of Numbers
,
Modern
Magic
,
Time for Bedlam
,
Polyphony 5
,
Interfictions
,
Talebones
,
Apex Digest
, and
Interzone
, among others. Joy has also worked as
an editor for
Shimmer
, a small magazine packed with quality short
fiction and stunning artwork. She is currently at work on a road novel set on
Route 66.

Visit her website at
http://www.joymarchand.com.

Jason
Palmer’s
published
and upcoming fiction ranges from dark fantasy to high science fiction to
science horror. Look for more from him in the pages of
Murky Depths
,
Spacesuits and Sixguns
,
and the
Terrible Beauty/Fearful Symmetry
anthology from Dark Hart Press.

Ruth
Nestvold’s
short
fiction has appeared in numerous markets, including
Asimov’s
,
F&SF
,
Realms of
Fantasy
,
Baen’s Universe
,
Strange Horizons
, and several
Year’s Best anthologies. Her novella “Looking Through Lace” made the short list
for the Tiptree award and was nominated for the Sturgeon award. In 2007, the
Italian translation won the “Premio Italia” award for best international work.

Ruth maintains a web page at
www.ruthnestvold.com.

Gord
Sellar
is
a Canadian living in South Korea, where he lectures at a University in the
suburbs of Seoul. Since attending Clarion West in 2006, his work has appeared
in various venues including
Asimov’s
SF
,
Interzone
,
Fantasy
, and
Flurb
. His story “Lester Young and the Jupiter’s
Moons’ Blues” appears in
The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Twenty-Sixth
Annual Collection
edited by Gardner Dozois.

Gord’s website can be found at
http://gordsellar.com.

Theodora
Goss
lives
in Boston, where she is completing a PhD in English literature, with her
husband and daughter, in an apartment filled with books and cats. Her short
story collection,
In
the Forest of Forgetting
,
was published by Prime Books in 2006. Her short stories and poems have been
reprinted in
Year’s Best Fantasy
,
The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror
,
and
The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy for Teens
. Visit her
website at www.theodoragoss.com, and find out more about her short story
collection at www.forestofforgetting.com.

Ekaterina
Sedia
resides
in the Pinelands of New Jersey. Her critically acclaimed novels,
The Secret History of Moscow
and
The Alchemy of Stone
were published by Prime Books. Her next one,
The House of Discarded Dreams
,
is coming out in 2010. Her short stories have sold to
Analog
,
Baen’s
Universe
,
Dark Wisdom
, and
Clarkesworld
, as well as
Japanese
Dreams
and
Magic in the Mirrorstone
anthologies. Visit her at
www.ekaterinasedia.com.

Jamie
Todd Rubin
has been reading science fiction since he first picked up Madeleine L’Engle’s
A Wrinkle In Time
back in the fourth grade. He
is a big fan of the Golden Age of science fiction. His influences include Isaac
Asimov, Barry Malzberg, Alfred Bester, Cyril Kornbluth, and Harlan Ellison.

Jamie lives in Arlington,
Virginia where he works as a software developer. His fiction has previously
appeared in
InterGalactic
Medicine Show
.
His website is www.jamierubin.net.

Barbara
Krasnoff’s
short
fiction has appeared in a wide variety of publications. Magazines:
Space and Time, Electric
Velocipede, Doorways, Sybil’s Garage, Behind the Wainscot, Escape Velocity,
Weird Tales, Descant, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, Amazing Stories.
Anthologies:
Clockwork
Phoenix 2, Things Aren’t What They Seem, Such A Pretty Face: Tales of Power
& Abundance, Memories and Visions: Women’s Fantasy & Science Fiction
.
She lives in Brooklyn, NY and earns her keep as a technology writer and editor;
her web site is www.brooklynwriter.com.

Peter
M. Ball
is
a writer from Brisbane, Australia, whose work has appeared in
Fantasy Magazine
and the
Dreaming Again
anthology. He attended the Clarion South workshop in 2007 and he’s currently
trying to break the habit of being a perpetual post-grad student. He can found
online at www.petermball.com.

Mark
Lee Pearson’s
fiction
has appeared in
Space
and Time, The Book of Tentacles, Monkeybicycle, Alienskin, Strange,Weird, and
Wonderful, Liars’ League, Twisted Tongue
, Susurrus Press, and Eternal Press. He lives and
works in Japan, teaching English by day and writing tall tales at night. Visit
his blog at markleepearson.blogspot.com

Jason
B. Sizemore
is the publisher and managing editor of Apex Publications, an independent small press of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. He has been nominated
for both the Hugo and Stoker Awards, and has seen over thirty short stories appear in various pro and semi-pro anthologies, zines, and digests.

Vitaly
S. Alexius
is
a Russian-born digital artist currently working as a freelance
illustrator/photographer. His work has adorned posters, CDs, book, comic
covers, and more. Stop by svitart.n-tek.ca to see more of Vitaly’s work.