Ken Liu is an author and translator of speculative
fiction, as well as a lawyer and programmer. A winner of the Nebula, Hugo,
and World Fantasy Awards, he has been published in The Magazine of
Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov’s, Analog, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, and Strange
Horizons, among other places. He also translated the Hugo-winning novel,
The Three-Body Problem, by Liu Cixin, which is the first translated novel to
win that award.
Ken’s debut novel, The Grace of Kings, the first in a silkpunk epic fantasy
series, was published by Saga Press in April 2015. Saga will also publish a
collection of his short stories, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, in March
2016. He lives with his family near Boston, Massachusetts.
Annie Bellet is the USA Today bestselling author of The Twenty-Sided
Sorceress, Pyrrh Considerable Crimes Division,and the Gryphonpike Chronicles
series. She holds a BA in English and a BA in Medieval Studies and thus
can speak a smattering of useful languages such as Anglo-Saxon and
Medieval Welsh.
Her interests besides writing include rock climbing, reading, horse-back
riding, video games, comic books, table-top RPGs and many other nerdy
pursuits. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and a very
demanding Bengal cat.
David Steffen is an editor, writer, publisher, and software engineer. He has
edited and written for the Diabolical Plots zine since its launch in 2008, and
which started publishing new fiction in 2015. He is most well-known for
co-founding and administering The Submission Grinder, a free web tool
that helps writers find markets for their fiction and to find response time
statistics about those markets. His fiction has been published in many great
venues, including Escape Pod, Daily Science Fiction, Drabblecast, Podcastle, AE,
and Podcastle. The Long List is his first anthology project.
