Valya Dudycz Lupescu has been making magic with food and words for more than 20 years, incorporating folklore from her Ukrainian heritage with practices that honor the Earth. Valya is the author of The Silence of Trees (Wolfsword Press) and founding editor of Conclave: A Journal of Character. Along with Stephen Segal, she is the co-author of Forking Good (Quirk Books) and Geek Parenting (Quirk Books) , and co-founder of the Wyrd Words storytelling laboratory. Valya earned her MFA in Writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and her publications include, The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Kenyon Review, Culture, and Strange Horizons.
An Israeli writer, editor and musician. Instrumental vocalist. Founder and former chief editor of Israel's first online SF&F magazine. Bassman. Computer programmer. His story collection, One Hell of a Writer, was published by Odyssey Press in 2006. Composer and arranger. Writers columns, articles and reviews for various publications. A devoted acapella performer. His stories appeared in magazines in Israel and elsewhere. Participated in numerous musical groups and bands, and still hasn't had enough. Wrote two books with fellow author Lavie Tidhar: Fictional Murder (Odyssey Press, Israel, 2009) and The Tel Aviv Dossier (ChiZine Publications, Canada, 2009). Records his own music at his own studio, The Nir Space Station. Participates in dance
