Kevin Frane is an author, editor, and translator from a town outside of Boston, Massachusetts. He attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he got his degree in Biology and also studied Japanese. He also studied at Hokkaido University in Sapporo for a summer semester, and worked at an English conversation school in Aomori, Japan in 2001 and 2002.
From 2004 to 2010, Kevin worked as a video game localization producer at Sega of America in San Francisco, and since 2010 has been working as a freelance Japanese translator.
Several of his novels and short stories have been nominated for various small press awards, and he spends time traveling to science fiction conventions across the country to serve on writing panels. As of 2013, he
Malcolm F. Cross, otherwise known by his internet handle 'foozzzball', lives in London and enjoys the personal space and privacy that the city is known for. When not misdirecting tourists to nonexistent landmarks and standing on the wrong side of escalators, Malcolm is likely to be writing science fiction and fantasy. A member of the furry fandom, he won the 2012 Ursa Major Award for Best Anthropomorphic Short Fiction.
