The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities

Hugh Alter is currently working on novels that you will recognize as award-winning best-sellers from the future. He is also working on retrieving coins from inside his couch. Charlie Jane Anders blogs at io9.com and organizes the Writers with Drinks reading series. Her work has also appeared at Tor.com and the McSweeney’s Joke Book of Book Jokes. Julie Andrews is a 2007 graduate of the Clarion Writers’ Workshop and is a member of both Broad Universe and The Outer Alliance. Christopher Begley is thirty and lives in Worcester, Massachusetts. This is his first published work. He wouldn’t call his writing Moore-ish or Gaiman-esque but will not stop others from doing so. Jayme Lynn Blaschke writes science fiction, fantasy, and related nonfiction. He has authored a book of genre-themed interviews, titled Voices of Vision: Creators of Science Fiction & Fantasy Speak. Nickolas Brienza is a Seattle resident; all further CV may be confidently extrapolated via the usual statistical methods. Tucker Cummings has been writing strange stories since the day she developed sufficient hand-eye coordination to hold a crayon. Previous microfiction efforts garnered accolades during competitions held by HiLoBrow.com and MassTwitFic. Rikki Ducornet is one of her generation’s best surrealists, with books including The Word Desire and The Fountains of Neptune. She is also the Rikki in the Steely Dan song “Rikki Don’t Lose That Number.” Kaolin Imago Fire is a conglomeration of ideas, side projects, and experiments. He has had short fiction published in Strange Horizons, Crossed Genres, Escape Velocity, and M-Brane SF, among others. Jess Gulbranson, a hyperminimal neoplastic bricoleur from Portland, Oregon, is an author, musician, critic, artist, and family man. He has swell hair. Jennifer Harwood-Smith is a Ph.D. student at Trinity College Dublin. She won the 2006 James White Award and has been published in Interzone magazine. Willow Holser is a twenty-six-year-old daydreamer with delusions of adulthood, gainful employment, and grammatical correctness. However, she does have what has been called a “Quite Suitable Hat.” Rhys Hughes is a writer of absurdist fantasy; he lives in Wales. His most recent book is the novel Twisthorn Bellow, and he contributed to the first Lambshead anthology. Incognitum has long been part of a secret society dedicated to the subversion of reality through the recontextualization of museum exhibits and various other contaminations of meat-minds through subtextual viruses. Paul Kirsch grew up on an unhealthy diet of grilled cheese and ghost stories. He’s been tinkering with a steampunk/fantasy series, and writes book reviews at paul-kirsch.com. He lives in Los Angeles. Michael J. Larson lives in Minneapolis when he’s not on his private dirigible, holding wild midair parties and getting involved in international intrigue. Therese Littleton is a curator and writer who lives in Seattle, Washington. Graham Lowther, born in Vermont, now lives in Maine, where he is building his own house. He has long been a fan of horror and surreal fiction, and sometimes writes it. This is his first appearance in print. Claire Massey lives in Lancashire with her husband and two young sons. Her short stories have been published in a variety of places and she is the founding editor of online magazine New Fairy Tales. Tony Mileman lives and works in the Czech city of Brno. His pleasures include translating Czech supernatural fiction. His previous short fiction has appeared in Nemonymous. Adam Mills lives in a town in the Missouri Ozarks, one you can only see if you pay attention and pass by at the right time of night. He writes coded messages, teaches college English, and lives in a bowling alley. Annalee Newitz is the editor in chief of io9.com. She’s published her work in Wired, the Washington Post, Flurb, and 2600. She used to be a professor who studied monsters. Ignacio Sanz was born in Madrid, Spain, in 1977, and is a sci-fi and fantasy aficionado. Until now, he has written some short pieces, but this is the first time he has competed in an international writing contest. Steven M. Schmidt is a person of no importance whatsoever. He is working to correct this appalling state of affairs but it may take some time. Grant Stone’s stories have appeared in Shimmer, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, and Semaphore. He lives in Auckland, New Zealand. Which is handy, since that’s where all his stuff is. Norman Taber (aka Dr. Galubrious) teaches graduate studies in ethereal anthropology and at Exeter University in Putney, Vermont. He is the world’s foremost expert on toad-scrapings. Galubrious is represented in the United States by Norman Taber, a professor of design at SUNY Plattsburgh. Brian Thill is the director of the Humanities Core Writing Program at UC Irvine, where he completed his Ph.D. in English. His research focuses include American literature, art, and politics. Nick Tramdack was born in 1985 and grew up in New Jersey. He works in the stacks of a Chicago library, where he has developed a Grendel-like hatred for noise. Nicholas Troy was born in Washington, D.C., grew up a bit in Germany, then grew up some more in Boston. He has always loved stories, and is currently a part of the Illiterati writing group. Tom Underberg lives with his wife and children in an old house. Standing on his roof, you can see Lake Michigan. He has been an economic consultant (excellent), bartender (disastrous), and dishwasher (promising). Horia Ursu is a Romanian publisher, translator, and (sometimes) writer of science fiction and fantasy. He is also senior editor of Galileo, a digest-size F&SF magazine. He lives in Satu Mare with his wife and daughter. William T. Vandemark can be found wandering the backroads of America in a pickup truck. His fiction has appeared in Apex Magazine, InterGalactic Medicine Show, and in several anthologies. Kali Wallace is inconveniently overeducated and underemployed. She lives in Colorado with her family, four cats, and a turtle. Tracie Welser is a speculative fiction writer and instructor of women’s studies. She’s quite fond of owls. In 2010, she was fortunate enough to survive the Clarion West Writers’ Workshop. Amy Willats is originally from California, although she has also been seen in Texas and Maryland. Currently residing in the San Francisco Bay Area, she tries not to scream uncontrollably, although sometimes she just can’t help herself. Nadine Wilson is a reader of books, scribbler of stories, taker of photographs, mother of one, big sister to many, pet of cats, lover of oddities, seminomadic and vaguely ambitious. She loves the world, even you. Especially you. Ben Woodard recently completed a master’s in philosophy at the European Graduate School. He blogs at naughtthought.wordpress.com, and his first monograph, Slime Dynamics: Generation, Mutation, and the Creep of Life, is forthcoming from Zer0 Books.