Eliza Victoria lives in the Philippines, where she has published fiction in various publications (Philippines Free Press, Philippine Graphic, Story Philippines, Very Short Stories for Harried Readers, and Philippine Speculative Fiction IV). Visit her at http://sungazer.wordpress.com.

Veronica Henry is a 20 year IT professional, turned writer and web entrepreneur. She is a member of The Carl Brandon Society, The Las Vegas Writer’s Group and The Black Science Fiction Society. Her short fiction will be published in the January 2010 issues of Golden Visions and Strange, Weird & Wonderful magazines. In 2007, she traced her African ancestry to Sierra Leone and made the pilgrimage back “home” a year later. A visit to the Bunce Island slave castle served as inspiration for this story.

Bint Arab is a new writer, an Iraqi American born in Baghdad and raised in Brooklyn. Today she lives in Texas, where being a New Yorker makes her more of a stranger in a strange land than being Arab American ever could.

Catherine Batac Walder left her home country, the Philippines, in 2005 for a two-year European MPhil. scholarship program at the University of Oslo, Norway. The program had period studies in Finland and Portugal. Her work has appeared in Philippines Free Press, Practical Boat Owner, “A Taste of Home” (Anvil Publishing, Phils.), Study Abroad, “Youngblood 3” (Philippine Daily Inquirer and Anvil) and Inscribed. Catherine lives in Berkshire, England.

Kendare Blake’s fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in The Momaya Press 2007 Annual Review, Tower of Light Fantasy, Arkham Tales Magazine and Mirror Dance. She enjoys veganism, red meat and contradictions. Her debut novel, Sleepwalk Society, is to be released in late fall 2009.