Mia Tijam is a graduate of the Creative Writing Program of the University of the Philippines (Diliman) and a fellow for Creative Nonfiction in the 2007 National Writers Workshop in Dumaguete. Her short fiction has been published in the Philippines Free Press, Philippine Speculative Fiction anthologies, and the Digest of Philippine Genre Stories, whose blog can be found here. Her speculative fiction has been given an Honorable Mention in the 2008 Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, and she was awarded as a finalist in the 2009 Philippines Free Press Literary Awards. She is the resident critic of the Happy Mondays Poetry Readings and the co-editor of Philippine Speculative Fiction Sampler. Recently she has made it into the annals of Philippine Secondary Worlds history via www.farthestshore.kom.ph while her CNF has been included in a sampler of Asian writing at www.writersconnect.org.

Dani Alexis Ryskamp is a part-time lawyer and part-time freelance writer currently living in Kalamazoo, Michigan.  She also has a B.A. in English, and, in a previous lifetime, was published in the Muskegon River Review and Unscripted.

Obinna Onwuka is a senior at Oberlin College. He summers in Virginia. He is the son of Nigerian parents, was raised in the suburbs of northern Virginia, and sees those influences everywhere. He is drawn towards Southern Gothic and pulp fiction.

After 8 years working as a code monkey and tech journalist in San Francisco, in the spring of Ought’9 Justin Whitney moved to rural East Texas, where the rest of his family lives. He now spends his days managing storage units, building web sites, writing, and hanging out at the Dairy Queen. He still hasn’t found his genie.

Jasmin Nanda is a dentist from Amritsar, India. She loves story telling. She writes articles on Helium.com, Howtodothings.com, Storiesthatlift.com, 4Indianwoman.com and is a runner-up in the Olympic poetry contest held by Radio Netherlands and Radio Henan (China). She loves reacting to great programs on Radio Netherlands on their website: www.rnw.nl, her daily addiction.