Marie-Catherine Caillava is a mutant living in London. She’s a ghostwriter, translator and radio critic specialized in SF. Her special powers are getting the printer stuck five minutes before the publisher rings at the door, and reading her dog’s mind, especially at 11 p.m. when it’s raining outside. Her hobbies are Zen calligraphy, Kyudo and daydreaming about peace on earth.
Laura Caldwell, who lives in Chicago with her husband, left a successful career as a trial attorney to become a novelist. She is the author of Burning the Map, A Clean Slate, The Year of Living Famously, The Night I Got Lucky and two novels of suspense, Look Closely and The Rome Affair. She is a contributing editor at Lake Magazine and an adjunct professor of law at Loyola University Chicago School of Law. Laura is frequently compared to Bree on “Desperate Housewives,” but she holds steadfast to the reasoning that this is only because of her red hair.
Todd M. Callais is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of sociology at the Ohio State University. His research interests are criminology, inequality and the sociology of culture. His recent research has focused on the social impact of popular culture as well as stigma management techniques for people leaving prison. Most recently his work has been published in the book How Real is Reality TV: Essays on Representation and Truth. Todd lives in Columbus, Ohio, with his wife Melissa and his dogs, Mr. Bojangles and Cash: The Dog in Black.
For more than 40 years, Dr. T. Colin Campbell has been at the forefront of nutrition research. His legacy, the China Study, is the most comprehensive study of health and nutrition ever conducted. Dr. Campbell is Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Biochemisty at Cornell University. He has received more than 70 grant-years of peer-reviewed research funding and authored more than 300 research papers. The China Study was the culmination of a 20-year partnership of Cornell University, Oxford University and the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine.
A 1999 graduate of Cornell University, Thomas Campbell is currently pursuing a career in medicine. In addition, he is a writer, actor and three-time marathon runner. Born and raised in Ithaca, N.Y., he has appeared on stage in London, Chicago and most of the states east of the Mississippi River. Mr. Campbell enjoys playing soccer, skiing and hiking.
Dr. John K. Cannizzo grew up in Deming, NM. He graduated from the University of New Mexico with a double major in astrophysics and mathematics (B.S., 1979). He pursued graduate studies at the University of Texas at Austin in theoretical astrophysics (M.A., 1981; Ph.D., 1984). He was a post-doctoral researcher at Harvard University and an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics. John is currently a research professor through the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, working at the Goddard Space Flight Center on various projects in computational astrophysics.
Andrea Carlo Cappi, a thriller writer born in Milan, Italy, in 1964, created his own serial characters and turned into literary heroes two famous Italian comic book characters, Martin Mystery and Diabolik. He has published various essays, and a bestselling book on 007 written with Orson Scott Card.
Orson Scott Card, the author of Ender’s Game, Ender’s Shadow, Magic Street and Enchantment, is a distinguished professor of writing and literature at Southern Virginia University.
Jacqueline Carey is the bestselling author of the critically acclaimed Kushiel’s Legacy trilogy of historical fantasy novels and the Sundering epic fantasy duology. Jacqueline enjoys doing research on a wide variety of arcane topics, and an affinity for travel has taken her from Finland to Egypt to date. She currently lives in west Michigan, where she is a member of the oldest Mardi Gras krewe in the state. Although often asked by inquiring fans, she does not, in fact, have any tattoos.
Author and screenwriter Deanna Carlyle writes comedy, mysteries and thrillers. She is the winner of the James D. Phelan Literary Award and co-founder of the International Women’s Fiction Festival held each year in Matera, Italy. Visit her online at www.deannacarlyle.com.
Alan Carroll is one of the pre-eminent authorities worldwide on teaching IT professionals the art of public speaking. A transpersonal psychologist who has combined his clinical study of the human mind with his natural talent as a speaker, he travels around the globe at the behest of such influential corporations as Cisco Systems, AT&T, Nortel, Avaya, Symantec Corporation, among many others to work with their IT personnel. From struggling third-world countries to prosperous European cities, Carroll’s innovative approach to training IT professionals how to connect with live audiences and turn abstract concepts into compelling conversation continues to impact the careers of thousands.
Marked for life by reading Dracula at the age of 12, Margaret L. Carter specializes in the literature of fantasy and the supernatural, particularly vampires. She received degrees in English from the College of William and Mary, the University of Hawaii and the University of California. Her nonfiction works include Dracula: The Vampire and the Critics, The Vampire In Literature: A Critical Biography and Different Blood: The Vampire as Alien. She is also the author of a werewolf novel, Shadow of the Beast, and three vampire novels, Dark Changeling (2000 Eppie Award winner in horror), Sealed In Blood and Crimson Dreams. With her husband, retired navy captain Leslie Roy Carter, she co-authored a fantasy novel Wild Sorceress. She has recently ventured into erotic romance with three vampire novellas, “Night Flight,” “Tall, Dark, and Deadly” and “Virgin Blood” from Ellora’s Cave (www.ellorascave.com). Visit her Web site, www.margaretlcarter.com.
Joe Casey is the writer and co-creator of comic book series such as Automatic Kafka, Gødland, The Intimates, Codeflesh, The Milkman Murders and Secret I.D. He has also written for the major superhero franchises at both Marvel Comics and DC Comics, including Uncanny X-Men, Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, Fantastic Four: First Family, Adventures of Superman, Wildcats, G.I. Joe: America’s Elite, The Incredible Hulk, Batman: Tenses and Iron Man: The Inevitable. He lives and works in Los Angeles.
Peter Cashwell is a University of North Carolina graduate. Peter’s book The Verb ‘To Bird’ was named a Barnes & Noble “Discover Great New Writers” selection in summer 2003, as well as a Book Sense 76 selection. The book’s irreverent tone and eclectic approach to its subject attracted attention from a wide variety of sources. Martha Stewart chatted with Peter on an episode of “Martha Stewart Living.” John Hanson Mitchell, editor of Sanctuary, the Massachusetts Audubon Society’s journal, called the book “[a] fine literary ramble and a good laugh to boot—no mean feat in a genre that perhaps takes itself too seriously.” The Bloomsbury Review described the book as “[a] delightfully literary and eclectic memoir about the manifold joys of birding” and its author as “[a] very literate, observant, insightful storyteller.” Peter’s work has appeared in The Comics Journal, the Readerville Journal and Woodberry Forest Magazine, as well as on WVTF public radio. He lives with his wife, Kelly Dalton, and their two sons in Woodberry Forest, Va., where he teaches English and speech.
P.C. Cast is the New York Times bestselling author of the House of Night series (Marked, Betrayed, Chosen, Untamed) with her daughter, Kristin Cast. She lives in Tulsa, Okla.
John E. Castaldo, M.D., is the chief of the Division of Neurology at Lehigh Valley Hospital (LVH), led neuroscience research for 20 years and heads the nationally recognized LVH Stroke Center. He is professor of clinical medicine (neurology) at Penn State College of Medicine. He has published many articles in the field of cerebrovascular disease and won the Cardiovascular/Neurovascular Care Award from the American Heart Association for his clinical work in the field. He lives in Allentown, Pa.
The Man with the Iron Tattoo and Other True Tales of Uncommon Widsom
Adam-Troy Castro is a well-known author of science fiction, fantasy and horror whose short stories have received five nominations for the Nebula Award, two for the Hugo Award and one for the Stoker. In 2007 he and collaborator Jerry Oltion shared the Seiun Award for best work translated into Japanese, for their acclaimed novella “The Astronaut from Wyoming.” His prior books include Emissaries from the Dead (Harper Collins, first in a series of novels about interstellar investigator Andrea Cort), the Sinister Six trilogy and nonfiction volumes examining the Harry Potter phenomenon and the television show “The Amazing Race.” A full-time writer when he isn’t procrastinating, Adam lives in Miami with his wife Judi and a motley assortment of anarchist cats that includes Meow Farrow and Uma Furman. For further information, including essays, artwork, fiction excerpts and regular updates on forthcoming work, please check out Adam’s Web site at www.sff.net/people/adam-troy.
The Anthology at the End of the Universe
Jeanne Cavelos began her professional life as an astrophysicist, working in the Astronaut Training Division at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. After earning her M.F.A. in creative writing, she moved into a career in publishing, becoming a senior editor at Bantam Doubleday Dell, where she created and launched the Abyss imprint of psychological horror, for which she won the World Fantasy Award, and ran the science fiction/fantasy publishing program. Jeanne left New York to pursue her own writing career. Her books include the bestselling Passing of the Techno-Mages trilogy, the highly praised science books The Science of Star Wars and The Science of The X-Files, and the anthology The Many Faces of Van Helsing. Her work has twice been nominated for the Bram Stoker Award.
Michael Chabon is the author of two short story collections and four novels, including The Mysteries of Pitssburg, Wonder Boys, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001, and the young adult novel Summerland. Originally published in the Paris Review and awarded its Aga Khan Prize, his most recent book is the novella “The Final Solution.” Chabon’s work has appeared in such magazines as The New Yorker, Harper’s, GQ, Esquire and Playboy, and in a number of anthologies, among them The O. Henry Prize Stories and Best American Short Stories. He lives in Berkeley, Calif., with his wife, Ayelet Waldman, also a novelist, and their four children.
Mark Changizi is an assistant professor of cognitive science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His research areas tend to concern the evolutionary function and design principles governing complex behaviors, perceptions and organisms. His first book appeared in 2003 with Kluwer, an academic monograph called The Brain from 25,000 Feet: High Level Explorations of Brain Complexity, Perception, Induction and Vagueness (Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht). He is the first author on 25 journal articles in diverse topics and Dr. Changizi’s research has been written up in more than 75 magazines and newspapers worldwide, including Time Magazine, Newsweek, USA Today, Discover Magazine, New Scientist (twice), Financial Times, Daily Telegraph (twice), Scientific American, The Times of London, Natural History Magazine, Reuters, ABC News, MSNBC, Fox News, Gehirn & Geist Magazine, Bild der Wissenschaft (twice), Der Standard, Rhein Zeitung, Die Presse, Die Welt, De Morgen, Suddeutsche Zeitung, NRC Handelsblad, Internet Haber, Spiegel and Arzte Zeitung. He has also appeared as a guest on the CBC News “As It Happens” radio show.
Jacob Clifton is a staff writer for the Web site Television Without Pity, writing weekly columns about television topics and series of interest (currently: “The Apprentice,” “Doctor Who,” “Battlestar Galactica” and “American Idol”). Excerpts of his writing have been used as readings for graduate and undergraduate classes in women’s studies, media studies and psychology. Other media credits include appearances on “E! True Hollywood Story,” commentary on media topics for MTV News, and several national newspapers and radio shows. Jacob lives and writes in Austin, Texas, and is currently editing his novels Red Settlement and Serious Vanity for publication.
Jennifer Coburn is a chick-lit writer living in San Diego with her husband William and their daughter Katie. She is the author of The Wife of Reilly, Reinventing Mona and Tales From the Crib. Coburn’s debut novel has been optioned for film by Freedom Productions and Gold Circle Films. Her fourth novel, a sequel to Tales, will be released in February 2007. She has written for national and regional newspapers and magazines, and especially enjoys writing about mothering.
Britta Coleman writes the column “Practically Parenting” and is the author of Potter Springs, a novel from Warner Books (June 2005). She lives in Fort Worth, Texas, with her husband, two children and a fussy Chihuahua.
James Como is a professor of rhetoric and public communication at York College of the City University of New York and a founding member (1969) of the New York C. S. Lewis Society, the oldest and still the largest of such societies. He has published “C. S. Lewis at the Breakfast Table” and Other Reminiscences and Branches to Heaven: The Geniuses of C. S. Lewis. Parts of this essay have appeared in the latter and in CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C. S. Lewis Society.
Ed Connor, Ph.D., is an associate professor of neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University, where he earned his Ph.D. He lives in Baltimore with his wife Amy and their fiercely independent 2-year-old son Malcolm.
Roxanne Longstreet Conrad is a worrisome confabulation of persons, including Rachel Caine, Julie Fortune, Roxanne Longstreet, Roxanne Conrad and Ian Hammell (she has no idea what Ian writes, actually, and that’s probably for the best). She has Web sites, the most prominent of which is www.rachelcaine.com. Until recently, she was a recovering Harry Potter addict. Sadly, the recovery process ground to a halt after she was discovered gazing dreamily at her lenticular Sirius Black wanted poster and her autographed photo of Snape while holding her Hermione Granger wand and wearing her Time Turner pendant. She also was honored by being appointed Head of Slytherin House at The Witching Hour, a 2005 Harry Potter symposium in Salem, Mass. Blackmail photos abound.
Andrew R. A. Conway is a cognitive neuroscientist who conducts research on individual differences in memory capacity, cognitive control and intelligence. He earned his B.S. in computer science and psychology from Union College (Schenectady, N.Y.) in 1991, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the University of South Carolina in 1993 and 1996, respectively. He is currently a lecturer in the Psychology Department at Princeton University where he teaches courses on statistics for psychologists. He also serves on the editorial board of the scientific journal Memory & Cognition. He is single (with no legal right to marriage in his state) and resides in Manhattan.
Gerry Conway has worked in comics since the age of 16 and is best known in Spider-Man circles for scripting the death of Gwen Stacy and for his co-creation of the Punisher. In addition, Conway has written several novels and worked in both film and television as a writer and producer. He lives in Los Angeles.
Chelsea Cooley competed in the Miss Teen USA, Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants and held the Miss USA 2005 title. She was the first Miss North Carolina USA to win the Miss USA crown. Cooley’s pageant consulting company, StandOut Productions, serves 50 clients across a dozen states, 16 of whom went on to compete in the 2008 Miss USA contest.
Carol Cooper is a New York-based journalist and cultural critic who has been writing professionally about books, music, film, pop trends and social issues for over 20 years. Her work has been published in various national and international publications, including Essence, Elle, Latin N.Y., The Face (England), Actuel (France), the Village Voice, the New York Times and Rolling Stone. Her work has been cited in academic journals, and her critical and sociological essays have been included in a number of anthologies, including Rolling Stone: The ’70s (Little, Brown and Company), Brooklyn: A State of Mind (Workman Publishing Company), Dark Matter 2: Reading the Bones (Warner Aspect) and The Rolling Stone Book of Women in Rock (Random House). She is a member of the national nonprofit comics advocacy group Friends of Lulu and a 1974 graduate of the Clarion Writer’s Workshop for Fantasy and Science Fiction. She is widely traveled and holds both B.A. and M.A.L.S. degrees from Wesleyan University in Connecticut.
Harris Cooper is professor of psychology and director of the program in education at Duke University. He studies research methodology and applications of social psychology to educational policy and practice. Dr. Cooper was raised by Fritz Freiling, Hannah Barbera, MGM and the Warner Brothers, while his mother must have been doing something more important. When not watching “The Simpsons,” he is editor of the Psychological Bulletin, the premier journal publishing research syntheses in the social sciences.
Larry Costa is an instructor at Columbia University, the author of Massage Mind and Body, and a fashion and beauty expert who has worked with celebrities such as Julia Roberts, Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz, Estée Lauder and Donald Trump. He has been featured on “The Early Show,” “Today” and “What Not to Wear.” He lives in New York City.
Carol Costello founded the Soul of Selling Institute and has been in sales for more than 30 years. She has been a freelance investigative reporter and national magazine writer. She lives in San Francisco.
Nelson Cowan is a cognitive and developmental psychologist with research interests in working memory, attention, intelligence, individual differences and their development across the life span. He earned his B.S. from the University of Michigan in 1973 with an independent major in the neurosciences, and his Ph.D. in psychology at the University of Wisconsin in 1980. He is currently Curators’ Professor of Psychology at the University of Missouri at Columbia and an associate editor of the European Journal of Cognitive Psychology. In the past he has served as associate editor of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition and of the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. In addition to research articles, he has written two books: Attention and Memory: An Integrated Framework (Oxford Press, 1995) and Working Memory Capacity (Psychology Press, in press), and he has edited The Development of Memory in Childhood (Psychology Press, 1997). He is married with a son in high school and an older stepson and stepdaughter.
John Cox was born and raised in Los Angeles, where he attended the USC School of Cinema-Television. John has worked as a professional screenwriter for the last ten years and has written projects for Warner Bros, DreamWorks, MGM, Sony, ABC, CBS, the USA Network and more. John became a Bond fan when he saw his first and still favorite 007 film, The Spy Who Loved Me, in the summer of 1977. He collects James Bond first editions and is also an expert on the life of Harry Houdini. John lives in Hollywood, Calif.
Jennifer Crusie is a New York Times bestselling author whose novels include Bet Me, Faking It and Don’t Look Down (with Bob Mayer). She is a frequent contributor to the Smart Pop series, and editor of Flirting with Pride and Prejudice and Totally Charmed. She holds an M.A. in women’s lit and an M.F.A. in fiction. For more information visit www.jennycrusie.com.
Csilla Csori is a programmer/analyst at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. She works primarily on database and software development for business applications, and she also moonlights as a gremlin hunter for her colleagues when their computer programs start acting funny. Recently, she released version 5.1 of ProBook grant application software she authored for the University of California. It’s one of those pesky projects that started small but took on a life of its own, and now, like Doctor Who’s Cybermen, keeps coming back to demand more upgrades. She gained an interest in quantum physics in college while interning at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. In her spare time, she enjoys playing softball, kayaking, and any other excuse to be outdoors in San Diego’s perfect weather.
Michelle Cunnah loves and empathizes with Susan more than the other Housewives, because she often feels like Susan’s less wacky, not-quite-as-accident-prone older sister. But in a “Michelle’s life has way less drama” kind of way. Originally from England, Michelle spent six years living just outside Manhattan. She has lived in quite a lot of other places, too. Currently, she can be found weebling ineptly along the cycle lanes in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The award-winning author of 32AA, Call Waiting and Confessions of a Serial Dater, she can also be found on the Web at www.michellecunnah.com.
Don Cusic is the author of 14 books, including Johnny Cash: The Songs. As an author, teacher, historian, musician, songwriter and executive, Cusic has been actively involved in the music business since 1973. He is currently professor of music business at Belmont University in Nashville. In addition to the book on Cash, Cusic is the author of the biography Eddy Arnold: I’ll Hold You In My Heart; an encyclopedia of cowboys, Cowboys and the Wild West: An A–Z Guide from the Chisholm Trail to the Silver Screen; The Sound of Light: A History of Gospel and Christian Music; The Cowboy Way: The Amazing True Adventures of Riders in the Sky; Music in the Market, Poet of the Common Man: Merle Haggard Lyrics; Willie Nelson: Lyrics 1959–1994 and Hank Williams: The Complete Lyrics.
Biologist turned award-winning author/editor, Julie E. Czerneda has nine novels with DAW Books, presently working on Regeneration, the conclusion to her acclaimed Species Imperative trilogy. She has edited themed SF anthologies for DAW, as well as Fitzhenry & Whiteside’s Tales from the Wonder Zone and Realms of Wonder series. In her spare time, she promotes the use of SF to develop scientific literacy, consults for Science News for Kids, canoes, flies rockets and loves to chat about exceptional TV with her family, even over dishes. Go to www.czerneda.com for more.
