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Kyle Dabruzzi is a summer fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
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Erin Dailey
Erin Dailey is a freelance writer and Web designer who also happens to have the best damn day job in the world. She moved to New York City last year and would like you to know that she’s already becoming one of those insufferable New Yorkers who thinks that no place else in the world compares to the Big Apple. Yes, she’s already totally annoying. When she’s not pretending that she’s super cool, she covers the TV show “Heroes” on Television Without Pity (www.televisionwithoutpity.com). She’s not fond of doctors, but if her internist looked even remotely like McDreamy, she’d start exhibiting signs of hypochondria and FAST.
Russell Dalton
Russell W. Dalton is the associate professor of Christian education at Brite Divinity School of Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. He is the author of Faith Journey through Fantasy Lands: A Christian Dialogue with Harry Potter, Star Wars, and The Lord of the Rings and Video, Kids, and Christian Education. He is a popular conference speaker on issues of religious education and faith and popular culture.
Bradley J. Daniels, MS
Bradley J. Daniels, M.S., (Brad, for short) earned his B.A. (summa cum laude) in psychology from the University of Central Florida. He began attending the University of Florida in 2003 and completed his M.S. in psychology in 2005. He is currently a doctoral candidate working on a Ph.D. in clinical and health psychology, with a specialization in clinical neuropsychology (and a particular interest in forensic neuropsychology). He also teaches as an adjunct assistant professor at Santa Fe Community College. He is an avid film and pop culture enthusiast, and regularly uses these media in the classroom as a tool to enhance the teaching of psychology. He has also published a previous essay in BenBella’s Psychology of Joss Whedon anthology.
Joy Davidson
Joy Davidson, Ph.D., is a psychologist, certified sex therapist, author and video-maker based in Manhattan. She is a familiar expert guest on national television and radio, including “Oprah,” “20/20,” CNN News, NPR, “Prime Time Live,” “Entertainment Tonight” and “Montel.” Dr. Davidson is the author of or contributor to six nonfiction books, and the creator of multi-volume self-help videos for women and couples. She is well known as a magazine and Web advice columnist and appears frequently in publications such as Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, Esquire, Redbook and Men’s Health.
Clayton Davis
Clayton Davis lives with his wife in Severna Park, Md. He holds the airline transport pilot and flight instructor ratings with more than 10,000 hours logged in everything from gliders to jets. He has published flying stories in aviation magazines and many short stories elsewhere. He served in the USAF as a codebreaker and Russian linguist. Awarded the Saint Ignatius Gold Medal by the Azov Academy, Russia. After retirement from military service he was a high-school mathematics teacher. Clayton Davis graduated from Syracuse University, B.A. ’67, and is listed in Marquis Who’s Who in America.
Randee Dawn
Randee Dawn is a New York-based journalist and is a senior editor with the Hollywood Reporter. Randee freelances for MovieMaker magazine. She has previously worked for Soap Opera Digest, National Public Radio’s “Living on Earth” and WGBH-TV’s “The Ten O’Clock News.” In the past 20 years she has covered the entertainment industry for Billboard, The Boston Phoenix, E! Online, New Musical Express and other national and international publications. She also contributed to the first edition of Les Series Tele, a French book about American television, and has a paralegal certificate from New York University. Her short fiction has appeared online in 3AM Magazine and on the “Well-Told Tales” podcast.
Sylvia Day
Sylvia Day is a former Russian linguist with the U.S. Army Military Intelligence. She sold her first novel 13 months after she began writing and followed that with the sale of 10 more within the next year to multiple publishers, including HarperCollins and Kensington. Her award-winning books have been called “wonderful and passionate” by WNBC.com, “wickedly entertaining” by Booklist and frequently garner Readers’ Choice and Reviewers’ Choice accolades. She is a devout Morelli fan (while secretly carrying a torch for Ranger). Visit her at www.SylviaDay.com.
Vox(Theo) Day
Vox Day is a game design expert and libertarian opinion columnist. He left the frozen tundra of Minnesota for the sunny shores of the Mediterranean more than a decade ago, speaks three languages and is a member of the SFWA, IGDA and Mensa. He is the author of numerous games, books and graphic novels in the fantasy and science fiction genres and is the inventor of the WarMouse™. For more information about Vox Day, join the spirited discussion that takes place daily at his blog, Vox Popoli, at voxday.blogspot.com.
Don DeBrandt
Don DeBrandt has been accused of authoring The Quicksilver Screen, Steeldriver, Timberjak, V.I. and the “Angel” novel Shakedown, as well as writing two books under the pseudonym Donn Cortez: The Closer, a thriller, and The Man Burns Tonight, a mystery set at Burning Man (to be published in August 2005). He does not deny these charges. His two current novels are CSI: Miami—Cult Following and CSI: Miami—Riptide.
Keith R.A. DeCandido
Keith R. A. DeCandido has been a fan of Spider-Man since seeing his live-action adventures on “The Electric Company” as a kid. His first short story sale and first novel sale were both collaborative Spider-Man tales (“An Evening in the Bronx with Venom” with John Gregory Betancourt in 1994’s The Ultimate Spider-Man and Venom’s Wrath with José R. Nieto in 1998), and solo he’s also written a Spidey short story (“Arms and the Man” in 1997’s Untold Tales of Spider-Man) and a Spidey novel (Down These Mean Streets in 2005). He’s become a regular Smart Pop contributor, having also written essays in Finding Serenity, The Man from Krypton, Star Wars on Trial, The Unauthorized X-Men and King Kong Is Back!, with more to come. Find out less at his official Web site at DeCandido.net.
David DeGraff
David DeGraff has been a space cadet since he was 6 years old, watching Neil Armstrong bounce across the lunar surface. No longer a cadet, Dr. DeGraff is now chair of the physics and astronomy department at Alfred University. In addition to the standard physics and astronomy classes, Dr. DeGraff also teaches Life in the Universe, Science in Science Fiction, Living in Space and The Theory and Practice of Time Travel.
Alyx Dellamonica
A. M. Dellamonica, author of A Slow Day at the Gallery (a Year’s Best SF pick) and numerous other SF and fantasy stories, has published fiction in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, SciFi.Com’s SciFiction, and Strange Horizons, as well as anthologies including the upcoming Passing for Human, edited by Steve Utley and Michael Bishop. A 2006 Canada Council Grant recipient for her current work in progress, The Wintergirls, she teaches writing through the UCLA Extension Writers’ program and writes book reviews for Science Fiction Weekly.
Stephanie R. DeLuse, Ph.D.
Dr. Stephanie R. DeLusé, psychologist, researcher, author and teacher, is also Associate Faculty Director of the Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies (BIS) program at Arizona State University. Her graduate training focused on social and personal issues that affect most of us at one time or another—issues around individual/group interactions, family support and divorce, and health and wellness. Her most recent academic efforts have earned her recognition for her teaching, including selection as one of ASU’s Featured Faculty in 2006 and an Outstanding Faculty Award in 2005. In her sparse free time she communes with nature most frequently in the guise of her cat, her trees and her herb garden replete with insect life and lizards.
Raymond Dempsey
Ray Dempsey lives in Palo Alto, Calif. During his career he taught high school and college-level classes, worked in sales and marketing in publishing and the airlines industry, and most recently served as customs compliance manager in high tech before retiring. He holds degrees from Emerson College, Boston; marketing (summa cum laude) from Clark University; and an M.B.A. from Babson College. He has published in Monogram Aviation Publications and contributed articles to the Ian Fleming Web site. Ray has traveled extensively in the United States, Asia and Europe where, in Holland, he had the good fortune to meet his beautiful wife Anneke, his partner for over 34 years.
Daniel Dennett
Daniel C. Dennett, the author of Freedom Evolves (Viking Penguin, 2003) and Darwin’s Dangerous Idea (Simon & Schuster, 1995), is University Professor and Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, and Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. His first book, Content and Consciousness, appeared in 1969, followed by Brainstorms (1978), Elbow Room (1984), The Intentional Stance (1987), Consciousness Explained (1991), Kinds of Minds (1996) and Brainchildren: A Collection of Essays 1984-1996 (MIT Press and Penguin, 1998). He co-edited The Mind’s I with Douglas Hofstadter in 1981. He is the author of over 200 scholarly articles on various aspects on the mind, published in journals ranging from Artificial Intelligence and Behavioral and Brain Sciences to Poetics Today and the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.
Craig Derksen
Craig Derksen received a B.A. from the University of Manitoba and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Maryland. He works in many areas of philosophy but his primary interest is the philosophy of popular art. His first exposure to Hugh Laurie was as the Prince Regent in “Blackadder the Third” (also as Prince Ludwig the Indestructible in “Blackadder II”). Craig sometimes wishes he was a House, but is only a Wilson.
Alan M. Dershowitz
Alan M. Dershowitz is a Brooklyn native who has been called “the nation’s most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer” and one of its “most distinguished defenders of individual rights,” “the best-known criminal lawyer in the world,” “the top lawyer of last resort” and “America’s most public Jewish defender.” He is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the author of 27 works of fiction and nonfiction, including six bestsellers. More than a million of his books have been sold worldwide, in numerous languages, and more than a million people have heard him lecture around the world. His most recent nonfiction titles are Finding Jefferson: A Lost Letter, A Remarkable Discovery and The First Amendment in An Age of Terrorism, Preemption: A Knife That Cuts Both Ways (Norton, 2006), The Case for Peace: How the Arab-Israeli Conflict Can Be Resolved (Wiley, August 2005); Rights From Wrongs: A Secular Theory of the Origins of Rights (Basic Books, 2004) and The Case for Israel (Wiley, 2003). You can find out more at www.alandershowitz.com.
Roni Deutch
Roni Deutch is the most recognizable tax expert in America, known by name to one out of every three in this country over the age of 18. The founder of the largest tax resolution firm in the nation, she is recognized as an experienced tax debt attorney dedicated to resolving IRS back taxes. Her tax law firm, which began as a one-person practice in a small condo, has grown to employ hundreds and has assisted thousands of taxpayers across the country in finding the appropriate relief from the IRS. Today her competitive spirit continues as she reaches out to those in need of help with IRS tax debts. Residence: North Highlands, Calif.
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Elisabeth DeVos
Elisabeth DeVos is the author of science fantasy novel The Seraphim Rising, as well as short fiction that has appeared in Talebones magazine and the anthology Imagination Fully Dilated. Her stories explore what happens when mythical, mystical beings collide with the Muggle world of religion and rationalism. Elisabeth grew up near Orlando and earned a B.S. in computer science from the University of Central Florida. She has lived in the Seattle area for over a decade and read her first Harry Potter while flying diagonally across the country for the umpteenth time.
Dave DeWitt
Dave DeWitt is a writer, editor and show producer. He is the author or co-author of more than 30 books and cookbooks, mostly concerning chile peppers and spicy foods. He is the publisher of the Fiery Foods & Barbecue SuperSite, www.fiery-foods.com, the editor of Fiery Foods & BBQ magazine, and co-producer of the National Fiery Foods & Barbecue Show, now in its 19th year. He lives in Albuquerque, N.M., with his wife Mary Jane and their three Cornish Rex cats and two Dobermans.
Melissa Dickinson
Melissa Dickinson is a professional graphic designer and aspiring writer. She and her husband own a consulting company that specializes in custom Web development and intranet business solutions, but they are hoping to shift gears into restaurant ownership very soon. Her Star Trek story “Triptych” appeared in Strange New Worlds, Volume II.
Bryan J. Dik, Ph.D.
Bryan J. Dik, Ph.D., completed his doctoral study at the University of Minnesota and during daylight hours is an assistant professor in the counseling psychology program at Colorado State University. His scholarly interests fall broadly in the domain of vocational psychology and include person-environment fit theories of career development, measurement of vocational interests, and basic and applied research on calling and vocation. He lives with his wife Amy and sons Eli and Silas in Wellington, Colo.
Larry Dixon
Larry Dixon is an acclaimed artist and interior illustrator with work ranging from Harvard Press to Marvel. Son of an extraordinary Okie farmgirl and a Delta Force commando, Larry has been a racecar driver, volunteer firefighter, stormspotter and all-around adventurer. His passions are falconry, technology, music history, special effects, custom cars, comedy, games, fashion and model making. Larry was also the Great Eagles reference adviser for the Lord of the Rings films. With Mercedes Lackey, he’s credited for popularizing gryphons and has been guest of honor at more than 200 conventions worldwide. He lives in Oklahoma, where he collects comics, odd cars and injuries.
Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is European affairs coordinator for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org), a member-supported nonprofit group that works to uphold civil liberties values in technology law, policy and standards. He represents EFF’s interests at various standards, bodies and consortia and at the United Nations’ World Intellectual Property Organization. Doctorow is also a prolific writer who appears on the mastheads at Wired, Make and Popular Science magazines, and whose science fiction novels have won the Campbell, Sunburst and Locus Awards and whose story “0wnz0red” was nominated for the Nebula Award. He is the co-editor of the popular weblog Boing Boing (boingboing.net). Born in Canada, he now lives in London, England.
Brian Doherty
Brian Doherty is a senior editor at Reason magazine, a monthly of politics and culture. He has written for dozens of publications, ranging from the Washington Post to USA Today to Salon.com, and his work has been anthologized in many books. He lives in Los Angeles and has attended Burning Man for the past nine years.
Kim Dolgin
Kim Gale Dolgin is a professor of psychology at Ohio Wesleyan University. She received her B.A., two M.A.’s and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. She teaches courses in adolescent and child development as well as human sexuality. Her research interests include parent-adolescent “friendship” in late adolescence, sibling relationships, children’s understanding of emotional pain and the development of higher order, complex reasoning skills. She is co-author, together with Philip Rice, of the textbook The Adolescent: Development, Relationships, and Culture, now in its eleventh edition. Dr. Dolgin has received both of her university’s outstanding teaching awards. She is an avid, long-standing reader of both fantasy and science fiction and would have named her children after Tolkien characters had her husband permitted it.
Kate Donovan
When Kate Donovan isn’t watching escapist TV, she’s writing books or practicing law in northern California, where she lives with her very understanding husband and two children. Her first published novels were time travels and paranormal romances, one of which, A Dream Apart—her first and still her favorite—was the story of a young woman who discovers that she’s really a witch and has to learn to embrace her powers and a very unusual Destiny. Is it any wonder Kate became a “Charmed” fan? Her latest is Exit Strategy, a female action/adventure story from Silhouette’s Bombshell line.
Carole Nelson Douglas
Award-winning ex-journalist and novelist Carole Nelson Douglas is the literary chameleon behind 50 novels in several genres. Her Irene Adler Sherlockian novels of historical suspense were the first to introduce a woman from the Doyle canon as a protagonist and won a New York Times Notable Book of the Year citation. Her Delilah Street, Paranormal Investigator, urban fantasy-mystery Dancing with Werewolves debuts in November. The 19-book Midnight Louie series (Cat in a Red Hot Rage, etc.) features four human crime solvers abetted by a feline detective who writes his own chapters. Janet Evanovich described this Sam Spade with hairballs as “the funniest, hairiest, hard-boiled PI on the planet!” Ain’t no Vaseline on him, either.
Jennifer Dunne
Jennifer Dunne writes erotic romance novels and novellas for Ellora’s Cave—including “Dancing in the Dark” in the anthology Party Favors, featuring a heroine obsessed with Julian McMahon’s portrayal of Cole Turner—and fantasy and science fiction novels for Cerridwen Press. She is a three-time EPPIE award winner and has been nominated for the PRISM, Sapphire, Pearl and many other awards not named after sparkly jewels. Visit her Web site at www.jenniferdunne.com.
Doranna Durgin
Doranna was born writing (instead of kicking she scribbled on the wall of the womb) and never stopped, even though it took some time for the world to understand what she was up to. She grew up attached to college-rule notebooks and resisted all attempts at separation. Eventually she got a college degree (wildlife illustration) and had grand adventures on horseback in the Appalachians before ending up in the Southwestern high country with her laptop, dogs, horse and uncontrollable imagination.
Colin Duriez
Colin Duriez is author of a number of books on C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien and the Inklings, including A Field Guide to Narnia, The C. S. Lewis Encyclopedia, The C. S. Lewis Chronicles, The Inklings Handbook (with David Porter), Tolkien and C. S. Lewis: The Gift of Friendship and Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings. He has lectured on Lewis and Tolkien in many countries, and has appeared as a commentator on BBC television and on extended-version DVDs of Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings and the PBS series “The Question of God,” on Lewis and Freud.
Amanda Dykema-Engblade, Ph.D.
Amanda Dykema-Engblade, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of psychology at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. She earned her doctorate in social psychology from Loyola University, Chicago. Her primary research interests include small group performance and decision-making. She teaches courses in statistics, research methods, social psychology and industrial-organizational psychology.
