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Amal El-Mohtar is a Canadian-born child of the Mediterranean, and would have you believe that her longing for fruit in all seasons is in no way the result of her having compromised her virtue with goblin men. She's currently pursuing a PhD in English at the Cornwall campus of the University of Exeter, where, curled up in her tiny flat above a wine bar, she drinks copious amounts of tea, plays harp, and reads books. She also co-edits Goblin Fruit, an online quarterly devoted to fantastical poetry, with partner-in-crime Jessica P. Wick, and keeps a log of her day-to-day doings on her Livejournal.

B. Haro was born and raised among the Lost Children of Rockdale County. Reformed English major from Emory University who has seen the pale light of the stacks; subsequently seduced into an MLIS program at Pitt, where he will study Archives. Semi-professional obsessive used book hoarder. Indiscriminate reader of neglected and forgotten authors, with a bent toward magically speculative existential fiction. Stepfather to two special needs dogs. An avid daydreamer & ardent procrastinator, he often hankers for orange juice & a more nuanced understanding of the Tipitaka.

Laurie Thayer is a writer and a reviewer. Her reviews have appeared online at Rambles.net where she is a staff writer/assistant editor. She spent her childhood searching for magic rings under rocks and fairies under flowers and behind trees. She now lives in western NY in an area sometimes referred to as the Enchanted Mountains with her husband, three cats, and a sixteen-legged burglar alarm (four big dogs).

Tanya Bresinsky Avakian was born on September 24, 1968 in Mesa, Arizona. Her parents, a mathematician and a librarian, came from Germany, with some Swedish and Estonian blood for which she blames her disposition. She moved with her parents to Bangor, Maine when she was six months old, and lived there for the next twenty years. Until she was six years old, she lived next door to Stephen King, who wasn't famous yet. She obtained degrees in history and religious studies from the University of Maine and Boston University, respectively, after which she got a degree in library science from the University of Oklahoma. She has lived in Boston, Nantucket, and Wilmington, Delaware, and worked in many science-related and rare books collections. Her first word, in German, was "squirrel." Make of that what you will. She is currently working on a novel that has been in her care since the Black Death, and hopes to have it finished before the next millennium. She is married to a physicist and finds science to contain much of the folklore of the present day, but isn't yet sure she's seen William Hale's elf.

Navah Wolfe was born and raised in New York. She works in children's publishing as an editorial assistant at a major publishing house. In the past, she has worked in a veterinary clinic of a zoo, in an independent children's bookstore, and on a rock climbing wall. She loves fairy tale tropes, Richard III, pennywhistling, Shakespeare, and beautiful weather. Lynette lives in Connecticut with her husband, an imaginary cat, and two stuffed walruses.

Deborah J. Brannon: jack of all trades, master of none, though ofttimes better than master of one. By day, she works on her Masters in English Literature at Georgia State University, developing a rhetoric for American mythology and exploring fairy tales along the way. By night and day, she writes fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Her work has appeared in Scheherezade's Bequest, The Pedestal Magazine, and on her website, while reviews she has written have appeared at Green Man Review and Cabinet des Fées. In her (seemingly fictional) time off, she dabbles in photography and is a fledgling jewelry-maker. She lives in Kennesaw, Georgia, with her personal historian-cum-husband and two singular cats.

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