KEITH R.A. DE CANDIDO has been writing professionally for thirty years now, with more than 50 novels, around a hundred short stories, dozens of comic books, and more nonfiction than he's willing to count. He's written in more than 30 different licensed universes from Alien to Zorro, and also in worlds of his own creation, taking place in the fictional cities of Cliff's End and Super City, as well as the somewhat real locales of Key West and New York City.

DEREK TYLER ATTICO is a science fiction author, essayist, and contributing writer to the Star Trek Adventures role-playing game, and the Winner of the Excellence in Playwriting Award from the Dramatist Guild of America and two-time winner of the Star Trek Strange New Worlds anthology.

JARRAH HODGE is an award-winning feminist blogger and co-host of Women at Warp: a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. She has appeared on NPR, CTV, CBC and on convention panels across the US and Canada discussing the representation of women in Star Trek.

RUSS COLCHAMIRO is the author of the rollicking time travel/space adventure, Crossline, the SF/F backpacking comedy series Finders Keepers: The Definitive Edition, Genius de Milo, and Astropalooza, editor of the SF mystery anthology Love, Murder & Mayhem, and co-author of the noir anthology Murder in Montague Falls, all with Crazy 8 Press. Russ has also contributed to more than a dozen other anthologies.

His latest novel, Crackle and Fire, the first in a new scifi mystery series featuring his intergalactic private eye, Angela Hardwicke. He is currently writing the second book in the series.

Russ lives in New Jersey with his wife, two ninjas.

For more on and Russ’s books, you can visit www.russcolchamiro.com, follow him on Facebook, and on Twitter and Instagram @AuthorDudeRuss.