Billy Forshaw lives and works in London. He was a police officer for several years before deciding he had exacerbated his fair share of emergencies, and now teaches English (excitedly) to Secondary School students. Billy writes predominantly science fiction and fantasy when he's not trying to compel students to read more.
Kavan P. Stafford is a 26 year old author and poet based in Glasgow, Scotland. He has had work published in 'Unpublishable', 'The Common Breath', 'The Sock Drawer' and 'Writers Forum'. Most of his work is set in and around his home city. For a day job he works in Glasgow's Mitchell Library.
Upasana's writing has been influenced by Eastern and Western writers, her educational background, her passion for poetry, and the multiple lives she has lived so far.
The people had stories to tell about the forest; it tied them all together, somehow. Now the forest was in need, and once again, it will become a center for them...
David Wright is a writer and teacher living on Canada's majestic west coast. He has a lovely wife, two sparkling daughters and more than 50 published short stories. His work has appeared in Neo-opsis, Aiofe's Kiss, Forgotten Worlds and many other cool magazines.
Ajanta Paul is a widely-published poet, short story writer and critic from Kolkata, India who has been in academia for ages and has returned to her first love -- writing. She did her PhD in English from Jadavpur University in the 1990s and is currently working at Women's Christian College, Kolkata.
Chitra Gopalakrishnan, a New Delhi-based journalist and a social development communicator for 30 years, uses her ardor for writing, wing to wing, to break firewalls between nonfiction and fiction, narratology and psychoanalysis, marginalia and manuscript and tree-ism and capitalism.
Ed Nobody is an up and coming writer from Ireland who wants to break the barriers of fiction and write engaging stories not constricted by genre convention. He has written two full novels, one of which may see light next year, pending the grace of Xenu.
David Simmons was born in Washington, D.C. during the crack epidemic. David is a multiinstrumentalist who has made several contributions to many major hip hop albums. Among other things, he is a licensed optician who has worked on the restoration of antique eyeglasses in Northern California.
