Our Authors

Photo: Scott Faber
Harper Scott
 . . .  was–or rather, will be–born in late 21st-century Chicago. In 2121, he transports to Vissulia aboard a corporate laser ship. Upon his return to this solar system, he joins Doctor Alexander Proo in experiencing the time travel adventure described in his memoir, How I Helped the Chicago Cubs (Finally!) Win the World Series.


Scott lives in Chicago; he has never been asked to sing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" over the public address system at Wrigley Field during the seventh-inning stretch.

Link to Harper's website 






Daniel Pearlman

...lived for several years in Spain, where he wrote a couple of novels and finally hit his stride in a series of fantastical stories that appeared in such publications as New England Review, The Silver Web, Amazing Stories, Quarterly West, and Magic Realism. His books of fiction to date are Black Flames (White Pine Press, 1997),  The Final Dream & Other Fictions (Permeable Press, 1995), and Memini (Prime Books, 2003). 






An interview with Pearlman in Fantastic Metropolis




Reading from Hamlet Dreams at ReaderCo
Jennifer Barlow

... has traveled the world, from Norway to Antarctica, China to Brazil, The Orkney Islands to Zaire. Hamlet Dreams was her first novel.  Writing as Jenna Black, she has since published Watchers in the Night (TOR, 2006), & 3 sequels, The Devil Inside (Bantam, 2007), & 4 sequels, Glimmerglass (St. Martins) & 2 sequels, and Dark Descendant (Pocket)  & 1 sequel.


Link to Jenna Black's website



Mark Siegel
  . . .  was born in Buffalo and attended Williams College, where he won the Hubbard Hutchinson Award for writing.  He earned a Masters in creative writing at SUNY Buffalo, where John Barth hated every word he wrote and informed him the Novel was dead; Mark stopped writing fiction for 20 years. 

After a number of friends swore to him the Novel was, in fact, not dead, he again began to write fiction.  He published the true murder chronicle Rocky Point, and seventeen short stories. Echo and Narcissus was his first novel.  Mark passed away unexpectedly, November 12, 2003.


Link to Mark's story "Victim of Fashion" in Fiction Inferno




Darren Speegle

. . . has appeared in numerous publications, including 5 Trope, 3AM Magazine, Chiaroscuro, Fangoria, and Would That It Were. Gothic Wine was his first story collection, but not by much. His second, A Dirge for the Temporal, was published by Raw Dog Screaming Press.










Photo by Jacqueline Ramseyer

Frank Wu, cover artist . . .

. . . has won the Hugo Award for Best Fan/Semi-pro Artist three times. His art has appeared in such magazines as Fantastic Stories, On Spec, Talebones, Darkling Plain, Altair, E-scape and Strange Horizons.  Frank won the Illustrators of the Future Grand Prize in 2000.  

Link to Frank's website