Catherine Asaro
Catherine Asaro is a writer, physicist, singer, and two time winner of the Nebula® Award. Her most recent fantasy is THE NIGHT BIRD. Her latest sf book, DIAMOND STAR (Baen), is about a rock star in the future. Starflight Music released a soundtrack for the book, also titled Diamond Star, by the rock band Point Valid (Hayim Ani, Adam Leve, Max Vidaver). After Point Valid dispersed to college, Donald Wolcott joined the project as the keyboard accompanist for Catherine's vocals. An accomplished pianist in jazz, rock, and classical music, he showcases the Diamond Star Project with his exciting arrangements and delightfully jazzy style.
Marc "Grailwolf" Bailey
Marc Bailey is the host of the Grailwolf’s Geek Life podcast. Marc is a reviewer, philosopher, and commentator on all things geek.
Cliff Bohm
Cliff Bohm is the president of SlugFest Games, Inc., co-designer and art director on various SlugFest Games products such as "The Red Dragon Inn", "En Garde!" and "Kung Fu Fighting". When he is not working for SlugFest Games he spends his time learning to be a blacksmith, or working with leather or wood. Cliff escaped from a 14 year career in computer animation in 2007 (he claims that he is actually currently temporarily retired while he figures a job that does not force him to work in a cube). His credits include work on the animated films "Ice Age" and "Shrek the Third".
Tobias S. Buckell
Tobias S. Buckell is a NY Times bestselling, Caribbean-born speculative fiction writer with four novels out, who grew up in Grenada, the British Virgin Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
John Cmar, MD
John Cmar is a physician specializing in infectious diseases, and a regular contributor to The Secret Lair podcast, as well as a gamer and libation enthusiast.
Tom Comeau (Teela's Dad)
Tom Comeau started with Space Cat and Tom Swift, then read everything from Asimov to Zelazny.
Frank Conniff
Frank Conniff is a comedy writer and performer who began his TV career writing for the Peabody award-winning Comedy Central series “Mystery Science Theater 3000” (MST3K), where he also played “TV’s Frank,” the bumbling yet lovable mad scientist. He currently writing, producing and performing on “Cinematic Titanic, ” with his old cohorts from MST3K, and "Cartoon Dump," a monthly show at the Steve Allen Theater in Hollywood.
Anna Creech
Anna Creech is a librarian at a small, private university in the Mid-Atlantic area. She has been a podcast listener and sometime voice mail contributor for the past four years, and still sports a first generation iPod Nano.
Dani Cutler
Dani Cutler is a voice-actor, local radio announcer, political podcaster and all-around audio addict.
Richard Dansky
Richard Dansky is the Central Clancy Writer for Ubisoft and the Manager of Design for Red Storm Entertainment. The author of the critically acclaimed novel FIREFLY RAIN, Richard has written for games in the Splinter Cell, Ghost Recon, Rainbow Six, Might & Magic, Far Cry and Blazing Angels series, as well as numerous others for Ubisoft. A former executive of the IGDA Game Writing SIG, he was named one of the Top Twenty Game Writers by Gamasutra in 2009. Richard was also briefly the world's leading authority on Denebian Slime Devils, but has since yielded that distinction and moved on to other pursuits.
Charles de Lint
Charles de Lint is a full-time writer and musician who presently makes his home in Ottawa, Canada, with his wife MaryAnn Harris, an artist and musician. His most recent books THE MYSTERY OF GRACE (Tor Books, 2009) and a reprint of MEDICINE ROAD (Tachyon Press, 2009). Upcoming publications include new collections from Tor Books and Tachyon Press. For more information about his work, visit his website at
Ken Denmead
Ken Denmead is the editor of the GeekDad blog at Wired.com. GeekDad covers parenting for the geek generation, including music, games and projects for raising our kids in our own geeky image.
Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger -- the co-editor of Boing Boing (boingboing.net) and the author of the bestselling Tor Teens/HarperCollins UK novel LITTLE BROTHER.
Paul Fischer
Paul Fischer is a podcaster and photographer living in the Washington DC Metro area. He runs the Podcasting and New Media track at Balticon and is the host of The Balticon Podcast.
Dr. Pamela L. Gay
When Dr Pamela L. Gay isn’t busy as a professor at SIUE (Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville), she blogs & twitters as StarStryder, and co-hosts Astronomy Cast. She is also chair of the International Year of Astronomy New Media Taskgroup.
Thomas Gideon
Thomas Gideon is an award-winning podcaster, hacker, and social media activist.
Dr. Kevin R. Grazier
Dr. Kevin Grazier is a NASA scientist on the Cassini Mission to Saturn, and is also the science advisor for Battlestar Galactica and Eureka.
Gabrielle Harbowy
Gabrielle Harbowy is Editor-in-Charge at Dragon Moon Press, which has been bringing podcast novels to print since 2005.
Martha Holloway
It's all Paul Fischer's fault that I got involved in podcasting. But I wouldn't change that for the world.
James Patrick Kelly
James Patrick Kelly has had an eclectic writing career. He has written novels, short stories, essays, reviews, poetry, plays and planetarium shows. His books include BURN (2005), STRANGE BUT NOT A STRANGER (2002), THINK LIKE A DINOSAUR AND OTHER STORIES (1997), WILDLIFE (1994), HEROINES (1990), LOOK INTO THE SUN (1989), FREEDOM BEACH with John Kessel (1986) and PLANET OF WHISPERS (1984). His fiction has been translated into sixteen languages. He has won the World Science Fiction Society's Hugo Award twice: in 1996, for his novelette "Think Like A Dinosaur" and in 2000, for his novelette, "Ten to the Sixteenth to One."
Also with John Kessel, he has co-edited two anthologies FEELING VERY STRANGE: THE SLIPSTREAM ANTHOLOGY (2006) and REWIRED: THE POST-CYBERPUNK ANTHOLOGY (2007). He writes a column on the internet for Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine and is on the faculty of the Stonecoast Creative Writing MFA Program at the University of Southern Maine. He posts two weekly podcasts: Free Reads and James Patrick Kelly's StoryPod. He was appointed to be a councilor on the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts and served as Chair from 2003-2006. He is the Vice Chair of the Clarion Foundation, which oversees the Clarion Science Fiction Workshop. He has also served on the Board of Directors of the New England Foundation for the Arts.
Dr. Alan R. Kolsow M.D.
Dr. Alan R. Kolsow is a vascular surgeon, radio personality, podcaster,and blogger (skepticdoctor). He subscribes to 225 podcasts, and has been a SciFi fan since 1967. He has also raised 3 geek SciFi fans.
Doug Kress
Doug Kress is best known for his involvement with the Parsec Awards in 2007 and 2008, as well as being the "Slice of Trivia guy" on the Slice of SciFi podcast.
Dave Law
Dave A. Law is the Chairman of the print/eBook publisher Virtual Tales. He is a veteran small press writer, editor and former publisher whose short stories, poetry, articles, and comic books have seen print in various publications over the last twenty years and is co-editor of THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO WRITING SCIENCE FICTION: Volume 1 published by Dragon Moon Press. He lives in Calgary, Canada with his wife and two daughters.
Gary Leland aka P. Dilly
Gary Leland has been involved with podcasting since its infancy. Creator of PodcastPickle.com, one of the oldest podcast directories on the Internet, has given Gary an insight into the world of podcasting few others possess.
Gary has spoken at podcasting conferences all over the U.S. He has spoken at Podcamp New York, as well as Podcamp San Antonio. He has Spoken at Dragon Con in Atlanta, New Media Expo in Ontario, Ca. , and SXSW in Austin, TX. He will speak at The Blog World Expo in October of 2009.
Marianne Leviton
Marianne Leviton, award-winning director/producer, founded the Boulder Filmmaking Incubator in 2006 to support independent and emergent filmmakers in the Boulder/Denver area.
Marianne's current projects include two feature documentaries: ‘Connected for Life’, follows the story of two friends as one prepares to donate a kidney to the other (www.TakeHopeProject.org.); the other, ‘Iron Justice’, explores the story of an Old West Town as its residents honor their wild past while seeking to survive in harsh economic times. She is also working on a ‘feel−good’ mixed live action/animation horror movie as well as a series of PSA’s on Kidney Donation.
Geoffrey Long
Geoffrey Long is a media analyst and researcher at the Comparative Media Studies program at MIT.
Andrew Looney
Andy Looney is the Chief Creative Officer for Looney Labs, and is the designer of Fluxx, Chrononauts, Aquarius, Nanofictionary, IceTowers, Treehouse, and Martian Coasters. Andy is also a photographer, a cartoonist, a video-blogger, and a marijuana-legalization advocate. Andy lives with his wife Kristin (and their housemate Alison) somewhere near Washington DC. Andy is a Hippie, a Trekkie, and a Geek. He's been an Eagle Scout and a NASA engineer, he's gotten patents and won awards, he's written a novel, he designed and coded a video game, and he once watched as his software was launched into space. Andy loves cake.
Brian McLaughlin
Brian McLaughlin, known as "GeekDad," is a NASA Engineer and SciFi Enthusiast.
Annalee Newitz
Annalee Newitz is the editor-in-chief of io9.com, a science and science fiction blog.
Dr Ian O'Neill
Ian O'Neill is, in his own words, "a British solar physicist, the Discovery Space producer, science blogger and skeptic living in LA with my wife and five bunnies (of the four-legged variety, not the Playboy variety). I also maintain my own space science blog, Astroengine.com and am a contributor to the world's best space blog, the Universe Today. Space science is awesome, it's my job to communicate that."
Tim Pratt
Tim Pratt is a writer and editor living in Oakland, California.
Philip from Australia aka Philip Richardson
Philip Richardson is an IT professional and scifi geek from Melbourne, Australia. He enjoys travel, walks, comedy and photography. He agreed to be a judge for the fame, and because he was promised a hat. But mainly for the hat.
Simon Rose
Simon Rose is the author of THE DOOMSDAY MASK, THE HERETIC'S TOMB, THE EMERALD CURSE, THE CLONE CONSPIRACY, THE SORCERER'S LETTERBOX and THE ALCHEMIST'S PORTRAIT and a contributor to THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO WRITING SCIENCE FICTION: VOLUME ONE.
William Shunn
William Shunn is a Hugo and Nebula Award-nominated science fiction writer. His memoir THE ACCIDENTAL TERRORIST can be heard serialized in his podcast, while his short novel CAST A COLD EYE (a collaboration with Derryl Murphy) will be out from PS Publishing this November.
Jeri Smith-Ready
Jeri Smith-Ready is an award-winning author of urban fantasy novels for adults and teens, including WICKED GAME and SHADE.
Rob Suarez
Rob Suarez is a fiction writing husband, father, creative problem-solver, and patent agent!
Evo Terra
Evo Terra is the co-founder of Podiobooks.com and the co-author of PODCASTING FOR DUMMIES and EXPERT PODCASTING PRACTICES FOR DUMMIES. Evo has a rich history of experiences. Over the years, he's been a nationally syndicated radio show host, in charge of $30M in advertising dollars, directed a $250M e-commerce program, author, editor, consultant, coach and mentor. He tends to "live online", so a quick search on Google will reveal his current obsessions.
He understands that "doing business online" requires a well-established online presence. A first-class website is important, but it doesn't end there. As a consultant, he helps entities connect with customers in the growing digital world.
Greg van Eekhout
Greg van Eekhout is the author of numerous short stories, the fantasy novel NORSE CODE (Ballantine), and KID VS. SQUID (Bloomsbury), a middle-grade fantasy coming in 2010.
Matt Vancil
As head writer for Dead Gentlemen Productions, Matt Vancil wrote and directed the cult fantasy comedy Gamers films, which have screened at film festivals and conventions worldwide. Matt co-created the zombie horror internet show "ALIVE" with Star Trek veterans Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens. Recently, Margaret Weis Productions adapted Matt's horror comedy Demon Hunters movies into a role-playing game in their award-winning Cortex System, whose catalog includes RPG adaptations of Battlestar Galactica and Joss Whedon's Serenity. A graduate of the American Film Institute with a Masters in screenwriting, Matt lives with his wife in Los Angeles.
Jim Van Verth
Jim Van Verth is well-known as a motivational speaker and general raconteur, and has used his encyclopedic knowledge of games to achieve success in both the commodity markets and the poker tables at Vegas. He has put both his skills to work educating others about the greatness of lost games of the past, through his podcast The Vintage Gamer. And if you ask him nicely, he'll also mix you an excellent martini.
Steven H. Wilson
Steven H. Wilson is the creator of the Arbiter Chronicles, a 2007 Parsec Award Winner, and is the director of the Prometheus Radio Theatre.
Donald Wolcott
Donald Wolcott is a jazz pianist from the Baltimore/Washington D.C. area. With over 14 years experience, he is an award-winning musician, receiving honors for his performances on piano as well as bass. He works regularly as a freelance pianist and music instructor. He is currently a sophomore at Towson University, and is pursuing a degree in Jazz Performance.
