Sunshine Superhighway
- Sarena Ulibarri is a graduate of the Clarion Fantasy and Science Fiction Writers' Workshop at UCSD, and earned an MFA from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her fiction has appeared in Lightspeed, DreamForge, GigaNotoSaurus, and elsewhere. A personal essay on gardening during the pandemic appeared in Strange Horizons, and you can listen to her ranting about solarpunk on about half a dozen podcasts, including Imaginary Worlds, Alan and Jeremy vs SF, and Yale Climate Connections. She has edited two anthologies of optimistic climate fiction Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers (2018) and Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Winters (2020). Find more at SarenaUlibarri.com or on Twitter @SarenaUlibarri.
- James Rumpel retired from teaching high school mathematics in the spring of 2018. Since then he has enjoyed doing lots of running and many camping trips with his wonderful wife, Mary. He has also taken the time to try and put some of the strange thoughts circling his brain into words and stories.
- J.G. Follansbee's work has been published in Satirica: An Anthology of Satirical Speculative Fiction, Bards and Sages Quarterly, Children, Churches and Daddies, the collection Still Life 2018, and the speculative fiction anthology, After the Orange. He has won several awards in the Writers of the Future contest, and he was a finalist in the inaugural Aftermath short story contest. He is the author of the series Tales From A Warming Planet and the trilogy The Future History of the Grail. He lives in Seattle.
- Eliza Master began writing with crayons stored in an old cookie tin. Since then, many magazines have published her stories. Eliza's three novellas, The Scarlet Cord, The Twisted Rope and The Shibari Knot are her published books. She attempts to make each day better than the previous one. When Eliza isn't writing you can find her amongst brightly colored clay pots dreaming of her next adventure.
- DJ Cockburn funded his unfortunate writing habit through medical research on various parts of the African continent and drinking a lot of coffee. Earlier phases of his life have included teaching unfortunate children and experimenting on unfortunate fish.
In between a steady drizzle of rejections, he's seen a few stories in venues including Apex, Interzone and Gardner Dozois's Year's Best Science Fiction for 2014.
His website is at http://cockburndj.wordpress.com/ and he has occasionally been caught twittering as @DJ_Cockburn.
- Ethan Hedman is a speculative fiction writer from South Florida, the land of heat, humidity, and hurricanes. Ethan's work has been featured in a variety of publications, including Gunsmoke & Dragonfire, Community of Magic Pens, and The Hamthology. His full bibliography can be found on EthanHedman.com.
- Jenny's stories and poems have appeared in Cosmos, Asimov's Science Fiction, Strange Horizons and many more Australian and international journals and anthologies. She won two prizes in the Sisters in Crime Australia Scarlet Stiletto awards 2016 for a murder mystery set in classical Delphi, with water nymphs. Her spidery, ghostly middle-grade novel The Girl in the Mirror (Eagle Books 2019) won the 2020 Davitt Award for Best Children's Crime Novel.
- Mark Everglade has spent his life as a sociologist, studying societal conflict. His first cyberpunk novel, Hemispheres, rose to number five in its category at launch. An avid reader of science fiction, he takes both its warnings, and opportunities for change, to heart. More information, including a free story, is available at www.markeverglade.com
- Joachim Heijndermans is a writer and artist from the Netherlands. His work has been featured in a great number of publications in bother English and Dutch. When he's not writing, he's collecting toys and boring others with trivia about comics and film.
- Jennifer Lee Rossman is a queer, disabled, and autistic nerd from Binghamton, New York. Her novel Jack Jetstark's Intergalactic Freakshow is available from World Weaver Press, and she has stories in over 30 anthologies. Read some stories for free at http://jenniferleerossman.blogspot.com, and follow along as she livetweets movies @JenLRossman.
- Elton Gahr is a science fiction and fantasy author from Joplin, Missouri. He has been writing fiction for over twenty years. He spends his time reading, playing video games, and writing stories to examine the human experience from as wide a variety of perspectives as possible.
- Jason Lairamore is a writer of science fiction, fantasy, and horror who lives in Oklahoma with his beautiful wife and their three monstrously marvelous children. He is a published finalist of the 2012 SQ Mag annual contest, the winner of the 2013 Planetary Stories flash fiction contest, a third place winner of the 2015 SQ Mag annual contest, and a Writers of the Future contest Semi-Finalist. His work is both featured and forthcoming in over 80 publications to include Perihelion Science Fiction, Stupefying Stories and Third Flatiron publications, to name a few.
- Holly Schofield travels through time at the rate of one second per second, oscillating between the alternate realities of city and country life. Her short stories have appeared in Analog, Lightspeed, Escape Pod, and many other publications throughout the world. She hopes to save the world through science fiction and homegrown heritage tomatoes. Find her at hollyschofield.wordpress.com.
- Adrik is a bent Australian writer with a vested interest in LGBTIQ+ culture. He is proud to be an active part of the community. He also writes genre short stories, usually with an LGBTIQ+ perspective which have been published all over the world. He identifies as gay but doesn't mind being called queer, and happily lives in Sydney with his husband, Carl De Villa. Follow him @adrikkemp.
- J.N. Cameron studied creative writing at OSU and UNLV, and his short stories have been published in various ezines and anthologies. He has lived and worked in India and Thailand, but he currently spends his time in the Midwestern United States drinking coffee, reading fantastic fiction, and writing more stories.
- Brad Kelechava was born and raised in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and has a degree in anthropology and environmental studies from New York University. His short fiction has appeared in Aphelion, Bewildering Stories, Utopia Science Fiction, and The Night's End. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and their cat.
- Valerie is a tea drinker, dinosaur enthusiast, and student at Tennessee Tech University. She designs websites and videogames, writes poetry, science fiction, and fantasy. She can be found on Facebook and Twitter @ValerieLunaNix
- Laurence Raphael Brothers is a writer and a technologist with a background in AI and Internet R&D. His short stories have appeared in such magazines as Nature, PodCastle, the New Haven Review, and Galaxy's Edge. His noir urban fantasy novella "The Demons of Wall Street" was recently published. Follow him on twitter: @lbrothers or visit https://laurencebrothers.com/bibliography for more stories that can be read or listened to online. Pronouns: he/him.
- Born in Hong Kong to a pair of Liverpudlians (and something of a nomad ever since), Stephanie Bretherton is now based in Cornwall, UK. Before returning to her first love of creative writing, she spent many years pursuing alternative forms of storytelling, from stage to screen and media to marketing. A lifelong fascination with science and spirituality, nature and culture (and what connects rather than separates) characterizes her debut novel, Bone Lines (a Kindle bestseller, published by Unbound in 2018) and short stories, such as "Human Error" (New Orbit Magazine) and "The Right Kind of Medicine" (Sunshine Superhighway anthology by JayHenge Publishing, donating all monies to www.survivalinternational.org/). She is currently working on the second novel in The Children of Sarah series.
- Neville Raper invented YouTube, has swum the channel twice and is a habitual liar. He lives in the North of England, where just like the locals, he says what he likes and likes what he says.
Broadcaster, author, blogger, Neville is an occasional stand-up, and regular sit down.
He has an award winning blog: the award was swimming one length in his PJs. It can found under the pen name of The Thoughts of Chairman Anyhow.
- R. Gene Turchin had aspirations to be a lead guitarist in some kind of band, when that didn't work out, spent a few years in the US Navy, took up with engineering and technology and then stumbled into academia. His writing leans toward dark and odd, a sharp contrast to his cheerful optimism. Website: https://rgeneturchin.com
- DC Diamondopolous is an award-winning novelette, short story, and flash fiction writer with over 250 stories published internationally in print and online magazines, literary journals, and anthologies. DC's stories have appeared in: 34th Parallel, So It Goes: The Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library, Ball State University, Lunch Ticket, Progenitor, Blue Lake Review, and many others. DC was nominated in 2017 and again in 2020 for Best of the Net Anthology. DC's short story collection Stepping Up will be published in the UK by Impspired Press in 2021. She lives on the California central coast with her wife and animals. dcdiamondopolous.com
- 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 dozens of magazines including Neo-opsis, Martian Wave and Over My Dead Body! David's latest novels are available at Amazon and Smashwords.com. For more David, check out his website at: https://davidwright812.wordpress.com/
- Geoffrey Hart (he/him) works as a scientific editor, specializing in helping scientists who have English as their second language publish their research. He also writes fiction in his spare time, and has sold 28 stories thus far. Visit him online at www.geoff-hart.com>.
- Fascinated by the ways in which the literary arts can serve as a mode of metacognition, Soramimi Hanarejima writes innovative fiction that explores the nature of thought and is the author of Visits to the Confabulatorium, a fanciful story collection that Jack Cheng said, "captures moonlight in Ziploc bags."
- Gustavo Bondoni is an Argentine writer with over three hundred stories published in fifteen countries, in seven languages. His latest novel is Test Site Horror (2020). He has also published two other monster books, three science fiction novels: Incursion (2017), Outside (2017) and Siege (2016) and an ebook novella entitled Branch. His short fiction is collected in Pale Reflection (2020), Off the Beaten Path (2019) Tenth Orbit and Other Faraway Places (2010) and Virtuoso and Other Stories (2011).
- Matt McHugh was born in suburban Pennsylvania, attended LaSalle University in Philadelphia, and after a few years as a Manhattanite, currently calls New Jersey home.
Website: mattmchugh.com.
- Linda McMullen is a wife, mother, diplomat, and homesick Wisconsinite. Her short stories and the occasional poem have appeared in over seventy literary magazines, and she received Pushcart and Best of the Net nominations in 2020. She may be found on Twitter: @LindaCMcMullen.
- Claudiu Murgan is enthralled by human consciousness and the notion of our place in the enormous wheels of the multiverse. His settings as science fiction, fantasy or eco-fiction, focus on describing the beauty of Mother Nature, who demands action from all of us.
Claudiu's experience in various industries such as IT, renewable energies, real estate and finance helped him create complex, realistic characters that bring forward meaningful messages. Claudiu is the author of three Science Fiction/Fantasy novels: The Decadence of Our Souls, Water Entanglement, and Crystal Cloud.
Connect at ClaudiuMurgan.com
- William Delman lives in Salem, Massachusetts. When he's not doing laundry, or cleaning, he occasionally manages to peck out a few readable stories. His work appears in DSF, The Arcanist, Little Blue Marble, Selene Quarterly, House of Zolo, Kraxon, and many others.
- Michael Harris is a freelance writer based near Washington, DC. Known as Scott to friends and colleagues, he covers sports, science, medicine, and other topics for various media outlets. He is still new to serious fiction writing; this is his third fiction credit. Find him on Twitter @ScottHarrisMMA.
- Karter Mycroft is a writer, musician, and fisheries scientist whose short fiction has appeared in Zooscape, The Colored Lens, Misery Tourism, and elsewhere. Karter lives in Los Angeles.
- Jim Lee is from a small Pennsylvania town better known for producing Olympic swim champion/early movie Tarzan Johnny Weissmuller, pioneer rock DJ Alan Freed and millions of tons of coal dust. Jim is a co-founder of a small nonprofit (The Sanctuary of Steele) that assists struggling creative individuals in and around his home town. A published writer since the 1980s, Jim has had work appear in assorted venues throughout the USA, Canada, the UK, Australia, South Africa, China and Ireland.
- Stewart C. Baker is an academic librarian and author of speculative fiction and poetry, along with the occasional piece of interactive fiction. His fiction has appeared in Nature, Galaxy's Edge, and Flash Fiction Online, among other places. Stewart was born in England, has lived in South Carolina, Japan, and California (in that order), and currently resides in Oregon with his family--although if anyone asks, he'll usually say he's from the Internet, where you can find him at https://infomancy.net
- Ara Hone's path to her passion of writing speculative fiction took a long way around to include careers in warfighting and diagnostics sales. Her work appears in such magazines as Pulp Modern Flash and Bewildering Stories, and is forthcoming to Raw Dog Screaming Press. She holds a couple of fancy writing degrees, and she's an editor, but her best advice to date? Live in SoCal and drink coffee daily. Both are hot. @ara_hone
- Mike Adamson holds a Doctoral degree from Flinders University of South Australia. After early aspirations in art and writing, Mike returned to study and secured qualifications in marine biology and archaeology. Mike has been a university educator since 2006, is a passionate photographer, master-level hobbyist and journalist for international magazines. Visit his website at dream-craft.com/mikeadamson.
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