After writing a novel in which a dead mother comes back to earth to explain the way of the world to her daughter, Terry Ades decided to write about love instead of death. And so “An Entirely Dependable Sign of Whole-someness” was hatched. Terry’s short story “Through a Portrait Bequeathed” is currently in the 20th anniversary edition of Other Voices Journal of the Literary and Visual Arts. As well, her story “The Language of Business” was a finalist in the 2007 Great Canadian Story Contest.

Larry Ivkovich (“Master of the Lamp”) is an IT professional with a bachelor’s degree in fine art from West Virginia University who has been writing genre fiction for over twenty years. His work has been published in the webzines Anotherealm, Tower of Light Fantasy , Kenoma and Afterburn SF. His print sales are included in the Pittsburgh-based, small press genre anthology, Triangulations, Storyteller, and the genre anthology, Twisted Cat Tales. Larry has won two honourable mentions in the L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers of the Future contest. Larry is a member of the Pittsburgh SouthWrites, a local writing and critique group, and lives in Coraopolis , PA , with his wife, Martha, and two cats, Trixie and Sammy.

Corwin Sullivan is a Canadian palaeontologist and writer who is currently pursuing post-doctoral studies in Beijing , China . He has never had a leitmotif, and hopes never to be awarded one. “The Lesnik Show Premieres” is his first published work of fiction.

Valerie McDonald works as a free-lance writer and editor for community organizations in Toronto . A former education advocate, she has attended too many school meetings to count. “The Ugly Ducklings” is her second story to appear in Storyteller.

Now that Pat Wilson (“Lobster in the Afternoon”) is retired from her road-warrior job as a professional speaker, she’s busy writing. Already the author of nine humourous non-fiction books, two business books, and editor of numerous corporate publications, she is also co-author of three humourous books on life in the Maritimes, as well as author of several short stories for The Ladies’ Killing Circle anthologies. She now concentrates on writing about what she loves best: the coastal regions of the Maritimes. Ten years of living on the eastern shore of Nova Scotia have given her a unique perspective on coastal living. Many of her stories show her appreciation for the people along the shore where lobster fishing is the main livelihood. Pat lives in New Glasgow, N.S. with her husband Gerald.

C. June Wolf spent much of her childhood in imaginary places, most of which were more pleasant than the one outlined in “Aggie’s Game.” Some of her favourite memories are of times that never were. That’s kind of cool, she thinks. Other stories appear in Tesseracts 9: New Canadian Speculative Fiction (2005), edited by Nalo Hopkinson and Geoff Ryman, and OnSpec: the Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic (Summer 2006) and Storyteller, Vol. 14, Issue 2. Two more of her stories are scheduled for publication in SF Waxes Philosophical and an unnamed SF anthology featuring Muslim characters, both edited by Ahmed Khan.

Wayne Yetman says that “Seven Secrets” was one of the easiest stories he’s ever written. The basic idea hit him in Loblaws. He recognized the notion of senior-citizen lovers on the drive home, and had the first draft ready within days. Of course, that was back in 2000. It’ s taken since then to get it “just right.”