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Aliette de Bodard is a science fiction writer. Although French is her first language, she writes in English.de Bodard works as a software engineer specialising in image processing.de Bodard is a graduate of École Polytechnique.

Alec Nevala-Lee is an American novelist, biographer, and science fiction writer.

Anthony Ryan is a fantasy fiction writer. He is best known for his "Vaelin Al Sorna" series, which started in 2013 with "Blood Song."Before becoming a full-time author, Ryan was a researcher in the British Civil Service.Ryan's work has appeared in Deep Magic and has been collected in anthologies. His first novel, "Slab City Blues," was published in 2011. He has published more than twenty novels and collections.He has a degree in Medieval History.

Christina Maags is an author, and Lecturer in Chinese Studies.

Yuval Noah Harari is an author, public intellectual, historian, and Professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Leigh Claire La Berge is an assistant professor of English at Borough of Manhattan Community College, writer, and author of the book, Wages Against Artwork: Decommodified Labor and the Claims of Socially Engaged Art.

Gary Saul Morson is a literary critic and professor of Slavic languages at Northwestern University.

Sam J. Miller is the science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction author. His stories have appeared in publications such as Clarkesworld, Asimov's Science Fiction and Lightspeed, along with over fifteen "year's best" story collections.

Paul Hensler is an author, baseball historian, and member of SABR.

Cat Rambo is a writer and editor, largely of science fiction and fantasy. She was co-editor of Fantasy Magazine from 2007 to 2011.Rambo's stories have appeared in Asimov's, Clarkesworld Magazine and Tor.com. In 2012, her story "Five Ways to Fall in Love on Planet Porcelain" was a Nebula Award finalist. Her first novel, "Beasts of Tabat," was published in 2015. She also writes articles about gaming, and has done technical writing for Microsoft and Security Dynamics.Rambo served two two-year terms as President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America form following one year as Vice President.Rambo graduated from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars.

Dr. Jacqueline Rose is an academic. Currently, she is Professor of Humanities at the Birkbeck University London. She is also Co-Director of the Institute for the Humanities and of the London Critical Theory Summer School.Previously, Rose taught at the University of Sussex, at Queen Mary University of London, and as Professor of Gender Studies in Cambridge.Rose is known for her writing on feminism, psychoanalysis, literature and the politics and ideology of Israel-Palestine. She is a regular writer for The London Review of Books. Her first book, "Sexuality in the Field of Vision," was published in 1986. She has published 14 non-fiction books on feminism, psychoanalysis, and culture.

Claude Lalumière is a fantasy fiction author and book reviewer. He writes the "Fantastic Fiction" column for the Montreal Gazette. He also owned and operated two independent book stores in Montreal. He is a co-creator of lostmyths.net.Lalumière's first book, the collection, "Objects of Worship," was published in 2009. He has published three collections and two novels, and has edited or co-edited fourteen anthologies in multiple genres.

Dr. Stephen Pimpare is Professor of Public Policy at Vermont Law and Graduate School. He is also the host of the New Books Network’s Public Policy Channel and a Consulting Editor for the journal Social Work.Previously, Pimpare was an administrator of not-for-profit organizations addressing issues of poverty, hunger, and homelessness throughout New York City. One of the programs he helped to create was One City Café, New York’s first non-profit restaurant.Pimpare's first book, "The New Victorians: Poverty, Politics, and Propaganda in Two Gilded Ages," was published in 2004. He has published four nonfiction books.