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 Photo by Brian Bieniowski Sheila Williams the editor of Asimov’s Science Fiction and Analog Science Fiction and Fact. She started at Asimov’s in June 1982 and served as the executive editor of Analog from 1998 until 2004. She is also the co-founder of the Dell Magazines Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing (formerly the Isaac Asimov Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing). In addition, She coordinates the websites for Asimov’s (www.asimovs.com).
Her most recent anthology, co-edited with Connie Willis, is A Women’s Liberation: A choice of futures by and about women (Warner Aspect, 2001). She has edited or co-edited over twenty other anthologies.
Ms. Williams received her bachelor's degree from Elmira College in Elmira, New York, and her master's from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. During her junior year she studied at the London School of Economics. She lives in New York City with her husband, David Bruce, and her two daughters.
A Woman's Liberation (co-edited with Connie Willis), available at:   Photo by Joyce Schmidt Stanley Schmidt was born in Cincinnati and graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 1966. He began selling stories while a graduate student at Case Western Reserve University, where he completed his Ph.D. in physics in 1969. He continued freelancing while an assistant professor at Heidelberg College in Ohio, teaching physics, astronomy, science fiction, and other oddities. (He was introduced to his wife, Joyce, by a serpent while teaching field biology in a place vaguely resembling that well-known garden.) He has contributed numerous stories and articles to original anthologies and magazines including Analog, Asimov's, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Rigel, The Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, American Journal of Physics, Camping Journal, Writer's Digest, and The Writer. He has edited or coedited about a dozen anthologies.
Since 1978, as editor of Analog Science Fiction and Fact, he has been nominated 26 times for the Hugo award for Best Professional Editor. He is a member of the Board of Advisers for the National Space Society and the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame, and has been an invited speaker at national meetings of those organizations, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and the American Association of Physics Teachers, as well as numerous museums and universities. In his writing and editing he draws on a varied background including extensive experience as a musician, photographer, traveler, naturalist, outdoorsman, pilot, and linguist. Most of these influences have left traces in his five novels and short fiction. His nonfiction includes the book Aliens and Alien Societies: A Writer's Guide to Creating Extraterrestrial Life-Forms and hundreds of Analog editorials, some of them collected in Which Way to the Future?. He was Guest of Honor at BucConeer, the 1998 World Science Fiction Convention in Baltimore, and has been a Nebula and Hugo award nominee for his fiction.
Books currently available:
Argonaut, ISBN 0-312-87726-9, Tor Books (www.tor.com), 2002 trade paperback edition August 2003 Which Way to the Future?, ISBN 0-765-30104-0, Tor Books (www.tor.com), 2001 Generation Gap and Other Stories, ISBN 0-7862-4161-6, Five Star, 2002 Books by Stan Schmidt from FoxAcre Press:
Newton and the Quasi-Apple, ISBN 0-9709711-3-3, FoxAcre Press, 2001; Embiid e-book editions, 2001 The Sins of the Fathers, ISBN 0-9671783-4-7, FoxAcre Press, 2000; Embiid e-book editions, 2001 Tweedlioop, ISBN 0-9709711-2-5, FoxAcre Press, 2002; Embiid e-book editions, 2000 Paper editions are also available through barnesandnoble.com and amazon.com; Embiid e-book editions through embiid.com. 
 Eric M. Witchey's fiction has appeared nationally and internationally in magazines and anthologies. He has published in multiple genres under several names. Fighting Mother's Echo, a novel, is currently out in Polish. His fiction has won recognition from Writers of The Future, New Century Writers, Writer's Digest, and www.ralan.com. His How-to articles have appeared in Writer's Digest, Northwest Ink, and Writer's Northwest Magazine. When not teaching or writing, he restores antique HO locomotives or terrorizes trout with small bits of feather and pointy wire.
 Now that he's past the 38-year mark, Robert J. Santa has been writing speculative fiction for more than 20 years. Some recent publications to include his work are On Spec, Clash of Steel: Reluctant Hero, Hadrosaur Tales, F/SF, and Travel a Time Historic. He continues to work on the shared world anthology series Magistria and is looking forward to Pitch-Black's second release of sword and sorcery tales, Sages & Swords. He can be frequently found sharing his opinions at SFReader.com with many other writers and editors. Robert lives with his beautiful wife, Rachel, and equally beautiful daughters, Elizabeth and Lily, in Rhode Island.
 Ralan lives in Scandinavia, earning his living writing, in one way or another, and running his triple Bram Stoker Award Nominated writers’ resource web site. His work has appeared in numerous publications. To the consternation of his old English teachers, several have even won contests, awards, and/or reader’s polls.
Ralan's SpecFic & Humor Webstravaganza is a writers resource with over 540 constantly updated listings for speculative & humor fiction markets (poetry, nonfiction & art needs for these markets are also included), more then 750 categorized writing links, dead markets, how to submit, manuscript format, contests, response times, and info about Ralan’s fiction.
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