The Mammoth Book of Steampunk (72 page)

Shweta Narayan
was born in India and lived in Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, the Netherlands and Scotland before moving to California. The Artificer bird was born in the story in this collection, and keeps turning back up; so far, in
Realms of Fantasy
, the
Clockwork Phoenix 3
anthology and
Steam-Powered: Lesbian Steampunk Stories
. Shweta also has fiction online in
Strange Horizons
, and poetry in
Goblin Fruit
,
Jabberwocky
and
Stone Telling.
She was the Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarship recipient at the 2007 Clarion workshop and a finalist for the 2010 Nebula Award. She can be found online at shwetanarayan.org.

Aliette de Bodard
lives and works in Paris, where she has a job as a computer engineer. In her spare time, she writes speculative fiction: her series of Aztec noir novels,
Obsidian and Blood
, is published by Angry Robot; and her short fiction has appeared in
Asimov’s
,
Interzone
and the
Year’s Best Science Fiction.
She has won a Writers of the Future and a British Science Fiction Award, and been a finalist for the Campbell Award and Nebula Awards. Visit
aliettedebodard.com
for more information.

N. K. Jemisin
is a writer who lives and writes in Brooklyn, NY. Her first novel,
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
, was nominated for Hugo, Nebula, Gemmell Morningstar and Locus Awards and is followed by her second book in the Inheritance Trilogy,
The Broken Kingdoms
. Her short fiction has also been nominated for a Hugo and a Nebula, as well as attracting several “Year’s Best” Honorable Mentions. “The Effluent Engine” is her first attempt to write steampunk, but she kinda likes it and will write more. Her website is at
nkjemisin.com
.

Peter M. Ball
is a writer from Brisbane, Australia. His publications include the hardboiled faerie novellas
Horn
and
Bleed
from Twelfth Planet Press, and his short fiction has appeared in publications such as
Fantasy Magazine, Strange Horizons, Apex Magazine, Interfictions II, Shimmer
and
Eclipse 4
. He can be found online at
petermball.com
.

Sharon Mock
’s work has been printed in magazines such as
Realms of Fantasy
,
Clarkesworld Magazine
and
Fantasy Magazine
, where “The Armature of Flight” first appeared. She is a graduate of the Viable Paradise workshop. She lives in Southern California with her husband, the writer and artist Zak Jarvis.

Catherynne M. Valente
is an author, poet and sometime critic who has been known to write as many as six impossible things before breakfast. She is to blame for over a dozen works of fiction and poetry, including
The Orphan’s Tales
,
Palimpsest
,
Deathless
and
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making.
She has won the Tiptree Award, the Andre Norton Award, the Mythopoeic Award, the Lambda Award, the Rhysling Award and the Million Writers Award for best web fiction. She lives on an island off the coast of Maine with her partner, two dogs, an enormous cat and a slightly less enormous accordion.

Alex Dally MacFarlane
lives and works in London, where she collects coins and eventually plans to return to academia. Her work has appeared in
Clarkesworld Magazine
,
Fantasy Magazine
,
EscapePod
,
Sybil’s Garage
,
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet
and various other publications. A handbound limited edition of her story “Two Coins” was published by Papaveria Press. She blogs at
alexdallymacfarlane.com
.

Michael Swanwick
is one of the most interesting and unpredictable writers in science fiction today. His works have been honored with Hugo, Nebula, Theodore Sturgeon and World Fantasy Awards, and have been translated and published throughout the world. Michael is the author of eight novels and five major collections of short fiction. His latest novel,
Dancing With Bears
, featuring the Post-utopian swindlers Darger & Surplus, is published by Night Shade Books. Swanwick lives in Philadelphia with his wife, Marianne Porter.

Eileen Gunn
’s fiction has received the Nebula Award in the US and the Sense of Gender Award in Japan, and been nominated for the Hugo, Philip K. Dick and World Fantasy awards and shortlisted for the James Tiptree, Jr. Award. She was the editor/publisher of the late
Infinite Matrix
webzine, and on dark nights can hear it stomping about in the attic. Gunn served twenty-two years on the board of directors of the Clarion West Writers Workshop. She is the author of the short story collection
Stable Strategies and Others
, published by Tachyon Publications. Her website is at
eileengunn.com
.

Tobias S. Buckell
is a Caribbean-born speculative fiction writer who grew up in Grenada, the British Virgin Islands and the US Virgin Islands. His latest novel,
Sly Moongoose
, a Caribbean Space Opera, is published by Tor and his first short story collection,
Tides from the New Worlds
, was published by Wyrm Publishing in 2009.

Matthew Kressel
’s fiction has appeared or will appear in
Clarkesworld Magazine
,
Beneath Ceaseless Skies
,
Interzone
,
Electric Velocipede
,
Apex Magazine
,
GUD Magazine
and the anthologies
Naked City
,
After
,
The People of the Book
,
Steam-Powered: Lesbian Steampunk Stories
as well as in other markets. He runs Senses Five Press, which publishes the magazine
Sybil’s Garage
and the World Fantasy Award-winning
Paper Cities.
He co-hosts the Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series in Manhattan alongside Ellen Datlow, and he is a member of the Altered Fluid writers group. His website is matthewkressel.net.

Margo Lanagan
has published four collections of short stories (
White Time
,
Black Juice
,
Red Spikes
and
Yellowcake
) and a dark fantasy novel,
Tender Morsels
. Her next novel, about selkies, will come out in early 2012. Margo lives in Sydney.

Amal El-Mohtar
is a Canadian-born child of the Mediterranean, presently pursuing a PhD at the Cornwall campus of the University of Exeter. She is the author of
The Honey Month
, a collection of poetry and prose written to the taste of twenty-eight different kinds of honey. Her poem “Song for an Ancient City” received the 2009 Rhysling Award for best short poem, and “The Green Book” received a Nebula nomination for best short story. She also co-edits
Goblin Fruit
, an online quarterly dedicated to fantastical poetry, with Jessica P. Wick. Find her online at
amalelmohtar.com
.

Barth Anderson
is the author of two novels,
The Patron Saint of Plagues
and
The Magician and The Fool
(both published by Bantam Spectra). His short stories have appeared in
Asimov’s
,
Strange Horizons
and
Talebones
, and his story “Lark Till Dawn, Princess” won the Spectrum Award for Best Short Fiction. Anderson is chief blogger at Fair Food Fight and lives in Minneapolis with his wife and children.

Multiple World Fantasy Award-winner
Jeffrey Ford
is the author of the novels
The Physiognomy
,
The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque
,
The Girl in the Glass
and
The Shadow Year
. His short story collections are
The Fantasy Writer’s Assistant
,
The Empire of Ice Cream
and
The Drowned Life.
He lives in New Jersey and teaches at Brookdale Community College.

James Morrow
is a Nebula Award–winner and the author of
Blameless in Abaddon, The Cat’s Pajamas, City of Truth, The Eternal Footman, The Last Witchfinder, Only Begotten Daughter
and
Towing Jehovah
. He lives in State College, Pennsylvania.

Cherie Priest
is the author of the bestselling
Boneshaker.
She has three other works set in the same milieu as
Boneshaker
: a novella from Subterranean Press called
Clementine
, another novel from Tor called
Dreadnought
and “Reluctance”. Priest’s other novels include
Four and Twenty Blackbirds
,
Wings to the Kingdom
,
Not Flesh Nor Feathers
and
Fathom
. Her forthcoming books include urban fantasies
Bloodshot
and
Hellbent.
Her short fiction has appeared in
Subterranean Magazine
,
Apex Digest
and
Steampunk II: Steampunk Reloaded.

Margaret Ronald
is the author of the novels
Spiral Hunt
,
Wild Hunt
and
Soul Hunt
. Her short fiction has appeared in
Strange Horizons
,
Fantasy Magazine
,
Beneath Ceaseless Skies
and many other venues. Originally from rural Indiana, she now lives outside Boston.

Megan Arkenberg
is a student in Wisconsin, where she lives with dozens of college-ruled notebooks and a pocket watch named Juggernaut. Her work has appeared in
Clarkesworld
,
Beneath Ceaseless Skies
,
Fantasy Magazine
,
Ideomancer
and many other places. She procrastinates by editing the fantasy e-zine
Mirror Dance
and the historical fiction e-zine
Lacuna
.

Benjamin Rosenbaum
lives near Basel, Switzerland, with his wife Esther and their eerily clever children, Aviva and Noah. Benjamin’s stories have appeared in
Nature
,
Harper’s
,
F&SF
,
Asimov’s
,
McSweeney’s
,
Strange Horizons
and a collection,
The Ant King and Other Stories
, from Small Beer Press, and have been translated into fourteen languages. He has been a party clown, a synagogue president, a computer game designer, and can cook a mean risotto. More at
benjaminrosenbaum.com
.

Mary Robinette Kowal
is the author of
Shades of Milk and Honey
(Tor 2010). In 2008 she received the Campbell Award for Best New Writer and has been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards. Her stories have appeared in
Asimov’s, Clarkesworld
and several Year’s Best anthologies. A professional puppeteer and voice actor, she lives in Portland with her husband Rob and a dozen manual typewriters. Visit her website
maryrobinettekowal.com
for more information about her fiction and puppetry.

Samantha Henderson
lives on the outskirts of Los Angeles, with an excellent view of the burning hills every summer. Her short fiction and poetry have been published in
Realms of Fantasy
,
Strange Horizons
,
ChiZine
,
Fantasy
,
Abyss & Apex
,
Weird Tales
and
Ideomancer
and have been podcast on
Escape Pod
,
Podcastle
,
Drabblecast
and
StarShipSofa.
Her first novel,
Heaven’s Bones
, was released in 2008 and was a nominee for the Scribe Award. You can stalk her at her livejournal (
samhenderson.livejournal.com
) or website (
samanthahenderson.com
).

Nick Mamatas
is the author of several novels, incuding
Sensation
and, with Brian Keene,
The Damned Highway
. His short fiction has appeared in a number of anthologies including
Hint Fiction, Lovecraft Unbound
and
Supernatural Noir
. His essays and reportage on politics and economics have appeared in
Clamor, Left Turn, The New Humanist
and
In These Times
.

Nicole Kornher-Stace
was born in Philadelphia in 1983, moved from the East Coast to the West Coast and back again by the time she was five, and currently lives in New Paltz, NY, with one husband, two ferrets, one Changeling and many many books. Her short fiction and poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in a number of magazines and anthologies, including
Best American Fantasy
,
Clockwork Phoenix 3
,
Apex
and
Fantasy Magazine.
She is the author of
Desideria, Demon Lovers and Other Difficulties
, and
The Winter Triptych
. Her current novel-in-progress is a blend of steampunk and mythpunk, with a Lady Explorer, a fake Tarot, a workers’ rebellion, a demon-possessed airship and other miscellany. She can be found online at
www.nicolekornherstace.com
or
wirewalking.livejournal.com
.

Lavie Tidhar
is the author of steampunk novels
The Bookman
and
Camera Obscura
, and the ground-breaking alternative history novel
Osama.
He grew up on a kibbutz in Israel and has since lived in South Africa, the UK, Vanuatu and Laos. Other works include novellas
Cloud Permutations
,
Gorel and the Pot-Bellied God
and linked-story collection
HebrewPunk
.