Lost Things
Melissa Scott is from Little Rock, Arkansas, and studied history at Harvard College and Brandeis University, where she earned her PhD in the Comparative History program.  She is the author of more than twenty science fiction and fantasy novels, and has won Lambda Literary Awards for Trouble and Her Friends, Shadow Man, and Point of Dreams, the last written with her late partner, Lisa A. Barnett.  She has also won Spectrum Awards for Shadow Man and again in 2010 for the short story “The Rocky Side of the Sky” (Periphery, Lethe Press) as well as the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.  She can be found on LiveJournal at mescott.livejournal.com. Jo Graham worked in politics for fifteen years before leaving to write full time.  She is the author of the Locus Award nominated Black Ships and the Spectrum Award nominated Stealing Fire, as well as several other novels, including the Stargate Atlantis Legacy series.  Her next book, The General's Mistress, is highly anticipated from Gallery Books.  She lives in North Carolina with her partner and their daughter.  She can be found online at jo_graham.livejournal.com.