<h4>Shana Mlawski is the author of<span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><em>Hammer of Witches</em>, a YA historical-fantasy from Tu Books. She is also a pop culture critic at OverthinkingIt.com.</h4>

Shana Mlawski

Yes, No, Yes: Shana Mlawski on Choice and Duty in "Ice" by Sarah Beth Durst 

East

East o’ the sun and West o’ the Moon

<h4>Leslie Stephens is a senior at Wellesley College majoring in Psychology and English. She is an avid foodie with the intention of pursuing a career in food publishing.</h4>

Leslie Stephens

<h4>Genevieve Valentine’s first novel, <i>Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti</i> , won the 2012 Crawford Award. <i>The Girls at the Kingfisher Club</i>, a 1920s retelling of the Twelve Dancing Princesses, is forthcoming from Atria in 2014. Her short fiction has appeared in <i>Clarkesworld, Journal of Mythic Arts, Lightspeed</i>, the anthologies <i>Federations, Teeth,</i> and more. Her nonfiction has appeared at NPR.org, <i>The A.V. Club</i>, <i>Strange Horizons</i>, and <i>io9</i>, and more. Her appetite for bad movies is insatiable, a tragedy she tracks at <a href="http://genevievevalentine.com/">genevievevalentine.com</a>.</h4>

Genevieve Valentine

<h4>Tim J. Myers is a writer, songwriter, storyteller, and senior lecturer at Santa Clara University. His children’s books--11 out and four on the way--have won recognition from the New York Times, NPR, and the Smithsonian. He’s published over 120 poems, won a first prize in a poetry contest judged by John Updike, has two books of adult poetry out, and won a major prize in science fiction. He won the West Coast Songwriters Saratoga Chapter Song of the Year and the 2012 SCBWI Magazine Merit Award for Fiction. He can also whistle and hum at the same time. </h4>

Tim J. Myers

Fairy Tale Series: On Norway's “East of the Sun, West of the Moon”

Monstrous Beauty

The Little Mermaid

Of Poseidon

My Love, My Love

Aquamarine

<h4>Rachelle Cruz is from Hayward, California.&nbsp; She is the author of the chapbook,&nbsp;<em>Self-Portrait as Rumor and Blood</em>&nbsp;(Dancing Girl Press, 2012).&nbsp; Her work is forthcoming or has appeared in <em>New California Writing 2013</em> (Heyday Books), <em>Yellow Medicine Review, Jet Fuel Review,The Lit Pub, The Bakery, Stone Highway, The Collagist, Bone Bouquet, PANK Magazine, Muzzle Magazine, Splinter Generation, KCET's Departures Series, Inlandia: A Literary Journey, </em>among others. She hosts&nbsp;<em>The Blood-Jet Writing Hour</em>&nbsp;on Blog Talk Radio.&nbsp; She is a recent recipient of the Manuel G. Flores Scholarship from PAWA (Philippine American Writers and Arists, Inc). An Emerging Voices Fellow, a Kundiman Fellow and a VONA writer, she lives and writes in Southern California.</h4>

Rachelle Cruz

<h4>A. N. Devers has written for <em>Lapham's Quarterly</em>, <em>The New Yorker</em>, <em>The Paris Review</em>, <em>The Rumpus</em>, <em>Salon</em>, <em>Slate</em> and other publications. Her Tin House essay, &ldquo;On the Outskirts&rdquo; received Notable Distinction in The Best American Essays 2011. She is the founder and editor of <em>Writers' Houses</em>, an online publication that provides a searchable index of visitable writers' houses around the world.</h4>

A. N. Devers

<h4>Sarah Kuhn&nbsp;is the author of the geek romantic comedy novella <em>One Con Glory</em>, which has earned kudos from io9 and USA Today/Pop Candy and is currently in development as a feature film. She has written about everything from financial aid to Vulcan mating rituals for such fine publications as Backstage, IGN.com,&nbsp;Geek Monthly, The Hollywood Reporter, and <a href="http://StarTrek.com/">StarTrek.com</a>. Sarah&nbsp;is one fourth of the mighty Alert Nerd collective (<a href="http://AlertNerd.com/">AlertNerd.com</a>), recently contributed an essay to the anthology Chicks Dig Comics: A Celebration of Comic Books by the Women Who Love Them, and has served on such popular panels as San Diego Comic-Con&rsquo;s &ldquo;Geek Girls Exist.&rdquo; In 2011, she was selected as a finalist for the CAPE (Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment) New Writers Award.</h4>

Sarah Kuhn

Body or Soul: On Versions of "The Little Mermaid"

Shana Mlawski is the author of<span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><em>Hammer of Witches</em>, a YA historical-fantasy from Tu Books. She is also a pop culture critic at OverthinkingIt.com.