Sharon Shinn is the national bestselling author of the Elemental Blessings novels, as well as the Shifting Circle novels. Her first novel, The Shape-ChangerтАЩs Wife, was a nominee for LocusтАЩs Best First Fantasy Novel of 1995. She has won the William L. Crawford Award for Outstanding New Fantasy Writer, and was twice nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. She has also received an RT Book Reviews ReviewersтАЩ Choice Award and won RT Book ReviewsтАЩs 2010 Career Achievement Award in the Sci-Fi/Fantasy category.
Ruth Glick has written more than seventy novels, most of them under the pseudonym Rebecca York. She and her husband live in Columbia, Maryland.
Carol Berg┬аis the national bestselling author of multiple fantasy novels, including┬аDust and Light,┬аBreath and Bone,┬аFlesh and Spirit,┬аThe Daemon Prism,┬аThe Soul Mirror, and┬аThe Spirit Lens. She is a former software engineer. She lives in Colorado with her family.
Jean Johnson is the national bestselling author of both military science fiction and fantasy romance, including the Flame Sea novels, and various series, such as Theirs Not to Reason Why, Sons of Destiny, and Guardians of Destiny. Currently, she lives in the Pacific Northwest.