Greg Bechtel

Dan Brodribb

Dan is a writer/stand-up comic/wrestling referee /crisis worker who practices both Buddhism and Salsa Dancing. He feels that he could probably use more practice with both.

Barb Galler-Smith

Author Barb Galler-Smith resides in Edmonton with her fabulously supportive husband, John, and two Yorkies, Darby and Sailor Moon.  She's a former Compuserve IMP, a member of Edmonton's Cult of Pain writers group, and a new groups of emerging writers called "the Scruffies".   She's also busy editing with OnSpec magazine where she gets to read lots and lots of stories. She terribly proud her recent novel DRUIDS, a collaboration with US Author Josh Langston, was nominated for 2010 Aurora Award for Best Novel in English.  The second book in the series in scheduled for Spring 2011.

Melissa Jacques

Amanda Lim

Beatrice Nearey

Beatrice Nearey may tend to read Jane Austen rather than Sci-Fi, but on the other hand, she spent 20 years as a registered alien in the US, she married someone from Neptune, and her surname is almost the same as the main character in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Furthermore, her father was a member of the Royal Astonomical Society and her mother was taught music by Gustav Holst who composed "The Planets". Beatrice is a past president of the Edmonton Jane Austen Society and a life member of the Jane Austen Society of North America. She has organized local Jane Austen events, created a Jane Austen Game Show, written fan-fiction, adapted two Austen works as plays, and presented talks on Jane Austen's writings and times.

Robert J Sawyer

Bridget Toms