Nalo Hopkinson is an award-winning novelist linked with the afrofuturism literary movement, including works like Brown Girl in the Ring, Midnight Robber and The New Moon's Arm. Hopkinson teaches fiction writing at the University of California, Riverside, where she is a member of a faculty research cluster on science fiction. In 2018 she was a guest of the international comics convention, San Diego Comic-Con. Bestselling author Neil Gaiman has long been one of the top writers in comics, and also writes books for readers of all ages.

He is listed in the Dictionary of Literary Biography as one of the top 10 living postmodern writers, and is a prolific creator of works of prose, poetry, film, journalism, comics, song lyrics, and drama. Gaiman's work has been honored with many awards internationally, including the Newbery and Carnegie medals.

His books and stories have also been honored with four Hugos, two Nebulas, a World Fantasy Award, four Bram Stoker Awards, six Locus Awards, two British SF Awards, a British Fantasy Award, three Geffens, an International Horror Guild Award and two Mythopoeic Awards.

Sarah Pinsker is a singer, songwriter and author. Her short stories have won the Nebula, Sturgeon and Philip K. Dick Awards. Currently finishing her second novel and fourth album, she lives with her wife in Baltimore.

Fran Wilde is an author and technology consultant. In 2015, her debut novel, Updraft, won the Andre Norton Award for Best Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy and was nominated for the Best Novel Nebula Award.

While not working on her Bone Universe books, Wilde writes short stories for various popular SFF publications and blogs about food and genre for Cooking the Books, the popular social-parenting website GeekMom, and at The Washington Post.