David Brin

David Brin lives in San Diego County with his wife and three rambunctious teens and "one hundred very demanding trees." He has degrees in astrophysics, electrical engineering, and a PhD in space physics. Since his first publication in 1981, David has won numerous Hugos (nominated twelve times), Nebulas, Locus awards and the John W. Cambell award. His novel, The Postman, inspired Kevin Costner's movie of the same name. David also reports that he's been on TV a lot lately, with appearances on the History Channel's "The Universe," "Life After People," and "The ArchiTECHS." A founding member of SIGMA, the SF "think tank," he consults about technological dangers and trends.

As a "scientist/futurist" David writes about a wide variety of concerns, including the Earth and its future, both short and long term. "But SF has to be fun, too!" he says, a spirit he shared as Guest of Honor at the 2007 Worldcon in Yokohama. Looking to the future of science fiction as well, he published the "Out of Time" series aimed at out future generation of readers and scientists. His latest book is a young adult novel called Sky Horizon.
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Carol Berg

Colorado author Carol Berg grew up in Texas, where the hot summers were perfect for reading. She majored in mathematics at Rice University, but also took every English course that listed "novels" on the syllabus — just so she would have time to keep reading. She also has a second degree in computer science. Carol, her husband, and their three sons live in the foothills of the Colorado Rockies.

Carol began writing when a friend convinced her to exchange letters "in character." "Eighteen months and sixty-four letters later, [we] had produced a whole story, and the writing game was officially out of control." Carol put her engineering career on hold to become a full-time writer. Since Transformation was published in 2000, Carol's books have won the Colorado Book Award for genre fiction, the Prism Award for best romantic fantasy, and the Geffen Award for best translated fantasy. They have been translated into six languages and read, so readers tell her, on five continents, on a submarine underneath the Mediterranean, in the war zone of Iraq, and on the slopes of Denali. She was the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers' 2006 Writer of the Year.

Robert Buettner

Robert Buettner has been a military intelligence officer, National Science Foundation fellow in paleontology, hard-rock prospector, petroleum geologist, and Natural Resources lawyer in Colorado. His best-selling Orphanage was nominated for the Quill Award as Best Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror novel of 2004, and was compared to Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers and Joe Haldeman's The Forever War, written for the post-9/11 generation.

Away from the keyboard he leads an active life. Said Buettner, "At various times, I've scuba'd, snowboarded, rock-climbed, marathoned, and bicycled. All badly. Two bears have encountered me at close quarters and lived to tell the tale." He lives in the Blue Ridge foothills north of Atlanta, with his family and more bicycles than a grownup needs. He's looking forward to seeing his SF and writing friends in Colorado again at Denvention.

Little Brown Orbit released book three in the series, Orphan's Journey, in April 2008, and will release book four, Orphan's Alliance, in November 2008. Visit him at www.RobertBuettner.com.
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Lillian Stewart Carl

After growing up in Missouri and Ohio, Lillian Stewart Carl discovered she loves the sea and the mountains, especially Scotland, which is the inspiration for many of her books and short stories. A childhood friend of Lois McMasters Bujold, she has always written stories. In fact, Lillian and Lois did one of the very earliest Star Trek fanzines back in 1968. Lillian gets many of her writing ideas from extensive traveling.

Lillian loves music, especially Celtic. She has compared the process of writing to knitting or playing the piano, but her latest revelation is that writing is similar to tai chi, "especially when it comes to balancing on one foot for extended periods."

Lillian's latest book is Blackness Tower from Juno Books, and she's co-editing a retrospective on Bujold's science fiction work, The Vorkosigan Companion, due out in 2009. Her twenty-fifth short story sale will appear in The Dimension Next Door from DAW this fall.
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Phyllis Eisenstein

Phyllis Eisenstein was born and grew up in Chicago. She attended the University of Chicago where she majored in chemistry, then English, then psychology, then dropped out after 3 years to marry Alex. She then joined her husband in Germany and lived there for a couple of years while he was in the Air Force. She said, "There's nothing like being forced to live in a foreign country to make you appreciate the country of your birth."

After going back to school and getting a B.A. in Anthropology, Eisenstein sold her first story in 1969. Since then she has sold thirty-some stories, six novels, and one nonfiction book. She's written book reviews for two Chicago newspapers as well as nonfiction for various publications. She is has also taught various workshops, including Writers Digest School and at local colleges, and has been adjunct faculty at Columbia College since 1989.

Her most recent books are The Book of Elementals (an omnibus edition of two of her novels) and Night Lives (a short story collection). She currently has an unsold novel and is looking for publisher while trying to write next novel. And she's still married to Alex.
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Daniel M. Kimmel

Daniel M. Kimmel is a Boston-area film reviewer and past president of the Boston Society of Film Critics. Growing up in New York, he attended the University of Rochester and took a degree in psychology because "film studies" was considered the academic equivalent of basket weaving in the ‘70s. He then moved to Boston to attend law school. He practiced law for several years but finally decided that all the people telling him he didn't "look like a lawyer" were probably right.

He has been reviewing for the Worcester Telegram and Gazette since 1984 and also serves as the Boston correspondent for Variety, the "Bible of Show Business." Kimmel's byline has appeared in numerous publications, including the Jewish Advocate, the Christian Science Monitor, the Internet Review of Science Fiction, the Boston Globe, Film Comment, and Cinefantastique. His reviews can also be found at rottentomatoes.com. He currently teaches at Suffolk University, including a class on SF and horror films, as well as lecturing before various groups.

His book on the history of the FOX television network, The Fourth Network: How Fox Broke the Rules and Reinvented Television was brought out by Ivan R. Dee, Publisher in 2004 and received the Cable Center Book Award. His history of DreamWorks, The Dream Team – The Rise and Fall of DreamWorks: Lessons from the New Hollywood, was published in 2006. He also contributed the essay "The Batman We Deserve" to the SmartPop book Batman Unauthorized, which came out earlier this year.

Louise Marley

Louise Marley is a former singer of both folk music and classical music. She was singing Tisbe in "La Cenerentola" at Seattle Opera when her first novel, Sing the Light, was published by Ace. Since then she has published Sing the Warmth and Receive the Gift, completing the trilogy The Singers of Nevya, which will be reprinted in an omnibus edition in 2009. She followed those novels with The Terrorists of Irustan and the Endeavour Award-winning The Glass Harmonica, and moved into hardcover with The Maquisarde and The Child Goddess, which also won the Endeavour Award.

She began writing under the pseudonym Toby Bishop to publish Airs Beneath the Moon and Airs and Graces, the first two books of The Horsemistress Saga. Airs of Night and Sea, the third book of the trilogy, will appear in December of 2008.

At OmegaCon in Birmingham, Alabama in March of 2008, Louise's old folk group, Earthwood, celebrated a reunion with two performances. A CD will be out later this year, titled "Earthwood Returns."

Besides music, Louise loves kids, dogs, good food and wine, yoga, and golf. The order changes depending on the day, but kids are always #1. How does she juggle writing, singing, family and everything else in her life? She says, "There is no art without discipline."
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Ronnie Seagren

Ronnie Seagren is a Colorado native who grew up in San Francisco, then returned to Denver in her teens. She has a B.A. in geology from the University of Colorado. Married for thirty-seven years, she has three sons and three granddaughters. Ronnie started writing while still in high school and has published two novellas as well as the novel Seventh Daughter. In addition to writing, her creative pursuits include nature photography, sewing, and painting. "I have a passion for anything creative," she says, which she inherited from her grandmother. She is currently working on another action fantasy novel concerning hazardous waste dumping and ancient spirits in New Mexico.
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Stephen Baxter

Stephen Baxter's science fiction novels have been published in the UK, the US, and in many other countries including Germany, Japan, and France. His most recent publications are The H-Bomb Girl (YA, Faber), Time Odyssey 3: Firstborn (with Sir Arthur C Clarke, Del Rey) and Time's Tapestry 4: Weaver (Gollancz). His non-fiction includes the books Deep Future, Omegatropic and Revolutions in the Earth: James Hutton and the True Age of the World (biography), published in the US as Ages In Chaos. He has published over 100 SF short stories, several of which have won prizes including the Philip K. Dick Award, the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, the British Science Fiction Association Award, the Kurd Lasswitz Award (Germany) and the Seiun Award (Japan). They have been nominated for several others, including the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Hugo Award, and Locus awards.

Audio Movies dramatized his novel Voyage for BBC Radio, broadcasting it in six weekly parts from 12 April to 17 May 1999. He has also done his own writing for TV and movies including development work on the BBC's Invasion: Earth, broadcast in April-May 1998 and the script for Episode 3 of Space Island One, broadcast on Sky One on 21 January 1998.