Paul Dixon began his professional career as an oceanographer, but he is currently a digital marketing technologist. All his life he has been nurturing his passion for the craft of writing. He currently strives to combine technology, writing and environmental science to find solutions for todays environmental issues with focus on the healing of the ocean. He hopes to write, to educate, to inform and, of course, to entertain. Paraphrasing Winston Churchill—if not the arts, then what are we fighting for?

He lives with his wife and daughter in his Seattle hometown and can usually be found at a coffee shop. But unless you’re willing to search through every coffee shop in the city, you can reach Paul at www.paul-dixon.com, say hi on Facebook (www.facebook.com/sunstealer) or send him a tweet @paul_a_dixon.

Brenda Anderson’s fiction has appeared in notable publications such as Andromeda Spaceways, A cappella Zoo, Punchnel’s and Penumbra. She lives a few minutes’ walk from the sea in Adelaide and loves the offbeat.

Barry Rosenberg was born in London but moved to Canberra, Australia after completing a PhD in visual information processing. After becoming involved in meditation, he left research and pursued other activities.

He began his writing career as a poet in1975 and has been writing speculative fiction since the 1990s. In the past few years, has had two novels published and eleven short stories. Now days he combines writing with woodwork. To connect with Barry check out his yahoo group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BarryRosenberg/

Diane Arrelle, the pen name of South Jersey writer Dina Leacock, has been writing for more than 20 years. She has sold over two hundred short stories . She is the author of Just A Drop In The Cup, a collection of short-short stories and Elements Of The Short Story: How to Write a Selling Story.

She was both one of the founding members of Garden State Horror Writers and the second president. She is also a past president of the Philadelphia Writers’ Conference. When not writing, she is the director of a municipal senior citizen center.

She is married and has two children. Her oldest son is in college in England. She lives on edge of the Pine Barrens in Southern New Jersey (home of the Jersey Devil)with her ever-understanding electrical engineer husband, her younger son and ,of course, her cat.

Phil Richardson spent four years in the Navy—an experience that had a profound effect on him. He then attended Ohio University where he met his wife in a creative writing class. Now retired, they both write and have been in the same writing group for twenty years. 

Phil is an inveterate punster but has managed to limit his use of puns in his stories thanks to the influence of his wife.

He has published over eighty stories, twenty-one of which have been included in anthologies. Two of his stories were nominated for the Pushcart Prize in fiction. You can learn more about Phil Richardson on his site www.philrichardsonstories.com.

Jaimie M. Engle has written professionally since 2003 with more than 100 publications in journals and e-mags throughout the world. In 2013, she published her first middle-grade novel. Engle is a regular conference speaker with the Space Coast Writer’s Guild, Eastern Florida State College, the Orange County & Brevard County Library Systems and the Society of Children Book Writer’s & Illustrators. She is the PR Specialist with Black Rose Writing, a publishing house based in Texas and speaks regularly to students in Lake and Brevard County, Florida. Engle offers a coaching & editing service for aspiring writers at www.awriterforlife.com. Learn more about her books at www.jaimiengle.com.