ROBERT HOLDEN
Australia-based lecturer, curator, and historian, and the author of over thirty books. Holden has received awards from the Literature Board of the Australia Council, held a Mitchell Library Fellowship and has spoken at numerous conferences in Australia and at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
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NICK HOLDSTOCK
Edinburgh-based fiction writer and essayist. Holdstock is the author of The Tree That Bleeds: A Uighur Town on the Edge (2011), a study of life in China’s Xinjiang province, the nonfiction book China’s Forgotten People (2015), and the novel The Casualties (2015).
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KAT HOWARD
Kat Howard lives in New Hampshire. Her short fiction has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award, anthologized in several collections, and performed on NPR. Her debut novel, Roses and Rot, was published in 2016.
Pages 262 & 286
MAYA JAGGI
An award-winning cultural journalist, literary critic, and festival director in London. For a decade Jaggi was a long-form arts profile writer for The Guardian. Her 2012 honorary doctorate from the UK’s Open University was for “extending the map of international writing.” She has judged international literary awards, and holds degrees from Oxford University and the London School of Economics.
Page 292
LYDIA KIESLING
San Francisco–based writer and editor of literary website The Millions. She is a member of the National Book Critics Circle and her work has appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times Magazine, Slate, and Salon.com.
Page 308
PAUL KINCAID
Paul Kincaid has received both the Thomas Clareson Award and the Best Non-Fiction Award from the British Science Fiction Association. He has published two books of essays and has recently completed a book on Iain M. Banks for the University of Illinois Press.
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REYES LÁZARO
Associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Smith College, Massachusetts. Lázaro holds a PhD in Spanish and Portuguese and a Masters in Philosophy from University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a BA in Philosophy from the Universidad de Deusto, Bilbao, Spain.
Pages 62 & 254
ANN MORGAN
Writer and editor from London. Morgan’s first book, Reading the World: Confessions of a Literary Explorer (2015), grew out of a project she undertook to spend a year reading a book from every country on Earth. Her debut novel, Beside Myself, was published in January 2016.
Pages 156 & 224
MAHVESH MURAD
Book critic and editor from Karachi, Pakistan. Murad is also host of the interview podcast Midnight in Karachi on Tor.com, and editor of the Apex Book of World SF 4.
Pages 206, 208, & 226
JONATHAN NEWELL
PhD candidate in English Literature at the University of British Columbia, specializing in weird fiction. He has published articles on China Miéville, George R. R. Martin, and others in journals including Horror Studies, Science Fiction Studies, and Studies in Gothic Fiction.
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JEFF NUNOKAWA
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ABIGAIL NUSSBAUM
Columnist and book critic based in Israel. Nussbaum has written columns for Progressive Scan and was reviews editor for Strange Horizons for four years. She was a contributor to the third edition of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, and has been nominated for a British Science Fiction Association award.
Pages 166 & 256
MARGARET J. OAKES
Professor of English at Furman University, South Carolina, and contributor to Reading Harry Potter (2003) and Reading Harry Potter Again (2009). Oakes’s research interests are in early modern British poetry and children’s fantasy literature.
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LAURIE PENNY
Columnist and author, Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, and contributing editor at New Statesman. Penny has written for The Guardian and New Statesman, and is the author of several books including Unspeakable Things (2014), Cybersexism (2013), and Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism (2011).
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ANDREW H. PLAKS
Literary critic and researcher, focusing on Chinese and Japanese classical literature. Plaks was previously a Professor at Princeton University, New Jersey, and now lectures at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Page 58
ERIC RABKIN
Professor emeritus of English language and literature at the University of Michigan whose specialties include fantasy and science fiction.
Pages 164 & 260
ADAM ROBERTS
British science-fiction writer and professor of nineteenth-century literature at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Pages 138, 194, 204, 232, & 296
DAVID SEED
Professor of English at Liverpool University. Seed specializes in science fiction, Cold War culture and spy fiction, and the interface between fiction and film.
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TOM SHIPPEY
Emeritus professor of Saint Louis University, his publications include The Road to Middle-earth (4 expanded editions, 1982 to 2004), Beowulf: The Critical Heritage (1998), The Shadow-Walkers (2005), and Hard Reading: Learning from Science Fiction (2016). He currently reviews fantasy and science fiction for The Wall Street Journal.
Pages 18, 22, 30, 34, 36, 40, 44, 48, 52, 54, 64, 68, 74, 96, & 188
JARED SHURIN
Shurin has edited over a dozen anthologies on topics ranging from mummies to Dickens. He has been a finalist for the Shirley Jackson and Hugo Awards, and twice won the British Fantasy Award for Non-Fiction. He is also the editor of Pornokitsch, a pop culture website.
Pages 210, 218, & 244
SHARON SIEBER
Professor of Spanish at Idaho State University. Sieber’s research focuses on Latin American and twentieth-century Spanish literature.
JAMES SMYTHE
London-based novelist and creative writing teacher. Smythe regularly writes for The Guardian and his novels include The Testimony, The Explorer, The Machine, and the Australia Trilogy.
Pages 238 & 288
MAUREEN SPELLER
A critic and reviewer of science fiction and fantasy. Speller is senior reviews editor at Strange Horizons and assistant editor of Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction.
Pages 240 & 284
DARRYL STERK
Assistant professor of translation at National Taiwan University, specializing in the representation of Taiwan’s aboriginal peoples in film and fiction.
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MATTHEW STRECHER
Professor of Japanese literature in the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Sophia University, Tokyo. Strecher is a specialist in contemporary Japanese literature and is the author of several books on Haruki Murakami, including The Forbidden Worlds of Haruki Murakami (2014).
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JOHN SUTHERLAND
Journalist, author, and professor of modern English at University College London. His books include How to Read a Novel: A User’s Guide (2006), Curiosities of Literature: A Feast for Book Lovers (2008), and Magic Moments: Life-Changing Encounters with Books, Film, Music… (2008). He is a regular contributor to The Guardian, The New Statesman and The London Review of Books.
Pages 80, 82, 88, 94, 100, 104, 106, 108, 110, 116, 130, 132, 140, 212, & 290
ANDREW TAYLOR
Freelance writer and journalist based in the UK. He read English at Oxford University and his books include God’s Fugitive: The Life of C. M. Doughty (1999), The Pocket Guide to Poets and Poetry (2011), Walking Wounded: The Life and Poetry of Vernon Scannell (2013), and Books
that changed the World (2014).
Pages 134, 144, 148, 154, 170, & 200
KOLA TUBOSUN
Writer, critic, and language professor, Tubosun recently coedited a collection of essays on African linguistics. His work has appeared in various publications, including the International Literary Quarterly, Aké Review, The Guardian, and The Maple Tree Literary Supplement.
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LISA TUTTLE
Lisa Tuttle is an award-winning author of horror, fantasy, and science fiction. Her novels include Windhaven (written with George R. R. Martin) and The Curious Affair of the Somnambulist and the Psychic Thief (2016). Her nonfiction includes the Encyclopedia of Feminism (1986) and Writing Fantasy and Science Fiction (2001).
Pages 186, 230, 248, & 294
BENJAMIN WIDISS
Widiss teaches literature at Hamilton College, New York. He is the author of Obscure Invitations: The Persistence of the Author in Twentieth-Century American Literature (2011), and is currently working on a monograph Flirting with Embodiment: Textual Metaphors and Textual Presences in Contemporary Narrative.
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