Carrie Vaughn’s work includes the Philip K. Dick Award–winning novel Bannerless, the New York Times bestselling Kitty Norville urban fantasy series, over twenty novels, and upwards of one hundred short stories, two of which have been finalists for the Hugo Award. Her most recent novel, Questland, is about a high-tech LARP that goes horribly wrong and the literature professor who has to save the day. She’s a contributor to the Wild Cards series of shared world superhero books edited by George R. R. Martin and a graduate of the Odyssey Writing Workshop. An air force brat, she survived her nomadic childhood and managed to put down roots in Boulder, Colorado.

Renae De Liz is a comic book artist and writer whose projects include the Eisner-nominated The Legend of Wonder Woman, the New York Times bestseller The Last Unicorn, and the community charity project Womanthology, which celebrates and highlights the diverse female creative talent in the comic book industry. Born in Alaska and raised in the redwood forests of the West Coast, she found her forever home in Maine, where she lives now with her four children.