Cheryl Morgan – Editor & Novel Reviews

Cheryl edited the online book review magazine, Emerald City, for 12 years, winning a Hugo Award for Best Fanzine along the way. She is currently non-fiction editor for the Hugo and World Fantasy nominated Clarkesworld Magazine. You can learn more about Cheryl at her personal blog, Cheryl’s Mewsings.

Anne Gray – Copy Editor

Anne Gray copy edited the final five years of Emerald City for Cheryl and has also served as a freelance proofreader for Subterranean Press since 2006. In her other life she is a cognitive systems designer and human factors engineer. In yet another life she runs science fiction conventions and manages wikis about the genre. In her fourth life she and her husband Brian are having their first child this year. Luckily, she is part cat and has plenty of lives to devote to her various interests.

Kevin Standlee – US Business Manager

Kevin Standlee is one of those people who works at keeping things organized while the creative people get on with the show. He co-chaired the 2002 World Science Fiction Convention and is Corporate Secretary of its corporate non-profit parent organization, San Francisco Science Fiction Conventions, Inc. He is Secretary/Treasurer of the non-profit organization behind the Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Awards, and a member of the Board of Directors of the corporate parent of the 2009 Worldcon in Montréal, Canada. He has served as a Director of the 2005 Worldcon in Glasgow, Scotland and the 2005 Westercon in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He worked as Executive Director of the Software Frameworks Association, a professional organization for Apple Computer software developers.

Roz Kaveney – Media Reviews

Roz Kaveney is a writer, critic and activist working in London as a publisher’s reader. She reviews extensively, most often for the Times Literary Supplement and the Independent; her books include Reading the Vampire Slayer, From Alien to The Matrix, Teen Dreams and Superheroes! She has edited and contributed to a number of sf and fantasy anthologies; much of her early fiction was written for the Midnight Rose books which she co-produced. A more recent novel is currently on the market. She is also a poet with a collection forthcoming. She has an active net presence, and has a LiveJournal as RozK.

Sam Jordison – Mainstream Reviews

Sam Jordison writes regularly for the Guardian Book Blog. He blogs on a wide variety of literary subjects and has two long-running series about past Hugo Award winners and past Booker prize winners. He has also written several interviews and short stories for 3AM magazine, has written for most big newspapers in the UK and has published several books with mild swearing in the title like Crap Towns and Sod That. He is currently writing a blog about being painfully middle class in Britain.

He lives in Norwich with his family and very much enjoys swimming in the North Sea.

Karen Burnham – Short Fiction Reviews

Karen Burnham is an electrical engineer and physicist working at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. She has no idea how she lucked into that job. To satisfy the other half of her brain, she reviews science fiction and fantasy literature, as well as indulging in some light scholarship on the topic. She writes reviews for Strange Horizons and SFSignal, and has written papers for the International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts. Her own reviewing blog is www.SpiralGalaxyReviews.com.

Jonathan Clements – Anime & Manga Reviews

Jonathan Clements was formerly the editor of Manga Max magazine and contributing editor to Newtype USA. He is the author of Schoolgirl Milky Crisis: Adventures in the Anime and Manga Trade, and the co-author of the Anime Encyclopedia and the Dorama Encyclopedia: A Guide to Japanese TV Drama Since 1953. He is writing new entries on Chinese and Japanese authors for the third edition of the Clute/Nicholls/Langford et al Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. He is a full-time writer of both fact and fiction, from the wholly unlikely biography of Coxinga the Pirate King to the entirely believeable BBC7 Doctor Who radio plays Immortal Beloved and Brave New Town. His blog can be found here.