AUTHORS
Author of Monument in Tangle
Steve Adamson is a pen name for a writer from Guyana, South America. He is 29 years old and still trying to make it out of the maze of higher education so he can get on with the business of real life. Monument is based on an actual incident where he realized that romance does not mean the same thing for everyone and that everyone does not see the world in the same way.
Author of The Archer's Heart and Lord Ronan's Shoes and Remember in Tangle
When Astrid Amara isn't writing, she is either riding horses, sleeping, or working as a civil servant. She has no unusual facial features.
She is also the author of Intimate Traitors, A Policy of Lies, Holiday Outing, and The Water: Valde from Loose Id, and co-author of Hell Cop and Hell Cop 2.
More information: www.astridamara.com
Author of Raccoon Skin in Tangle Girls
J.D. EveryHope, originally from Bellingham, WA, now studies at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. She spends her time researching comparative mythology, medieval history, and other subjects mostly irrelevant to twenty-first century life. Whenever she's not doodling or being attacked by manic cats, she writes and drinks far too much coffee. She hopes to pursue a career as a professional writer, and failing that, intends to spend her days drawing on the walls of a cardboard box in Central Park.
Author of The Southern Gentleman in Tangle
Mark Allan Gunnells is thirty-two years old and holds a degree in English and Psychology. He has sold over fifty of his short stories to various markets and is currently working on a fantasy novel. A small town boy at heart, he still lives in his hometown of Gaffney, SC, with Joel Kiser, his lover of nearly six years.
Author of Lord of the White Hell, Wicked Gentlemen and Feral Machines inTangle
Ginn Hale lives in the Pacific Northwest, donates blood as a pastime, and tinkers with things.
More information: www.ginnhale.com
Author of Release in A Minor in Tangle and Death and the President in Tangle Girls
Tenea D. Johnson is a writer, musician, and sushi lover. Drop her a line and let her know the best sushi joint in your town — no, really (tdj@teneadjohnson.com). When she passes through, she’ll have you to thank for the impeccable grub.
Her work has appeared in African Voices, Arise, Humanities in the South, Infinite Matrix, Necrologue and Whispers in the Night, among others. Some years ago she stopped separating music from fiction, ended up with fusions and trotted them out at the Knitting Factory, Dixon Place, and the Public Theater. She is also the mother of a bouncing baby label, counterpoise records.
More information: www.teneadjohnson.com
Author of Under Suspicion inTangle Girls
Dr. Philip Edward Kaldon teaches Physics at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo by day, while aspiring to write the Great Science Fiction Romantic Epic in the wee hours of the night. In 2008 his SF story A Man in the Moon appeared in Writers of the Future Vol. XXIV and he has stories coming out in Analog and Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine. Dr. Phil attended the 2004 Clarion Workshop with Blind Eye Books editor Nikki Kimberling and also the August 2008 Writers of the Future workshop and event with Jemma EveryHope, who helped edit this story.
He turns fifty this year and met his wife Debbie in the Science and Engineering Library at Northwestern University - they've been married for just about a quarter century, which does not impress their three cats.
Author of Turnskin and editor of Tangle and Tangle Girls
Nicole Kimberling lives in Bellingham, Washington with her partner, Dawn Kimberling, 2 bad cats and approximately 100,000 bees. Her stoies have appeared in Freedomhowler (Redjack Press), Medicine Show (Redjack Press), Space Squid, and Electric Velocipede. She is also the author of Primal Red (Loose Id), Ghost Star Night (Samhain), and co-author of Hell Cop and Hell Cop 2 (Loose Id).
More information: www.nicolekimberling.com
Author of Strange Fortune
A distinct voice in GLBT fiction, multi-award winning author Josh Lanyon has written numerous novels, novellas, and short stories. He is the author of the critically-praised Adrien English mystery series. Strange Fortune is his first foray into the realm of speculative fiction. Josh is a two-time Lambda Literary Award finalist. To learn more about Josh, please visit www.joshlanyon.com or join his mailing list at groups.yahoo.com/group/JoshLanyon.
Author of The Coming of the Fourth Dawn in Tangle
Having done most of the jobs clear-minded people try not to do, Jeremiah Job Levine now works as a veterinary technician and writes fantasy and horror. His stories have appeared in Cover of Darkness, the anthology Animal Magnetism and various dark corners of the Web such as Camp Horror, Insidious Reflections, The Dream People and Devil’s Work. Born in Connecticut and raised in Israel, he now lives in New Haven with his wife Alvira, daughter Raven, and the customary pair of completely useless cat familiars.
Author of Crossing the Distance in Tangle and Cupcake in Tangle Girls
Erin MacKay was born in Mobile, Alabama and raised all over the southeastern United States. She lives in Atlanta with her husband and two dogs. Her interests include history, linguistics, gourmet beer, football, and anime, not necessarily in that order.
Author of Moons of Blood and Amber in Tangle
Gene Mederos was born in Havana, Cuba and emigrated to the United States with his parents and sister at the age of two. Raised in Brooklyn and later moved with the family to Miami, where he graduated from the University of Miami with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1987.
While earning a living at numerous day jobs, most notably a seven year run at the ASPCA in Manhatten where he oftened appeared on television to get homeless dogs and cats new homes, Gene has pursued his artistic career. Gene has designed sets and costumes for numerous plays in Miami, New York City, Santa Fe and Albuquerque. He has exhibited and sold his art in NYC, Santa Fe and Tampa.
More information: www.lostsaints.com
Author of The Conclave in Tangle Girls
rent Roman is a writer from Montréal with an interest in all types of fiction strange and unusual in addition to academic interests in archaeology, anthropology, history and a number of other fields. He is fascinated by what makes people tick at both the intimately personal level and the sweeping societal level, and enjoys every opportunity to pursue such questions through the means of fiction. Other publications where Roman's stories have or will appear are listed at his cruddy website.
More information: www.geocities.com/trent_roman/
Author of Los Conversos in Tangle and Amazons in Tangle Girls
Jesse Sandoval was born and raised in New Mexico. He wrote Los Conversos during his lunch breaks while he was working in a night vision goggle factory. He plays guitar better than he writes.
Author of Fag Hag in Tangle
Lawrence Schimel (New York, 1971) is the author or anthologist of over 80 books, including The Drag Queen of Elfland (Circlet), The Future is Queer (Arsenal Pulp), Two Boys in Love (Seventh Window), Fairy Tales for Writers (A Midsummer Nights Press), First Person Queer (Arsenal Pulp), PoMoSexuals (Cleis), and many other books. He lives in Madrid, Spain.
ARTISTS
Artist for Feral Machines in the Tangle Gallery
Cover artist for Wicked Gentlemen, Tangle, The Archer's Heart, Strange Fortune, and all unattributed artwork on the Blind Eye Books website, including most of the artwork in the Tangle Gallery.
Artist for Crossing the Distance in the Tangle Gallery
Artist for Lord Ronan's Shoes and Remember in the Tangle Gallery
More information: www.thepussinboots.net