Author bios for WisCon Chronicles

Hanne Blank is a feminist writer, historian, and activist whose books include _Virgin: The Untouched History_ (Bloomsbury) and _Unruly Appetites_ (Seal Press). She believes that a good stout pair of Corcoran cap-toe jump boots go with anything. 

K Tempest Bradford is a science fiction and fantasy writer living in New York City.  She's the managing editor for Fantasy Magazine and contributes to FeministSF The Blog, Tor.com, and The Angry Black Woman.  In 2008 she served on the Tiptree Award Committee.  Her fiction has appeared in the Interfictions anthology, Strange Horizons, and Farthing Magazine.  She blogs about writing, reading, and rhythm at tempest.fluidartist.com.

Bridget Collins is a PhD candidate in the Program in the History of Science,
Medicine, and Technology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she
focuses on the history of public health, environmental health, and women's
health. Her dissertation will detail the history of domestic medicine in
twentieth century America.

Janice Dawley is a computer geek and contributor to the Feminist SFFU wiki and blog. She lives in Burlington, VT. 

L. Timmel Duchamp is an sf writer and critic, author of the Marq’ssan Cycle, a series of visionary political novels, and publisher of Aqueduct Press. She blogs often at Ambling along the Aqueduct <http://aqueductpress.blogspot.com/>. For more about her and her work, visit http://ltimml.home. mindpsring.com.

Sigrid Ellis is an air traffic controller.  As such, she is, in fact,
from the government, and is here to help.  She blogs at
http://sigridellis.wordpress.com/ and is one of the four Fantastic
Fangirls, discussing comics, here:  http://fantasticfangirls.org/.
She also writes comics.  http://slightlyobsessedstudio.com/

Vito Excalibur has been enjoying the hell out of WisCons since 1996.
She blogs at http://vito_excalibur.livejournal.com.

Robyn Fleming edits Cerise [http://cerise.theirisnetwork.org/], the
feminist gaming magazine, blogs about movies, books and television at
The Hathor Legacy [http://thehathorlegacy.com/] and writes poetry and
fiction under various names, a couple of which are more or less her
own.  You can visit her at www.robynfleming.com, or reach her by email
at robyn.fleming@gmail.com

Hederahelix is the alterego of an acafan with an interest in science fiction, feminism, and the queerest corners of the places where they intersect.  She lives on the left coast and envies Madison's supply of macaroni and cheese pizza. 

Ted Infinity is a technical writer who lives in San Francisco.

Victoria Janssen's first novel, THE DUCHESS, HER MAID, THE GROOM AND THEIR LOVER, was published by Harlequin Spice.  She's a member of SFWA, RWA, and a writing group known as The Nameless.

Alaya Dawn Johnson's short fiction has appeared in Interzone, Strange Horizons, Fantasy Magazine, Year's Best Fantasy 6 and Year's Best SF 11. Her first novel, Racing the Dark, was released last October and she has a forthcoming urban fantasy novel from St. Martin's Press. Her hobbies include eating vegetarian Indian food and reading YA novels

John H. Kim is an avid gamer, ex-physicist, father, and programmer.  John got his degree at Columbia, moved to California for a post-doc, then fled academia
for programming in industry.  

Rachel Kronick lives in Minneapolis, MN, where she teaches Mandarin Chinese and does Mandarin-English medical interpreting. She is many sorts of geek: long-time SF&F fan, tabletop RPG gamer, 3D artist, transgender rights advocate, worldbuilder and ex-East Asian Studies grad student, among others. She was head of programming for Minicon for three years and is now resting peacefully. Her website is at www.jiawen.net, and she blogs at jiawen.livejournal.com.

 Rose Lemberg received her doctorate from UC Berkeley, and now teaches at a large Midwestern university. She lives in a beautiful modernist house with her family and a small army of books. Her fiction appeared in the Warrior Wisewoman anthology and Fantasy Magazine, and her poetry in Mythic Delirium, Goblin Fruit, Abyss and Apex, GUD, and other venues.

Josh Lukin specializes in literature of the 1950's US and in disability studies.
He has published on the work of Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, Grant Morrison,
Philip Dick, Jim Thompson, Justine Larbalestier, Samuel Delany, and Patricia
Highsmith as well as  the future of black disability studies, the Black Panther
Party and disability, the film _The Men_, and Colson Whitehead's _Apex Hides the
Hurt_.  His edited collection _Invisible Suburbs: Recovering Protest Fiction in
the 1950's United States_ was published in 2008 by the University Press of
Mississippi.  Dr. Lukin teaches at Temple University.

Nancy Jane Moore is part of the online writers’ consortium, Book View Café -- http://www.bookviewcafe.com/. Her collection, Conscientious Inconsistencies, is available from PS Publishing, and her novella, Changeling, is published by Aqueduct Press. She holds a fourth degree black belt in Aikido and has studied martial arts since 1979. She blogs on self defense matters at http://takingcareofourselves.blogspot.com, and on fiction at http://blog.bookviewcafe.com/ and http://aqueductpress.blogspot.com. 

A native of Ohio, Janice Mynchenberg has lived in several states and now resides in Chattanooga, TN.  She was living in southern Wisconsin when she began attending WisCon in the 1990s.  After receiving an M.A. in comparative literature from the University of Oregon in Eugene, Janice enrolled in Trinity Lutheran Seminary.  She has been an ordained pastor for 20 years.  Her partner is Diantha Sprouse.

JJ Pionke is an adjunct professor of English in the Chicagoland area.  She has a teaching interest in SFF, nuclear culture, pirates, and graphic novels.  When she is not teaching, she can be found working on various conference papers, stalking her mother's cat, riding her motorcycle, or thinking about her next tattoo. 

Beth Plutchak is a long-time fan of feminist science fiction, and a
long-time participant in WisCon. You can find out more about her at
http://bplutchak.livejournal.com/

Shveta Thakrar is a writer of Indian-themed fantasy.  Drawing on her heritage, her experience growing up with two cultures, and her M.A. in German Literature, she likes to explore the magic that is just out of sight as well as that which stands right in front of our faces.  She is a Clarion ’06 alum, has an entry in A Field Guide to Surreal Botany (Two Cranes Press), and is currently working on a YA novel featuring Indians and Indian fey in Philadelphia.