Amal El-Mohtar is an author, editor and critic. Her short story "Seasons of Glass and Iron" won the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards. She is the author of The Honey Month, a collection of poetry and prose, and contributes criticism to NPR Books and The New York Times. Her fiction has appeared in anthologies such as The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories. She teaches Creative Writing at the University of Ottawa.
Max Gladstone is the author of the Hugo-nominated Craft Sequence, which Patrick Rothfuss called "stupefyingly good". His critically acclaimed short fiction has appeared in anthologies such as The Starlit Wood : New Fairy Tales. John Crowley described Max as "a true star of twenty-first-century fantasy".