Mary Abreu
Mary Abreu left an award-winning print journalism career to pursue her passion for sewing. Her career change led to continuing adventures in costume and apparel design, a successful sewing book (Little Girls, Big Style, Stash Books, 2010) , as well as sewing for film with Whitestone Motion Pictures.

D. A. Adams
D.A. Adams is the author of The Brotherhood of Dwarves, Red Sky at Dawn, The Fall of Dorkhun, and Between Dark and Light.

Tracy A. Akers
Tracy A. Akers is the author of the award-winning Souls of Aredyrah Series. Her books have been included in the Florida Department of Education’s recommended reading lists, are frequently used by teachers in the classroom, and were acknowledged by the Governor of Florida during the 2008 Florida Heritage Awards Ceremony.

Cassie Alexander
Cassie Alexander is a registered nurse and author of the Edie Spence trilogy out now from St. Martin's Press. Nightshifted, Moonshifted, and Shapeshifted, are about a nurse who works with vampires on a supernatural medical floor.

Alina
PJ Beemer Renehan (Alina) is currently the Co-Project Lead of Artix Entertainment’s flagship game, AdventureQuest Worlds, as well as AE’s Writing Coordinator. She works with their many talented writers to ensure high-quality game storylines and marketing content.

Stephen L. Antczak
Stephen L. Antczak most recently edited the anthologies Zombiesque from DAW Books and Clockword Fairy Tales from ROC Books.

Artix
Adam Bohn (Artix), is the Founder/CEO of Artix Entertainment, which makes weekly updated web games including AdventureQuest, DragonFable, MechQuest, EpicDuel, and the popular AdventureQuest Worlds. Artix Entertainment's game lineup also includes HeroSmash, several minigames, and the newly released OverSoul, AE's first card based PVP MMO game.

Will Aymerich
Will Aymerich is a Latin American paranormal investigator, public speaker, traveler, radio/podcast host of The Darkside..., published author Souls of Norcross, filmmaker, photographer and founder of The Darkside Syndicate, a popular paranormal investigation team out of Atlanta, GA.

» Chris Balassone
Chris started in the medical field 20 years ago that includes being a Licensed Practical Nurse and currently a Paramedic. He joined Tri-City Paranormal 5 years ago and quickly moved up the ranks to now being the Director of the team

» Natania Barron
Natania Barron is a writer with a penchant for the speculative and an unrepentant geek. She is the author of the fantasy/steampunk/multiverse adventure, Pilgrim of the Sky, and co-author of Geek Mom: Projects, Tips, and Adventures for Moms and Their 21st Century Families.

Darlene Bolesny
Darlene Bolesny has lived many adventures - which made writing fantasy action-adventure a natural next step. The next book in the Duanor series, Sagril's Tower, is to be released in 2013. Her website may be found at www.bolesny.com.

Bill Bridges
Bill Bridges is Senior Content Designer at CCP/White Wolf. He is the co-creator of Holistic Design’s Fading Suns science fiction universe, and was the developer for White Wolf's Werewolf: the Apocalypse and Promethean games. He is a Fellow at the Mythic Imagination Institute.

Darwin Bromley
Darwin P Bromley is a game designer known for Empire Builder. Darwin co-founded Mayfair Games in 1981 and was the its President from 1982 to 1997. Darwin led Mayfair as it published its train games, card games, and RPGs (RoleAids, DC Heroes). Darwin started Mayfair re-publishing games from Europe, including Settlers of Catan.

Matthew J. Brown
Matthew J. Brown, Ph.D is a professional scholar of comics and popular culture and a professor of philosophy at The University of Texas at Dallas. He has presented at San Diego Comic-Con and has organized an academic conference at Dragon*Con since 2008.

Chesya Burke
Chesya Burke’s 2011 collection, Let’s Play White, was featured in i09 and received praise from Samuel Delany and Nikki Giovanni. She’s recognized for her critical analysis of genre/race, including her article, "Race and the Walking Dead." Chesya’s currently getting her Master’s at Georgia State University.

Emilie P. Bush
Bestselling Steampunk Children's book author, YA Novelist, Editor-in-Chief of Steampunk Chronicle, Emilie P. Bush has her finger on the pulse of children's literature in the most adventuresome genre out there.

Erin Leigh Bushko
Erin Bushko has been a professional in her field for over ten years specializing in Historical, Steampunk, and Fantasy costuming. Her work has been featured in publications such as Escapist Magazine and Star Wars Insider. She was also a featured zombie in all three season of The Walking Dead.

Ginger Campbell, MD
Dr. Ginger Campbell is the host of the highly-rated Brain Science Podcast, "the show for everyone who has a brain." She is also the author of Are You Sure? The Unconscious Origins of Certainty.

» Corey Castellano
Corey has been a professional makeup artist for over twenty years. His credits include: Teen Wolf, Pirates of the Caribbean 2, 3, 4, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, War of the Worlds, Quarantine, Fertile Ground, Fear Clinic, The Prestige, The Crazies, Zombieland, GI Joe, X-Men 3, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Susan Chang
Susan Chang is a Senior Editor at Tor Books. She acquires and edits books for the Starscape middle grade and Tor Teen young adult imprints.

Blair B. Chintella
Defense attorney practicing primarily in copyright infringement defense, specifically P2P cases involving Bittorrent.

Suzanne Church
Suzanne Church is an award winning Canadian author of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror.  Her short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld, Cicada and On Spec, and in several anthologies including Danse Macabre: Close Encounters with the Reaper and the upcoming When the Hero Comes Home 2.

KyL T Cobb
Kyle T. Cobb, Jr. serves a consulting demonologist, paranormal researcher and historian dedicated to unraveling the mysteries of the past. Known as a world traveler and religious scholar, Cobb’s specialty is placing ancient texts in context and determining the original, often lost meaning.

Pamela Cole
Pamela Cole is a costumier who graduated from Goodman Theater, Chicago, 40 years ago and continues to work with dance companies, movies, museums, and reenactors, in the greater Atlanta area,  She us head of costuming for Atlanta’s Capitol City Opera Company. She has been involved with Dragon*Con’s costume track from the beginning.

» Madison J. Cripps
Madison J. Cripps cut his puppetry teeth busking in 2006. Now a professional puppeteer and puppet builder in Asheville, NC, he combines his background in fine art, construction, environmentalism and theatre with new interests, such as circuit bending. Madison animates his unique hand carved marionettes with song, interaction, and pun.

Cysero
Cysero has been the Project Lead for Artix Entertainment's flagship game AdventureQuest Worlds, a free-to-play, Flash based MMORPG, since its release in 2008.

» Dave Daigle
Dave Daigle is the Associate Director for Communication at CDC's Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response.

Juliet Dark
Carol Goodman is the author of eight novels including The Lake of Dead Languages and The Seduction of Water, which won the 2003 Hammett Prize. Under the pseudonym Juliet Dark she is the author of The Demon Lover, which was named a top ten fantasy/sci fi book by Booklist.

Ben Davis
Dr. Ben Davis earned his degrees in Nuclear Physics and Nuclear Astrophysics from the University of Notre Dame. He taught college for several years on courses ranging from IT and mathematics to astronomy and physics. In the late nineties he took up a career in software development and industrial engineering.

L. M. Davis
L. M. Davis is an author and scholar. She is the author of two YA fantasy novels, Interlopers: A Shifters Novel and Posers: A Shifters Novel. She has a Ph. D. from Emory University and her areas of specialization include African American, Native American, and speculative literatures.

Delilah S. Dawson
Delilah S. Dawson is the author of the steampunk paranormal Blud series for Pocket, including three books, three novellas, and the upcoming Carniepunk! anthology. Her paranormal YA, Servants of the Storm, will be out with Simon Pulse in 2014.

Susan Dennard
Susan is a reader, writer, lover of animals, and eater of cookies. Her debut novel, Something Strange and Deadly, was released last year from HarperTeen. It's the first in a steampunk gothic trilogy, and the sequels (A Darkness Strange and Lovely, A Dawn Most Wicked) are also now available.

Lucienne Diver
Lucienne Diver is an agent of 20 years experience, and an author of young adult (the Vamped series from Flux, division of Llewellyn) and adult fiction (the Latter-Day Olympians series from Samhain), as well as short pieces in the anthologies Strip-Mauled, Fangs for the Mammaries (Baen) and Dear Bully (HarperTeen).

» Dr. DNA
Paul "Dr. DNA" Gregoli obtained his doctoral degree in Molecular Biology from Oklahoma University September 1st, 1994 and had spent the decade of 1995 to 2006 performing his postdoctoral research on hematopoiesis and as a research instructor on colonic crypt stem cell biology at Vanderbilt University.

Sarah Anne Downey
Sarah A. Downey is an attorney, privacy advocate, and writer at Abine, an online privacy startup in Boston. A vocal proponent of privacy rights, she serves as an Abine spokesperson and blogger and is trying to prevent an Orwellian future. She also likes video games.

Barbara A. Drescher
Barbara Dreschers is a cognitive psychologist. After a decade of teaching, she now produces educational material for the James Randi Educational Foundation and promotes scientific thinking at ICBSEverywhere.com and other blog sites.

» Drewprops
Drew has worked on dozens of feature film and television projects. He has dropped Kevin Costner, bounced a grenade off of Daniel Baldwin, been scolded by Denzel Washington, leapfrogged by Dennis Franz and once caught a cottage made entirely of cheese while crouched inches away from a bikini-clad Nikki Cox.

Tony Dumont
Tony Dumont is the Production Manager at Bob Burden Comics, the imprint for Bob Burden’s own publishing company. He is also the programmer who created Burden’s impressive website with its own online store. Dumont administers the site, all the while generating the digital versions of Burden’s work.

Claire M. Eddy
Claire Eddy is a senior editor who has worked in the publishing industry for almost thirty years and specifically with Tor Books for 28 of those years. Concentrating on science fiction and fantasy, she discovered Jacqueline Carey and other major fantasy talents.

Scott Edgington
Dr. Edgington is a Planetary Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory whose research specialties are giant planets, spectroscopy, and photochemistry. He is Cassini’s Deputy Project Scientist and Investigation Scientist for Cassini’s thermal infrared instrument. Previously, he was a Science Planning Engineer leading Saturn atmosphere planning for Cassini.

Richard Estep
Richard Estep hails from jolly old England, and has spent seventeen years investigating haunted houses on two continents. In between, he works as a paramedic and volunteer firefighter in Colorado. If a building is either burning down or haunted, he probably has an opinion...

Mike Faber
Mike Faber is the Founder, Chief Creative Officer and Host of the highly geeky ESO Network, The Earth Station One Podcast, and Accompanying Blog which celebrates our love for all things Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Comics & much, much more since April 2010.

Tim Farley
Tim Farley is a computer security analyst and Research Fellow for the James Randi Educational Foundation. He created the skeptic website What's the Harm, blogs at skeptools.com and podcasts for Skepticality and Virtual Skeptics. He has developed software for two decades and holds three patents.

Ken Feinberg
Feinberg is best known for his work as an actor on Star Trek, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Charmed and many others. He is also an award-winning director most recently having directed the new film Santa's Boot Camp. Four of his films debut at the Cannes Film Festival in France.

Susan Fichtelberg
Susan Fichtelberg is the author of Encountering Enchantment: A Guide to Speculative Fiction for Teens, published by Libraries Unlimited. In her 25 years as a children€™s librarian in NJ, Susan has presented fantasy booktalks and programs on the state and national level.

Sheyne Fleischer
Sheyne Fleischer, an entertainment professional in the Los Angeles area, is a founding member of the fashion department at Pacific Media Expo. Named one of LA Weekly's People of LA 2010, Sheyne is currently a member of The League of S.T.E.A.M.

Billy Flynn
The Wonderful Billy Flynn is a pioneer of New Media and host of the multiple Parsec Award-nominated podcast, "Geek Radio Daily." He is a renowned voice actor, starring in speculative fiction productions and audio dramas. Flynn has also hosted the Parsec Awards and emceed auctions and trivia game shows.

John Foster
John Foster is CEO and founding partner at Bianco Foster Group, LLC (BFG), a Georgia based management consulting firm focused on Information Security, Quality, Environmental, and Financial Management.

Peter H. Friedman
Peter H Friedman is the managing director of Peter H Friedman CPA a firm located in New York and San Francisco. The firms motto is "We do what others cannot do or will not do." The firm consults and specializes in Medical Marijuana, e-commerce, indirect taxation and tax litigation support.

Galanoth
Tony Deller (Galanoth) is Senior VP of Game Operations for Artix Entertainment and heads the continued development of AE games after launch. He has worked with AE since 2002, and was instrumental in the launch and growth of AE's first game, AdventureQuest, one of the world's first played Flash RPGs.

Chris Gann
Chris started his career with the development of his own charity teddy bear product line. Since then, his company Gann Memorials has transitioned into a custom toy developer. They handle everything from toy design to delivery. Lastly, Chris has even created plush costumes/costume accessories for companies, such as Nintendo.

Jaym Gates
Jaym Gates is a publicist, editor, and author. Her projects include the anthologies Rigor Amortis, Broken Time Blues, and Geek Love. She is the publicist for Paizo's Pathfinder Tales and the Nebula Awards Weekend, and Public Relations Manager for the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.

Sonia Gensler
Sonia Gensler, author of The Revenant (Knopf ’11) and The Dark Between (Knopf ’13), grew up in a small Tennessee town and spent her early adulthood collecting impractical degrees from various Midwestern universities. A former high school English teacher, she now writes full-time in Oklahoma and spends summers in England.

Dr. Bill Gibson
Dr. Bill Gibson is a Canadian scientist and physician whose team discovered the gene for Weaver syndrome in 2011. His research focuses on DNA sequencing to identify genetic mutations that cause rare diseases, including rare forms of obesity and diabetes.

Veronica Giguere
Veronica Giguere is a voice artist and coauthor of The Secret World Chronicles braided novel series published by Baen Books. She is a versatile narrator whose genres include science fiction, fantasy, steampunk, and romance.

Allan Gilbreath
Allan Gilbreath is a nationally recognized and award-winning author, publisher, speaker, and actor. In addition, Allan is an accomplished skeptic, cook, gardener, computer geek, and martial artist. He appears on television, stage, movies, radio/web/podcast, and tours the country in live appearances.

Michael Gilkey
Michael Gilkey is the Marketing and Operations Manager for the National Center for Regenerative Medicine. He earned two degrees from Case Western Reserve University, a Master's of Science in Biomedical Engineering and a Master's of Business Administration. He has a Bachelor's of Science in Biological Engineering from Louisiana State University.

David Macinnis Gill
Young adult novelist David Macin­nis Gill is the author of the award-winning novels Soul Enchilada, Black Hole Sun, Invisible Sun, & Shadow on the Sun. His short sto­ries have appeared in sev­eral mag­a­zines, includ­ing The Cres­cent Review and Writer’s Forum.

Thomas Michael Gofton
Initiating as an actor, Thomas became a producer of several initiatives in film, literature and game design working internationally on intellectual property development for television, film and the web including the children`s fantasy-action television series Mind`s Eye, the comedy-fantasy film series The Gamers and JourneyQuest web series.

Amanda Goodbread
Amanda Goodbread has been an animation production professional since 2008.

Honey Goodenough
Honey Goodenough is a New York City based puppeteer, producer, educator, clown, and magician. Puppetry credits include Phantom Limb's The Fortune Teller, Puppetworks, and The National Marionette Theater, and No Strings International. She produces Puppet Pandemic, a nationally touring showcase of puppetry works. And yes, that really is her name.

Stacey Gordon
Stacey Gordon is an improviser and puppeteer in Phoenix, Arizona, where she's been building puppets, teaching, and performing in Puppet Slams since 2001. Stacey co-directs & puppeteers for The Bob & Angus Show, a web-series produced for Mayfair Games. Her puppets have been featured in music videos, commercials, and on ABC's The View.

Donna Governor
Master teacher and recipient of several teaching awards, Dr. Governor is activity involved in the science education community at local, state and national levels. She is published in several education and research journals on topics that include engineering education, family science nights and using science songs to engage learners.

Andrew Greenberg
Andrew Greenberg, co-creator of HDI’s Fading Suns and original developer of Vampire: The Masquerade, has developed numerous traditional and digital games. His credits include Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, Emperor of the Fading Suns, Warhammer 40K: Final Liberation, Merchant Prince II, Mall Tycoon, Dungeon Crawlers and a new Tycoon game.

Clay and Susan Griffith
Susan Griffith is part of a husband and wife writing team who are the authors of the Vampire Empire trilogy (Pyr Books); The Greyfriar, The Rift Walker, and The Kingmakers. They are the authors of a forthcoming fantasy trilogy from Del Rey.

Daniel Griffith
Daniel Griffith is an independent documentary filmmaker specializing in cult cinema. Since 2008, when he founded Ballyhoo Motion Pictures, he has produced and directed over 45 bonus feature documentaries and shorts, as well as three feature-length productions. He is also the official documentarian for the Mystery Science Theater 3000 television series.

Nicole Gugliucci
Astronomer, writer, educator, skeptic, maker-of-tiny-comets, and all around geek Dr. Nicole Gugliucci has made it her mission to study and share the Universe. Known as the “NoisyAstronomer,” she earned a doctorate studying radio astronomy and now leads the informal education efforts of the citizen science project CosmoQuest.

» Gabrielle Harbowy
Gabrielle Harbowy is an award-nominated anthologist and writer, and an editor for Pyr Books.

David Harmer
David Harmer is a Disaster Preparedness and Disaster Recovery Consultant since 1993. He has advised Major corporations and government agencies on their Disaster Planning. David is the author of Disaster Survival Guide, Alley Rabbit (a disaster cookbook) and various supplements for the Aftermath! Post Apocalypse RPG system, among others.

John G. Hartness
John G. Hartness is the author of the Black Knight Chronicles urban fantasy series (Bell Bridge Books) and editor of The Big Bad: an Anthology of Evil (Kerlak Press). John has seven novels and over twenty short stories in print and is a regular contributor to the blog Magical Words.

Laura Hayden
As a kid, when Laura Hayden wasn't watching TV, she was reading. As a result, her seventeen books and short stories straddle multiple fiction genres and include vivid characters with action, suspense, and humor. A recovering military independent, she now lives in Alabama after years of moving around the US.

Laura Haywood-Cory
Laura Haywood-Cory is an editor with more than a decade of experience, who has been with Baen Books since early 2008.

Leanna Renee Hieber
Leanna is an actress, playwright and award-winning, nationally bestselling author of Historical Fantasy novels including the Strangely Beautiful, the Magic Most Foul, and upcoming Eterna Files sagas (Tor/Macmillan). A four-time Prism Award winner for genre excellence, her books are translated into several languages, selected for national book club editions.

» Kim F Holec
Kim Holec is a long-time costumer, from the Middle Ages to today's SF & Fantasy TV shows. She is the director of Timegate's costuming track. Kim has written essays on Harry Potter, Doctor Who, and Tolkien. Her favourite job was copy-editing for a now-defunct SF & fantasy publisher.

Mike Horner
Mike Horner is a professional puppeteer and puppet builder. Since 2006 he has been the Associate Artistic Director for the Paul Mesner Puppets in Kansas City, MO. Mike is the creator of the Timey Wimey Puppet Show, a puppet web series celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Doctor Who.

» John Hudgens
John Hudgens is a award-winning filmmaker, animator, and artist who has directed documentaries, several award-winning Star Wars parody films, and worked professionally on such varied licensed properties as Babylon 5, Crimson Skies, MechWarrior, and Star Wars.

Chris A Jackson
Chris Jackson’s Scimitar Seas novels won three sequential ForeWord Book of the Year Gold Medals. His novel Weapon of Flesh won the USA Book News, Best Books Award 2005 for best Fantasy/SF novel. His pending Pathfinder Tales novel, Pirate’s Honor is due out in April of 2013.

Brodrick Jones
Brodrick Jones is a writer, comedian, and puppeteer best known for Jigsaw, a web series about a robot and a mad scientist who yell a lot. This is his first Dragon*Con. Be gentle.

Catherine Lee Jones
Catherine Jones is an award-winning seamstress and owner of GSTQ Fashions. After studying theatrical costuming at Emory University, she gained professional experience by tackling drag costuming, bridalwear, leatherworking, car upholstery, and more. Catherine has translated those skills into making hundreds of costumes for customers, both nationally and internationally since 2008.

Jennifer Dawn Kalmanson
Jennifer Kalmanson is a space systems engineer who’s worked missions as varied as demonstrating on-orbit satellite refueling, repairing Hubble, and encountering asteroids. A board member of the American Humanist Association and the Institute for Humanist Studies, she also performs weddings and funerals in her role as a Humanist Celebrant.

Phillip C. Kalmanson
Phillip Kalmanson is a Spacecraft Systems Architect currently working on in-space satellite servicing with NASA. He designed satellites and payloads for a variety of missions in Science, Exploration, Communications, and Defense. Phillip has always been a fan of science fiction and uses it for inspiration in his professional life.

» Ali Khan
Ali S. Khan, MD, MPH, (former Assistant Surgeon General) is the Director of the Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (PHPR) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Jessica Khoury
Jessica Khoury writes young adult science fiction like Origin (September 2012) and Vitro (coming January 2014), published by Razorbill/Penguin.

Margaret Killjoy
Margaret Killjoy is a nomadic author, editor, and tintypist. He is the founder of SteamPunk Magazine, the author of What Lies Beneath the Clock Tower and A Steampunk’s Guide to the Apocalypse, and an editor and tintypist of A Steampunk’s Guide to Sex.

» Sifu Kisu
Sifu Kisu is the martial arts consultant for Nickelodeon’s hit TV show Avatar: the Last Airbender as well as Nickelodeon/ Dream Works new series Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness.

Deidre Knight
Deidre Knight wears many hats as an award-winning fantasy author and president of The Knight Agency, one of the top literary agencies in the Southeast. As an agent, she’s shepherded countless authors onto every major bestseller list, and is considered an industry expert on urban fantasy and paranormal fiction.

» Thomas W. Knowles

Bonnie Kunzel
Bonnie Kunzel, retired young adult librarian, is a nationally-known speaker at library, education and science fiction conferences. She presents seminars on What’s New in SF, Fantasy and the Paranormal, etc. Her professional works include Fluent in Fantasy: The Next Generation, and Strictly Science Fiction: A Guide to Reading Interests.

Eloy Lasanta
Eloy Lasanta is the "hardest working man in RPGs," having founded Third Eye Games, released a slew of games like Wu Xing: The Ninja Crusade and Part-Time Gods, and even does freelance work for others. Got a question for him? Ask away!

Aaron Lathrop
Aaron has performed his puppets all over the country, with Tears of Joy, Great Arizona Puppet Theatre, and others. He creates new works of all types with his partner Gina Leigh and is thrilled to be a part of this year's Dragon*Con.

David Anthony Lee
David is the principal artist of Hatton Cross Steampunk. As an artist and presenter, his focus is “Green Steam” (repurposing found items). His most recent creation, the “Gentleman’s Armored Battle Carriage” (a drivable steampunk tank) will accompany other fun projects including a steampunk Dalek and Séance Machine.

Gina L Leigh
Gina Leigh is a puppeteer and playwright. With her partner Aaron Lathrop, Gina has toured both coasts with puppet theatre companies. She played Alfreda The Cheetah in The Jim Henson Company's X.Tink.Shun. She has produced shows, classes, and workshops; and played in puppet slams across the country.

Rob Levy
Dr. Who columnist for anglotopia.net. Podcaster/writer for needcoffee.com. Fanzine editor, Pop culture writer for Eleven magazine. Host of Juxtaposition on KDHX. Programmer, panelist, moderator for conventions, including Dragoncon. Member of St. Louis Film Critics Association. Writer for The St. Louis Beacon & interviewer for several pop culture publications.

D.Alan Lewis
Alan is a Tennessee native and published author of a number of published short stories, two novels and currently is editing two anthologies for Kerlak Publishing.

Kelly Lockhart
Kelly Lockhart is a book editor, screenwriter, award-winning journalist, voice actor, musician, longtime television and radio broadcaster, and most well-known to Dragon*Con attendees as the host and founder of the popular Robot Battles competitions.

Talloolah Love
Talloolah Love is an internationally known performer and producer of burlesque, including Dragon*Con’s own "Glamour Geek Revue."  She is Matron of the Atlanta Burlesque and Cabaret Society, Pin Curl Magazine's February 2013 cover girl, and contributing author in The Steampunk's Guide to Sex! See more at www.talloolah.com

Erin Patricia Macdonald
Erin Macdonald, Ph.D., is a tattooed astrophysicist working at Cardiff University doing research in gravitational waves for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration. She also is a STEM Ambassador and aims to demonstrate to the public how unique physicists can be.

Mark Maddox
Mark Maddox is a Rondo Award and Pulp Factory winning artist. His covers grace Screem Magazine, HorrorHound, Little Shoppe of Horrors, Undying Monsters, Moonstone Comics, Mad Scientist Magazine, and recently done art for Warner Brothers, Alchemy Werks, EMCE Toys and more.

» Matthew Charles Malis
Matthew Malis has been a part of the Larping community for over ten years. He has been involved in many projects, including Mandate of Power, Sins in the Past, Forest of Doors, and Fractured. He has been making boffer weapons since he was 25 of all shapes, sizes, and designs.

Bruce Mangan
Bruce Mangan is a co-founder of the Darkside Syndicate, a composite of independent investigators that research the paranormal. Bruce is also a co-host of the radio show "The Darkside" with Will Aymerich. Bruce's background is in comparative religion, UFOs, paranormal activity, alternative history, and general conspiracy theory.

Anya Martin
Anya Martin is a writer/ journalist specializing in SF/F, horror and comics. "Stuffed Bunny in Doll Land," her contribution (with Spanish artist Mado Pena) to the critically acclaimed Womanthology (IDW Comics) has been called “wonderfully weird,” “a smart adventure,” and “delightfully fanciful.” Her many other projects include ATLRetro.com.

Michael Martinez
Michael Martinez is the author of Visualizing Middle-earth, Parma Endorion, and Understanding Middle-earth. He founded the Tolkien and Middle-earth fan track at Dragon*Con and served as its director for 2 years. When not disrupting the Web with his digital marketing theories Michael writes about Tolkien and Middle-earth on his blog.

Georgia McBride
Georgia McBride is a former music and internet executive, founder of #yalitchat, publisher and owner of Month9Books and Swoon Romance. She also writes speculative fiction for young adults and tweens, and packages books under Georgia McBride Books. Her first novel for teens is called Praefatio coming in May 2013.

Farah Jane Mendlesohn
Farah Mendlesohn's work includes Diana Wynne Jones and the Children's Fantastic Tradition (2005) and the acclaimed Rhetorics of Fantasy (2008). She won the Hugo in 2005 and has been nominated five times. Farah Mendlesohn is Director of Exhibits for the 2014 World Science Fiction Convention (London).

» Charles D. Moisant
Charles Has been Publishing comic books since 1991. Some of his titles have been Myth Told Tails (a licensed title). Recently he published Zombie Annihilation, Whispers from the VOID. Currently Cynthia Martin, Jasper Barks, and Charles are developing Roller Derby Drama a world where all Derby Girls have super powers.

Bobby Nash
Bobby Nash writes novels, comic books, short prose, ebooks, graphic novels, screenplays, and media tie-ins. He also does movie and TV extra work, co-hosts the Earth Station One podcast, and writes for All Pulp. Bobby is a member of the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers. www.bobbynash.com

» Matt Nitchie
Matt Nitchie is a local actor/puppeteer, and co-creator of the Bob and Carl: Sci-Fi Janitors web series.

Elizabeth Norris
Elizabeth Norris is the author of Unraveling, Undone, and Unbreakable. The series, which has been optioned by MTV, is the story of one girl's fight to save her family, her world, and the one boy she never saw coming.

Nythera
Stacia Spradlin (Nythera) is Head of Player Support for Artix Entertainment and has been with the company since 2006. AE's Player Support includes their customer support, game forums and in-game moderation teams.

Sam Ortega
For 25 years Sam has been with NASA working on everything from the space shuttle solid rocket motors to microgravity science research and is now focused on reaching out to technical communities outside of NASA for unique solutions to NASA'a technology barriers.

Ay-leen the Peacemaker
Ay-leen the Peacemaker (Diana M. Pho) is an academic scholar, activist, and publishing professional. She works in editorial for Tor Books and Tor.com. She is a well-known media expert on steampunk and science fiction. Her contributions are found in Steaming into a Victorian Future, Fashion Talks, and Steampunk Magazine.

Lars Pearson
Lars Pearson is one of the foremost experts on Doctor Who in North America, and co-author of the seminal Who guide Ahistory (now 30,000 words longer than War and Peace). As Mad Norwegian Press editor-in-chief, he oversees the company's essay collections on women and fandom (Hugo winner 2011, twice Hugo-nominated in 2013).

Phoenicia
Phoenicia has been a belly dancer since 1983 first as a troupe member, then solo performer and finally a teacher. In addition to Cabaret, Ethnic, Tribal and Fusion belly dance styles she is also a nationally certified ballroom dance instructor. 

Kalayna Price
USA Today Bestselling author Kalayna Price writes the Alex Craft Novels and the Novels of Haven. Her books, available around the world, contain the mystical elements of fantasy, a dash of romance, gritty horror, some humor, and a serving of mystery. Find out more at www.kalayna.com

Carla Rhodes
Carla Rhodes is a rock n’ roll ventriloquist and comedienne. Mentored by the legendary Shari Lewis, Carla has performed since her teens and appears regularly in New York City when not touring nationally. Most recently, she was honored to be a finalist in the 2012 Andy Kaufman Awards.

T. S. Rider
T. S. Rider started writing in the third grade. Her first story was published in the Golden Visions Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy in October 2009. Her second publication appeared in the Deadly Ink 2010 Short Story Collection. Since then she has concentrated on longer fiction and art work.

Gray Rinehart
Gray Rinehart's fiction has appeared in Analog Science Fiction & Fact, Asimov's Science Fiction, and elsewhere. In his US Air Force career, he fought rocket propellant fires, refurbished space launch facilities, "flew" satellites, and did other interesting things. He is now the "Slushmaster General" for Baen Books.

Tedd Roberts
Dr. Tedd Roberts is committed to making brain science understandable to SF/F writers and readers alike through his fiction, "Teddy's Rat Lab" blog, and nonfiction articles for Baen Books. As professional Neuroscience researcher, Tedd loves to discuss the brain science behind science fiction and fantasy.

Linda Robertson
Linda Robertson is the author of the Persephone Alcmedi series from Pocket Books. Shattered Circle, the sixth book in the series featuring witches, waerewolves, and vampires in Cleveland, Ohio, was released in early in 2013.

» Pierre Rollin
Dr. Pierre Rollin currently leads a team of epidemiologists in CDC's Office of Infectious Diseases.

Michael Rome, Esq.
Michael Rome is an entertainment lawyer for filmmakers and serves as general counsel for Afterlight Pictures, an international distribution company for Horror and Science Fiction movies. Mr. Rome has film credits as production counsel & co-producer. He is a member of the GA & FL bars and the Beverly Hills Bar Association.

Romily
Romily is an MMO gamer, software analyst, machinima director/producer, presenter, and voice actor. She has been presenting machinima at Dragon*Con annually since 2006.

Shawn M Schuster
Shawn Schuster is best known for his work as a podcaster on the "GuildCast" and "Through the Aftermath" podcasts. He currently works as the Senior Editor at Massively.com and a farmer on his organic farm.

» Victoria Schwab
25-year-old Victoria "V.E." Schwab is the acclaimed author of several books for teens, most recently The Archived, about a library of the dead. Her adult debut, Vicious, a twisted supervillain tale, hits shelves with Tor this September and is already receiving high praise.

Aron Siegel
Aron Siegel's a producer and sound mixer whose work includes Implanted, Quarantine 2, The Walking Dead, Teen Wolf, and Vampire Diaries.  Dragon*Con showcased three films he's mixed: Blood Car, The Signal, and 20 Years After.

» David Silverman
David Silverman is President of American Atheists and was the creator and Executive Producer of the 2012 Reason Rally, the largest atheist event in world history.

Shane Simek
Shane Simek has been a Deputy Sheriff in North Eastern Ohio for 13 years. He studies Special Warfare and Counter-Terrorism and will be sharing his experiences with fans as part of The Armory track.

Fr. Bryan Small
Fr. Bryan is a Catholic priest know for combining faith together with sci-fi and pop culture,

Jay Smith
Jay Smith is the creator and writer for the Parsec-Award winning audio horror series HG World and producer of several podiobook serials and interview shows available online.

John C. Snider
John C. Snider blogs and podcasts about skeptical and secular concerns at AmericanFreethought.com.

John F Sokol
John Sokol is known nationally for his hard work and dedication to the interests of various alternative lifestyles. John’s background of 15 years in law enforcement give a unique perspective about the pitfalls of living a lifestyle outside of what is usually considered average and normal.

Blake Sorensen
Blake Sorensen is a video game developer for Simutronics and a registered patent attorney with Merchant & Gould. He works with the Georgia Game Developers Association to provide legal insight and services to startups, particularly in the video game industry.

Janine K. Spendlove
Janine K. Spendlove is the bestselling author of the War of the Seasons series. She also has several short stories published in various anthologies. A KC-130J pilot in the Marine Corps, she is an avid runner and enjoys spending time with her family. Find out more at WarOfTheSeasons.com.

Ken Spivey
Ken Spivey is a professional entertainer, songwriter, and convention organizer specializing in Doctor Who and Celtic themed music and knowledge.

Roxanne Starr
Roxanne Starr is a comic book letterer and graphic designer. As a comic book letterer, she was the first to bring computerized comic book fonts to the industry. Starr is currently working with Bob Burden and programmer, Tony Dumont, on the Bob Burden Comics website and online store.

Laurie S. Sutton
Laurie S. Sutton is the author of an ongoing series of books for young readers featuring DC Superheroes Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, and Green Lantern. Other work includes writing Star Trek comics for Marvel, DC, and Malibu Comics. She is a former editor for Marvel and DC Comics.

» David Swerdlow
David Swerdlow is the Associate Director for Epidemiologic Science at CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. David received his MD from Harvard Medical School and has been with CDC for over 20 years.

Anthony Taylor
Anthony Taylor is the author of Arctic Adventure!, an original Thunderbirds™ novel, as well as The Future Was Fab: The Art of Mike Trim.

James R. Tuck
James R. Tuck was born and raised in The South. Brought up on a steady diet of country music, Jesus, and guns; he's always been a little weird. Now he writes yarns about monsters, guns, hard-eyed men, and tough as nails women. He puts the DARK in Dark Urban Fantasy.

» Dan Tuten
Dan Tuten is the Associate Director for Information Resources within the Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response. Effectively, this means he is the CIO for this group responsible for managing more than a billion dollars in US National assets for public health security.

Damien Valentine
Damien is a machinima filmmaker known for his work on The Death of Jar Jar, The Darkness Saga, and Chronicles of Humanity.

» James Vaughan
James Vaughan is CEO of Ndemic Creations and creator of the mobile game, Plague Inc providing a unique mix of high strategy and terrifying realistic simulation.

Scott Viguié
Dr. Scott Viguié holds two doctorate degrees and is an archaeologist, attorney, actor and author. He created Dr. Geek's Lab and travels the convention circuit, where he can be seen participating in Doctor Who and Stargate related panels and speaking on such topics as "The Archaeology of Stargate."

Constance G.J. Wagner
Constance G.J. Wagner, writer, poet, and Tolkien scholar, has spoken regularly on all things Middle-earth at both academic and fan-friendly events nationally and internationally since 2005. Her book The War Within: Frodo as Sacrificial Hero is scheduled for release by Oloris Publishing in 2014.

Rebecca Watson
Rebecca Watson leads a team of skeptical activists on the Skepchick Network, which includes six websites with more than 50 regular writers. She also co-hosts the weekly Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe radio show and podcast. She travels around the world delivering entertaining talks on science, atheism, feminism, and skepticism.

M. B. Weston
Award-winning author MB Weston writes YA, fantasy, paranormal, steampunk, and science fiction. Her first paranormal thriller, Unleashed, will debut Summer 2013, and her short stories have appeared in paranormal, steampunk, and science-fiction anthologies. Weston, a gifted orator, speaks to thousands at schools and conventions about the craft of writing.

Thomas Willeford
Thomas Willeford is a steampunk and fantasy artist, writer, and designer.  His main publication, Steampunk Gear, Gadgets, and Gizmos: A Maker's Guide to Creating Modern Artifacts by McGraw-Hill, which is the #1 selling Steampunk non-fiction, #2 Book on Leathercraft on Amazon, and in the Top 20 Fashion best-sellers.

Leah Wilson
Leah Wilson is editor-in-chief of BenBella Books' pop culture imprint Smart Pop, publishing titles on science fiction, fantasy, and YA books, television, film, and more. She is the editor of Hunger Games anthology The Girl Who Was on Fire, among others.

Wolven
Damien Williams makes his name exploring the various intersections of pop-culture, weird and fringe science, and practical applications of occult theory. He's currently an instructor at Kennesaw State University, a staff writer at NeedCoffee.com, and the Programing Chair for the Comics and Popular Arts Academic Conference at Dragon*Con.

» Bret Wood
Bret Wood is an independent filmmaker whose credits include Hell's Highway, Psychopathia Sexualis, and The Little Death. He has just completed the neo-gothic thriller The Unwanted.

Andrew Young
Andrew Young is a professional puppeteer, independent filmmaker, and animator from Toronto, Canada who has worked in puppetry for film, television, and theatre for over 15 years. He is the author/editor of the popular PuppetVision Blog and is currently completing a feature-length documentary about puppeteers and puppetry around the world.

Bryan Young
Bryan Young is a novelist, comics writer, filmmaker, and columnist. He's produced films for The Disinformation Company, written comics for Image Comics, and Slave Labor Graphics, written bestselling genre novels, and writes for Huffington Post, StarWars.Com, and Big Shiny Robot!

Justin Robert Young
Justin Robert Young is a podcaster, blogger and writer. He is a co-host of NSFWShow with Brian Brushwood. Their controversial book hoax The Diamond Club, a crowd sourced erotic fiction novel written by podcast fans, became a literary phenomenon in 2012.