Matt Dinniman is a writer and artist from Gig Harbor, Washington. He is the author of the NYT bestselling Dungeon Crawler Carl series along with several other books about the end of the world. He doesn’t really hate Cocker Spaniels, and he plays bass in one band. You can thank Matt for the cosplayers in heart boxers and leather jackets. (And you should.)

Martha Wells has been a writer since 1993, and her work includes The Books of the Raksura series, the Ile-Rien series, The Murderbot Diaries series, and other fantasy novels, most recently Witch King. She has also written tie-in fiction for Star Wars, Stargate, and Magic: the Gathering, as well as short fiction, YA novels, and non-fiction. She is a member of the Texas Literary Hall of Fame, and her books have been published in thirty languages.

Tran Nguyen's paintings are created with a soft, delicate quality using colored pencil and acrylic on paper. She’s most known for her paintings of whimsical women and their melancholic landscapes, which often possess an air of fantasy and surrealism. She creates illustrations for published media such as magazines, books, wine & beer packaging, animation, advertising, and mural work. Her art was featured on the TOR edition of Yumi and the Nightmare Painter and she is the artist behind The Fires of December.