Lauren Davis lives in Boston. As with most things in life, she blames her love of science fiction on her mother, who spent a good portion of her pregnancy watching late-night Star Trek reruns. Lauren majored in biomedical ethics at Brown (where she wrote her senior thesis on religion and human cloning), but summarily slipped and fell into law school. Since reemerging, she has been working various feudal positions in online media and running a small writing site.

Andrew Hudson studies politics and writing at Fordham University in New York City, on his way to becoming a journalist. He reads a lot of comic books, plays too many video games, and wiles away the hours as a sort of Internet dandy. He has a black belt in karate and always, always sweeps the leg.

Ed Grabianowski will be a contributor covering science and and games. He's a freelance writer (and occasional drummer, guitarist and singer) from Buffalo, NY. He's been a contributing writer for www.howstuffworks.com for the last five years. Ed is a fan of Blade Runner, Jack McDevitt, Nikola Tesla, and all things post-apocalyptic. In fact, he is one of the few people who will publicly admit to liking Kevin Costner's The Postman. Photograph of Ed by Michael Calanan.

Michael Reilly will be joining us as a contributor too, covering science. He's also a contributing writer at New Scientist, and has written for Wired. Michael used to study volcanoes as a geochemistry researcher, but obviously he's moved on to more exciting things than giant explosions erupting from the depths of the Earth. He's responsible for inventing the well-known slogan, "Death rays don't kill people . . . people kill people."


Ann & Jeff VanderMeer will be writing a column for io9 about SF/fantastic art. Ann is an editor at the venerable Weird Tales magazine, and with Jeff she also co-edited the anthologies The New Weird and the forthcoming Steampunk. Jeff is the author of several books, including City of Saints and Madmen, The Situation, and Shriek: An Afterword. Photo of Jeff and Ann by Bogdan Hrib.

Terry Johnson will also be writing a column for io9, which is basically about everything you've always wanted to ask a biology researcher but were afraid was too weird. Therefore it should not be surprising that Terry is a biology researcher who is willing to answer strange questions. He teaches at UC Berkeley, and is the co-author of a forthcoming book about the future of bioengineering from Bantam-Dell.

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