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Josh Malerman is the New York TImes\u00a0<\/i>best selling author\u00a0of\u00a0Bird Box\u00a0<\/i>and\u00a0Goblin.\u00a0<\/i>He’s also one of two singer\/songwriters for the rock band The High Strung, whose song “The Luck You Got” can be heard as the theme song for the\u00a0Showtime\u00a0<\/i>show “Shameless.” He lives in Michigan with his fiancee, the artist\/musician Allison Laakko.<\/div>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”16322″ img_size=”450×600″ add_caption=”yes” title=”Naomi Kritzer”][vc_column_text]Naomi Kritzer has been writing science fiction and fantasy for over twenty years, and has won the Hugo Award, Lodestar Award, Edgar Award, and Minnesota Book Award. Her newest book is Chaos on CatNet. She lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, with her spouse, two kids (when the college kid is home from college) and three cats. The number of cats is subject to change without notice.[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”16329″ img_size=”450×600″ add_caption=”yes” title=”John Wiswell”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

John Wiswell is a disabled writer who lives where New York keeps all its trees. He is a Nebula winner, and a World Fantasy and Hugo finalist for his short fiction. His work has appeared in venues including Uncanny Magazine, Diabolical Plots, and Nature Futures. His debut novelette, “That Story Isn’t The Story,” will appear in the November\/December issue of Uncanny Magazine.<\/div>\n

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PhD Andrijana Rabrenovi\u0107,<\/strong> journalist, director of the Local Public Broadcaster Radio Bijelo Polje<\/em>, from Bijelo Polje, Montenegro
\nPresident of the Academy of Social Sciences (NGO).One of founders and organizers of Regional Festival of Fantasy Literature REFESTICON<\/em> \u2013 the first and the only Fantasy Festival in Montenegro.
\nCoordinator of the Education programme and Youth programme at Refesticon.
\nEditor of radio series about Fantasy literature, movie and music.
\nEditor in Chief of web portal <\/u> for SF, Epic fantasy, movie, comics.<\/div>\n

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MSc Dragi\u0107 Rabrenovi\u0107 <\/strong>is a journalist and writer, assistant director of the Ratkovic\u2019s nights of poetry<\/em> (Public institution).
\nOne of founders and organizers of Regional Festival of Fantasy Literature REFESTICON<\/em>.
\nCoordinator of the festival\u2019s Literature and art programme and representative at Balkan network of festivals<\/em> and on EUROCON<\/em> (The European SF Convention).
\nEditor in Chief of the regional Books of short stories collection<\/em> (SF, epic fantasy, horror).
\nMore than twenty of\u00a0 his short stories are published in anthologies and collections published at festivals in Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia and Montenegro.<\/div>\n

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