PAUL PARK is the author of All Those Vanished Engines, A Princess of Roumania, and numerous other novels. He has published short stories in Omni Magazine, Interzone and other magazines and teaches a course in reading and writing science fiction at Williams College.
TERRY BISSON is an American science fiction and fantasy author. His books include Voyage to the Red Planet (1990), Pirates of the Universe (1996), and The Pickup Artist (2001). His 1990 short story "Bears Discover Fire" won both the Hugo and the Nebula awards, and his all-dialogue story "They're Made Out of Meat" is one of the most widely-reprinted SF stories of the last several decades.
Moderator Cliff Winnig's short fiction can be found in several anthologies, and his really short fiction has appeared in the twitterzines Outshine and Thaumatrope.