Nisi Shawl is the author of Filter House, which won the James Tiptree Jr. Award and was nominated for the World Fantasy Award, and, with Cynthia Ward, the co-author of the celebrated Writing the Other: A Practical Approach. She reviews science fiction for the Seattle Times, teaches writing workshops at Centrum in Port Townsend, WA., and is the reviews editor of The Cascadia Subduction Zone. Rebecca J. Holden earned her B.S. in communication studies from Northwestern University and her Ph.D. in English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her doctoral research focused on feminist theory, utopias, and science fiction. She teaches professional writing at the University of Maryland, College Park.