Richard Bartrop
illustrations for fiction on Reality Skimming blog
bartrop.purrsia.com
I was born in British Columbia in 1958 and I currently live in Calgary. My work has appeared in the SF magazine ON SPEC, and I’m currently doing art chores on Lynda Williams’ Reality Skimming Blog http://okalrel.org/reality-skimming/.
Other projects can be seen at my website http://bartrop.purrsia.com
GMB Chomichuk
Raygun Gothic, Alchemical Press
www.alchemicalpress.com
GMB Chomichuk is a Canadian writer, teacher, mixed media artist, graphic novelist and proud Winnipegger. He won the Manitoba Young Writers Award when he was 15. He won the Manitoba Book Award for Best Illustrated Book in 2011 for his graphic novel serial The Imagination Manifesto. He is the founder of Alchemical Press and is always on the lookout for literary oddities. He puts words and pictures together. Some people call that alchemy. He calls that comics. You can follow him on twitter @gmbchomichuk and see some of his work in progress at www.comicalchemy.blogspot.com. www.alchemicalpress.com http://www.nerdsraging.com/news/gmb-chomichuk/ Join the fight. Make comics.
Costi Gurgu
for cover art for cover art for Inner Diverse, (Starfire World Syndicate).
illustrationcostigurgu.wordpress.com
Costi Gurgu is an art director, illustrator and writer living in Toronto with his wife. He worked as the art director of Playboy Magazine, the French fashion magazine—Madame Figaro, and the women life-style magazine—Tabu. Costi was also the art director and illustrator of ProLogos Imprint, where he designed their visual identity and illustrated some of the book covers.
As an author, Costi has published three books and over fifty short stories in Romania, Poland, Hungary, Denmark, England and North America. He has won twenty-four awards for his fiction. His latest sales include the Danish anthology “Creatures of Glass and Light”, the DAW Books anthology “Ages of Wonder”, and the Wildside Press anthology “The Third Science Fiction Megapack”.
He is a SFWA member.
Michelle Milburn
cover art for Gathering Storm and Healer’s Sword, (EDGE)
Erik Mohr
for cover art for ChiZine Publications
erikmohr.com
Erik Mohr enjoys playing Lego with his kids on sunny Sunday mornings, goes for long runs, loves camping and canoeing, purposely gets lost in design bookstores and art galleries, enjoys challenges such as baking cookies in toaster ovens and building complicated folded and glued paper toys.