ABOUT THE AUTHORS BRENDA COOPER is a writer, a technology professional, and a futurist. Brenda writes science fiction, fantasy, poetry, and non-fiction. Two of her novels, The Silver Ship and the Sea and Edge of Dark, have won the Endeavour Award for the best science fiction or fantasy book written by a Pacific Northwest author. Wilders was also short-listed for the P.K. Dick award. Many of her short stories have been reprinted multiple times and some have appeared in various Year’s Best anthologies. Brenda’s most recent novels include a climate fiction duology set in the Pacific Northwest (Wilders and Keepers) and the tenth-anniversary re-drafted release of her Fremont’s Children series of books which started with The Silver Ship and the Sea, including the brand new fourth and final installment, The Making War. Her YA novel, Mayan December, is an exciting adventure through the past and the present, with an 11-yr old, a savvy scientist, a handsome dreadlocked time-traveler, an ancient shaman, a noble Mayan couple, and a computer nerd, in a search for the meaning of life and a way to save two worlds. Brenda is the Director of IT for a premier Pacific Northwest builder. Her love of technology, science, and science fiction combines to drive her interest in the future, and she delivers keynote addresses about the future a few times a year. She is particularly interested in robotics, climate change, and the social change that must go hand in hand with fixing the human relationship to the natural world. Brenda lives in Washington State with her wife, Toni, and their multiple border collies, some of whom actually get to herd sheep. She loves to exercise, garden, read, and talk with friends. Learn more at https://brenda-cooper.com/ EVETTE DAVIS is the author of The Others and The Gift, the first two installments of The Council Trilogy, published by Spark Press. The third and final book in the trilogy, The Campaign, will be released in September 2025. She is also the author of 48 States, which Kirkus named one of the Best Indie Books of 2022. The book was also a quarter-finalist for the BookLife Prize 2023 and longlisted in the 2023 Indie Book Awards. Davis is a member of the Board of Directors for Litquake, San Francisco’s annual literary festival. She’s been twice honored by the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library as a Library Laureate. Her work has also been published in the San Francisco Chronicle and Writer’s Digest. When she’s not writing novels, Davis advises some of the country’s largest corporations, nonprofits, and institutions as a consultant and co-owner of BergDavis Public Affairs, an award-winning San Francisco-based consulting firm. Davis splits her time between San Francisco and Sun Valley, Idaho. Learn more at https://evettedavis.com/ SHERI T. JOSEPH went to UC Berkeley, received a JD from UC Law San Francisco, and studied economics, geography, and creative writing. She is passionate about the need for housing and serves as executive director of a nonprofit corporation that supports creation of affordable housing for families, veterans, refugees, and vulnerable populations. She’s also a trustee for Homeward Bound, a provider of homeless services and housing. Sheri and her husband have three adventurous children and live in Marin, California. Edge of the Known World is her debut novel. Edge of the Known World is a literary thriller and love story about a brilliant young refugee in a realistic near-future when genetic screening tests like 23AndMe make it impossible to hide a secret identity. It was a USA Today Booklist Bestseller, and won the Gold Medal for Best New Voice in Fiction at the 2025 Independent Book Publishers Association Awards. It was also the 2024 American Fiction Awards Winner in Best New Fiction, Political Thriller, and General Science Fiction; and won First Place in the Chanticleer International Book Awards for Global Thriller. Learn more at https://www.authorsheritjoseph.com/