Steve Miller (born July 31, 1950 in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.) is the grandson of poet and WBAL radio personality Dorothea Neale. He graduated from Reisterstown, Maryland‘s Franklin Senior High School in 1968 after learning how to make chapbooks as editor of the school’s literary magazine, Junto.

Jacek Dukaj (born July 30, 1974 in Tarnów, Poland) is a Polish Science Fiction writer. Winner of the Janusz A. Zajdel Award (2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2010), Śląkfa (2007), Żuławski Award (2008, 2010, 2011), Kościelski Award (2008) and the European Union Prize for Literature (2009).

Reginald Bretnor (born Alfred Reginald Kahn; July 30, 1911, Vladivostok, Russia July 22, 1992, Medford, Oregon) was a Science Fiction author who flourished between the 1950s and 1980s. Most of his fiction was in short story form, and usually featured a whimsical story line or ironic plot twist. He also wrote on military theory and public affairs, and edited some of the earliest books to consider SF from a literary theory and criticism perspective. It has been alleged that he was an early associate of Anton Szandor LaVey in the days before the founding of the Church of Satan, and that Bretnor and other science fiction authors were members of LaVey’s “Order of the Trapezoid” in the early 1950s.

Sydney J. van Scyoc (born July 27, 1939) is an American science fiction writer. Her first published story was “Shatter the Wall” in Galaxy in 1962. She continued to write short stories throughout the 1960s and in 1971, published her first novel, Saltflower. Other novels followed until 1992, when she abandoned writing to make and sell jewelry. Retired now, she gardens and has begun to write Science Fiction again.

John William Steakley, Jr. (born July 26, 1951, in Cleburne, Texas, died November 27, 2010, in McKinney, Texas) was an American author, best known for his science fiction writing. He published two major novels, Armor (1984) and Vampire$ (1990); the latter was the basis for John Carpenter‘s Vampires movie. He published four short science fiction and fantasy stories.

Michael John Harrison (born 26 July 1945), known primarily by his pen name M. John Harrison, is an English author and critic. His work includes the Viriconium sequence of novels and short stories, (1982), Climbers (1989), and the Kefahuchi Tract series which begins with Light (2002). He is widely considered one of the leading stylists in modern fantasy and science fiction. He currently resides in London.

John Dann MacDonald (July 24, 1916 December 28, 1986) was an American crime and suspense novelist and short story writer.

Gardner Raymond Dozois (born July 23, 1947) is an American science fiction author and editor. He was editor of Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine from 1984 to 2004. He has won multiple Hugo and Nebula awards, both as an editor and a writer of short fiction.

Kathy Tyers (born July 21, 1952) is an American author and musician currently living in Bozeman, Montana.

Donald Moffitt (born July 20, 1931 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA) is an author of a number of Science Fiction novels. Most famous among these are The Genesis Quest and Second Genesis.