Match-That-Artwork Contest

Judges

Judging Panel for General Submissions

Mary Robinette Kowal Campbell Award Winner	Mary Robinette Kowal is the winner of the 2008 Campbell Award. Her short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Cosmos and Asimov’s, and she has two novels forthcoming from Tor. Mary, a professional puppeteer and voice actor, lives in NYC with her husband Rob and nine manual typewriters. She has performed for LazyTown (CBS), the Center for Puppetry Arts, Jim Henson Pictures and founded Other Hand Productions. Her design work has garnered two UNIMA-USA Citations of Excellence, the highest award an American puppeteer can achieve.
Cat Rambo Managing Editor of Fantasy Magazine	Cat Rambo lives and writes in the Pacific Northwest. Her collection, Eyes Like Sky and Coal and Moonlight, which contains several past Clarion West Write-a-thon stories, is available at Paper Golem Press here, while her collaboration with Jeff VanderMeer, The Surgeon's Tale and Other Stories, can be found on Amazon.com. Her work has appeared in such places as Asimov's, Weird Tales, and Clarkesworld. She is the Managing Editor of Fantasy Magazine, publishing the new and rising stars of speculative fiction at www.fantasy-magazine.com. Her hair is rarely its natural color. Yes, it is her real name. You can follow her on various social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook, and Livejournal.
John Brown Author	John Brown is a prize-winning short story writer and novelist. His epic fantasy series begins with Servant of a Dark God which will be released in October 2009. He currently lives with his wife and four daughters in the hinterlands of Utah where one encounters much fresh air, many good-hearted ranchers, and an occasional wolf. Brown’s short work has appeared in Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, Best of the Rest 4, and will appear in the Year’s Best Fantasy #9. He also received a first prize in the international Writers of the Future contest under the pen name Bo Griffin.
David Walton Philip K. Dick Award Winner	David Walton is the author of the novel Terminal Mind, winner of the 2008 Philip K. Dick Award. His short fiction has appeared in Analog, Baen's Universe, Cosmos, and various other anthologies and magazines, and his short story "Letting Go" won the 2008 Baen Memorial Award. By day, he works as an engineer for a large defense corporation and enjoys playing jazz piano, inventing brain teasers, and spending time with his five small children, whose combined ages won't catch up with his for another two years yet.

Judging Panel for Rising Stars (Authors 18 years and under)

Stacy Whitman Former editor at Mirrorstone	Stacy Whitman specializes in fantasy and science fiction for children and young adults, and related genres. She holds a master’s degree in children’s literature from Simmons College and spent three years as an editor for Mirrorstone, the children’s and young adult imprint of Wizards of the Coast in Seattle. Stacy edited such favorite fantasy titles for children and young adults as the highly acclaimed YA series Hallowmere, the middle grade fantasy adventure series that debuted with Red Dragon Codex, and The New York Times best-selling picture book A Practical Guide to Monsters. Stacy provides all phases of editorial services to publishers, including developmental editing, line editing, copyediting, and proofreading. She also provides a critique service for writers and teaches occasional community seminars on writing science fiction and fantasy for children and young adults.
James Maxey Author	James Maxey is the author of the Dragon Age series of fantasy novels, Bitterwood, Dragonforge, and Dragonseed, as well as the cult classic superhero novel Nobody Gets the Girl. He's published over a dozen short stories in pro-markets such as Asimov's and Intergalactic Medicine Show, as well as numerous anthologies. He blogs regularly at jamesmaxey.blogspot.com.
Alethia Kontis Best-Selling Author	New York Times bestselling author Alethea Kontis is a princess, a goddess, a force of nature, and a mess. The sister of a jewelry designer and granddaughter of a pirate, Alethea has profited from screwing up the alphabet, organizing Sherrilyn Kenyon’s Dark-Hunter universe, sharing all her family’s deepest, darkest secrets, and making little girls cry. She lives in Tennessee, where she makes the best baklava you’ve ever tasted and sleeps with a teddy bear named Charlie.
Mike Shultz Author	Mike Shultz lives outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with his ravishingly beautiful wife and his ridiculously cute 15-month-old son. Mike's fiction has appeared in Black Gate and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, among others. His greatest accomplishments in life of late are: (1) Procreating successfully. He hopes to do it again soon. (2) Finishing his novel, Sword of Memory, 105 years ahead of schedule and getting it published in Germany before even attempting to do so in America. (3) Swallowing $17.35 in pocket change.