Guests of Phoenix Convention 7

Brian J. Showers is originally from Madison, Wisconsin. In 2001 he moved to Dublin where he has lived ever since (if you don't count those nine months in Stockholm). Brian has written short stories, articles, interviews and reviews for magazines such as All Hallows, Supernatural Tales, Ghosts & Scholars, Le Fanu Studies, Machenalia, and Rue Morgue.

Cheryl Morgan is a world renowned Science Fiction blogger; a fanzine editor; semiprozine editor, and all round great fan writer.  Cheryl’s Mewsings is her blog.  She is also responsible for Science Fiction Awards Watch and is Non-fiction Editor at Clarkesworld.

Colin Smythe was born in Berkshire in 1942, and was educated at Bradfield College near Reading and subsequently at Trinity College Dublin from which he graduated in 1963. By then he had started collecting books by W.B.Yeats and in 1966 he sold his collection to the Dublin City Library and started his publishing company, Colin Smythe Ltd, on the proceeds. He moved to Gerrards Cross (about 20 miles N.W. of London) in 1967.

David Murphy has had two novels published in the USA. Arkon Chronicles was published by Silver Lake, a small press, in 2003. Longevity City appeared from Five Star, and was well received, in 2005. The best of his award winning short fiction (almost ninety appearances in magazines and books worldwide) was collected in the 2004 collection Lost Notes from Dublin's Aeon Press. He has stories forthcoming in Doorways and Midnight Street magazines and is currently working on a new novel. David's website can be found here.

George Green was born in Ireland in 1956. He grew up in Tipperary, where he lived in a house built on an ancient burial ground. He now lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Lancaster.

George has two novels and a non-fiction book to his credit, namely: “Hound” (2003); “Hawk” (2005); and “Writing a Novel and Getting Published for dummies” (2007).

John Kenny has been co-editor of Albedo One since its inception in 1993, and a fan of science fiction since the late 70s.

Before his involvement with Albedo One, he wrote extensively for Stargate, the magazine of the Irish Science Fiction Association, and was editor of FTL, the successor to Stargate.

Juliet E McKenna was born in Lincolnshire in July 1965, but now lives in West Oxfordshire with her husband Steve and their two sons, Keith and Ian. Even from an early age her interest in folk tales and mythology was evident. Her favourite subjects at school (Parkstone Girls' Grammar School, Poole) were History, English, and Latin. This led fairly naturally to a classics degree at St Hilda's College, Oxford, where she studied Greek and Roman history and literature.

Born in the USA Maura was transplanted early to the West of Ireland where she bloomed into a reader of sf, fantasy, and horror literature after a visiting cousin left behind a copy of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. On occasion her parents voiced concerns about Maura's weird reading material, but she turned out all right in the end.

Born in Dublin in 1973, Oisín spent his childhood there and in Drogheda, County Louth. He started writing and illustrating stories in copybooks when he was about six or seven, setting himself on a path that would steer him well clear of ever obtaining of a proper job.