R. B. LEMBERG is a queer, bigender immigrant from Eastern Europe to the U.S. R. B.’s Birdverse novella THE FOUR PROFOUND WEAVES (Tachyon, 2020) was a finalist for the Nebula, Ignyte, Locus, and World Fantasy awards and was an Otherwise Award honoree. R. B.’s poetry memoir EVERYTHING THAWS was published by Ben Yehuda Press in 2022. Their stories and poems have appeared in LIGHTSPEED MAGAZINE’S QUEERS DESTROY SCIENCE FICTION!, BENEATH CEASELESS SKIES, WE ARE HERE: BEST QUEER SPECULATIVE FICTION 2020, SISTERS OF THE REVOLUTION: A FEMINIST SPECULATIVE FICTION ANTHOLOGY, and many other venues. You can find R. B. on Twitter at @rb_lemberg, on Patreon at http://patreon.com/rblemberg, and at their websites rblemberg.net and birdverse.net.

ADA HOFFMANN is the author of the space opera novels THE OUTSIDE and THE FALLEN, as well as dozens of speculative short stories and poems. She is an autistic self-advocate, an adjunct professor of computer science, a former semi-professional soprano, tabletop gaming enthusiast, and LARPer. She lives in eastern Ontario.

R. B. Lemberg discussing THE UNBALANCING, with Ada Hoffmann