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Attending Professionals

Steven R. Southard - In a prior millennium, Steven R. Southard grew up in Iowa. Now he lives far away and writes science fiction. He’s the author of The Seastead Chronicles, tales of people moving to, and living on, the ocean. His short stories have appeared in over a dozen anthologies, most recently including Spring Into Scifi (2025), The Science Fiction Tarot, and Not Far from Roswell. He co-edited the anthologies Extraordinary Visions: Stories Inspired by Jules Verne and 20,000 Leagues Remembered. Visit Steve’s website at stevenrsouthard.com, where he’s known as Poseidon’s Scribe.

Cheshire Moon is the fanciful collaboration of trickster bard Lizzie Crowe and crazed magician Eric Coleman. What began as a simple joining of two talents in song circles, and occasionally during the mad-hatter antics of Eric Coleman on stage, whipped and frothed into the most likely of pairs. Eric’s love of punk, folk and prog rock gives them an eerie, otherworldly sound, while Lizzie brings the voice of that otherworld to life in voice and verse. Together they weave song and story, breathing new life into old myths, new faces onto old gods, and finally telling the princess's side of the faerie tale.