AMANDA FOUBISTER
Chairperson / Hotel Liaison
Amanda Foubister lives in North London. A former professional seminar co-ordinator, she has attended and worked on conventions since 1994, including a number of World Fantasy Conventions and FantasyCons. She was also a founding Board member of the National Science Fiction and Fantasy Society (1994-97). After two years working in Programming with Toronto's local convention, Ad Astra, she was promoted to Head of the Department, where she led a team of eight people. Through her work with Ad Astra, she worked with several different Toronto fan groups. She was Chairperson of the 2004 Ad Astra, which Patrick and Teresa Nielsen Hayden declared at the time was one of the top ten conventions they had ever attended. She was also Chairperson of the 2007 World Horror Convention in Toronto and the 2010 World Horror Convention in Brighton, which have both been widely hailed by those who were there as two of the best conventions they have ever experienced.

STEPHEN JONES
Co-Chairperson / Programming / Publications
Stephen Jones lives in North London. He is the winner of three World Fantasy Awards, three Horror Writers Association Bram Stoker Awards and three International Horror Guild Awards as well as being a twenty-time recipient of the British Fantasy Award and a Hugo Award nominee. One of Britain's most acclaimed anthology editors, he has published more than 100 books to date. He attended his first World Fantasy Convention in 1976, and has since been to 32 others. He was a permanent Board Member up until 2009. Jones co-chaired the 1988 and 1997 World Fantasy Conventions and the 2007 and 2010 World Horror Conventions. He has also chaired or co-chaired a number of British FantasyCons, and has also served on the committees of two World Science Fiction Conventions. A regular convention attendee on both sides of the Atlantic for more than thirty-five years, he was a Guest of Honour at the 2002 World Fantasy Convention in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the 2004 World Horror Convention in Phoenix, Arizona.

MICHAEL MARSHALL SMITH
Co-Chairperson / Publications
Michael Marshall Smith is a novelist and screenwriter. Under this name he has published seventy short stories and three novels—Only Forward, Spares and One of Us—winning the Philip K. Dick, International Horror Guild, August Derleth and British Fantasy Awards, as well as the Prix Morane. Writing as "Michael Marshall", he has published five internationally best-selling thrillers, including The Straw Men, The Intruders and Bad Things, and 2009 saw the publication of The Servants, under the name "M.M. Smith". His new Michael Marshall novel, The Breakers, will be launched in 2011. He lives in North London with his wife, son, and two cats. Mike's first World Fantasy Convention was in 1994, since when he has attended a number of others, as well as being a regular attendee at FantasyCon and various crime and mystery conventions in Europe and on both sides of the Atlantic. He was a Guest of Honour at the 2007 World Horror Convention in Toronto, Canada, and co-chairperson of the 2010 World Horror Convention in Brighton.  

JO FLETCHER
WFC Board Liaison
Jo Fletcher is an editor, writer, poet and journalist who has been published widely throughout the world. She attended her first World Fantasy Convention in 1979, since when she has been to most of them, for more than a decade as a permanent Board Member. She co-chaired the 1988 and 1997 World Fantasy Conventions in London, was the Poetry Guest of Honour at the 2002 World Horror Convention in Chicago, and Mistress of Ceremonies at the 2010 World Horror Convention in Brighton. She has won an International Society of Poets Award in 1996, the British Fantasy Society's inaugural Karl Edward Wagner Award in 1997, and the World Fantasy Award: Professional in 2002. In 1985 she joined the fledgling independent publishing company Headline and masterminded the launch of Headline's fantasy, SF and horror list, introducing award-winning writers like Dan Simmons, Michael Bishop, and Charles L. Grant's acclaimed horror anthology series Shadows to the UK. She left Headline in 1988 and worked for Mandarin (1988-90), then moved to Pan to run the newly revitalised genre list. She is currently Associate Publisher of Gollancz, the award-winning fantasy and science fiction imprint, now part of the Orion Publishing Group, where her authors include such giants of the field as Sir Terry Pratchett, the late Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Ursula K. Le Guin, Gene Wolfe, Neil Gaiman, Stephen Donaldson and Charlaine Harris.

MANDY SLATER
Guest of Honour Liaison / Media PR
Mandy Slater lives in North London and is a part-time short story writer and media journalist. She currently works in PR/Comms/Events in the New Media industry, and has worked for many major broadcasters and film companies in the UK. A regular convention attendee on both sides of the Atlantic since her teens, she worked on a number of annual Ad Astra and Maplecons in various capacities, including Head of Programming, Guest of Honour/Publishing liaison, and Head of Green Room. She was Guest/Media Liaison at the 1997 World Fantasy Convention in London and the Associate Chairperson/Programming/Guest of Honour Liaison for the 2007 World Horror Convention in Toronto. Mandy's first World Fantasy Convention was in 1984 in Ottawa, Canada, and she has since attended 20 others.

MARTEL SARDINA
Reading Café
Martel Sardina lives near Chicago, Illinois. She first hosted the Reading Café at the 2007 World Horror Convention in Toronto and enjoyed that experience so much that she volunteered in some capacity at the 2008 gathering in Salt Lake City, the 2010 event in Brighton, and is happy to reprise that role at the World Fantasy Convention in 2013. Martel is a Contributing Editor for the online Dark Scribe Magazine and her fiction and poetry have been published in several small press anthologies, as well as Space and Time. A regular attendee at conventions, she is a member of the Horror Writers Association, and in her spare time she loves to sell books and help authors promote their work.

ANDY RICHARDS Dealers' Room Consultant / Liaison Andy Richards has been a full-time genre bookseller for 20 years (based in Surrey), after attending—and selling at—his first World SF Convention in Boston in 1989. Since then he has been represented at most World Fantasy Conventions and World SF Conventions held in the USA (and occasionally elsewhere). He also had dealers' tables at the 1993 World Horror Convention in Stamford, Connecticut, where attendees found themselves snowed in for the weekend! For many years he sold his books through Murder One bookshop in London's Charing Cross Road but—since the store's closure in 2009—now operates his business Cold Tonnage Books over the Internet. Most recently, Andy was the Dealers' Room Consultant/Liaison for the 2010 World Horror Convention in Brighton.

JAMES BACON Dealers' Room / Hospitality & Events An Irishman living in London, James Bacon is an express train driver in real life. He reads books and comics, collects comic book artwork and writes reviews. He is also a inveterate attendee and con-runner, his most recent being Co-Chair of the 2009 Eastercon in Bradford, and the previous year he organised Zombiecon. James ran his first Dealers' Room in 1993 and hasn't looked back since. Most recently he looked after the Dealers' Room at the 2010 World Horror Convention in Brighton.

MARIE O'REGAN
Registration
Marie O'Regan is a British Fantasy Award-nominated horror author and editor who lives in Derbyshire with her husband, author Paul Kane, and children. She has had fiction published in the UK, USA, Canada, Italy and Germany, and her first collection, Mirror Mere, was published by Rainfall Books in 2006. Her genre journalism has appeared in such magazines as Dark Side, Rue Morgue, Dreamwatch and Death Ray, among others, and she is currently editing a number of anthologies, both alone and with her husband. She served in various roles on the British Fantasy Society Committee from 2001-08, including editing their publications and maintaining their website, and was Chairperson from 2004-08. Her first World Fantasy Convention was in 2009 in San José, California, at which she and Paul launched their co-edited anthology, Hellbound Hearts. Marie ran the Registration area at the 2010 World Horror Convention and, along with her husband, Chaired FantasyCon 2008. Marie and Paul are also organising the 2011 event in Brighton.

PAUL KANE
Registration / Logistics
Paul Kane's genre journalism has featured in magazines like Fangoria, SFX and Rue Morgue, and his first non-fiction book was The Hellraiser Films and Their Legacy. His short stories have appeared in many magazines and anthologies on both sides of the Atlantic and have been collected in Alone (In the Dark), Touching the Flame, FunnyBones and Peripheral Visions. His novella Signs of Life reached the shortlist of the British Fantasy Awards 2006, and his others include The Lazarus Condition and RED. His first mass-market novel was Arrowhead, a post-apocalyptic reworking of the Robin Hood myth. It was followed by the sequel, Broken Arrow. With his wife, Marie O'Regan, he edited the anthology Hellbound Hearts, which was launched at the 2009 World Fantasy Convention in San Jose. In 2008, Paul's zombie story "Dead Time" was turned into an episode of the Lionsgate/NBC TV series Fear Itself, adapted by Steve Niles (30 Days of Night) and directed by Darren Lynn Bousman (SAW II-IV). He also scripted the short film The Opportunity. He served as Hospitality/Events Liaison at the 2010 World Horror Convention, co-chaired FantasyCon in 2008 and is co-organising the 2011 event.

ALEX DAVIS Convention Logistics / Volunteers Co-ordinator Alex Davis has spent the last two years working for publisher Black Library as a desk editor, overseeing the editing and proofing of their range of books. Prior to that he worked as Literature Development Officer for Derby, organising three literature festivals, three Alt.Fiction genre events and a wide range of one-off readings and writers events. As a freelancer he has run the East Midlands' first Writing Industries Conference, as well as a number of residential and non-residential workshops around the region. He oversaw the logistics at the 2010 World Horror Convention and was in charge of the now-legendary team of hardworking volunteers, the "Red Shirts", who would return in increased numbers for the 2013 World Fantasy Convention.

GWILYM GAMES The Friends of Arthur Machen Liaison Gwilym Games has been editor of the periodical Machenalia for the Friends of Arthur Machen since 2005. He is the author of numerous articles on all aspects of Machen's life and work. Gwilym has been fascinated by Machen's beautiful prose since he was a youth and, like Machen, he was brought up in Gwent within sight of the mystic tumulus of Twm Barlwm. In 2011 he edited a limited hardback edition of Faunus which contained three long-lost stories by Arthur Machen that he rediscovered. They had not been republished anywhere since their first appearance during the Great War. He recently provided support for the Library of Wales Machen paperbacks (2010) and for the new Penguin edition of The White People and Other Weird Stories (2012). Gwilym is a Chartered Librarian, and he currently holds a post as a Local Studies Librarian at Swansea Central Library. He is also a resident DJ at the Dead of Night club in Swansea, and provides music for what may be the only regular Steampunk music hall in the UK: Coppernaught. As an aficionado of the author's works, he will be working closely with World Fantasy Convention 2013 on the Machen-themed programming and rare exhibits.

ROBERT T. GARCIA
Advertising
The first book that Robert Garcia published was the horror/fantasy anthology Tales by Moonlight edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson in 1982. He hasn't stopped working in the field since, creating the fanzine American Fantasy, which grew into a newsstand magazine in the late 1980s (winning a World Fantasy Award). He did a short stint as Senior Editor at First Comics, became the principal book designer for DreamHaven Books and, after Stephen Jones brought Bob on board for Fedogan & Bremer's Shadows Over Innsmouth, was cover designer for F&B for several years. Bob wrote two huge cover stories for Cinefantastique and edited the horror anthology Chilled to the Bone. His Garcia Publishing Services has created books, magazines and websites for a wide variety of companies (including Subterranean Press and Twilight Tales), all-in-all working on over 100 publications since Tales by Moonlight. He and his wife Nancy also own American Fantasy Press, which has published the multiple award-winning The Man on the Ceiling novella by Steve Rasnic & Melanie Tem, the best-selling A Walking Tour of the Shambles by Neil Gaiman and Gene Wolfe (now in its 3rd printing), and the hardcover signed edition of Dennis Etchison's Darkside. He has worked on the design of various World Fantasy Convention souvenir books, and previously dealt with advertising for the 2007 World Horror Convention in Toronto and the 2010 event in Brighton.

RODGER TURNER
Webmaster
Rodger Turner is a Canadian who has read a lot of science fiction and fantasy over the past forty-five years and is a permanent member of the World Fantasy Convention Board. His love of the genre led to him becoming a partner in The House of SF, an Ottawa science fiction and fantasy bookstore, from 1979 until it closed in 1997. Around the same time, he got involved in SF Site, a Hugo-nominated web site featuring reviews, interviews and columns, for which he is now Publisher/Managing Editor. In addition, he has designed and maintained a number of web sites for other people and publications, including those for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Charles de Lint and Stephen Jones, along with those for the 2007 World Horror Convention, the 2010 World Horror Convention and the 2012 World Fantasy Convention in Toronto.