Ian McDonald
Ian McDonald was born in 1960 in Manchester and moved to Northern Ireland in 1965. At present, he lives in Belfast with his wife, Patricia. His debut was the short story, The Island of the Dead, in the British magazine, Extro. His work has won the Philip K. Dick Award for best original SF paperback, the Locus poll for best first novel and several nominations for the Arthur C. Clarke Award. For any of his work that you may have missed, SF Site has done a reading list.

Vonda N. McIntyre
Vonda N. McIntyre's short story, "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand" (Fireflood & Other Stories) won a Nebula Award when she was only in her twenties. The story was the basis for her novel, Dreamsnake, which went on to capture another Nebula as well as a Hugo award. She has written Star Wars: The Crystal Star which continues the adventures of George Lucas' Star Wars characters Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa, Han Solo, and Chewbacca. Her Starfarers Series is a quartet of novels telling the tale of an alien contact specialist, J.C. Sauvage, and her colleagues in rebellion aboard the starship Starfarer.

Dennis L. McKiernan
Dennis L. McKiernan was born in 1932 in Moberly Missouri. He lived there until age eighteen when he joined the U.S. Air Force, serving four years during the Korean War. He received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Missouri in 1958 and, similarly, an M.S. from Duke University in 1964. Employed at a R&D laboratory, he lives with his family in Westerville, Ohio. He began writing novels in 1977 while recuperating from a car accident. His novels include the trilogy of The Iron Tower, the duology of The Silver Call, and Dragondoom.