Lee Murray is a four-time winner of the Sir Julius Vogel Award for science fiction and fantasy writing. The author of three novels, Lee has also co-edited five collected works. Jan Goldie's novel Brave's Journey was a finalist in the 2014 Tom Fitzgibbon Award, and her short story was Love Hurts was shortlisted for this year's Sir Julius Vogel Award. Piper Mejia's first published story Lockdown in Baby Teeth: Bite-sized Tales of Terror (PRP) made the shortlist of the 2014 Sir Julius Vogel Awards. A high school English teacher, Piper is the president of Tauranga Writers, New Zealand's longest-running writers' group, and the co-editor of four collections of children's writing. Celine Murray, Conclave's youngest contributor, was first published at age 7. The author of a collection of prize-winning short stories, Peach and Araxi is her longest work to date.