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Isabel Ibañez was born in Boca Raton, Florida, and is the proud daughter of two Bolivian immigrants. A true word nerd, she received her degree in creative writing and has been a Pitch Wars mentor for three years. Isabel is an avid movie goer and loves hosting family and friends around the dinner table. She currently lives in Winter Park, Florida, with her husband, their adorable dog, and a serious collection of books.

Eva Ibbotson (born 1925) is an Austrian-born British novelist. She is known for her award-winning children's books and for her romance novels, which have been marketed to both a young adult and adult readership.

Maiya Ibrahim is the debut author of SPICE ROAD, publishing January 24, 2023 from Delacorte Press and Hodder & Stoughton/Hachette.

She graduated with a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Technology Sydney. When she isn’t writing, reading, or spending time with her family, she enjoys video games, gardening, and expanding her collection of rare trading cards. She lives in Sydney, Australia.

Jordan Ifueko is a Nigerian American writer who grew up eating fried plantains while reading comic books under a blanket fort. She now lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their collection of Black Panther Funko Pops. Raybearer is her debut novel.

A pseudonym of Conn Iggulden.

Darien is the author's first epic fantasy novel.

Mike Ignatov lives in a small, southernmost city in Russia. He is the author of several series in the fantasy, gamelit, and cultivation genres.

"The Path" series was started two years ago. Since then, it has become one of the most popular series in the Russian wuxia genre. It currently counts five books, and the story is just beginning.

Natsuki Ikezawa (born 1945) was born in Hokkaido. As a young man, he quit school at Saitama University to become a poet. He lived in Greece for three years in the mid-1970s. Presently, he writes both fiction and criticism, and is an active public speaker. Of Ikezawa’s works, Still Lives and A Burden of Flowers are available in English, and the Jun’ichiro Prize winning The Navidad Incident: The Downfall of Matías Guili has been translated into German.

Born and raised in Slough, Mark Iles began studying the martial arts when he was 14 and joined the Royal Navy at the age of 17. A voracious reader he used to devour up to three paperbacks a day – primarily science fiction, fantasy, and horror – by the likes of John Wyndham, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clark, Ray Bradbury, Brian Lumley, Frank Herbert, Stephen King, and a plethora of others. After The Falklands War Mark was drafted to Hong Kong, where he began writing features, for a variety of martial arts magazines, and short stories for a wide range of markets.

Etan Ilfeld is the author of Beyond Contemporary Art and holds a physics degree from Stanford University. He is a US chess master and the inventor of Diving Chess where each player can think for as long as they can hold their breath. Ilfeld is the founder of Tenderpixel gallery, Tenderbooks, Repeater Books, and the managing director of Watkins Books and the Mind Sports Olympiad.

Glyn Iliffe studied English and Classics at university where he developed a passion for the ancient stories of Greek history and mythology. Well-travelled, Glyn has visited nearly 40 countries, trekked in the Himalayas, spent six weeks hitchhiking across North America, and had his collar bone broken by a bull in Pampolna. He is married with two daughters and lives in Market Harborough.

D. M. Imbordino resides in Ohio with her husband and children. She is currently attending college, majoring in applied science.

Jessica Barksdale Inclán is the author of twelve traditionally published novels, including the best-selling Her Daughter's Eyes, The Matter of Grace, and When You Believe. She has also published ebooks and a women's studies textbook, Diverse Voices of Women. Her work had been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, and Czech.

Dean Charles Ing (1931 - 2020) was an American author, who usually wrote in the science fiction and techno-thriller genres. His novel The Ransom of Black Stealth One (1989) was a New York Times bestseller. He was a former member of the Citizens' Advisory Council on National Space Policy. He wrote more than 30 novels, and co-authored novels with his friends Jerry Pournelle, S. M. Stirling, and Leik Myrabo.

Martin was born on April 7, 1980, the son of Dean and Diana Ingham of Robbinston, Maine. Much of his life has been spent in that rural town, and it is there that he lives today, with his wife and 3 children.

Though he has been many things in his life, Martin is first and foremost a writer, and it is his life's ambition to become a commercially successful author in his selected field of speculative fiction. He works as an independent contractor (specializing in Stonemasonry) to make ends meet while waiting to be discovered.

Lucy Inglis is a historian of the eighteenth century and curator of the award-winning Georgian London blog. City of Halves is her first book for young adults. She lives in the shadow of St. Paul's Cathedral in London with her husband and their Border terrier.

Born in East London, Daniel now lives in Knaresborough, Yorkshire, in a house built of stones from the town’s ruined castle.

"I love the mystery of this little town," Daniel says. "As I walk its ancient marketplace, passing leaning shops and jumbled pubs, it feels as if my characters might leap out from every corner!"

Charles Ingrid is a pseudonym of Rhondi A. Vilott Salsitz.

Simon Ings (born 1965) is a British novelist and science fiction writer. He is the author of numerous short stories and four novels. He lives in London with his wife and daughter.

Colin Insole lives in Lymington, on the edge of the New Forest in England. He has contributed to a number of anthologies, including tribute volumes to Bruno Schulz, William Blake and Emil Cioran. His novella ‘Bluebells I’ll Gather’ was recently published in ‘Darkly Haunting’ by Sarob Press. Colin’s first collection of stories, Elegies and Requiems, was published by Side Real Press (Newcastle upon Tyne) in 2013.

Larissa Ione writes romance and paranormal romance books.

Larissa Ione writes paranormal romance with Stephanie Tyler under the joint pseudonym of Sydney Croft.

David Neil Ireland (born 1927) is an Australian novelist. David Ireland was born in Lakemba in New South Wales.

Before taking up full-time writing in 1973 he undertook the classic writer's apprenticeship by working in a variety of jobs ranging from greenkeeper to an extended period in an oil refinery.

Justina Ireland is the author of the teen novels Vengeance Bound and Promise of Shadows. She is also a powerful advocate for representation and inclusion for marginalized voices and can be found speaking on such topics at conferences and festivals around the country. She enjoys dark chocolate and dark humor and is not too proud to admit that she’s still afraid of the dark. She lives with her husband, kid, and dog in Pennsylvania.

M. D. Ireman was diagnosed as 'left-brained' early in life due to a troublesome affliction: an affinity for math and science. The stigma of his condition followed him from primary school into college, where he earned a scholarship to the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science. Against the pleas of his doctors, however, he gave up his scholarship to pursue a different calling.

Alex Irvine is a pseudonym of Alexander C. Irvine.

Alexander C. Irvine is an American fantasy and science fiction author. He also writes under the pseudonym of Alex Irvine.

Ian Irvine is an Australian marine scientist and fantasy author. He has also written futuristic eco-thrillers.

Washington Irving (1783-1859) was an American author, essayist, biographer and historian of the early 19th century. He began his literary career at the age of nineteen by writing newspaper articles under the pseudonym, "Jonathan Oldstyle."

Richard Isanove is a French artist and painter working in the American comic books industry.

Tom Isbell is an actor-author-professor and graduate of the Yale School of Drama. He spent his professional career acting in theater, film, and TV, working opposite Robert DeNiro, Ed Harris, Helen Hunt, Lynn Redgrave, Anne Bancroft, Sarah Jessica Parker, John Turturro, and others. Currently a professor of theater at the University of Minnesota, he has taken two productions to the Kennedy Center as part of the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. He adapted the Newbery Honor-winning book The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg for the stage, produced by the Theatre for Young Audiences at the Kennedy Center in 2012. His original stage plays include Teddy Roosevelt and the Treasure of Ursa Major, which was adapted into a book with then-First Lady Laura Bush penning the foreword. In 2007 he was honored to receive the Kennedy Center Gold Medallion. Tom and his wife live in Duluth, Minnesota.

Kazuo Ishiguro OBE (born 1954) is a Japanese-English novelist. He was born in Nagasaki, Japan, and his family moved to England in 1960. Ishiguro obtained his Bachelor's degree from University of Kent in 1978 and his Master's from the University of East Anglia's creative writing course in 1980. He became a British citizen in 1982.

Justin Isis is a young and brilliant writer who has already garnered praise and admiration from such legendary figures as Thomas Ligotti and Jeremy Reed. The plot of one of his stories (‘Some Notes on the Artwork of Chris Wilhelm’) will serve as the inspiration behind a feature-length film currently being developed by award-winning Malaysian filmmaker Edmund Yeo with the aid of the Torino Film Lab.

James Islington was born and raised in southern Victoria, Australia. An avid fantasy reader for many years, it was only when he read Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn series that he was finally inspired to write something of his own. He now lives with his wife and two children on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria.

Risto Isomäki (1961) is a Finnish environmental activist and author of science fiction and nonfiction books. His 2005 novel Sarasvatin hiekkaa was nominated for the Finlandia Prize in 2005 and won the Tähtivaeltaja award in 2006. 

Emmi Itäranta was born in Tampere, Finland, where she also grew up. She holds an MA in Drama from the University of Tampere and an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Kent, UK, where she began writing her debut novel Teemestarin kirja (literal translation: The Tea Master's Book) under the title Memory of Water. Itäranta wrote the full text in both Finnish and English, and an excerpt of the novel appeared in the Canterbury Laureate Anthology On the Line in 2010. In 2011, Teemestarin kirja won the Sci-fi and Fantasy Literary Contest organised by the Finnish publishing house Teos. Itäranta's professional background includes stints as a columnist, theatre critic, dramaturge, scriptwriter and press officer. She lives in Canterbury, UK, and divides her time between a day job at the University of Kent and writing.

Keikaku (Project) Itoh was born in Tokyo in 1974. He graduated from Musashino Art University. In 2007, he debuted with Gyakusatsu Kikan (Genocidal Organ) and took first prize in the Best SF of 2007 in SF Magazine. His novel Harmony won both the Seiun and Japan SF awards, and its English-language edition won the Philip K. Dick Award Special Citation. He is also the author of Metal Gear Solid: Guns of the Patriots, a Japanese-language novel based on the popular video game series. All three of his novels are available in English from Haikasoru. After a long battle with cancer, Itoh passed away in March 2009.

Eric Iverson is a pseudonym of Harry Turtledove.

Eowyn Ivey (born 1973) was raised in Alaska Her mother named her after a character from J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. She received her BA in journalism and minor in creative writing through the honors program at Western Washington University, studied creative nonfiction at the University of Alaska Anchorage graduate program, and worked for nearly 10 years as an award-winning reporter at the Frontiersman newspaper. Ivey lives in Alaska with her husband and two daughters. She works at the independent bookstore Fireside Books where she plays matchmaker between readers and books. Snow Child is her first novel.

IT professional Larry Ivkovich is the author of several science fiction, fantasy and horror short stories and novellas, published online and in various print publications and anthologies including M-Brane SF, Afterburn SF, Penumbra Magazine, Twisted Cat Tales, Abaculus III, Raw Terror, Triangulations and Aoife's Kiss Shelter of Daylight. He has also been a finalist in the L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future contest and was the 2010 recipient of the CZP/Rannu Fund Award for fiction. His fantasy adventure novella, Reunion at Olan, will be published in 2012 by Wolfsinger Publications. Larry is a member of two local writing/critique groups, the Pittsburgh Southwrites and the Pittsburgh Worldrights and lives in Coraopolis, PA with his wife Martha and cats Trixie and Milo.

Alexandra Ivy graduated from Truman University with a degree in theatre before deciding she preferred to bring her characters to life on paper rather than stage. She started her career writing traditional regencies before moving into the world of paranormal with her USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and New York Times bestselling series The Guardians of Eternity. Now she writes a wide variety of genres that include paranormal, erotica, and romantic suspense. 

Alyssa Rose Ivy is the bestselling author of more than forty novels with over one million books sold worldwide. She loves to weave stories with romance and humor, and she is best known for writing about college boys with wings. After surviving law school and earning her masters in library science, she turned back to her creative side and decided to write. Although raised in the New York area, she fell in love with the South after moving to New Orleans for college. She lives in Alabama with her two children, and she can usually be found with a cup of coffee in her hand.

Jon Izzard writes about the paranormal and legends. He lives in the United Kingdom.