Saladin Ahmed was born in Detroit and raised in a working-class, Arab American enclave in Dearborn, Michigan. His short stories have been nominated for the Nebula and Campbell awards, and have appeared in Year's Best Fantasy and numerous magazines, anthologies, and podcasts, as well as being translated into five foreign languages. Throne of the Crescent Moon won a Locus Award for Best First Novel and was a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, and David Gemmell Morningstar awards. Find him on Twitter at @saladinahmed. Dave Acosta is a Michigan based comic artist, best known for for his work on ELVRIA: MISTRESS OF THE DARK for Dynamite as well as DRAGON, an OGN with writer Saladin Ahmed. Their latest project together is the sci-fi horror comic, TERRORWAR, published by Image. Jay Leisten started his career in Comics as an intern at Top Cow. After 2 years in L.

A. working on titles like, Tombraider , Witchblade , Darkness & Inferno , he re-located to Florida to work at Crossgen with long time friend Greg Land on Sojourn . When Crossgen closed its doors he began working for Marvel & DC on covers for several titles. Within a few months he was working on titles like Thor , Legion , Black Panther . In the past few years Jay recently finished working on a 3 year run with Greg Land on Uncanny X-Men , 1 year on Iron Man, Monsters Unleashed , Astonishing X-Men, and more. Moon Knight with Jerome Opeñna, Nightwing with Don Kramer, Outsiders with Fernando Pasarin, Captain Britain & Dark X-Men with Leonard Kirk, Death of Wolverine , Secret Empire , Monsters Unleashed, and more with Steve Mcniven,as well as several other Marvel projects. Currently Jay is working on a Spider-Man project, Return of Wolverine , & a creator owned project. Walter Pareyera is a digital colorist known for his work with Image Comics, Lego, Playmobil, Hasbro, Zenescope, and Dynamite.