Eleanor Bardilac was born in Vienna in 1994, where she still lives with her sweetheart and their two children, er, cats. After completing two Bachelor’s degrees in German and Comparative Literature, she is currently working more or less successfully on her ÄdL Master’s thesis on Bunte Rittern.

Under her real name, she has published several short essays, short stories and poems in anthologies.

When she’s not writing, she’s reducing her pile of unread books, playing and running role-playing games such as Angels, Dungeons & Dragons and Vampire: The Masquerade and diligently learning far too many languages.

Stefan Cernohuby, born in Vienna in 1982, studied electronics and is now back in his home country after several years abroad. He has been writing short and long stories in various genres for many years. In addition to his literary activities, he has worked and continues to work for various media as (chief) editor. Many of his short stories and poems have been published in various works. He has published several science fiction magazine novels and has also edited ten anthologies, several of which have been nominated for the German Fantasy Prize. Most recently, the science fiction novel “The Ghosts of the Past” was published in the series “The Ninth Expansion”.
Stefan Cernohuby has been the 2nd CEO of PAN since May 2019.

Axel Aldenhoven, born on September 16, 1969 in Wittmund (East Frisia), has had a remarkable life full of creativity and passion for literature. His childhood in Faßberg (Celle district) and his later years in Forsbach in the Rheinisch Bergisch district laid the foundation for his diverse interests and talents. Axel now lives in Cologne-Höhenhaus, a city that he greatly appreciates for its diversity and vibrancy.

As a business IT specialist, he most recently worked as a product owner for CRM systems. An unexpected turn of events due to a protective shield insolvency led to a hard cut in his career, but instead of being discouraged, Axel found a new calling: writing.

In 2012, she completed her school education with a high school diploma (Abitur) from the HAK postgraduate course with a focus on “International Business and Marketing”. She has been studying German Philology (German Studies) at the University of Vienna since 2015, graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 2019 and is now in the Master’s program.

She mainly writes books and contributes to various anthologies with short stories. She has also been regularly editing for clients and publishers for several years and has been writing novels for other genres under a pseudonym since 2016.

The first book was published in 2008, followed by further publications (novels, short stories) by several publishers over the remaining years.

Michael Hirtzy, born in Graz in 1976, completed an apprenticeship as a bookseller before embarking on an expedition into the colorful world of work. Professional soldier, advertising wedge, publishing representative and IT consultant were some of the stations. He founded a metal concert agency which he managed for 5 years. Today he earns money as a sales manager. A WU study motivated him to deal with realistic topics again. So he writes science fiction, fantasy and horror stories. He lives in Vienna with his wife and two cats.

Daisy Swan lives in the northern swamp of Vienna and writes from there about, as she sums up her books, “blood, sex and heavy metal.” In fact, one of these
elements appears in every one of her books. Sometimes coming of age, sometimes home novel, sometimes love story, but always with humor and eroticism.

C.A. Federschrieb studied media education and worked as a primary school teacher in Vienna for 10 years. The first books in her fantasy series for children, the “Fable Flight Chronicles”, were published during this time.

After her first publications, it was clear to her that she wanted to delve even deeper into the world of words. Their main source of inspiration are pen & paper role-playing games.

The Lower Austrian C. Gina Riot is the owner of the advertising agency LAYOUTRIOT and author of the Servants of the Order trilogy. She is also a big gothic and metal fan and plays bass in a metal band herself.

She graduated from the Höhere Grafische Bundes- Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt in Vienna in 2010 and has been working as a graphic designer and expert for extraordinary marketing campaigns and branding ever since. She has been publishing dark high fantasy novels for adults since 2020.

Melanie Vogltanz studied German Philology, English Studies and Teacher Education at the University of Vienna. She was born in Vienna in 1992 and practically imbibed the notorious Viennese gallows humor with her mother’s milk. She declares war on the classic happy ending in most of her stories, because life rarely ends well.

Under the pseudonym M. M. Vogltanz, she publishes horror of a harder kind.
When she’s not spinning her own stories, she corrects, edits and translates for publishers and colleagues.

Author Marlene von Hagen lives on the outskirts of Vienna with her family and a flock of unicorns. She has been capturing her thoughts in stories since childhood and has perfected her skills in countless writing seminars. In recent years, writing has not only been part of her everyday life, but the author is also regularly seen at book fairs in Austria and Germany.

Faye Hell (writer, film historian and teacher) lives near Vienna in a house between a forest and a cemetery. The cat fanatic prefers to delve into the darker realms of art, culture and society and is always on the lookout for works that challenge and perhaps even torment her a little.
She wrote her thesis in the Cultural Studies department (specializing in film) on the subject of “Serial killers in film and their historical role models”.

Naomi Huber was born in Osnabrück (Germany) in 1980, but has lived in the beautiful Tyrolean mountains since early childhood.
Her love of reading good stories, traveling to impossible worlds and into the realm of the fantastic has accompanied her throughout her life.
She crawled through the swamps of Mordor, flew the Firebolt in the Quidditch Tournament, fought Klingons on the bridge of the Enterprise, volunteered as a tribute and crossed space and time on the Tardis. She has been writing her debut – the “Guardian” trilogy about magic, dragons, war and love – since summer 2017.

Author Rudolf A. Feichtinger, who comes from Ebensee, has lived in Salzburg since 2012, studied education here and works as a probation officer. Born in Upper Austria, he is an enthusiastic tabletop and role-playing gamer and swordsman.
He has been fascinated by the fantastic since the age of seven, when he came into contact with Star Wars, and began publishing the “Agahma” series, which will comprise six books, with the dark fantasy novel “Eisenheim”, in which he attempts to deal with current social issues such as religion and racism. The inspiration for this comes mainly from H.P. Lovecraft’s and Robert E. Howard’s works, as well as the tabletop game Warhammer and the era of the Thirty Years’ War.

Caroline Hofstätter was born in 1975 and lives near Vienna, which she can only recommend for the foreseeable future. After many years in advertising, she decided to write about more realistic things than natural detergents and turned to science fiction.

What if the ravages of time did not gnaw away at every person to the same extent? Or would dreams be more real than we would like? What if horoscopes could actually predict the near future? And what if the one or other Greek legend were more like a factual report? What if …