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Jess Bush is an actor and visual artist, known for her portrayal of Christine Chapel in Star Trek Strange New Worlds. Her role in Star Trek has led to her collaborating with NASA and Redwire to highlight the importance of space research in medical advancements.

Ross Marquand is a prolific actor, known for his many roles across live action and animated projects. His best known roles include Aaron in The Walking Dead television series, Professor X in Marvel's X-Men '97 animated series and Immortal in Amazon's Invincible animated series based on the comic of the same name. Ross has also played many parts across the Marvel Cinematic Universe - Red Skull in Avengers Infinity War and Avengers Endgame, and Infinity Ultron in What If?

David Gerrold's work is famous around the world. His novels and stories have been translated into more than a dozen languages. His TV scripts are estimated to have been seen by more than a billion viewers.

He has worked on a dozen different TV series, including Star Trek, Land of the Lost, Twilight Zone, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Babylon 5, and Sliders. He is the author of Star Trek’s most popular episode “The Trouble With Tribbles.”

Many of his novels are classics of the science fiction genre, including The Man Who Folded Himself, the ultimate time travel story, and When HARLIE Was One, considered one of the most thoughtful tales of artificial intelligence ever written.

A ten-time Hugo and Nebula award nominee, David Gerrold is also a recipient of the Skylark Award for Excellence in Imaginative Fiction, the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Horror, and the Forrest J. Ackerman lifetime achievement award.

In 1995, Gerrold shared the adventure of how he adopted his son in The Martian Child, a semi-autobiographical tale of a science fiction writer who adopts a little boy, only to discover he might be a Martian. The Martian Child won the science fiction triple crown: the Hugo, the Nebula, and the Locus Poll. It was the basis for the 2007 film Martian Child starring John Cusack and Amanda Peet.

Gerrold’s greatest writing strengths are generally acknowledged to be his readable prose, his easy wit, his facility with action, the accuracy of his science, and the passions of his characters. An accomplished lecturer and world-traveler, he has made appearances all over the United States, England, Europe, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. His easy-going manner and disarming humor have made him a perennial favorite with audiences. David Gerrold was a Guest of Honor at the 2015 World Science Fiction Convention.

Justina Ireland is the award winning and New York Times bestselling author of numerous books including Dread Nation and its sequel Deathless Divide, Rust in the Root, the middle-grade novel Ophie's Ghosts, and is one half of the creative team behind Tales from Cabin 23, a spooky middle grade series featuring stories from historically marginalized authors which launched with The Boo Hag Flex.

She is also the co-author of the romantasy duology Chaos and Flame and Blood and Fury with author Tessa Gratton.

Justina has penned a number of Star Wars books including Lando’s Luck, Spark of the Resistance, A Test of Courage, Out of the Shadows, Mission to Disaster, A Valiant Vow, Acolyte: Wayseeker as well as Path of Deceit and Defy the Storm with Tessa Gratton. She is one of the story architects of the Star Wars: The High Republic multimedia initiative and is also one of five original writers.

Justina is also prolific in comics, having written for Boom!, Dark Horse, IDW, and Marvel. In the screenwriting arena, Justina has worked on Netflix’s The Fall of the House of Usher and has staffed a number of other TV writers’ rooms.

She has also won a number of state library association honors and industry awards. She won a World Fantasy Award for her editing work on FIYAH, a literary magazine of Black speculative fiction, which she helped create. Justina has won the Scott O’Dell Award for historical fiction and has been shortlisted for the Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker awards. She also won the Locus award for Dread Nation.

Justina holds a BA in History from Georgia Southern and an MFA in Creative Writing from Hamline University. You can find her work wherever great books are sold.

JEFF KLINE is a writer and showrunner responsible for nearly 1,000 hours of live action and animated television, winning multiple Emmy® awards for his work on TRANSFORMERS: PRIME. He co-developed and executive produced G.I. JOE: RENEGADES, MEN IN BLACK: THE ANIMATED SERIES, EXTREME GHOSTBUSTERS and DRAGON TALES, along with many other series. Jeff spent the past 5+ years as a consultant to Hulu’s Kids/Teen/Family division, lending a hand to THE HARDY BOYS, DAVEY & JONESIE’S LOCKER, FRIGHT KREWE, CROODS: FAMILY TREE, THE MIGHTY ONES and many others while simultaneously developing a number of projects he’s not allowed to talk about.

Jeff founded Darby Pop Publishing over a decade ago – home to the only authorized BRUCE LEE titles in the comics industry and co-created by Jeff and Bruce’s daughter, Shannon Lee. Darby Pop also publishes close to 20 other series created by well-known novelists, screenwriters, and comic book heavyweights.

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