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About Us

Alisa Krasnostein, Founder and Publisher

Alisa Krasnostein is an environmental engineer by day, and runs indie publishing house Twelfth Planet Press by night. She is also Executive Editor at the review website Aussie Specfic in Focus! and part of the Galactic Suburbia Podcast team. In her spare time she is a critic, reader, reviewer, podcaster, runner, environmentalist, knitter, quilter and puppy lover.

In 2011, she was nominated for the World Fantasy Award in the Special Award, Non Professional category for Twelfth Planet Press.

Amanda Rainey, Graphic Designer

Tehani Wessely, Associate Editor

Tehani Wessely has been involved in speculative fiction publishing since 2001. In the past ten years she has created three humans, a small publishing house, and a number of books and magazines, all of which she is immensely proud of. Tehani is a teacher librarian by day and has been a judge for the Aurealis Awards, the WA Premier’s Book Awards, and is presently the CBCA Book of the Year judge for WA. She is about to launch a podcast for librarians and parents entitled “The Book Nut”, focussing on literature for children and young adults. She reads a lot.

Her role at Twelfth Planet Press involves project development and promotion as well as copyediting, proofing and sales.

Helen Merrick, Associate Editor

Helen Merrick is a professor at Curtin University where she teaches in the Department of Internet Studies, supervises a number of PhD students, and pursues research interests in feminist theory, science fiction, feminist science studies, sustainability and online cultures. Many of her publications use science fiction as a way of exploring various cultural and scientific concerns. She is interested in the intersections between science fiction and feminist science studies, and the potential of science fiction as a tool for thinking about sustainability. Her 2009 book The Secret Feminist Cabal: A cultural history of science fiction feminisms, published by Aqueduct Press, was nominated for a Hugo in 2010 and made the Honors List for the James Tiptree Jnr Award.

Helen is managing the Twelve Planets Constellations – introductions to the Twelve Planets series. She is also involved in project development and promotion at Twelfth Planet Press.

Charles Tan, E Book Conversion

Charles Tan is is a 2011 World Fantasy nominee for the Special Award, Non-Professional category for his blog, Bibliophile Stalker. He edited the Philippine Speculative Fiction Sampler and the Best of Philippine Speculative Fiction 2009. 

Charles is managing and converting Twelfth Planet Press books into electronic book form.

Alison Proietto, Editing Intern

Beth Potterveld, Editing Intern

Elizabeth Disney, Proof Reader

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