Guests of Honor

Alkali Bismuth is coming to Furvana all the way from the distant wilderness of the Midwest US, toting along his trademark top hat and so much charisma you'll be asking yourself "How did he fit all that charisma in there?!?"

Alkali is co-host of "The Dragget Show", a YouTube show and podcast alongside his dragon Xander the Blue. He's also the star of "Who's Lion is it Anyway?", the popular furry version of improv at its finest, and chairman of Fur Squared, a convention in Brookfield, WI running since 2014. We warmly welcome Alkali to the Pacific Northwest coast and are very proud to have him as one of our inaugural Guests of Honor.

Mary E. Lowd is a science-fiction and furry writer in Oregon. She's had more than one hundred short stories published, including more than twenty in Daily Science Fiction and three in Analog: Science Fiction and Fact.

Her novels include the Otters In Space trilogy, In a Dog's World, and The Snake's Song: A Labyrinth of Souls Novel. Her fiction has won an Ursa Major Award and two Cóyotl Awards. She's been editing FurPlanet's anthology series, ROAR, since 2015, and she founded the furry e-zine Zooscape in 2018. She's also been the chair of the Cóyotl Awards since 2012.

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Moss has been drawing since she could hold a crayon, scribbling fantastic creatures from her imagination from an early age. She first made a mark in the Gargoyles fandom as an active member in the chats and as an assistant moderator in the Monthly Gargoyle art contests.

She has been an active member of the furry community since 2000 and made the jump to professional art in 2012, making commissions and conventions her full-time job. Moss' work can be easily spotted on FA, Twitter, Patreon, and other furry and non-furry galleries.

Moss is a recent Pacific Northwest transplant, moving to central Washington to escape the bitter Midwest winters. She prefers to hermit herself in her studio cave and toil the days away.

"Rawr! Rawrawrawr, rawr rawr, rawrawrawr. rawrawrawrawrawrawr, rawrawr? Rawr! Rawrawrawr, rawr rawr."

Translation: "Hello! My name is Xander. I'm a dragon that is blue."

We've very proud to have Xander the Blue also joining us all the way from the Midwest! Xander is co-host of The Dragget Show, a very blue fursuiter, and a stand-up comedian with Three Headed Monster. He can often be found performing stand-up at Chicago open mics!

Xander also served as Art Director of Fur Squared, has worked as a 3D animator in the game industry for 15 years, and now makes his own software! He enjoys pro wrestling, politics, videogames, podcasts, and many other ridiculous things! If you see him, say hi! Blue dragons do not bite, but they do breathe lightning.