VICTOR LAVALLE is the author of the short story collection Slapboxing with Jesus; four novels, The Ecstatic, Big Machine, The Devil in Silver, and The Changeling; and two novellas, Lucretia and the Kroons and The Ballad of Black Tom. He is also the creator and writer of a comic book, Victor LaValle’s Destroyer. He has been the recipient of numerous awards, including a Whiting Writers’ Award, a United States Artists Ford Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Shirley Jackson Award, an American Book Award, and the Key to Southeast Queens. He was raised in Queens, New York. He now lives in Washington Heights with his wife and kids. He teaches at Columbia University.
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JOHN JOSEPH ADAMS is the editor of John Joseph Adams Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. He is also the series editor of The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, as well as the bestselling editor of more than thirty anthologies, including Wastelands, Brave New Worlds, The End Is Nigh, and The Living Dead. Adams is a two-time winner of the Hugo Award (for which he has been a finalist twelve times) and an eight-time World Fantasy Award finalist, and was a judge for the 2015 National Book Award. Adams is also the editor and publisher of the digital magazines Lightspeed and Nightmare and is a producer for Wired’s The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast.
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