Ann VanderMeer currently serves as an acquiring fiction editor for Tor.com, Cheeky Frawg Books, and WeirdFictionReview.com. She was the editor-in-chief for Weird Tales for five years, during which time she was nominated three times for the Hugo Award and won one. Along with multiple nominations for the Shirley Jackson Award, she also has won a World Fantasy Award and a British Fantasy Award for coediting The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories. Other projects have included Best American Fantasy; three steampunk anthologies; and a humor book, The Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals. Her latest anthologies include The Time Traveler’s Almanac, Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology, and The Bestiary, an anthology of original fiction and art.
Jeff VanderMeer’s most recent fiction is the New York Times bestselling Southern Reach trilogy (Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance), which Entertainment Weekly included on its list of the top ten novels of 2014 and which prompted the New Yorker to call the author “the weird Thoreau.” The series has been acquired by publishers in thirty-four other countries, and Paramount Pictures/Scott Rudin Productions have acquired the movie rights. Annihilation has won both the Nebula Award and Shirley Jackson Award for best novel. VanderMeer’s nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Atlantic.com, and the Los Angeles Times. A three-time winner of the World Fantasy Award, VanderMeer has also edited or coedited many iconic fiction anthologies; taught at the Yale Writers’ Conference and the Miami Book Fair International; and lectured at MIT, Brown, and the Library of Congress. He serves as the codirector of Shared Worlds, a unique teen writing camp located at Wofford College. His forthcoming novel is Borne.