Jay Lake

BOOK:Mainspring

PRESENTING:Saturday 12:40 p.m. Richland Meeting Room A&B; Saturday 4:30 p.m. Richland Meeting Room A&B

Ann VanderMeer

BOOK:The New Weird

PRESENTING:Saturday 12:40 p.m. Richland Meeting Room A&B

Ann VanderMeer (nee Kennedy) is an American publisher and editor. She is the founder of the award-winning Buzzcity Press. Work from her press and related periodicals has won the British Fantasy Award, the International Rhysling Award, and appeared in several year's best anthologies. Ann was also the founder of The Silver Web magazine, a periodical devoted to experimental and avant-garde fantasy literature. A Best of the Silver Web is forthcoming from Prime Books. Ann has partnered with her husband, author Jeff VanderMeer, on such editing projects as the World Fantasy Award winning Leviathan series and the Hugo Finalist The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases. She is the fiction editor for Weird Tales magazine and is also serving as one of the guest editors for the new Best American Fantasy series from Prime Books. She is co-editing the following anthologies as well: The New Weird (Tachyon Publications), Fast Ships, Black Sails (Nightshade Books), Last Drink Bird Head, and Love-Drunk Book Heads. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer live in Tallahassee, Florida.

Jeff VanderMeer

BOOK:Shriek: An Afterword

PRESENTING:Saturday 12:40 p.m. Richland Meeting Room A&B; Saturday 3:20 p.m. Lexington Meeting Room A&B

Jeff VanderMeer is the author of the best-selling City of Saints and Madmen, in addition to Veniss Underground and Shriek: An Afterword (www.shriekthenovel.com). He has won two World Fantasy Awards, an NEA-funded Florida Individual Writers’ Fellowship, and, most recently, the Le Cafard cosmique award in France and the Tähtifantasia Award in Finland, in addition to being a finalist for the Hugo Award, Bram Stoker Award, IHG Award, and Philip K. Dick Award. His books have made the year’s best lists of Amazon.com, The Austin Chronicle, The San Francisco Chronicle, and Publishers Weekly, among others. VanderMeer is also an award-winning editor and publisher whose nonfiction appears in The Washington Post Book World, among others. He is a regular columnist for the Amazon book-culture blog and has taught creative writing masterclasses all over the world.