Ann VanderMeer

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.

GENRE(S): SF - Science Fiction Editor