Ann VanderMeer

Ann VanderMeer is the founder of the award-winning Buzzcity Press and currently serves as the fiction editor for Weird Tales, for which she is a Hugo finalist. She is also a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award for co-editing Fast Ships, Black Sails. Work from her press has won the British Fantasy Award, the International Rhysling Award, the IHG Award, and appeared in several year’s best anthologies. Ann has partnered with her husband Jeff VanderMeer, on such editing projects as the World Fantasy Award winning Leviathan series and The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases. A guest editor for Best American Fantasy, she has co-edited the following published or forthcoming anthologies: The New Weird, Steampunk, Fast Ships, Black Sails, Last Drink Bird Head, and The Leonardo Variations. She and her husband live in Tallahassee, Florida.