Ann VanderMeer
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Ann VanderMeer (née Kennedy) is an American publisher and editor, and the second woman editor of the venerable horror magazine Weird Tales. She is the founder of Buzzcity Press.
Her work as Fiction Editor of Weird Tales won a Hugo Award. 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. The Best of the Silver Web was published by Prime Books.
In 2009 "Weird Tales edited by Ann VanderMeer and Stephen H. Segal" won a Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine.[1][2] Though some of its individual contributors have been honored with Hugos, Nebula Awards, and even one Pulitzer Prize, the magazine itself had never before even been nominated for a Hugo. It was also nominated[3] for a World Fantasy Award in 2009.
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[edit] Notable books published by Buzz City Press
Books published by Buzzcity Press include the Theodore Sturgeon Award finalist Dradin, In Love by Jeff VanderMeer[4] and the International Horror Guild Award-winning The Divinity Student by Michael Cisco[5].
[edit] Works edited, past and present
She is the fiction editor for Weird Tales magazine[6] and is also serving as one of the guest editors for the new Best American Fantasy series from Prime Books. Fast Ships, Black Sails (Nightshade Books), Last Drink Bird Head, and Love-Drunk Book Heads.
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. Recent collaborations include The New Weird[7][8] and Steampunk, both published by Tachyon Publications[9].
Ann and Jeff VanderMeer live in Tallahassee, Florida.
[edit] External links
- Interview in Pretty Scary online magazine by Gabby Goff
- Interview by Simon Sandall
- Profile at Fresh Fiction
- L.A. Times on Steampunk
[edit] References
- ^ Laufenberg, Kathleen (August 23, 2009). ""Weird" wins: Tallahassee sci-fi editor brings home a Hugo Award". Tallahassee Democrat. http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090823/LIVING/908230310. Retrieved September 8, 2009.
- ^ "2009 Hugo Award Winners". The Hugo Awards official site. http://www.thehugoawards.org/.
- ^ "2009 World Fantasy Award Nominees". WorldFantasy.org. http://www.worldfantasy.org/awards/.
- ^ Amazon.com: Dradin, in love: A tale of elsewhen & otherwhere (Buzzcity first editions): Jeff VanderMeer, Ann Kennedy: Books
- ^ Amazon.com: The Divinity Student (Buzzcity Press First Editions): Michael Cisco, Harry O. Morris: Books
- ^ WEIRD TALES: magazine of the gothic, fantastic & bizarre » About
- ^ Amazon.com: The New Weird: Ann VanderMeer, Jeff VanderMeer: Books
- ^ Tachyon Publications: The New Weird, Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
- ^ Tachyon Publications: Steampunk, Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, editors
