Jeff VanderMeer recently signed a three-book, six-figure deal with Farrar, Straus & Giroux; Paramount Pictures and Scott Rudin recently bought the movie rights for all three novels. His novels have made the year’s best lists of the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and the San Francisco Chronicle, and he is the recipient of both an NEA-funded Florida Individual […]

Tanith Lee was born in 1947, in London, England. Slightly dyslexic, she failed to learn to read until almost eight years old (when her father taught her). At nine she began to write and hasn’t stopped since. In 1975, DAW Books published her epic fantasy novel The Birthgrave and so rescued Lee from lots of […]

Jude Griffin is an envirogeek, writer, photographer, and an expert in learning and knowledge management. She has trained llamas at the Bronx Zoo, was a volunteer EMT and firefighter, accompanied journalists into combat in Central America, lived in a haunted village in Thailand, ran an international amphibian monitoring network, volunteers with the National Park Service […]

Lisa Tuttle was born and raised in the United States, spent ten years in London, and now lives in a remote part of the Scottish highlands. She began writing while still at school, sold her first stories at university, and won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Science Fiction Writer of the year […]

Born in Lynchburg, Virginia, raised in Daytona Beach, Florida, Lucius Shepard has won the Hugo, Nebula, Word Fantasy, the Shirley Jackson, the Sturgeon, et al for his fiction.  He has lived all over the world but currently resides in Portland, Oregon. Forthcoming are The Dragon Griaule and a novella collection Five Autobiographies.

Publishers Weekly called Norman Partridge’s Dark Harvest “contemporary American writing at its finest” and chose the novel as one of the 100 Best Books of 2006. His fiction includes horror, suspense, crime, and the fantastic—“sometimes all in one story” says his friend writer Joe R. Lansdale. Author of five short story collections, Partridge’s novels include […]

Matt Williamson’s stories have appeared in a variety of literary journals, magazines, and books—most recently Bat City Review and the anthology Fakes from W.W. Norton.