Ann VanderMeer (née Kennedy) is an American publisher and editor, and the second female editor of the horror magazine ''

Weird Tales ''Weird Tales'' is an American fantasy and horror fiction pulp magazine founded by J. C. Henneberger and J. M. Lansinger in late 1922. The first issue, dated March 1923, appeared on newsstands February 18. The first editor, Edwin Baird, prin ...

''. She is the founder of Buzzcity Press. Work from her press and related periodicals has won the

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, the International

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, and appeared in several year's best anthologies. VanderMeer was also the founder of ''The Silver Web'' magazine, a periodical devoted to experimental and avant-garde fantasy literature. In 2009 ''

'', edited by VanderMeer and Stephen H. Segal, won a

Hugo Award The Hugo Award is an annual literary award for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year, given at the World Science Fiction Convention and chosen by its members. The Hugo is widely considered the premier a ...

for Best Semiprozine. Though some of its individual contributors have been honored with Hugos,

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, and even one

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, the magazine itself had never before even been nominated for a Hugo. It was also nominated for a

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in 2009. She has also edited with her husband

Jeff VanderMeer Jeff VanderMeer (born July 7, 1968) is an American author, editor, and literary critic. Initially associated with the New Weird literary genre, VanderMeer crossed over into mainstream success with his bestselling Southern Reach Trilogy. The tr ...

such influential and award-winning anthologies as ''The New Weird'', ''

The Weird ''The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories'' is an anthology of weird fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer. Published on 30 Oct 2011, it contains 110 short stories, novellas and short novels. At 1,152 pages in the hardcover editi ...

'', and ''The Big Book of Science Fiction''.2017 Locus Awards Winners
" Locus Magazine, June 24, 2017.

Notable books published by Buzz City Press

Books published by Buzzcity Press include the

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finalist ''Dradin, In Love'' by

and the

International Horror Guild Award The International Horror Guild Award (also known as the IHG Award) was an accolade recognizing excellence in the field of Horror fiction, horror/dark fantasy, presented by the International Horror Guild (IHG) from 1995 to 2008. The IHG Awards wer ...

-winning ''The Divinity Student'' by

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Works edited

VanderMeer was the fiction editor for ''

'' magazine from 2007 until its purchase by

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in 2011, and is a guest editor for the new ''Best American Fantasy'' series from ''

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''. She also edited ''Fast Ships, Black Sails'' ( Nightshade Books), ''Last Drink Bird Head'', and ''Love-Drunk Book Heads''. VanderMeer has partnered with her husband, author

, on ''The Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals''. She has also partnered with Jeff on editing projects such as the

-winning ''Leviathan'' series and the Hugo finalist '' The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases''. Recent collaborations include '' The New Weird'', ''

Steampunk Steampunk is a subgenre of science fiction that incorporates retrofuturistic technology and aesthetics inspired by 19th-century industrial steam-powered machinery. Steampunk works are often set in an alternative history of the Victorian era or ...

'', and ''Steampunk II: Steampunk Reloaded'', published by

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. In the fall of 2011, Ann and Jeff VanderMeer founded ''Weird Fiction Review'', an online magazine dealing in

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. ''The Time Traveler's Almanac'' will be published in March 2014. In October 2012, VanderMeer edited a third volume of the ''Steampunk'' series, ''Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution'', also published by

. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer live in

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Selected works

Anthologies

* '' The New Weird'' (with

, 2007) * ''Best American Fantasy'' (with Jeff VanderMeer, 2007) * ''Best American Fantasy: v. 2'' (with Jeff VanderMeer, 2008) * ''

'' (with Jeff VanderMeer, 2008) * ''

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'' (with Jeff VanderMeer, 2009) * ''Steampunk II: Steampunk Reloaded'' (with Jeff VanderMeer, 2010) * ''The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities'' (with Jeff VanderMeer, 2011) * ''Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution'' (2012) * ''

'' (with Jeff VanderMeer, 2012) * ''

The Time Traveler's Almanac ''The Time Traveler's Almanac'' (British title: ''The Time Traveller's Almanac'') is a 2013 anthology edited by Ann VanderMeer, Ann and Jeff VanderMeer. It contains stories that focus on time travel. It was released in November 2013 in the UK and ...

'' (with Jeff VanderMeer, 2014) * ''Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology'' (with Jeff VanderMeer, 2015) * ''

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'' (with Jeff VanderMeer, 2016) * ''The Big Book of Classic Fantasy'' (with Jeff VanderMeer, 2019) * ''The Big Book of Modern Fantasy'' (with Jeff VanderMeer, 2020)

References

External links

Interview in ''Pretty Scary'' online magazine by Gabby Goff

Interview by Simon Sandall

Profile at Fresh Fiction

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