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 ''Southern Reach Trilogy'' is a series of novels by the American author Jeff VanderMeer first published in 2014—''Annihilation'', ''Authority'', and ''Acceptance''. The trilogy takes its name from the secret agency that is central to th ...

. The trilogy's first novel, ''

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'', won the

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and

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Awards, and was adapted into a

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by director

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. Among VanderMeer's other novels are '' Shriek: An Afterword'' and '' Borne''. He has also edited with his wife

Ann VanderMeer Ann VanderMeer (née Kennedy) is an American publisher and editor, and the second female editor of the horror magazine '' Weird Tales''. She is the founder of Buzzcity Press. Work from her press and related periodicals has won the British Fantas ...

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. VanderMeer has been called "one of the most remarkable practitioners of the literary fantastic in America today,""Jeff VanderMeer entry, Contemporary Authors Online, 2016," Gale Biography in Context, accessed September 1, 2017. with ''

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'' naming him the "King of Weird Fiction".The Weird Thoreau
" by Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, January 14, 2015. VanderMeer's fiction is noted for eluding genre classificationsStarred review of Borne by Jeff VanderMeer
," Publishers Weekly, February 6, 2017. even as his works bring in themes and elements from genres such as

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,"Review of City of Saints and Madmen by Jeff VanderMeer," Publishers Weekly, May 6, 2002.

ecofiction Ecofiction (also "eco-fiction" or "eco fiction") is the branch of literature that encompasses nature-oriented (non-human) or environment-oriented ( human impacts on nature) works of fiction. While this super genre's roots are seen in classic, pasto ...

,There’s No Escape From Contamination Above the Toxic Sea
" by Wai Chee Dimockmay, The New York Times Book Review, May 5, 2017. the New Weird and

post-apocalyptic fiction Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of speculative fiction in which the Earth's (or another planet's) civilization is collapsing or has collapsed. The apocalypse event may be climatic, such as runaway climate change; astro ...

.Jeff VanderMeer Amends the Apocalypse
" by Laura Miller, The New Yorker, April 24, 2017. VanderMeer's writing has been described as "evocative" and containing "intellectual observations both profound and disturbing,"Starred review of Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer
," Publishers Weekly, December 23, 2013. and has been compared with the works of

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,SHRIEK: AN AFTERWORD BY JEFF VANDERMEER
," Believermag.com, Sept. 2006, accessed June 26, 2017

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, and Henry David Thoreau.

Early life and education

VanderMeer was born in

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in 1968, and spent much of his childhood in the

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, where his parents worked for the

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.Jeff VanderMeer: South of Reality
," Locus Magazine, July 6, 2014. After returning to the United States, he spent time in

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, New York, and Gainesville, Florida. He attended the

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for three years and, in 1992, took part in the

Clarion Writers Workshop Clarion is a six-week workshop for aspiring science fiction and fantasy writers. Originally an outgrowth of Damon Knight's and Kate Wilhelm's Milford Writers' Conference, held at their home in Milford, Pennsylvania, United States, it was founded ...

. When VanderMeer was 20, he read

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's novel ''

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'', which he has said "blew the back of my head off, rewired my brain: I had never encountered prose like that before, never such passion and boldness on the page."The Thrill and Pain of Inventing Angela Carter
" by Jeff VanderMeer, The Atlantic, April 20, 2017. Carter's fiction inspired VanderMeer to both improve and be fearless with his own writing.

Career

Writing

VanderMeer began writing in the late 1980s while still in high school and quickly became a prolific contributor to small-press magazines.St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers by David Pringle, St. James Press, 1998. During this time VanderMeer wrote a number of horror and

fantasy Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction involving Magic (supernatural), magical elements, typically set in a fictional universe and sometimes inspired by mythology and folklore. Its roots are in oral traditions, which then became fantasy ...

short stories, some of which were collected in his 1989 self-published book ''The Book of Frog'' and in the 1996 collection ''The Book of Lost Places''. He also wrote poetry—his poem "Flight Is for Those Who Have Not Yet Crossed Over" was a co-winner of the 1994

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—and edited two issues of the self-published

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''Jabberwocky''. One of VanderMeer's early successes was his 2001 short-story collection ''

City of Saints and Madmen ''City of Saints and Madmen: The Book of Ambergris'' is a collection of fantasy short stories by American writer Jeff VanderMeer, set in the fictional metropolis of Ambergris. The setting was further explored in the novels '' Shriek: An Afterword ...

,'' set in the imaginary city of Ambergris. Several of VanderMeer's novels were subsequently set in the same place, including '' Shriek: An Afterword'' (2006) and ''

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'' (2009), the latter of which was a finalist for the

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. In 2000, his novella ''The Transformation of Martin Lake'' won the

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. VanderMeer has also worked in other media, including on a movie based on his novel ''Shriek'' that featured an original soundtrack by rock band The Church. The band

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likewise recorded a soundtrack for ''

'', which was released alongside a limited edition of the book. VanderMeer also wrote a ''

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'' tie-in novel for ''

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'' called ''Predator: South China Seas'' and worked with animator

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on a Play Station Europe animation of his story "A New Face in Hell".

The Southern Reach Trilogy

In 2014,

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published VanderMeer's

, consisting of the novels ''

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,'' and ''

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''. The story focuses on a secret agency that manages expeditions into a location known as Area X. The area is an uninhabited and abandoned part of the United States that nature has begun to reclaim after a mysterious world-changing event. VanderMeer has said that the main inspiration for Area X and the series was his hike through

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. ''The Other Side of the Mountain'' by Michel Bernanos is among the books VanderMeer has cited as also having had an influence. The trilogy was released in quick succession over an 8-month period, in what has been called an innovative "

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-inspired strategy."The boundary-pushing fiction of Sean McDonald and his new FSG imprint, MCD
" by Margaret Wappler, The Los Angeles Times, July 28, 2017. The strategy helped the second and third books reach the ''New York Times'' Bestseller list, and established VanderMeer as "one of the most forward-thinking authors of the decade." The series ended up being highly honored, with ''Annihilation'' winning the

and

Awards for Best Novel. The entire trilogy was also named a finalist for the 2015

and the 2016 Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis. ''Annihilation'' was also adapted into a film of the same name by writer-director

. The film stars

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Tessa Thompson Tessa Lynne Thompson (born October 3, 1983) is an American actress. She began her professional acting career with the Los Angeles Women's Shakespeare Company while studying at Santa Monica College. She appeared in productions of '' The Tempest ...

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, and

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Later writing

In 2017 VanderMeer released '' Borne,'' a "biotech apocalypse" novelBorne by Jeff VanderMeer review – after the biotech apocalypse
" by Neel Mukherjee, The Guardian, June 15, 2017. about a scavenger named Rachel trying to survive both a city "plunged into a primordial realm of myth, fable, and fairy tale" and a five-story-tall flying bear named Mord. As with the Southern Reach trilogy, the novel was highly praised, with ''

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'' saying, "VanderMeer’s recent work has been

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ian in its underpinnings, exploring the radical transformation of life forms and the seams between them." ''

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'' said the novel reads "like a dispatch from a world lodged somewhere between science fiction, myth, and a video game" and that with ''Borne'' Vandermeer has essentially invented a new literary genre, "weird literature." Paramount Pictures has optioned the film rights to ''Borne''. In August 2017 VanderMeer released the novella '' The Strange Bird: A Borne Story''.Four Questions for...Jeff VanderMeer
" by John Maher, Publishers Weekly, August 1, 2017. The stand-alone story is set in the same world as ''Borne'' but featuring different characters. Dead Astronauts, a stand-alone short novel set in the Borne universe, was released on December 3, 2019. VanderMeer's upcoming novels include ''Hummingbird Salamander'', which is set ten seconds into the future and deals with "bioterrorism, ecoterrorism, and climate change," and a

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series called ''Jonathan Lambshead and the Golden Sphere''. He is also working on a story called "The Three," based on the dead astronauts mentioned in ''Borne'', along with another Southern Reach story.

Literary criticism and editing

VanderMeer is a frequent writer of critical literary reviews and essays, which have appeared in numerous publications including ''

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'' Book World, ''

'', and other places. For a number of years he was a regular columnist for the Amazon book-culture blog and has served as a judge for the

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, among others. He has been a guest speaker at such diverse events as the Brisbane Writers Festival,

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in Helsinki, and the

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annual conference. In 2019, VanderMeer was a judge for the

National Book Award for Fiction The National Book Award for Fiction is one of five annual National Book Awards, which recognize outstanding literary work by United States citizens. Since 1987 the awards have been administered and presented by the National Book Foundation, but ...

. VanderMeer has also edited a number of anthologies. He won a 2003

for ''Leviathan, Volume Three'', a collection of genre-bending stories he edited with

Forrest Aguirre Forrest Aguirre (born July 29, 1969) is an American fantasy and Horror fiction, horror author, and winner of the 2003 World Fantasy Award for his editing work on ''Leviathan 3'', for which he was also a Philip K. Dick Award nominee. He recently ed ...

. He and Mark Roberts were also finalists for the same award the next year for the anthology ''The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases''. Most of his recent anthologies have been collaborations with his wife,

, the Hugo-award-winning former editor of ''

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''. These anthologies include '' The New Weird'', a collection of stories from New Weird authors; ''Last Drink Bird Head'', a charity anthology benefiting literacy; ''

'', a

winning collection of weird fiction; '' Time Traveler's Almanac'', an anthology of time-travel fiction; ''Fast Ships, Black Sails'', a pirate fiction anthology; and the

Locus Award The Locus Awards are an annual set of literary awards voted on by readers of the science fiction and fantasy magazine ''Locus'', a monthly magazine based in Oakland, California. The awards are presented at an annual banquet. In addition to the pl ...

winning ''The Big Book of Science Fiction''. VanderMeer is the founding editor and publisher of the ''Ministry of Whimsy Press'', which he set up in the late 1980s while still in high school. The press is currently an imprint of Wyrm Publishing. One of the ''Ministrys publications, ''

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'' by

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, won the

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in 1997.

Teaching

VanderMeer has been involved in teaching creative writing. One of the projects he is involved with is Shared Worlds, an annual two-week program that aims to teach creative writing to teenagers. VanderMeer has also taught at the

Clarion Workshop Clarion is a six-week workshop for aspiring science fiction and fantasy writers. Originally an outgrowth of Damon Knight's and Kate Wilhelm's Milford Writers' Conference, held at their home in Milford, Pennsylvania, United States, it was founded i ...

and at Trinity Prep School. In addition to his teaching, VanderMeer has also written guides to creative writing such as ''Wonderbook'', which won a BSFA Award, a Locus Award, and was nominated for a Hugo and World Fantasy Award.

Critical reputation

VanderMeer has been called "one of the most remarkable practitioners of the literary fantastic in America today," with ''

'' naming him the "King of Weird Fiction." VanderMeer's fiction is noted for eluding genre classifications even as his works bring in themes and elements from genres such as

, the New Weird and

. VanderMeer's fiction has been described as "evocative (with) intellectual observations both profound and disturbing" and "lyrical and harrowing," with his mixing of genres producing "something unique and unsettling." VanderMeer's writing has been compared with the works of

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, and

Thoreau Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817May 6, 1862) was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for his book ''Walden'', a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and hi ...

Personal life

In 2003, VanderMeer married Ann Kennedy, then editor for the small Buzzcity Press and magazine the ''Silver Web''. They have two cats. One is named Neo.

Awards

VanderMeer has been nominated for the

14 times. He has also won an NEA-funded Florida Individual Writers' Fellowship, and, the Le Cafard Cosmique award in France and the Tähtifantasia Award in Finland, both for ''City of Saints''. He has also been a finalist for the Hugo Award,

Bram Stoker Award The Bram Stoker Award is a recognition presented annually by the Horror Writers Association (HWA) for "superior achievement" in dark fantasy and horror writing. History The Awards were established in 1987 and have been presented annually since ...

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 ...

, and many others. Novels such as ''

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'' and '' Shriek: An Afterword'' have made the year's best lists of Amazon.com, ''

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'', the ''

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'', and ''

'', among others. Other Awards include: * 2000 –

for the novella ''The Transformation of Martin Lake'' * 2003 –

for his anthology ''Leviathan 3'' (with Forrest Aguirre) * 2009 –

nomination for ''Finch'' * 2009 – Nebula Award nomination for Best Novel for ''Finch'' * 2012 –

for his anthology ''The Weird'' (with

) * 2013 –

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for Best Non-Fiction for ''Wonderbook'' * 2013 –

for Best Non-Fiction for ''Wonderbook'' * 2013 – Hugo Award nomination for ''Wonderbook'' * 2013 –

nomination for ''Wonderbook'' * 2014 – Nebula Award for Best Novel for ''Annihilation'' * 2014 –

Shirley Jackson Award The Shirley Jackson Awards are literary awards named after Shirley Jackson in recognition of her legacy in writing. These awards for outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror and the dark fantastic are presented a ...

for Best Novel for ''Annihilation''

Bibliography

Novels

* ''Dradin, In Love'' (1996, collected in all editions of ''City of Saints and Madmen'') * ''The Hoegbotton Guide to the Early History of Ambergris, by Duncan Shriek'' (1999, collected in all editions of ''City of Saints and Madmen'') * ''

'' (2003) * '' Shriek: An Afterword'' (2006) * ''

: South China Sea'' (2008) * ''

'' (2009) *

: ** ''

'' (2014) ** ''

'' (2014) ** Absolution (forthcoming) * '' Borne'' (2017) * '' Dead Astronauts'' (2019) * The Misadventures of Jonathan Lambshead: ** '' A Peculiar Peril'' (2020) ** A Terrible Trouble (forthcoming) * ''Hummingbird Salamander'' (2021) * ''The Journals of Doctor Mormeck'' (forthcoming) * ''The Book Murderer'' (forthcoming) * The Stone Shed (forthcoming) * Drone Love (forthcoming)

Nonfiction

* * * (With S. J. Chambers) * *

Collections

* ''The Book of Frog'' (1989) * ''The Book of Lost Places'' (1996) * ''

: The Book of Ambergris'' (2001) ** ''City of Saints and Madmen'' (2002, substantially expanded from the 2001 edition) ** ''City of Saints and Madmen'' (2004, expanded from the 2002 edition) * ''The Day Dali Died'' (2003) * ''Secret Life'' (2004) * ''Why Should I Cut Your Throat?'' (non-fiction, 2004) * ''VanderMeer 2005'' (promotional sampler, 2005) * ''Secret Lives'' (2006) * ''The Surgeon's Tale and Other Stories'' (with

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, 2007) * ''The Third Bear'' (2010,

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) * ''Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy: Annihilation; Authority; Acceptance'' (2014)

Short fiction

* "Mansions of the Moon" (2001) in

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1 * "My Report on the Secret Life of Shane Hamill" (2006) in ''

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'' (ed.

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) * "Fixing Hanover" (2008) in '' Extraordinary Engines'' and reprinted in ''

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'' (2012) ed.

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* ''The Mona Lisa'' (2009) in Halo: Evolutions * ''The Strange Bird'' (2017) * ''The World is Full of Monsters'' (2017)

Other projects

* ''

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, 2010,

)

Anthologies edited

* ''Leviathan 1'' (with Luke O'Grady, 1994) * ''Leviathan 2'' (with

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, 1998) * ''Leviathan 3'' (with

, 2002) * ''Album Zutique'' (2003) * '' The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases'' (with Mark Roberts, 2003) * '' The New Weird'' (with

, 2007) * ''Best American Fantasy'' (with Ann VanderMeer, 2007) * ''Best American Fantasy: v. 2'' (with Ann VanderMeer, 2008) * ''Last Drink Bird Head'', (2008) * '' Steampunk'' (with Ann VanderMeer, 2008) * ''

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'', (with Ann VanderMeer, 2009) – Fantasy pirate stories * ''Steampunk II: Steampunk Reloaded'' (2010) * ''The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities'' (with Ann VanderMeer, 2011) * ''

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

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'' (with Ann VanderMeer, 2014) * ''Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology'' (with Ann VanderMeer, 2015) * ''The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection'' (with Ann VanderMeer, 2016) * ''The Big Book of Classic Fantasy'' (with Ann VanderMeer, 2019) * ''The Big Book of Modern Fantasy'' (with Ann VanderMeer, 2020)

References

External links

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Golden Gryphon Press official site
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