Toni Weisskopf (born Antonia Katherine Flora Weisskopf on December 12, 1965) is an American

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and the publisher of Baen Books. She has been nominated four times for a

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. She has won the

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, the

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, and the

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for best editor. She uses the

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T. K. F. Weisskopf as an anthology editor.

Biography

Weisskopf was born on December 12, 1965 in

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. Her family moved to

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when she was three years old, and then to

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when she was twelve. She graduated from

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in 1987 with a degree in anthropology. She has one daughter, Katherine, with

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. Following Baen's death, she married Hank Reinhardt, who died on October 30, 2007.

Career

Upon graduation in 1987, she was employed by Baen Books as an editorial assistant. She worked various jobs there until becoming executive editor, a job she had until the death of founder

in 2006. Since that time, she has been the publisher at Baen. She has edited a number of Baen anthologies under the name T. K. F. Weisskopf. She won the

in 1994 for excellence in

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, as well as the tongue-in-cheek Rubble Award, an anti-award given out annually to a fan or professional who has "done something humorously ignominious". Her first publication, a vampire anthology titled ''Tomorrow Sucks'', was co-edited with Greg Cox and published by Baen in 1994. A follow-up anthology, ''Tomorrow Bites'', was released in 1995. Weisskopf received the

in 2000 for "lifetime achievement in Southern Science Fiction Fandom". Her next set of anthologies, ''Cosmic Tales: Adventures in Sol System'' (2004) and ''Cosmic Tales II: Adventures in Far Futures'' (2005) contained science fiction adventure stories. ''Transhuman'', an anthology co-edited with

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, was published in February 2008. Weisskopf was the editor guest of honor for the 2010

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. She was nominated for a

four times in the Best Professional Editor category: in 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016. She was awarded the

as Best Editor in 2015. In February 2015 Toni was an Editor Guest of Honor and Keynote Speaker at the 33rd annual Life, the Universe, & Everything professional science fiction and fantasy arts symposium. In 2020, she co-edited with Christopher Woods an anthology, ''Give Me LibertyCon'', that established a scholarship in honor of Timothy Bolgeo, founder of LibertyCon, an annual science fiction convention in

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. She was announced in July 2020 as the Editor Guest of Honor for

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, the 79th

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. Due to controversies over the online community Baen's Bar maintained by Baen Books, she was removed as Editor Guest of Honor on February 19, 2021.

Bibliography

Weisskopf edited the following anthologies as T. K. F. Weisskopf: * ''Tomorrow Sucks'' with Greg Cox (October 1994,

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, ) * ''Tomorrow Bites'' with Greg Cox (October 1995, Baen, ) * ''Cosmic Tales: Adventures in Sol System'' (June 2004, Baen, ) * ''Cosmic Tales II: Adventures in Far Futures'' (February 2005, Baen, ) * ''Transhuman'' with

(February 2008, Baen, ) * ''Give Me LibertyCon'' with Christopher Woods (June 2020, Baen, )

Awards and recognition

Weisskopf has received the following awards and recognition:

References

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