Judges / Advisory Board / Administrator
JUDGES
Determining the works on the final ballot along with the final winners in each category is the responsibility of the judges.
F. Brett Cox, co-editor (with Andy Duncan) of Crossroads: Tales of the Southern Literary Fantastic (Tor, 2004); author of numerous short stories, critical essays, and reviews; English faculty at Norwich University in Northfield, Vermont.
John Langan, author of short story collection Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters (Prime Books, forthcoming 2008) and numerous critical essays and reviews; English faculty at State University of New York-New Paltz.
Sarah Langan, author of novels The Keeper (Harper, 2006; finalist for Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel) and The Missing (Harper, 2007); MFA in Creative Writing, Columbia University; freelance writer currently living in New York City.
Paul G. Tremblay, author of collection Compositions for the Young and Old (Prime Books, 2004), novella City Pier: Above and Below (Prime, 2007), and novel The Little Sleep (Henry Holt, forthcoming); co-editor of Fantasy Magazine and the anthologies Fantasy and Bandersnatch. www.paulgtremblay.com.
ADVISORY BOARD
Bill Congreve is a Sydney-based writer, editor, book reviewer and independent publisher. He has a BA in Communications and has received a William J. Atheling award for genre criticism, a Peter McNamara Convenor's Award and an Australian Science Fiction Award, both for professional achievement, and an Australian Science Fiction Award for Best Collected Work. He has edited a number of short story collections, including Intimate Armageddons (Australia's first modern, original horror anthology), Passing Strange, Bonescribes (with Robert Hood) and Southern Blood. He has acted as a judge for the Aurealis Award on seven occasions. He has published over forty short stories in a range of magazines and anthologies including Faerie Reel, Tenebres, Event Horizon, Terror Australis, Aurealis, Bloodsongs, and Cross-Town Traffic. His vampire stories have been collected in Epiphanies of Blood. He has been Aurealis magazine's book reviewer for the last fifteen years, a position he has just resigned. Recent titles from his independent publishing company, MirrorDanse Books, include Rynosseros, by Terry Dowling, Written in Blood, by Chris Lawson, Immaterial: Ghost Stories, by Robert Hood, A Tour Guide in Utopia by Lucy Sussex, Confessions of a Pod Person, by Chuck McKenzie, and The Year's Best Australian SF & Fantasy, Volumes One and Two, which he co-edited with Michelle Marquardt. He currently works as a technical writer, editor and desktop publisher in the emergency services sector in NSW. www.tabula-rasa.info/MirrorDanse/.
Ellen Datlow was editor of SCI FICTION, the multi award- winning fiction area of SCIFI.COM, for almost six years, the editor of Event Horizon: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror for one and a half years, and fiction editor of OMNI for over seventeen years.
She has edited or co-edited over fifty reprint and original anthologies, including the horror half of the ongoing The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. She has won eight World Fantasy Awards, The International Horror Guild Award, the Locus Award for Best Editor in 2005, 2006,and 2007 and the Hugo Award for Best Editor in 2002 and 2005. In addition, SCIFICTION won the Hugo Award for best Web site in 2005 as well as the Wooden Rocket award as best online magazine for 2005. Ellen was named recipient of the 2007 Karl Edward Wagner Award, given at the British Fantasy Convention for "outstanding contribution to the genre." She has taught at the Clarion, Clarion West, and Clarion South writing workshops plus other, less formal workshops. She lives in New York City. Her website is at: www.datlow.com.
Jack M. Haringa is a writer, editor, and teacher living in Worcester, Massachusetts. With S.T. Joshi, he co-edits Dead Reckonings, a review journal of horror, suspense, and dark fantasy published by Hippocampus Press.
S. T. Joshi (B.A., M.A., Brown University) is a widely published critic and editor. He is the author of such critical studies as The Weird Tale (1990), H. P. Lovecraft: The Decline of the West (1990), and The Modern Weird Tale (2001). He has edited the standard corrected edition of H. P. Lovecraft's collected fiction, revisions, and miscellaneous writings (Arkham House, 1984-95; 5 vols.), as well as The Ancient Track: Complete Poetical Works (2001) and Collected Essays (2004-06; 5 vols.). He has prepared three annotated editions of Lovecraft's tales for Penguin Classics (1999-2004). His exhaustive biography, H. P. Lovecraft: A Life (1996), won the British Fantasy Award and the Bram Stoker Award from the Horror Writers Association. He has edited the critical anthologies H. P. Lovecraft: Four Decades of Criticism (1980) and An Epicure in the Terrible (with David E. Schultz; 1991), compiled the standard bibliography of Lovecraft (1981; rev. ed. forthcoming from University of Tampa Press, 2008), and (with David E. Schultz) assembled An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia (2001). He has translated Maurice Lévy's Lovecraft: A Study in the Fantastic (1988). He is the founder and editor of Lovecraft Studies. He has also prepared editions of the works of Ambrose Bierce, M. R. James, H. L. Mencken, and other authors, and is the author of God's Defenders: What They Believe and Why They Are Wrong (2003) and The Angry Right (2006). See his website: www.stjoshi.net.
Mike O'Driscoll
Stewart O'Nan is the author of eleven novels, including Snow Angels, The Speed Queen, A Prayer for the Dying and The Night Country.
Ann VanderMeer is the founder of the award-winning Buzzcity Press and currently serves as the fiction editor for Weird Tales, the oldest fantasy magazine in the world. Work from her press has won the British Fantasy Award, the International Rhysling Award, the IHG Award, and appeared in several year's best anthologies. Ann has partnered with her husband, author Jeff VanderMeer, on such editing projects as the World Fantasy Award winning Leviathan series and The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases. A guest editor for Best American Fantasy, she is currently co-editing the following anthologies: The New Weird, Steampunk, Fast Ships, Black Sails, Last Drink Bird Head, and Love-Drunk Book Heads. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer live in Tallahassee, Florida. www.weirdtalesmagazine.net.
ADMINISTRATOR
JoAnn Cox