VanderMeer, Ann
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Editor.
(1957- ) US editor, who co-founded The Sterling Web, in 1989, continuing to edit the magazine after its name change to The Silver Web, until it ceased publication in January 2002. She also founded and edited Buzzcity Press, one of whose titles was Dradin, in Love (1996) by Jeff VanderMeer; they married in 2002. She became fiction editor of Weird Tales in 2007, and editor-in-chief 2010-2011, when the journal was purchased by Marvin Kaye; she remained a contributing editor until 2012. She won a Hugo award in 2009 for the magazine. With her husband (who see for details) she has edited several Anthologies, including the Steampunk series beginning with Steampunk (anth 2008), and most memorably The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories (anth 2011), a vast and exceedingly ambitious attempt to encompass the significant spectrum of Fantastika represented by the title; this won a World Fantasy Award as best anthology. Another joint compilation, The Big Book of Science Fiction (anth 2016), won a Locus Award as best anthology. [JC]
Ann Kennedy Bordman VanderMeer
born Kansas City, Missouri: 6 March 1957
works
nonfiction
- The Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals: The Evil Monkey Dialogues (San Francisco, California: Tachyon Publications, 2010) with Jeff VanderMeer [nonfiction: chap: hb/John Coulthart]
works as editor
series
Best American Fantasy
- Best American Fantasy (Canton, Ohio: Prime Books, 2007) with Jeff VanderMeer [anth: Best American Fantasy: pb/Scott Eagle]
- Best American Fantasy 2 (Canton, Ohio: Prime Books, 2008) with Jeff VanderMeer [anth: Best American Fantasy: pb/Oliver Wetter]
Steampunk
- Steampunk (San Francisco, California: Tachyon Publications, 2008) with Jeff VanderMeer [anth: Steampunk: pb/Insect Lab]
- Steampunk II: Steampunk Reloaded (San Francisco, California: Tachyon Publications, 2010) with Jeff VanderMeer [anth: Steampunk: pb/Ann Monn]
- Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution (San Francisco, California: Tachyon Publications, 2012) [anth: Steampunk: pb/Dan Jones]
Big Book
- The Big Book of Science Fiction (New York: Vintage Books, 2016) with Jeff VanderMeer [anth: Big Book: pb/Bruce Pennington]
- The Big Book of Classic Fantasy (New York: Vintage Books, 2019) with Jeff VanderMeer [anth: Big Book: pb/J J Grandville]
- The Big Book of Modern Fantasy (New York: Vintage Books, 2020) with Jeff VanderMeer [anth: Big Book: pb/Joe Montgomery from Leonora Carrington]
individual titles
- Album Zutique (Tallahassee, Florida: The Ministry of Whimsy Press, 2003) [anth: pb/Jonathan Edwards]
- Fast Ships, Black Sails (San Francisco, California: Night Shade Books, 2008) with Jeff VanderMeer [anth: pb/Scott Altmann]
- The New Weird (San Francisco, California: Tachyon Publications, 2008) with Jeff VanderMeer [anth: pb/Ann Monn]
- Last Drink Bird Head: Flash Fiction for Charity (Tallahassee, Florida: The Ministry of Whimsy Press, 2009) with Jeff VanderMeer [anth: pb/Scott Eagle]
- The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories (London: Atlantic Books/Corvus, 2011) with Jeff VanderMeer [anth: pb/Nic Cheetham]
- The Thackery T Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities (New York: HarperCollins/Voyager, 2011) with Jeff VanderMeer [anth: Thackery T Lambshead: hb/James Iacobelli]
- The Time Traveller's Almanac (London: Head of Zeus, 2013) with Jeff VanderMeer [anth: Time Travel: hb/]
- Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology (Oakland, California: PM Press, 2015) with Jeff VanderMeer [anth: Feminism: pb/Josh MacFee]
- The Bestiary: A Modern Bestiary of Untrue Tales (Lakewood, Colorado: Centipede Press, 2016) [anth: hb/Ivaca Stevanovic]
- Current Futures: A Sci-Fi Ocean Anthology (no place given: XPrize Foundation, 2019) [anth: ebook: na/]
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