The New Weird - Ann VanderMeer [195]
PAUL DI FILIPPO, a Rhode Island native, has lived in the Lovecraftian stomping grounds of Providence for the past thirty-one years. His partner of that duration is Deborah Newton, and currently they play host to a cat named Penny Century and a chocolate cocker spaniel named ― what else? ― Brownie. He sold his first story in 1977, and well over one hundred since. His new novel, Cosmocopia, will appear in early 2008.
HAL DUNCAN was born in 1971 and lives in the West End of Glasgow. A long-standing member of the Glasgow SF Writers Circle, his first novel, Vellum, was nominated for the Crawford Award, the British Fantasy Society Award and the World Fantasy Award. The sequel, Ink, is available from Pan Macmillan in the UK and Del Rey in the US, while a novella is due out in November 2007 from MonkeyBrain Books.
BRIAN EVENSON is the Director of the Literary Arts Program at Brown University. He is the author of six books of fiction, most recently The Wavering Knife (which won the International Horror Guild Award for best story collection) and The Brotherhood of Mutilation. He has translated work by Christian Gailly, Jean Fremon and Jacques Jouet. He has received an O. Henry Prize as well as an NEA fellowship.
JEFFREY FORD'S stories and novels have been nominated multiple times for the World Fantasy Award, the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Award, the International Horror Guild Award, the Fountain Award, and the Edgar Allan Poe Award. He has been the recipient of three World Fantasy Awards, for his second novel The Physiognomy, the short story collection The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories, and his short story "Creation."
FELIX GILMAN was born and raised in London. He currently lives in New York, where he works as a lawyer. His first novel, Thunderer, will be published by Bantam Spectra in early 2008.
M. JOHN HARRISON recently won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for his novel Nova Swing. Other books include In Viriconium, nominated for the Guardian Fiction Prize, Climbers, which won the Boardman Tasker Memorial Award, and Light, co-winner of the 2003 James Tiptree, Jr. Award. His short stories have appeared in many venues, including the Times Literary Supplement and the Independent. Since 1991 he has reviewed fiction for TLS, the Guardian and the Daily Telegraph, and young adult fiction in the New York Times.
SIMON INGS was born with a gift for numbers called "synaesthesia," the ability to experience regular mathematical patterns as colors behind his eyes. Around the age of nineteen, his synaesthesia started to fade, and he began writing novels in an attempt to explore the loss. Ings has since taken up more direct ways of dealing with these ideas ― he is currently working on the science book The Eye: A Natural History ― but numbers continue to exert a strong pull on his fiction, as the title of his fantastically intricate twentieth-century historical epic The Weight ofNumbers attests.
KATHE KOJA has written numerous novels for young people and for adults, including Skin and The Cipher; her most recent is Kissing the Bee (Fsg/Foster). She lives in the Detroit area with her husband, artist Rick Lieder, and blogs at koja.wordpress.com.
LEENA KROHN is a Finnish author who has received several prizes, including the Finlandia Prize for literature in 1992. Her short novel Tainaron: Mail from Another City was nominated for a World Fantasy Award and International Horror Guild Award in 2005. Her books have been translated into English, Swedish, Estonian, Hungarian, Russian, Japanese, Latvian, French, and Norwegian.
JAY LAKE lives in Portland, Oregon, where he works on numerous writing and editing projects. Recent novels include Trial ofFlowers from Night Shade Books and Mainspring from Tor Books, with sequels to both books due in 2008. Lake won the 2004 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and has been a multiple nominee for the Hugo and World Fantasy Awards. Jay can be reached through his blog at jaylake. livejournal.com.
MIKE LIBBY