The New Weird - Ann VanderMeer [196]
THOMAS LIGOTTI has published several books now considered classics of dark fantasy, including Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe. His work appears regularly in horror and fantasy magazines. An interest in music led him to a collaboration with the musical group Current 93 to produce In a Foreign Town, In a Foreign Land, a book accompanied by a CD containing background sounds and music intended to accompany the reading.
DARJA MALCOME-CLARKE holds Masters degrees in Folklore and in English and is a Ph.D. candidate in the latter at Indiana University. Her areas of study are post-World War II literature (especially that of the speculative persuasion), gender and embodiment in literature and culture, and feminist theory. Her paper entitled "Subversive Metropolis: The Grotesque Body in the Phantasmic Urban Landscape," which addresses works by New Weird writers, won the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts Graduate Student Award in 2006 and can be found in the Spring 2006 issue ofJournal of the Fantastic in the Arts. She attended Clarion West in 2004, and her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Clarkesworld Magazine, the anthology TEL: Stories, Fantasy Magazine, Ideomancer, and elsewhere. She is an articles editor for the online magazine Strange Horizons.
CHINA MIÉVILLE was born in London in 1972. When he was eighteen, he lived and taught English in Egypt, where he developed an interest in Arab culture and Middle Eastern politics. Miéville has a B.A. in social anthropology from Cambridge and a Masters with distinction from the London School of Economics. His novel Perdido Street Station won the Arthur C. Clarke Award and was nominated for a British Science Fiction Association Award. Subsequent novels The Scar and Iron Council have been up for multiple awards. He lives in London, England.
SARAH MONETTE, having completed her Ph.D. in English literature, now lives and writes in a one-hundred-and-one-year-old house in the Upper Midwest. Her novels are published by Ace Books, and her short fiction has appeared in many places, including Strange Horizons, Clarkesworld Magazine, Alchemy, and Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet. Visit her online atwww.sarahmonette.com.
MICHAEL MOORCOCK is an iconic figure in literature, having written in perhaps every genre as well as producing such mainstream classics as Mother London. A multiple award-winner, he lives in Bastrop, Texas, with his wife Linda and several cats.
CAT RAMBO lives and writes in the Pacific Northwest with her charming spouse, Wayne. She is a graduate of both Clarion West and the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars. Among the places in which her work has appeared are Fantasy Magazine, Strange Horizons, Asimov's SF, and Subterranean. Cat Rambo is indeed her real name.
ALISTAIR RENNIE was born in the North of Scotland and now lives in Bologna, Italy, where he works as an assistant editor. Prior to moving abroad, he worked as a painter and decorator and a core hand in the North Sea oil industry before studying and teaching literature at the Universities of Aberdeen and Edinburgh. He has published short fiction in Electric Velocipede and Shadowed Realms and non-fiction in the Scottish Literary Journal and Anna Tambour's Virtuous Medlar Circle. His forthcoming publications include short stories in Electric Velocipede and in the British anthology Fabulous Whitby (edited by Liz Williams and Sue Thomason). Among other things, Rennie is a keen musician and regular practitioner of outdoor activities