Tachyon Publications: The Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals, Ann and Jeff VanderMeer

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Ann VanderMeer has been a publisher and editor for over twenty years who currently serves as the fiction editor of Weird Tales and as a guest editor for Best American Fantasy. She is the founder of the award-winning Buzzcity Press. Work from her press and related periodicals has won the British Fantasy Award, the International Rhysling Award, and appeared in several year's best anthologies. Ann was also the founder of The Silver Web magazine, a periodical devoted to experimental and avant-garde fantasy literature. A Best of the Silver Web anthology is forthcoming from Prime Books. Books published by Buzzcity Press include the Theodore Sturgeon Award finalist Dradin, In Love by Jeff VanderMeer and the International Horror Guild Award-winning The Divinity Student by Michael Cisco. Ann has partnered with her husband, author Jeff VanderMeer, on such editing projects as the World Fantasy Award-winning Leviathan series and the Hugo Finalist The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases. She is co-editing the following anthologies as well: The New Weird; Fast Ships, Black Sails; ; and Love-Drunk Book Heads.

Jeff VanderMeer is the author of the best-selling City of Saints and Madmen, set in his signature creation, the imaginary city of Ambergris, in addition to several other novels from Bantam, Tor, and Pan Macmillan. He has won two World Fantasy Awards, an NEA-funded Florida Individual Artist Fellowship, and, most recently, the Le Cafard cosmique Award in France and the Tähtifantasia Award in Finland. He has also been a finalist for the Hugo Award, Bram Stoker Award, IHG Award, Philip K. Dick Award, and many others. Novels such as Veniss Underground and Shriek: An Afterword have made the year's best lists of Amazon.com, The Austin Chronicle, The San Francisco Chronicle, and Publishers Weekly. His work, both books and short stories, has been translated into over twenty languages. The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases may be his most famous anthology, and is considered a cult classic, still in print along with his Leviathan original fiction series. Recently, VanderMeer began to experiment in other media, resulting in a movie based on his novel Shriek that featured an original soundtrack by rock band The Church and a PlayStation Europe animation of his story "A New Face in Hell" by animator Joel Veitch. Currently, VanderMeer is writing a noir thriller called Finch.