Happy birthday to the incredible Jaymee Goh
Fictioneer,
poet, editrix, and critic Jaymee
Goh injected
her
signature
vibrancy
when, earlier
this year,
she joined Tachyon as Editorial Assistant.
Goh
edited the anthologies The
Omnibus of Doctor Bill Shakes and the Magnificent Ionic
Pentatetrameter: A Steampunk’s Shakespeare Anthology (2012
with Matt Delman),
The Sea is Ours: Tales of Steampunk Southeast Asia
(2015 with Joyce Chng), and The
WisCon Chronicles Vol. 11: Trials by Whiteness
(2017) and her numerous short fiction and critical essays have
appeared in Lightspeed,
Interfictions,
Strange
Horizons,
STEAMPUNK III: STEAMPUNK REVOLUTION, Tor.com,
and many others.
In
2017, Goh finished
her
PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of California,
Riverside with
the dissertation, Shades
of Sepia: Examining Eurocentrism and Whiteness in Relation to
Multiculturalism in Steampunk Iconograpy, Fandom, and Culture
Industry.
Her
short story “The Last Cheng Beng Gift” (Lightspeed
September 2017) will appear in the Best
American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 and was read by Levar Burton on Levar Burton Reads.
Happy
birthday to the amazing Jaymee. Welcome to the Tachyon family. We’re
very lucky to have you.
For more info about STEAMPUNK II: STEAMPUNK RELOADED, visit the Tachyon page.
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