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The New York Times bestselling writer, editor, teacher, and publisher, Jeff VanderMeer has won the Rhysling Award, British Fantasy Award, BSFA Award, the World Fantasy Award three times, and most recently the Nebula and Shirley Jackson Awards for Annihilation (2014), the first volume of The Southern Reach trilogy.  Other acclaimed fiction includes Borne (2017), the rest of The Southern Reach trilogy (Authority [2014] and Acceptance [2014]), Finch (2009) and Shriek: An Afterword (2006). Many of his shorter works have been collected in City of Saints and Madmen (2001), The Day Dali Died (2003), Secret Life (2004), Secret Lives (2008), The Surgeon’s Tale and Other Stories (2007; with Cat Rambo), THE THIRD BEAR (2010), and The Compass of his Bones and Other Stories (2011). The film Annihilation, directed by Alex Garland and starring Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Tessa Thompson and based on the VanderMeer novel, premiered in 2018 to rave reviews.

VanderMeer co-edited (unless otherwise noted all alongside award-winning editor Ann VanderMeer) several groundbreaking and popular anthologies including The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide To Eccentric & Discredited Diseases (2003; with Mark Roberts), THE NEW WEIRD (2008), STEAMPUNK (2008), STEAMPUNK II: STEAMPUNK RELOADED (2010), The Weird (2011), The Time Traveler’s Almanac (2013), Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology (2015), The Big Book of Science Fiction (2016), and The Big Book of Classic Fantasy (2019). Also with Ann, he produced THE KOSHER GUIDE TO IMAGINARY ANIMALS (2010).

Among his numerous nonfiction volumes are the acclaimed volumes BOOKLIFE: STRATEGIES AND SURVIVAL TIPS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY WRITER (2009), The Steampunk Bible (2011; with S. J. Chambers), and Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction (2013).

All of us at Tachyon wish the multi-faceted Jeff a squidastic birthday, full of fungi and other things that creep in the darkness.

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For more info about BOOKLIFE: STRATEGIES AND SURVIVAL TIPS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY WRITER, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by John Coulthart