Ann VanderMeer (née Kennedy) is an American publisher and editor, and the second female editor of the venerable horror magazine Weird Tales. She is the founder of Buzzcity Press.
Her work as Fiction Editor of Weird Tales won a Hugo Award. 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.
In 2009 "Weird Tales edited by Ann VanderMeer and Stephen H. Segal" won a Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine. Though some of its individual contributors have been honored with Hugos, Nebula Awards, and even one Pulitzer Prize, the magazine itself had never before even been nominated for a Hugo. It was also nominated for a World Fantasy Award in 2009.
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Books published by Buzzcity Press include the Theodore Sturgeon Award finalist Dradin, In Love by Jeff VanderMeer Amazon.com: Dradin, in love: A tale of elsewhen & otherwhere (Buzzcity first editions): Jeff VanderMeer, Ann Kennedy: Books and the International Horror Guild Award-winning The Divinity Student by Michael Cisco Amazon.com: The Divinity Student (Buzzcity Press First Editions): Michael Cisco, Harry O. Morris: Books.
She is the fiction editor for Weird Tales magazine WEIRD TALES: magazine of the gothic, fantastic & bizarre » About and is also serving as one of the guest editors for the new Best American Fantasy series from Prime Books. Fast Ships, Black Sails (Nightshade Books), Last Drink Bird Head, and Love-Drunk Book Heads.
Ann has partnered with her husband, author Jeff VanderMeer, on The Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals (forthcoming;2010). She has also partnered with Jeff for 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. Recent collaborations include The New Weird Amazon.com: The New Weird: Ann VanderMeer, Jeff VanderMeer: Books Tachyon Publications: The New Weird, Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, Steampunk, and Steampunk II: Steampunk Reloaded (upcoming in October of 2010), published by Tachyon Publications Tachyon Publications: Steampunk, Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, editors.
Ann and Jeff VanderMeer live in Tallahassee, Florida.