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charles CHARLES N. BROWN is Publisher & Editor-in-Chief of 27-time Hugo winner Locus magazine which he founded in 1968 and has been involved in the science fiction field since the late 1940s. He was the original book reviewer for Asimov's, has edited several SF anthologies, and written for numerous magazines and newspapers. Brown founded Locus in 1968 and has won more Hugos than anyone else. Also a freelance fiction editor for the past 35 years, many of the books he has edited have won awards. He travels extensively and is invited regularly to appear on writing and editing panels at the major SF conventions around the world, is a frequent Guest of Honor and speaker and judge at writers' seminars, and has been a jury member for several of the major SF awards.

KIRSTEN GONG-WONG, Managing Editor, joined Locus in 1993. A native of California's Central Valley (Porterville, to be exact), she attended UC Berkeley, then USCl. In 1989, she returned to the Bay Area and has since refused to leave. Prior to working for Locus, she practiced law as a litigator. At Locus, she is responsible for production, advertising, general office management, and miscellaneous troubleshooting. She resides in San Leandro, California with her husband and four-year-old daughter, Theodora.

MARK R. KELLY, 'Electronic Editor-in-Chief' -- see About Locus Online

liza LIZA GROEN TROMBI, Executive Editor, has been reading SF/F/horror since her tender years. She has a Bachelor's in Spanish Literature; studies Shaolin Kenpo Karate, Muay Thai kick-boxing, and pottery; and likes to race sailboats on the weekends when she has time. She was a vocalist/guitarist in a band and manager/wine buyer for a local restaurant before finding her place at Locus. Her sundry duties include writing, bookkeeping, digital image management, and keeping the wine cellar well stocked.

carolyn CAROLYN F. CUSHMAN, Senior Editor, has worked for Locus since 1985, the longest of any of the current staff, and handles our in-house books database, writes our New and Notable section, and does the monthly Books Received column. She is a graduate of Western Washington University with a degree in English. She published a fantasy novel, Witch and Wombat, in 1994.

tim TIM PRATT, Senior Editor, also co-edits 'zine Flytrap with his fiancée Heather Shaw. His stories and poems have appeared in Asimov's, Realms of Fantasy, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, and other nice places. He has been nominated for the Campbell Award for Best New Writer and for a Nebula. His first collection, Little Gods, was published in 2003, and his first novel, The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl, is coming from Bantam Spectra in summer 2005. For more, see his web site.

amelia AMELIA BEAMER, Editor, is responsible for pre-production tasks including colorbalancing photos and compiling the bestseller list, as well as catching various watermelons before they can hit the ground. She has a Bachelor's in English Literature and enjoys doing science fiction research as an independent scholar. Before coming to Locus, she worked at Clarion East, taking care of the pros and the students and trying to raise enough money to run the workshop. She attended Clarion in 2004, and has twice been a finalist for the Dell Award (previously the Asimov Award).

FRANCESCA MYMAN, Editorial Assistant, grew up in Point Reyes Station in a dome house located adjacent to what was once Philip K. Dick's writing studio, which no doubt explains her early otherworldly dreams. She is a graduate of Yale University, and has two graduate degrees in English and creative writing, interdisciplinary with classes in art, design, film, and criticism. She maintains a tribute to pulp art covers online, and has been a fan for many years. She graduated from Clarion West in 2000.

teddy THEODORA BUCHANAN, Editorial Trainee, is third in seniority at Locus. Teddy has been an office fixture since the age of 2 months. A pre-school attendee, her duties include sleeping, drawing, delivering papers from one office to the next, learning the alphabet, and everything she can about the science fiction, fantasy, and horror fields. Her passions include Disney princesses, fairy tales, dolls, gymnastics, dancing, and learning to swim. Currently she resides in San Leandro, California with her mommy and daddy.

JONATHAN STRAHAN, Reviews Editor, is an editor and anthologist. He was co-editor/co-publisher of EIDOLON, an Australian SF semiprozine, between 1990 and 1999, co-edited THE YEAR'S BEST AUSTRALIAN SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY anthology series for HarperCollins Australia in 1997 and 1998, and is publisher of The Coode Street Press. He won the Australian National Science Fiction Award and the William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism or Review in 2002, and received the Peter McNamara Achievement Award in 2005. He edits the BEST SHORT NOVELS anthology series for The Science Fiction Book Club, and co-edits the SCIENCE FICTION: BEST OF and FANTASY: BEST OF anthology series with Karen Haber for iBooks. In 2004 he co-edited THE LOCUS AWARDS: THIRTY YEARS OF THE BEST IN SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY with Charles N. Brown for HarperCollins Publishers. He is currently working on several new anthologies, most notably EIDOLON I (with Jeremy G. Byrne), THE NEW SPACE OPERA (with Gardner Dozois), and an original young adult SF anthology. He lives in Perth, Western Australia with Locus Contributing Editor Marianne Jablon and their two daughters. He now owns an iPod. For more, see his web site web site.

nick NICK GEVERS, Contributing Editor, is an editor for PS Publishing, and writes extensively on SF for a wide variety of publications. His reviews and author interviews have appeared in The Washington Post Book World, SF Weekly, Interzone, Foundation, SF Site, Nova Express, and Infinity Plus. He lives in Cape Town, South Africa.

karen KAREN HABER, Contributing Editor, is the author of eight novels including Star Trek Voyager: Bless the Beasts, co-author of Science of the X-Men, and editor of the Hugo-nominated essay collection celebrating J.R.R. Tolkien, Meditations on Middle Earth and Exploring the Matrix. Her short fiction has appeared in Asimov's, F&SF, and many anthologies. She reviews art books for Locus and profiles artists here, and for other publications, including Realms of Fantasy. Her collaboration with artist Todd Lockwood on a retrospective of his work, Transitions, has just been published by Paper Tiger. With her husband, Robert Silverberg, she has co-edited The Year's Best Science Fiction: 2001, The Year's Best Fantasy: 2001, and the popular "Universe" anthology series. She currently edits The Year's Best Science Fiction with co-editor Jonathan Strahan.

rich RICH HORTON, Contributing Editor, is a software engineer living in Webster Groves, Missouri. He was born in Naperville, Illinois, and received a B.S. in Physics from the University of Illinois in 1981. He has been working for the same large aerospace concern in St. Louis for over 20 years. He has been reading science fiction since the Golden Age (i.e since he was 12). His reviews and essays have appeared in many publications, including Antipodes, Black Gate, Argentus, SF Site, Locus (and Locus Online), 3SF, Lost Pages, Strange Horizons, and Tangent.

MARIANNE JABLON, Contributing Editor, was born in Brooklyn NY, and grew up in Staten Island. She moved to Oakland CA in 1990 to take a job at Locus and, after eight years, moved west again, marrying Jonathan Strahan and migrating to Australia. She has held various publishing-related jobs since 1987, starting with the mundane -- investment management and science books, and moving on to the more esoteric -- crossword puzzle editor, comic book reviewer, and managing editor of Locus. Since moving to Australia, she's been a judge for the Aurealis Awards two times, done desktop publishing for the Department of Minerals and Petroleum Resources, and has had a variety of temp jobs, the dullest of which is a tossup between stuffing envelopes for Australia Post or counting people as they came in to the Maritime Museum. She is currently a contributing editor for Locus, and lives in Perth, Western Australia with her husband and their two children.

russell RUSSELL LETSON, Contributing Editor, is a freelance writer living in St. Cloud, Minnesota. He has published extensively on high technology and computer business topics (currently for Transform magazine) and is a frequent contributor to Acoustic Guitar. He is also working on a book on Hawaiian slack key guitar, due out in 2004. More information is available on his web site.

faren FAREN C. MILLER, Contributing Editor, worked full-time for Locus from 1981 to September 2000, when she pulled up stakes and moved to Prescott, Arizona (a "mile-high city" not as widely known as that one in Colorado) with the man she subsequently married, Kerry Hanscom. She continues to review SF, fantasy, and horror -- enjoying, analyzing, then forgetting all the details on a regular basis -- and hopes to keep doing it for many years to come. Author of one fantasy, The Illusionists (Warner 1991), she is working on another which she's confident will be finished before the next millennium rolls around.

gary GARY K. WOLFE, Contributing Editor, has received both the Eaton Award and the Science Fiction Research Association's Pilgrim Award for his science fiction criticism and scholarship. A Locus columnist since 1991, he is Professor of English and Humanities at Roosevelt University in Chicago.

bill c. WILLIAM G. CONTENTO, Computer Projects, designed and maintains the huge databases of books received by Locus since 1984, which are collected online. He has also indexed the contents of magazines, anthologies, and collections, both in the sf and the mystery fields (see his list of bibliographic resources). With Charles N. Brown he won the Eaton Award for Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror: 1988, and with Mike Ashley he won a 1995 Stoker Award for The Supernatural Index. He lives in the San Francisco Bay area.

beth BETH GWINN, Photographer, has been self-employed as a free-lance photographer for the past 23 years, and lives in Nashville, Tennessee. Her work has appeared in Us Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, People, and Life.

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	Locus Magazine About the Magazine FAQ Staff Back Issues Subscribe Change Address Contact Indexes Reviews Interviews E-mail Locus Magazine		CHARLES N. BROWN is Publisher & Editor-in-Chief of 27-time Hugo winner Locus magazine which he founded in 1968 and has been involved in the science fiction field since the late 1940s. He was the original book reviewer for Asimov's, has edited several SF anthologies, and written for numerous magazines and newspapers. Brown founded Locus in 1968 and has won more Hugos than anyone else. Also a freelance fiction editor for the past 35 years, many of the books he has edited have won awards. He travels extensively and is invited regularly to appear on writing and editing panels at the major SF conventions around the world, is a frequent Guest of Honor and speaker and judge at writers' seminars, and has been a jury member for several of the major SF awards. § KIRSTEN GONG-WONG, Managing Editor, joined Locus in 1993. A native of California's Central Valley (Porterville, to be exact), she attended UC Berkeley, then USCl. In 1989, she returned to the Bay Area and has since refused to leave. Prior to working for Locus, she practiced law as a litigator. At Locus, she is responsible for production, advertising, general office management, and miscellaneous troubleshooting. She resides in San Leandro, California with her husband and four-year-old daughter, Theodora. § MARK R. KELLY, 'Electronic Editor-in-Chief' -- see About Locus Online § LIZA GROEN TROMBI, Executive Editor, has been reading SF/F/horror since her tender years. She has a Bachelor's in Spanish Literature; studies Shaolin Kenpo Karate, Muay Thai kick-boxing, and pottery; and likes to race sailboats on the weekends when she has time. She was a vocalist/guitarist in a band and manager/wine buyer for a local restaurant before finding her place at Locus. Her sundry duties include writing, bookkeeping, digital image management, and keeping the wine cellar well stocked. § CAROLYN F. CUSHMAN, Senior Editor, has worked for Locus since 1985, the longest of any of the current staff, and handles our in-house books database, writes our New and Notable section, and does the monthly Books Received column. She is a graduate of Western Washington University with a degree in English. She published a fantasy novel, Witch and Wombat, in 1994. TIM PRATT, Senior Editor, also co-edits 'zine Flytrap with his fiancée Heather Shaw. His stories and poems have appeared in Asimov's, Realms of Fantasy, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, and other nice places. He has been nominated for the Campbell Award for Best New Writer and for a Nebula. His first collection, Little Gods, was published in 2003, and his first novel, The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl, is coming from Bantam Spectra in summer 2005. For more, see his web site. AMELIA BEAMER, Editor, is responsible for pre-production tasks including colorbalancing photos and compiling the bestseller list, as well as catching various watermelons before they can hit the ground. She has a Bachelor's in English Literature and enjoys doing science fiction research as an independent scholar. Before coming to Locus, she worked at Clarion East, taking care of the pros and the students and trying to raise enough money to run the workshop. She attended Clarion in 2004, and has twice been a finalist for the Dell Award (previously the Asimov Award). § FRANCESCA MYMAN, Editorial Assistant, grew up in Point Reyes Station in a dome house located adjacent to what was once Philip K. Dick's writing studio, which no doubt explains her early otherworldly dreams. She is a graduate of Yale University, and has two graduate degrees in English and creative writing, interdisciplinary with classes in art, design, film, and criticism. She maintains a tribute to pulp art covers online, and has been a fan for many years. She graduated from Clarion West in 2000. § THEODORA BUCHANAN, Editorial Trainee, is third in seniority at Locus. Teddy has been an office fixture since the age of 2 months. A pre-school attendee, her duties include sleeping, drawing, delivering papers from one office to the next, learning the alphabet, and everything she can about the science fiction, fantasy, and horror fields. Her passions include Disney princesses, fairy tales, dolls, gymnastics, dancing, and learning to swim. Currently she resides in San Leandro, California with her mommy and daddy. § JONATHAN STRAHAN, Reviews Editor, is an editor and anthologist. He was co-editor/co-publisher of EIDOLON, an Australian SF semiprozine, between 1990 and 1999, co-edited THE YEAR'S BEST AUSTRALIAN SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY anthology series for HarperCollins Australia in 1997 and 1998, and is publisher of The Coode Street Press. He won the Australian National Science Fiction Award and the William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism or Review in 2002, and received the Peter McNamara Achievement Award in 2005. He edits the BEST SHORT NOVELS anthology series for The Science Fiction Book Club, and co-edits the SCIENCE FICTION: BEST OF and FANTASY: BEST OF anthology series with Karen Haber for iBooks. In 2004 he co-edited THE LOCUS AWARDS: THIRTY YEARS OF THE BEST IN SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY with Charles N. Brown for HarperCollins Publishers. He is currently working on several new anthologies, most notably EIDOLON I (with Jeremy G. Byrne), THE NEW SPACE OPERA (with Gardner Dozois), and an original young adult SF anthology. He lives in Perth, Western Australia with Locus Contributing Editor Marianne Jablon and their two daughters. He now owns an iPod. For more, see his web site web site. NICK GEVERS, Contributing Editor, is an editor for PS Publishing, and writes extensively on SF for a wide variety of publications. His reviews and author interviews have appeared in The Washington Post Book World, SF Weekly, Interzone, Foundation, SF Site, Nova Express, and Infinity Plus. He lives in Cape Town, South Africa. KAREN HABER, Contributing Editor, is the author of eight novels including Star Trek Voyager: Bless the Beasts, co-author of Science of the X-Men, and editor of the Hugo-nominated essay collection celebrating J.R.R. Tolkien, Meditations on Middle Earth and Exploring the Matrix. Her short fiction has appeared in Asimov's, F&SF, and many anthologies. She reviews art books for Locus and profiles artists here, and for other publications, including Realms of Fantasy. Her collaboration with artist Todd Lockwood on a retrospective of his work, Transitions, has just been published by Paper Tiger. With her husband, Robert Silverberg, she has co-edited The Year's Best Science Fiction: 2001, The Year's Best Fantasy: 2001, and the popular "Universe" anthology series. She currently edits The Year's Best Science Fiction with co-editor Jonathan Strahan. RICH HORTON, Contributing Editor, is a software engineer living in Webster Groves, Missouri. He was born in Naperville, Illinois, and received a B.S. in Physics from the University of Illinois in 1981. He has been working for the same large aerospace concern in St. Louis for over 20 years. He has been reading science fiction since the Golden Age (i.e since he was 12). His reviews and essays have appeared in many publications, including Antipodes, Black Gate, Argentus, SF Site, Locus (and Locus Online), 3SF, Lost Pages, Strange Horizons, and Tangent. MARIANNE JABLON, Contributing Editor, was born in Brooklyn NY, and grew up in Staten Island. She moved to Oakland CA in 1990 to take a job at Locus and, after eight years, moved west again, marrying Jonathan Strahan and migrating to Australia. She has held various publishing-related jobs since 1987, starting with the mundane -- investment management and science books, and moving on to the more esoteric -- crossword puzzle editor, comic book reviewer, and managing editor of Locus. Since moving to Australia, she's been a judge for the Aurealis Awards two times, done desktop publishing for the Department of Minerals and Petroleum Resources, and has had a variety of temp jobs, the dullest of which is a tossup between stuffing envelopes for Australia Post or counting people as they came in to the Maritime Museum. She is currently a contributing editor for Locus, and lives in Perth, Western Australia with her husband and their two children. RUSSELL LETSON, Contributing Editor, is a freelance writer living in St. Cloud, Minnesota. He has published extensively on high technology and computer business topics (currently for Transform magazine) and is a frequent contributor to Acoustic Guitar. He is also working on a book on Hawaiian slack key guitar, due out in 2004. More information is available on his web site. FAREN C. MILLER, Contributing Editor, worked full-time for Locus from 1981 to September 2000, when she pulled up stakes and moved to Prescott, Arizona (a "mile-high city" not as widely known as that one in Colorado) with the man she subsequently married, Kerry Hanscom. She continues to review SF, fantasy, and horror -- enjoying, analyzing, then forgetting all the details on a regular basis -- and hopes to keep doing it for many years to come. Author of one fantasy, The Illusionists (Warner 1991), she is working on another which she's confident will be finished before the next millennium rolls around. GARY K. WOLFE, Contributing Editor, has received both the Eaton Award and the Science Fiction Research Association's Pilgrim Award for his science fiction criticism and scholarship. A Locus columnist since 1991, he is Professor of English and Humanities at Roosevelt University in Chicago. § WILLIAM G. CONTENTO, Computer Projects, designed and maintains the huge databases of books received by Locus since 1984, which are collected online. He has also indexed the contents of magazines, anthologies, and collections, both in the sf and the mystery fields (see his list of bibliographic resources). With Charles N. Brown he won the Eaton Award for Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror: 1988, and with Mike Ashley he won a 1995 Stoker Award for The Supernatural Index. He lives in the San Francisco Bay area. § BETH GWINN, Photographer, has been self-employed as a free-lance photographer for the past 23 years, and lives in Nashville, Tennessee. Her work has appeared in Us Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, People, and Life.
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