OWW SF & F Resident Editors

OUR RESIDENT EDITORS

Jeanne Cavelos:
Jeanne is a writer, editor, scientist, and teacher. She began her professional life as an astrophysicist and mathematician, teaching astronomy at Michigan State University and Cornell University, and working in the Astronaut Training Division at NASA's Johnson Space Center. Her love of science fiction led her to earn her MFA in creative writing and begin a career in publishing, becoming a senior editor at Dell Publishing, where she created and launched the Abyss imprint of psychological horror, for which she won the World Fantasy Award, and the Cutting Edge imprint of literary fiction. She also ran the science fiction/fantasy publishing program. She edited numerous award-winning and best-selling authors and gained a reputation for discovering and nurturing new writers.

In the mid-1990s she left New York to become a freelance editor and pursue her own writing career. She runs Jeanne Cavelos Editorial Services, a full-service freelance company that provides editing, ghostwriting, consulting, and critiquing services. Since she loves working with developing writers,Jeanne created and serves as director of Odyssey, an annual six-week summer writing workshop for writers of fantasy, horror, and science fiction held at Southern New Hampshire University--the only major workshop of its kind run by an editor. Odyssey is a place where developing writers can focus on their craft and receive detailed, in-depth feedback on their work. Jeanne is also an English lecturer at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, where she teaches writing and literature.

Jeanne's latest SF work is a trilogy, The Passing of the Techno-Mages, set in the Babylon 5 universe. She has written highly-praised books on the science of Star Wars and "The X-Files," contributed a chapter called "Innovation in Horror" to Writing Horror: A Handbook by the Horror Writers Association, and has published short fiction, articles, and essays in many magazines.

John Klima:
John began his career in publishing in 1993 by taking an internship with Jim Frenkel, an editor with Tor Books. After that, he put in time writing software reviews and working for crossword puzzle magazines before landing an editorial assistant position with Asimov's and Analog science fiction magazines. Then John worked at Tor for two years -- during that time acquiring Alex Irvine's first novel A Scattering of Jades -- before he left publishing for the high-profile life of a computer programmer. He's currently a librarian. Unable to leave publishing entirely, John launched Electric Velocipede in 2001. During his five-plus years editing Electric Velocipede, John has published OWW authors like Charles Coleman Finlay, Steve Nagy, and Andre Oostman, as well as other writers including Liz Williams, Jeff VanderMeer, Jeffrey Ford, Catherynne M. Valente, Hal Duncan, Neal Barrett Jr., Christopher Rowe, and Alex Irvine. John has also worked with independent publishers, editing Zoran Zivkovic's The Fourth Circle for the Ministry of Whimsy, and Liz Williams' story collection The Banquet of the Lords of Night and Other Stories for Night Shade Books. He is the editor of Logorrhea: Good Words Make Good Stories, a 2007 anthology from Bantam Spectra.

Karin Lowachee:
Karin Lowachee was born in Guyana, South America and grew up in Ontario, Canada. She received an Honours BA in Creative Writing and English from York University in Toronto and taught adult education in the sub-Arctic community of Rankin Inlet, Nunavut for nine months. Her first book, Warchild, won the 2001 Warner Aspect First Novel Contest and was published in 2002. It was nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award, the Prix Aurora Award for Best Long-Form Work in English, and won the 2004 Gefen Award for Best Translated Science Fiction book in Israel. Her second novel, Burndive, was published in 2003 and debuted at #7 on the Locus Bestseller List. It also was nominated for the Prix Aurora Award for Best Long-Form Work in English. Karin was twice nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Her short story "The Forgotten Ones" appears in the recent anthology So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction and Fantasy. Her third novel, Cagebird, came out in April 2005.

Karen Meisner:
Karen Meisner is a Fiction Editor and Associate Editor of Strange Horizons. She has been the administrator of the Speculative Literature Foundation's Fountain Award for short fiction, and helps run WisCon, the world's leading feminist science-fiction convention.

Previous Resident Editors: James Patrick Kelly, Kelly Link, Nalo Hopkinson, Paul Witcover, Jenni Smith-Gaynor, and Susan Marie Groppi.