Ann VanderMeer has just been hired as the new editor of Weird Tales. She’ll take over with the October 2007 issue #347.
The current editorial triumverate — George H. Scithers, Darrell Schweitzer, and Wildside Press publisher John Gregory Betancourt — will assume modified roles at the magazine. Betancourt continues to oversee the entire Wildside magazine group as publisher; Scithers has been promoted to editor emeritus in charge of special projects, and is editing Wildside Press’ forthcoming Cat Tales series; and Schweitzer will be regularly bylining as a senior contributing editor for nonfiction.
VanderMeer was the founding editor of The Silver Web (1988-2002), and has been a publisher and editor for over twenty years, running her award-winning Buzzcity Press. 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. In addition, she has been a partner with her husband, Jeff VanderMeer, on 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. A Best of the Silver Web is forthcoming from Prime Books. Currently, she is serving as one of the guest editors for the new Best American Fantasy, and is co-editing anthologies including The New Weird (Tachyon Publications), Fast Ships, Black Sails (Nightshade Books), Last Drink Bird Head, and Love-Drunk Book Heads.