Strange Horizons Staff Emeritus
Note: bios may be out of date.
Jeremy "Elvis" Adams (former Newsletter Editor)
Jeremy spends his time living in a hick town in the wonderful world of Utah. When not chasing goats and monitoring the still that makes his "medicine," he writes weird stories involving heartache, cheese, and very small rocks. One day, he plans to have plastic surgery and start his music career under the name Elvis Winklestein. After that, he will marry pop singer Jewel and take over the world. Until then, he just does the grunt work for "The Man."
Deb Alvers (former Assistant Webmaster)
Deb lives in Brisbane, Australia, with her husband and two insane Somali cats. She abandoned her feminist principles when she got married because she likes being at the top of alphabetical lists. In true fairy tale fashion, her husband thought he was marrying a blonde IT geek, but she turned into a brunette Arts student, unpublished novelist and assistant editor for Aurealis. He’s still looking for his receipt, but as with all fairy stories, the spell is already wearing off.
Ramon Arjona (former Development)
Originally from Hawaii, Ramon now lives in Washington state with his
wife, daughter and two cats. Ramon's work has appeared in the
Absinthe Literary Review, Exquisite Corpse, and ZYZZYVA.
Nathan Barker (former Bookstore Editor)
Jessica Berg (former Development Director)
Steve Berman (former Newsletter Editor)
Steve Berman does not promise that any of his talents are unearthly, but he does enjoy reading and writing some good fiction. He recently published a collection of queer short stories, Trysts, and is currently taking time out from working a real job (and pursuing a normal life) to contribute to Strange Horizons and write a really cool goth YA novel.
Sunita Bhatia (former Art Editor)
Darin Bradley (former Copy Editor)
Darin Bradley is a Ph.D. candidate in Poetics at the University of North Texas. In addition to fussing over punctuation and spelling, he enjoys classic horror films, single malt scotch, and speaking about himself in third person.
Benjamin Buchholz (former Development / PR)
Ben's non-relevant schooling in Classical Antiquities somehow birthed a succession of marketing, PR and Internet jobs. Likewise, Ben's non-relevant side job as an officer in the US Army has gotten him activated for the next who-knows-how-long. Ben misses marketing work, loves speculative fiction, and suddenly has some free-time between Army assignments to help one of his favorite 'zines.
Audra Bruno (former Development / PR)
Audra's background is in Public Health Advocacy and Credit Management, which seems like it ought to translate to PR and Development in a very SpecFic sort of way, doesn't it? Her day job keeps her pretty busy, but since we've recently discovered she's also A. Leigh Jones, we figure she must have more free time than she lets on.
Fred Bush (former Senior Articles Editor)—Send Fred mail.
Fred Bush is a graduate student in English Literature at the University of Rochester. His tendency to pop off to places like Philadelphia and France at the drop of a hat tends to alarm those close to him. Fred enjoys college radio stations, cult movies, conspiracy theory, and left-wing politics. He also writes role-playing games.
C. A. Casey (former Music Editor)
C. A. Casey is a mild mannered academic librarian by day and a mild-mannered fantasy writer by night. She currently lives in the Pacific Northwest with her cats and her collection of computers and other electronic toys. She started out life as a musician and is enjoying this opportunity to touch base with her first obsession. Not that she's complaining about the pursuit of writing—three of her fantasy books have been published with a fourth due out in mid-2002.
J. D. Cates (former Bookstore Editor)
J.D. Cates is a product of the backwoods Ozarks who is slowly adjusting to
"big-city" life in middle Tennessee. She is a full-time secretary, a
part-time I.T. student, a mom, and a lifelong fan of speculative fiction.
When she's not managing these rich and varied aspects of her life, J.D.
spends too much time on the Net, plays with HTML and JavaScript, and tries
to train her hyperactive dog.
Darja Malcolm-Clarke (Articles Editor)
Darja has an illustrious past as a circus knife thrower. She puts the "can" in the Uncanny, the "Iä" in "Ftaghn," and the lime in the coconut. Her hobbies include parthenogenesis, English graduate pogroms at IU Bloomington, and hermaphroditic muskrat breeding.
Christopher Cobb (former Reviews Editor)
Christopher Cobb is a well-traveled teacher of English literature: he's taught in Connecticut, Maine, Tennessee, and North Carolina. He's currently an assistant professor at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, where he teaches Shakespeare and Renaissance literature. He enjoys work as an editor at Strange Horizons because he can comment on style without having to give out grades! He's been a lover of speculative fiction since reading The Hobbit at age 10, and Tolkien remains a favorite author. In his copious free time, he is an avid folk
dancer. He is not a writer of fiction, at least not yet.
Heather Corinna (former Art Editor)
Heather is the founder, owner, designer and editor of Scarlet Letters and Scarleteen. Her work has appeared online at Maxi, PIF Magazine, LeisureSuit.Net, Orato, Clean Sheets,and Other Rooms amongst others, and in the anthologies Viscera, The Adventures of Food, Aqua Erotica, and the forthcoming Zaftig: An Anthology of Well-Rounded Erotica. Her work in positive sexuality activism and education has received accolades everywhere from The Industry Standard to the Illinois Library Association, from The City Pages to Playboy, and from the Boston Phoenix to the Kinsey Institute. She lives in the Twin Cities with an extensive zoo and a stunning androgyne, and has performed the medical miracle of living for 30 years on nothing but coffee, cigarettes, and stubbornness.
Kathryn Graham (former Bookstore Manager)
Janet Hanseth (former Assistant Webmaster)
Janet currently lives in Flagstaff, Arizona, and claims she will never, ever adapt to life at 7,000 feet.
J. Alexander Harman (former Science Advisor)
J. Alexander Harman (Alex to those who know him) is a part-time, non-degree-seeking graduate student in entomology at the University of Maryland, College Park (which refers to his status as "Advanced Special Student"—he hopes that whoever came up with that title didn't considerthe acronym for it). He is presently applying for full-time status at several graduate schools, and hopes to enter such a program in the fall of 2001. In the mean time, he does contract work at the National Museum of Natural History, and spends his free time reading, surfing the Web, watching anime, and ballroom dancing, not necessarily in that order. He is also a member of the Washington Area Secular Humanists, and runs the UMCP chapter of the Campus Freethought Alliance. His qualifications as an articles editor are somewhat dubious, but he does the best he can.
R Michael Harman (former New Media Reviews Editor)
R Michael Harman lives with the world's cutest cats in an ivory tower in Palo Alto. His love of pop culture and shiny things led him to direct Strange Horizons' coverage of new media. He spends his spare time wandering around San Francisco, and among friends, who call him Auros. He sometimes has trouble remembering to respond to his given name. He got his start editing at the Johns Hopkins University Writing Center, where he worked with students on everything from original poetry to engineering theses. Though his resemblance to Renaissance depictions of the Christian savior has been frequently observed, and he does endorse ideals of peace and love, he is not, in fact, a deity.
Judith Hayman (former Music Editor)
Judith is a wife, mother, cat-owner and Public Health Nurse in Southern Ontario. She has been reading SF&F since age 10, with many interesting results to her view of the world. She found fandom and filk music through a Star Trek convention. Since 1993 she's been on the committee for FilKONtario, including 7 years as chair or co-chair. In 1994 she was invited to join the Board of Directors of Interfilk, an arts charity for filkers, as the Canadian representative. Aside from writing for dull, boring professional publications, she's also been a regular columnist for fanzines. She's a guitarist, vocalist and songwriter with a CD and songbook published (both titled, Sea of Stars).
Chris Heinemann (former Fiction Editor)
Chris is a writer, weaver, mom, wife, pet owner, taxi service, cookie mom, and entrepreneur . . . and in serious need of a twelve step program for those who take on way too many projects. She has been known to seek solitude on long hikes through the mountains near her Virginia home, but she can most often be found chained to her computer desk, reading story submissions.
David Higgins (former Articles Editor)
David Higgins is a Ph.D. graduate student working on a combined doctorate in American Literature and American Studies at Indiana University. He specializes in post-1945 American literature with an emphasis in speculative fiction, and his critical interests include postmodernism, imperialism, globalization, and gender. In addition to serving as an articles editor for Strange Horizons, David is a member of GSAC (the English Department Graduate Student Advisory Committee) and the President of I.U. Live Action, an organiztion dedicated to experimental improvisational theatre and community-based philanthropy. His dissertation considers the ways in which speculative fiction offers new insights for reconciling a postmodern commitment to strong cultural relativism with a deep inquiry into conditions of postmodernity under late-capitalism. In addition to his academic work, David is a roleplaying enthusiast, a film-lover, a part-time musician, and a fan of foxes and cats.
David Horwich (former Consulting Editor)—Send David mail.
David lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Michael Jasper (former Poetry Editor)
Michael is a graduate of the University of Iowa, N.C. State University, and the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Workshop (though not in that order and not all at the same time); he lives in Raleigh, NC. His wife, Elizabeth, and their adopted former racing greyhound, Whit, wish he would just relax every now and then. But there's always too much to do, and he's recently begun enjoying the fruits of his seemingly unending labors. Publications include a prize-winning story in the upcoming edition of the Writers of the Future anthology, along with publications in PIF Magazine, The Raleigh News and Observer, Dark Planet, Palimpsest, 3 a.m. Magazine, New Works Review, Obsidian II, and O. Henry Festival Stories 1998. His first novel, The Prodigal Sons, deals with two brothers living on a farm in Iowa, and his current novel, Autumn's Fall, is a horror story set in a small town in Nebraska. He promises his next novel will take place someplace other than the Midwest, probably somewhere in outer space, just for a change of scenery.
Amanda Johnston (former Development)
Hillary King (former Articles Editor)
Hillary King is a grad student in the Certificate for Publishing and Comunications program at the Harvard University Extension School, and also a law student at Northeastern University. She hopes to avoid the real world for as long as possible by getting as many degrees as she can. Outside of academia her interests are roleplaying games, ballroom dancing, and jewelry-making.
Mack Knopf (former Articles Editor)—Send Mack mail.
Mack Knopf is currently attending law school at the University of Alabama, where he writes science fiction and fantasy in his spare time. Oddly enough, he finds that creating alternate worlds and parallel timelines fits in quite well with the study of law.
Jen Larsen (former Associate Editor)
Jen is a writer and editor living in the New York metropolitan area. She's currently and simultaneously pursuing both a freelance career and a Masters of Fine Arts Degree. She enjoys piña coladas, getting caught in the rain, and referring to herself in the third person.
Melissa Kirkwood Lewis (former Reviews Editor)
Sherman Lewis (former Consulting Editor)
Samantha Ling (former Articles Editor)
Samantha Ling is a writer from the Sacramento valley and a recent Clarion West graduate. When she's not writing creepy stories, she spends her time taking care of her two pets; a 3-year-old Mini-rex Rabbit named Socks and a 27-year-old hooligan named Mark.
Jia Jia Liu (former Illustrations Editor)
Jia Jia is an undergraduate student at Harvard University but really all she wants to do is actually to go and live in the sci-fi and fantasy worlds that she reads about. Since this is physically impossible she satisfies her ravenous imagination with a healthy diet of SF and fantasy artwork, videogames, Japanese manga and anime. When she's not studying away at her desk, or staring open-mouthed at her fantasy wall-scrolls, she likes to dance, practice kung fu, and do the odd bit of graphic design.
Katherine Macdonald (former Articles Editor)
Katherine—for the purposes of those googling to find out about peers and family—graduated from an academy in the frozen reaches of northern New Hampshire, and has since gone to college near Philadelphia. When she's not in school, she lives in Amish country with her partner, her partner's family, and a very angry cat.
Jenna Medaris (former Art Editor)
Jenna is a writer and a nomad trying to learn to stay put. At press time, she lived
in Atlanta, Georgia. Let's hope this is still true.
Sean Miller (former Webmaster)
Sean is currently in Cambridge, England, working at the Fitzwilliam Museum, which seemed the sensible thing to do after getting a doctorate in Anglo-Saxon history. He is accumulating computer qualifications as quickly as possible and hopes to return to Canada (where he grew up) next year.
Mary Anne Mohanraj (former Workshop Coordinator and Editor-in-Chief)
Mary Anne Mohanraj is a graduate of Clarion West '97, and is currently a doctoral student in Fiction and Literature at the University of Utah. She is the author of Torn Shapes of Desire, editor of Aqua Erotica and Wet, and consulting editor for Herotica 7. Mohanraj founded the webzine Clean Sheets and has been published in a multitude of anthologies and magazines. In 2001 she received the Scowcroft Prize for Fiction and a Neff fellowship; in 2002 she received a Steffenson-Canon fellowship. Mohanraj currently serves on the 2002 Tiptree Award and the 2002 Independent E-book Award juries.
Cody Mooneyhan (former Development Editor) Cody Mooneyhan is a full-time writer/editor for a public relations and communications firm in Washington, DC. His professional writing experience has included, among other materials, technical reports, proposals, fact sheets, media materials, brochures, Web and interactive media copy, radio scripts, and even an informative comic book. Before his current position, he worked for several national nonprofit organizations as a managing editor/writer, writer, and editorial assistant. He earned a bachelors degree from the University of Maryland, College Park.
Debbie Moorhouse (former Articles Editor) Debbie Moorhouse is a British writer who is also Submissions Manager at NFG magazine. She has a husband and a cat and suspects there's nothing else to wish for.
Kyle Niedzwiecki (former Senior Articles Editor)
A Bostonian expatriate IT professional living in Indiana, Kyle continues to fight a life-long war with his obsessive side. He lost a significant battle in this war by accepting an editorship with Strange Horizons, but he seems pretty chipper about it. Kyle is also a news junkie, gamer, and some-time runner in his copious, if illusory, free time.
Beth Oing (former Bookstore Editor)
Beth Oing is currently working towards getting her teaching credential in English & Drama so she can influence and enrich the lives of young readers everywhere. One of her goals in teaching is to introduce at least one project involving speculative fiction in every class she teaches, and hopefully get a class solely dedicated to Speculative Fiction started at whatever school(s) she ends up at. But she has been reading since the ripe old age of four and has never been found more than 5 feet from a book since. Other than reading, she writes poetry and fanfiction, sketches, and runs a small freelance web design business, trying to scrape together a living in the Bay Area until the government stops cutting education funds. But all work and no play makes anyone cranky, so Beth spends a fair amount of time socializing at clubs and parties, dancing until her feet revolt. Anything for the pursuit of pleasure, carpe noctum.
Simon Owens (former Development / PR Editor)
This summer he won the Emily Dickinson Poetry Award ($150 and publication in an anthology) for fifteen of his poems with commentary. He has had several of his short stories in small publications and he continues to submit (so far in vain!) to professional markets. He is the editor of the magazine SF Paradox which will be publishing such rising authors as Jonny Duffy and Ken Rand. He is also the editor of the upcoming anthology SF Rising, a book that will be packed with goodies with awesome writers like Brian A. Hopkins (if you read the next issue of
Cemetery Dance, you'll see an interview with this nice young fellow along with one of his stories) and Daniel Pearlman, and several other SFWA members. He's majoring in English with Writing Concentration at Shippensburg University (the same college that graduated the prolific Dean Koontz.) He has had several articles published in the newspaper, The Devil's Herald, and also had an editorial written about Daniel Pearl published in The Daily Local.
Sarah Palmero (former Bookstore Editor)
Catherine Pellegrino (former Articles Editor)
Catherine Pellegrino is currently a graduate student in library science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Will Quale (former Managing Editor & Webmaster)
Will is in a maze of twisty passages, all alike. He is likely to be eaten by a Grue. No, wait, he just got lost in the library stacks again. Never mind.
Fatima Raja (former Articles Editor)
Fatima is a senior majoring in Folklore and Mythology at Harvard. She
doesn't know what she's going to do with it either.
Kathryn Rantala (former Poetry Editor)
Kathryn at one time had the record number of nominations for the Rhysling Award of the Science Fiction Poetry Assn. but has lately become preoccupied with editing the Seattle journal Snow Monkey. Her work appears in the anthologies POLY, Burning With a Vision, and others; online at Dark Planet and Painted Bride Quarterly; and in both "mainstream" and genre presses such as Star*line, The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Cthulhu Calls, Terminal Velocities, and many others. Her recent book, Missing Pieces, from Lee Ballentine's Ocean View Press, strikes a blow for "genre presses" in general, specifically for the very small genre of forensic poetry, dealing as it does with death, what some consider the real final frontier.
Wolf Read (former Gallery Editor)
Wolf loves the rain, and he happily watches the gray, dreary winter months from his Beaverton, OR, home—or, when the storms are at their worst, from outside, getting pelted. Wolf and his wife, Silven, raise ferrets. They are owned by five: Jaxom, Kasumi, Nabiki, Piemur and Ripley. There are also two fosters living with them: Oscar and Samantha. Wolf volunteers at the Oregon Ferret Shelter (OFS) in Oregon City, and the Pacific Ferret Shelter Network (PSFN). He writes, edits, illustrates and prints the PSFN Newsletter, and maintains the OFS Website. He also builds Websites for ferret breeders. Aside from all the ferret goings-on, Wolf writes and illustrates science fiction and fact. He has regularly sold stories to Analog, along with the occasional article, and he has seen a few stories appear in some semi-prozines. He's sold illustrations, including covers, to Analog, Asimov's, Talebones, and TransVersions.
Jacob Rosenberg (former Articles Editor)
Jacob is a Manhattanite-at-heart whose recent transplantation to the Washington, D.C. area has caused him to question the necessity of nature itself. While sequestered indoors, he runs a few web sites, reads a few books, and cheerily edits others works to avoid the question of whether obtaining a quasi-engineering degree at a liberal arts school may have left his creative impulses permanently befuddled.
Paul Schumacher (former Copy Editor)
Paul is the oldest of four brothers, and has degrees in Mathematics, Computer Science, and Statistics from the University of Chicago; he is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Mathematics at Texas A&M University. Paul has been an avid reader since he was young, devouring everything he can get his hands on, as well as being a hardcore gamer.
Heather Shaw (former Bookstore Manager)
Heather is a transplanted Midwesterner now living in the Bay Area and loving it. She has published short fiction and has a semi-regular how-to column at Clean Sheets. Her ongoing goals are to write and publish fiction, maintain her online journal, and read, read, read.
Lucy A. Snyder (former Consulting Editor)
Lucy A. Snyder's fiction has appeared in publications such as Midnight Zoo, Snow Monkey, Clean Sheets, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, and in a variety of anthologies: Bedtime Stories to Darken Your Dreams (IFD Publishing), Civil War Fantastic (DAW), Guardian Angels (Cumberland House), and The Midnighters' Club.
Lisa Mira Spitalewitz (former Assistant Webmaster)
Chip Sudderth (former Development / PR Editor)
Chip is a communications specialist and former public speaking instructor in Chapel Hill, NC. His Tonkinese cat has psychic powers.
Steve Villiers (former Articles Editor)
Peggi Warner-Lalonde (former Music Editor)
Peggi is the editor a Filkzine entitled Filking from C to C as well, as being the executive producer of USB Studios, the only Canadian producer of Filk CDs. She's also an amateur musician (singer, and permanent guitar student).
Don Wasylyk (former Senior Reviews Editor)
Don is the Interactive Projects Director for a small pharmaceutical marketing firm,
as well as a perpetual CSE student at the Pennsylvania State University in State
College, PA. He is an avid reader and aspiring writer of several genres, and
contributes to Strange Horizons with a strong belief that this site—and the web
as a whole—will continue to develop as a respected medium of publication for
professional, quality authors seeking exposure. He's also pretty keen on computer
games, home theatre, college football, and those occasional nights out on the town
with his friends and co-workers.
Barbara Webb (former Bookstore Manager)