Jeff VanderMeer

VanderMeer was born in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania in 1968, and spent much of his childhood in the Fiji Islands, where his parents worked for the Peace Corps."[http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2014/07/jeff-vandermeer-south-of-reality/ Jeff VanderMeer: South of Reality] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170721105309/http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2014/07/jeff-vandermeer-south-of-reality/ |date=July 21, 2017 }}," Locus Magazine, July 6, 2014. After returning to the United States, he spent time in Ithaca, New York, and Gainesville, Florida. He attended the University of Florida for three years and, in 1992, took part in the Clarion Writers Workshop.

When VanderMeer was 20, he read Angela Carter's novel The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman, which he has said "blew the back of my head off, rewired my brain: I had never encountered prose like that before, never such passion and boldness on the page.""[https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/04/the-invention-of-angela-carter-review/523326/ The Thrill and Pain of Inventing Angela Carter] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220726134701/https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/04/the-invention-of-angela-carter-review/523326/ |date=July 26, 2022 }}" by Jeff VanderMeer, The Atlantic, April 20, 2017. Carter's fiction inspired VanderMeer to both improve and be fearless with his own writing.

VanderMeer began writing in the late 1980s while still in high school and quickly became a prolific contributor to small-press magazines.St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers by David Pringle, St. James Press, 1998. During this time VanderMeer wrote a number of horror and fantasy short stories, some of which were collected in his 1989 self-published book The Book of Frog and in the 1996 collection The Book of Lost Places. He also wrote poetry—his poem "Flight Is for Those Who Have Not Yet Crossed Over" was a co-winner of the 1994 Rhysling Award—and edited two issues of the self-published zine Jabberwocky.

One of VanderMeer's early successes was his 2001 short-story collection City of Saints and Madmen, set in the imaginary city of Ambergris. Several of VanderMeer's novels were subsequently set in the same place, including Shriek: An Afterword (2006) and Finch (2009), the latter of which was a finalist for the Nebula Award for Best Novel.{{cite web |url=http://www.sfwa.org/2010/02/2009-nebula-awards-final-ballot/ |title=2009 Nebula Awards Final Ballot – SFWA |work=SFWA |date=February 19, 2010 |access-date=May 28, 2010 |archive-date=February 21, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100221215940/http://www.sfwa.org/2010/02/2009-nebula-awards-final-ballot/ |url-status=live }} In 2000, his novella The Transformation of Martin Lake won the World Fantasy Award.

VanderMeer has also worked in other media, including on a movie based on his novel Shriek that featured an original soundtrack by rock band The Church. The band Murder By Death likewise recorded a soundtrack for Finch, which was released alongside a limited edition of the book. VanderMeer also wrote a Predator tie-in novel for Dark Horse Comics called Predator: South China Seas and worked with animator Joel Veitch on a Play Station Europe animation of his story "A New Face in Hell".

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In 2014, Farrar, Straus and Giroux published VanderMeer's Southern Reach Series, consisting of the novels Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance. The story focuses on a secret agency that manages expeditions into a location known as Area X. The area is an uninhabited and abandoned part of the United States that nature has begun to reclaim after a mysterious world-changing event.{{cite web |first=Ian |last=Spiegelman |date=February 28, 2014 |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2014/02/28/jeff-vandermeer-annihilation/5902023/ |title=Jeff VanderMeer: 'Power of Nature' Inspired New Sci-Fi Novel 'Annihilation' |newspaper=USA Today |access-date=2014-04-08 |archive-date=January 9, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180109094030/https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2014/02/28/jeff-vandermeer-annihilation/5902023/ |url-status=live }}

VanderMeer has said that the main inspiration for Area X and the series was his hike through St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge.{{cite web |last1=Schardl |first1=Kati |title=Exploring 'Area X': Local author has hit with book series based on St. Marks Wildlife Refuge |url=http://www.tallahassee.com/story/life/2014/03/29/exploring-area-x-local-author-has-hit-with-book-series-based-on-st-marks-wildlife-refuge/7055811/ |work=Tallahassee Democrat |publisher=Gannett |access-date=July 21, 2014 |archive-date=August 11, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140811215616/http://www.tallahassee.com/story/life/2014/03/29/exploring-area-x-local-author-has-hit-with-book-series-based-on-st-marks-wildlife-refuge/7055811/ |url-status=live }} The Other Side of the Mountain by Michel Bernanos is among the books VanderMeer has cited as also having had an influence.

The original trilogy was released in quick succession over an 8-month period, in what has been called an innovative "Netflix-inspired strategy.""[http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-ca-jc-mcd-imprint-20170728-story.html The boundary-pushing fiction of Sean McDonald and his new FSG imprint, MCD]," by Margaret Wappler, The Los Angeles Times, July 28, 2017. The strategy helped the second and third books reach the New York Times Bestseller list, and established VanderMeer as "one of the most forward-thinking authors of the decade."{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times |date=May 25, 2014 |title=Paperback Trade Fiction |url=https://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/2014-05-25/trade-fiction-paperback/list.html?date=2014-05-25&category=trade-fiction-paperback |access-date=March 2, 2017 |archive-date=March 6, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306162548/http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/2014-05-25/trade-fiction-paperback/list.html?date=2014-05-25&category=trade-fiction-paperback |url-status=live }}{{cite news |title=Best Sellers – Paperback Trade Fiction |newspaper=The New York Times |date=May 25, 2014 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/2014-09-21/trade-fiction-paperback/list.html |access-date=September 12, 2014 |archive-date=September 12, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140912230957/http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/2014-09-21/trade-fiction-paperback/list.html |url-status=live }}

The series ended up being highly honored, with Annihilation winning the Nebula and Shirley Jackson Awards for Best Novel. The entire original trilogy was also named a finalist for the 2015 World Fantasy Award"[http://www.locusmag.com/News/2015/11/world-fantasy-awards-winners-2015/ World Fantasy Awards Winners 2015] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160613235211/http://www.locusmag.com/News/2015/11/world-fantasy-awards-winners-2015/ |date=June 13, 2016 }}," Locus Magazine, November 8, 2015. and the 2016 Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis."[http://file770.com/?p=28642 2016 Kurd Laßwitz Preis Nominees] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170902224931/http://file770.com/?p=28642 |date=September 2, 2017 }}," File 770, April 24, 2016. Annihilation was also adapted into a film of the same name by writer-director Alex Garland. The film stars Natalie Portman, Gina Rodriguez,{{cite news |title=Alex Garland Sets Natalie Portman and Frances McDormand for 'Annihilation'; Neill Blomkamp Lines Up Next Project |url=http://thefilmstage.com/news/alex-garland-sets-natalie-portman-and-frances-mcdormand-for-annihilation-neill-blomkamp-lines-up-next-project/ |work=thefilmstage.com |date=November 11, 2015 |access-date=September 1, 2017 |archive-date=September 2, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170902095051/https://thefilmstage.com/news/alex-garland-sets-natalie-portman-and-frances-mcdormand-for-annihilation-neill-blomkamp-lines-up-next-project/ |url-status=live }} Tessa Thompson,{{cite news |last1=Sneider |first1=Jeff |title='Creed's' Tessa Thompson Eyed to Join Natalie Portman, Gina Rodriguez in 'Annihilation' (Exclusive) |url=http://www.thewrap.com/creeds-tessa-thompson-eyed-to-join-natalie-portman-gina-rodriguez-in-annihilation-exclusive/ |access-date=January 5, 2016 |work=TheWrap |date=January 4, 2016 |language=en-US |archive-date=January 7, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160107040559/http://www.thewrap.com/creeds-tessa-thompson-eyed-to-join-natalie-portman-gina-rodriguez-in-annihilation-exclusive/ |url-status=live }} Jennifer Jason Leigh,{{Cite web |url=http://collider.com/jennifer-jason-leigh-annihilation-movie/ |title=Jennifer Jason Leigh Up for Ex Machina Director's Annihilation |date=February 10, 2016 |website=Collider |language=en-US |access-date=2016-05-17 |archive-date=September 2, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170902045816/http://collider.com/jennifer-jason-leigh-annihilation-movie/ |url-status=live }} and Oscar Isaac.{{Cite web |url=http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/annihilation/39553/annihilation-oscar-isaac-joins-alex-garland-s-new-film |title=Annihilation: Oscar Isaac joins Alex Garland's new film |website=Den of Geek |access-date=May 17, 2016 |archive-date=April 1, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160401204757/http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/annihilation/39553/annihilation-oscar-isaac-joins-alex-garland-s-new-film |url-status=live }}

In 2017 VanderMeer released Borne, a "biotech apocalypse" novel"[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jun/15/borne-by-jeff-vandermeer-review Borne by Jeff VanderMeer review – after the biotech apocalypse] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170902050103/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jun/15/borne-by-jeff-vandermeer-review |date=September 2, 2017 }}" by Neel Mukherjee, The Guardian, June 15, 2017. about a scavenger named Rachel trying to survive both a city "plunged into a primordial realm of myth, fable, and fairy tale" and a five-story-tall flying bear named Mord. As with the Southern Reach trilogy, the novel was highly praised, with The Guardian saying, "VanderMeer’s recent work has been Ovidian in its underpinnings, exploring the radical transformation of life forms and the seams between them." Publishers Weekly said the novel reads "like a dispatch from a world lodged somewhere between science fiction, myth, and a video game" and that with Borne Vandermeer has essentially invented a new literary genre, "weird literature."

Paramount Pictures has optioned the film rights to Borne."[https://variety.com/2016/film/news/paramount-scott-rudin-borne-jeff-vandermeer-1201893053/ Paramount and Scott Rudin Team on Next Novel From ‘Annihilation’ Author (EXCLUSIVE)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180213084317/http://variety.com/2016/film/news/paramount-scott-rudin-borne-jeff-vandermeer-1201893053/ |date=February 13, 2018 }}" by Justin Kroll, Variety, October 18, 2016.

In August 2017 VanderMeer released the novella The Strange Bird: A Borne Story."[https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/interviews/article/74379-four-questions-for-jeff-vandermeer.html Four Questions for...Jeff VanderMeer] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170902050040/https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/interviews/article/74379-four-questions-for-jeff-vandermeer.html |date=September 2, 2017 }}" by John Maher, Publishers Weekly, August 1, 2017. The stand-alone story is set in the same world as Borne but featuring different characters.

Dead Astronauts, a stand-alone short novel set in the Borne universe, was released on December 3, 2019.{{Cite web |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/624628/dead-astronauts-by-jeff-vandermeer/9780771049200 |title=Dead Astronauts by Jeff VanderMeer |website=Penguin Random House Canada |language=en |access-date=2020-02-11}} A stand-alone novel, Hummingbird Salamander, was published on April 6, 2021.

VanderMeer is a frequent writer of critical literary reviews and essays, which have appeared in numerous publications including The Atlantic,[https://www.theatlantic.com/author/jeff-vandermeer/ The Atlantic author page for Jeff VanderMeer] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190412032430/https://www.theatlantic.com/author/jeff-vandermeer/ |date=April 12, 2019 }}, Retrieved July 9, 2019. The Washington Post Book World, Publishers Weekly, and other places. For a number of years he was a regular columnist for the Amazon book-culture blog and has served as a judge for the Eisner Awards, among others. He has been a guest speaker at such diverse events as the Brisbane Writers Festival, Finncon in Helsinki, and the American Library Association annual conference.

In 2019, VanderMeer was a judge for the National Book Award for Fiction.[https://www.nationalbook.org/2019-national-book-awards-judges/ 2019 National Book Awards Judges] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190916171020/https://www.nationalbook.org/2019-national-book-awards-judges/ |date=September 16, 2019 }}, Retrieved July 9, 2019.

VanderMeer has also edited a number of anthologies. He won a 2003 World Fantasy Award for Leviathan, Volume Three, a collection of genre-bending stories he edited with Forrest Aguirre. He and Mark Roberts were also finalists for the same award the next year for the anthology The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases.

Most of his recent anthologies have been collaborations with his wife, Ann VanderMeer, the Hugo-award-winning former editor of Weird Tales. These anthologies include The New Weird, a collection of stories from New Weird authors; Last Drink Bird Head, a charity anthology benefiting literacy; The Weird, a World Fantasy Award winning collection of weird fiction; Time Traveler's Almanac, an anthology of time-travel fiction; Fast Ships, Black Sails, a pirate fiction anthology; and the Locus Award winning The Big Book of Science Fiction.

VanderMeer is the founding editor and publisher of the Ministry of Whimsy Press, which he set up in the late 1980s while still in high school.{{cite web |url=http://vanderworld.blogspot.com/2004/12/ministry-of-whimsy-on-hiatus.html |title=VanderWorld (under occupation) |publisher=vanderworld.blogspot.com |access-date=June 17, 2007 |archive-date=June 21, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070621210849/http://vanderworld.blogspot.com/2004/12/ministry-of-whimsy-on-hiatus.html |url-status=live }} The press is currently an imprint of Wyrm Publishing.{{cite web |url=http://www.jeffvandermeer.com/2007/10/17/ministry-of-whimsy-press-the-resurrection/ |title=Ministry of Whimsy Press: The Resurrection |work=The Southern Reach |date=October 17, 2007 |access-date=October 19, 2007 |archive-date=October 20, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071020090701/http://www.jeffvandermeer.com/2007/10/17/ministry-of-whimsy-press-the-resurrection/ |url-status=live }} One of the Ministry's publications, The Troika by Stepan Chapman, won the Philip K. Dick Award in 1997.

VanderMeer has been involved in teaching creative writing. One of the projects he is involved with is Shared Worlds, an annual two-week program that aims to teach creative writing to teenagers.{{cite web |url=http://www.wofford.edu/sharedworlds/ |title=Shared Worlds' 2014 Visiting Writers Announced |date=May 6, 2014 |access-date=2014-05-06 |archive-date=May 7, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140507032940/http://www.wofford.edu/sharedworlds/ |url-status=live }} VanderMeer has also taught at the Clarion Workshop{{cite web |title=2014 Clarion Instructors |url=http://clarion.ucsd.edu/faculty.html |access-date=May 28, 2014 |archive-date=January 17, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080117003534/http://clarion.ucsd.edu/faculty.html |url-status=dead }} and at Trinity Prep School. In addition to his teaching, VanderMeer has also written guides to creative writing such as Wonderbook, which won a BSFA Award,BSFA Award for Best Non-Fiction#2013 a Locus Award, and was nominated for a Hugo and World Fantasy Award.Hugo Award for Best Related Work

VanderMeer has been called "one of the most remarkable practitioners of the literary fantastic in America today," with The New Yorker naming him the "King of Weird Fiction." VanderMeer's fiction is noted for eluding genre classifications even as his works bring in themes and elements from genres such as postmodernism, ecofiction, the New Weird and post-apocalyptic fiction.

VanderMeer's fiction has been described as "evocative (with) intellectual observations both profound and disturbing" and "lyrical and harrowing,"[http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-ca-jc-borne-vandermeer-20170413-story.html Jeff Vandermeer's new dystopian novel 'Borne' is lyrical and harrowing; Elizabeth Hand reviews] with his mixing of genres producing "something unique and unsettling."{{cite news |first=Eric |last=Brown |author-link=Eric Brown (writer) |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/sep/18/finch-jeff-vandermeer-ambergris-review |title=Finch by Jeff VanderMeer |work=The Guardian |date=September 18, 2010 |access-date=September 2, 2017 |archive-date=September 2, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170902090734/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/sep/18/finch-jeff-vandermeer-ambergris-review |url-status=live }}

VanderMeer's writing has been compared with the works of Jorge Luis Borges, Kafka, and Thoreau.

In 2003, VanderMeer married Ann Kennedy, then editor for the small Buzzcity Press and Silver Web magazine. {{As of|2018|alt=The couple lives in Tallahassee, Florida.}} They have two cats.{{cite web |author=Tallahassee Democrat staff |title=Meet Author Jeff VanderMeer |url=https://www.tallahassee.com/insider/events/2017/05/08/meet-author-jeff-vandermeer/101438014/ |work=Tallahassee Democrat |publisher=Gannett Company |date=May 8, 2017 |access-date=May 6, 2018 |archive-date=July 14, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180714170316/https://www.tallahassee.com/insider/events/2017/05/08/meet-author-jeff-vandermeer/101438014/ |url-status=live }} One is named Neo.{{cite web |last=Harvilla |first=Robert |title=The Darkest (and Coolest) Timeline of Jeff VanderMeer |url=https://www.theringer.com/2017/5/30/16040198/jeff-vandermeer-new-book-borne-95e6ac07bea1 |work=The Ringer |publisher=SBNation.com |date=May 30, 2017 |access-date=May 6, 2018 |archive-date=May 7, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180507085220/https://www.theringer.com/2017/5/30/16040198/jeff-vandermeer-new-book-borne-95e6ac07bea1 |url-status=live }}

VanderMeer has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award 14 times.{{cite web |title=About |url=http://www.jeffvandermeer.com/about/ |access-date=June 3, 2014 |archive-date=May 26, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140526211127/http://www.jeffvandermeer.com/about/ |url-status=live }} He has also won an NEA-funded Florida Individual Writers' Fellowship, and, the Le Cafard Cosmique award in France and the Tähtifantasia Award in Finland, both for City of Saints. He has also been a finalist for the Hugo Award, Bram Stoker Award, International Horror Guild Award, Philip K. Dick Award, and many others. Novels such as Veniss Underground and Shriek: An Afterword have made the year's best lists of Amazon.com, The Austin Chronicle, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Publishers Weekly, among others.

• Dradin, In Love (1996, collected in all editions of City of Saints and Madmen)
• The Hoegbotton Guide to the Early History of Ambergris, by Duncan Shriek (1999, collected in all editions of City of Saints and Madmen)
• Veniss Underground (2003)
• Shriek: An Afterword (2006)
• Predator: South China Sea (2008)
• Finch (2009)
• Southern Reach Series:
• Annihilation (2014)
• Authority (2014)
• Acceptance (2014)
• Absolution (2024)
• Borne (2017)
• Dead Astronauts (2019)
• The Misadventures of Jonathan Lambshead:
• A Peculiar Peril (2020)
• A Terrible Trouble (forthcoming){{Cite web |url=https://twitter.com/jeffvandermeer/status/1347602027006844930 |access-date=2022-06-05 |website=Twitter |title=Jeff VanderMeer on Twitter: "Current reading: Tommy Pico, Mariana Enriquez, Johannes Anyuru. Re-reading Magic Prague and the Hearing Trumpet as research for the final Lambshead novel, A Terrible Trouble." |archive-date=June 5, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220605063339/https://twitter.com/jeffvandermeer/status/1347602027006844930 |url-status=live }}
• Hummingbird Salamander (2021)
• The Stone Shed (forthcoming){{Cite web |date=2022-01-30 |title=The State of VanderWorld in 2022: Movie News, New Fiction, Political Activism, and Baby Raccoons |url=https://www.jeffvandermeer.com/2022/01/30/the-state-of-vanderworld-in-2022-movie-news-new-fiction-political-activism-and-baby-raccoons/ |access-date=2022-06-05 |website=Jeff VanderMeer |archive-date=January 30, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220130182458/https://www.jeffvandermeer.com/2022/01/30/the-state-of-vanderworld-in-2022-movie-news-new-fiction-political-activism-and-baby-raccoons/ |url-status=live }}

• Why Should I Cut Your Throat? (2004)
• Booklife: Strategies and Survival Tips for the 21st Century Writer (2009)
• The Steampunk Bible (2010) (with Selena Chambers)
• Monstrous Creatures: Explorations of Fantasy through Essays, Articles & Reviews (2011)
• Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction (2013)
• The Steampunk User's Manual: An Illustrated Practical and Whimsical Guide to Creating Retro-futurist Dreams (2014)

• The Book of Frog (1989)
• Lyric of the Highway Mariner: A Collection of Poems (1991)
• The Book of Lost Places (1996)
• City of Saints and Madmen: The Book of Ambergris (2001)
• City of Saints and Madmen (2002, substantially expanded from the 2001 edition)
• City of Saints and Madmen (2004, expanded from the 2002 edition)
• The Day Dali Died (2003)
• Secret Life (2004)
• Why Should I Cut Your Throat? (non-fiction, 2004)
• VanderMeer 2005 (promotional sampler, 2005)
• Secret Lives (2006)
• The Surgeon's Tale and Other Stories (with Cat Rambo, 2007)
• The Third Bear (2010, Tachyon Publications)
• The Compass of His Bones and Other Stories (2011)
• Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy: Annihilation; Authority; Acceptance (2014)

(Uncollected)

• ''The Mare Tenebrosum (1988)
• Varlags Are Strange (1989)
• One-Armed Bandit (1989)
• So the Dead Walk Slowly (1989)
• Disintegration (1990)
• Requiem for the Machine (1990)
• Welcome to the Masque (1991)
• Flesh (1991)
• Ex Post Facto (1992)
• Confessions (1992)
• Ghost in the Machine (1995)
• A Report on the Living Dead (A Memoir of the Last Days) (1996)
• David Pangborn Takes A Walk (1996)
• Afterwards, Drowning (1996)
• Afterwards, Burying the Dog (1997)
• Mansions on the Moon (2001)
• An Enthusiastic Foreword by the Editors (2003)
• Tian Shan-Gobi Assimilation (2003)
• How Benjobi Song Came to Rule Iphagenia (2004)
• A New Face in Hell (2007)
• King Tales (2007)
• Island Tales (2008)
• The Situation (2008)
• Why the Vulture is Bald (2008)
• The Mona Lisa (2009) (with Tessa Kum)
• Errata (2010)
• The Three Quests of the Wizard Sarnod (2010)
• The Lizard Dance (2011) (with Gio Clairval)
• Myster Odd Theme Song (Poem) (2011)
• Komodo (2012)
• No Breather in the World but Thee (2013)
• Fragments from the Notes of a Dead Mycologist (2014)
• Marmot Season (2017)
• The Strange Bird (a Borne story) (2017)
• This World is Full of Monsters (2017)
• The Comet Man Book Club Questions (2020)
• Epilogue: Clarity, Now With Hellscape (2020)
• The Leviathan's Tale (2020)
• Wildlife (2022)

• The Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals (with Ann VanderMeer, 2010, Tachyon Publications)

• Leviathan 1 (with Luke O'Grady, 1994)
• Leviathan 2 (with Rose Secrest, 1998)
• Leviathan 3 (with Forrest Aguirre, 2002)
• Album Zutique (2003)
• The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases (with Mark Roberts, 2003)
• The New Weird (with Ann VanderMeer, 2007)
• Best American Fantasy (with Ann VanderMeer, 2007)
• Best American Fantasy: v. 2 (with Ann VanderMeer, 2008)
• Last Drink Bird Head, (2008)
• Steampunk (with Ann VanderMeer, 2008)
• Fast Ships, Black Sails, (with Ann VanderMeer, 2009) – Fantasy pirate stories
• Steampunk II: Steampunk Reloaded (2010)
• The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities (with Ann VanderMeer, 2011)
• ODD? (with Ann VanderMeer, 2011)
• The Weird (with Ann VanderMeer, 2012)
• The Time Traveler's Almanac (with Ann VanderMeer, 2014)
• Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology (with Ann VanderMeer, 2015)
• The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection (with Ann VanderMeer, 2016)
• The Big Book of Classic Fantasy (with Ann VanderMeer, 2019)
• The Big Book of Modern Fantasy (with Ann VanderMeer, 2020)

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