Jurors / Advisory Board / Board of Directors
JURORS
Determining the works on the final ballot along with the final winners in each category is the responsibility of the judges.
The jurors for the 2011 Shirley Jackson Awards are, alphabetically:
Laird Barron is the author of two collections: The Imago Sequence, and Occultation, both of which won the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Collection. His work has appeared in many magazines and anthologies. An expatriate Alaskan, he currently resides in the mountains of Montana. His LiveJournal, Domination of Black, is http://imago1.livejournal.com
Matthew Cheney has published fiction and nonfiction with a wide variety of venues, including One Story, Weird Tales, Locus, Rain Taxi, Las Vegas Weekly, Web Conjunctions, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, and elsewhere. He is a regular columnist for the online magazines Strange Horizons and Boomtron, the former series editor for Best American Fantasy, and a past juror for the Speculative Literature Foundation's Fountain Award. He currently lives in New Hampshire, where he teaches at Plymouth State University and The New Hampton School. His blog, The Mumpsimus, was nominated for a World Fantasy Award in 2005.
Maura McHugh’s short stories have appeared in markets such as Black Static, The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror and Shroud Magazine. She is the writer of two comic book series: Róisín Dubh and Jennifer Wilde, and her story “The Nail” will appears in the Womanthology comic book anthology. One of her screenplays was made into a short film, and she has served on the jury of the Octocon Golden Blaster Awards and the Galway Junior Film Fleadh Pitching Awards. She co-organized the Campaign for Real Fear short horror fiction competition with author Christopher Fowler. She lives in Ireland. Her website is http://splinister.com.
Kaaron Warren has three novels in print: The critically-acclaimed and award-winning Slights, Walking the Tree and Mistification. She has two short story collections, The Grinding House and Dead Sea Fruit. Her short fiction has appeared in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror and she was one of the winners of Maura McHugh's 'Campaign for Real Fear'. She lives in Canberra, Australia, with her family. Her website is http://kaaronwarren.wordpress.com/.
Gary K. Wolfe is contributing editor and reviewer for Locus magazine, and is a board member of the Locus Science Fiction Foundation. He has written considerable academic criticism of science fiction and fantasy, including the Eaton Award-winning The Known and the Unknown: The Iconography of Science Fiction. Soundings: Reviews 1992-1996 received the British Science Fiction Association Award for best nonfiction, and both it and Bearings: Reviews 1997-2001 were Hugo Award finalists. Wolfe has also received the SFRA Pilgrim Award, the IAFA Distinguished Scholarship Award, and a World Fantasy Award for criticism and reviews.Evaporating Genres: Essays on Fantastic Literature, appeared in 2011. Wolfe is Professor of Humanities and English at Roosevelt University in Chicago.
ADVISORY BOARD
The Board of Advisors is one of the most valuable assets of the Shirley Jackson Awards. Members of the Board offer advice regarding general matters connected with the awards and, most crucially, recommend works for SJA consideration. In so doing, they provide vital support to the mission of the jurors: to read as deeply and widely as possible within the ever-widening borders of dark fiction. However, advisors may only recommend works to the jurors. Advisors do not nominate, vote on, tabulate, or otherwise administer the awards. Accordingly, works by members of the Board of Advisors are eligible for consideration for the awards.
Stefan Dziemianowicz has compiled more than forty anthologies of horror, mystery, and science fiction, and collections of macabre fiction by Louisa May Alcott, Robert Bloch, Joseph Payne Brennan, August Derleth, Henry Kuttner, Jane Rice, Bram Stoker, Henry S. Whitehead, and others. A former editor of Necrofile: The Review of Horror Fiction and the Necronomicon Press short fiction series, he co-edited Supernatural Literature of the World: An Encyclopedia. He is the author of Bloody Mary and Other Tales for a Dark Night and The Annotated Guide to Unknown and Unknown Worlds. His reviews have appeared in Publishers Weekly, Locus, and The Washington Post Book World.
Bill Congreve is a Sydney-based writer, editor, book reviewer and independent publisher. He has a BA in Communications and has received a William J. Atheling award for genre criticism, a Peter McNamara Convenor's Award and an Australian Science Fiction Award, both for professional achievement, and an Australian Science Fiction Award for Best Collected Work. He has edited a number of short story collections, including Intimate Armageddons (Australia's first modern, original horror anthology), Passing Strange, Bonescribes (with Robert Hood) and Southern Blood. He has acted as a judge for the Aurealis Award on seven occasions. He has published over forty short stories in a range of magazines and anthologies including Faerie Reel, Tenebres, Event Horizon, Terror Australis, Aurealis, Bloodsongs, and Cross-Town Traffic. His vampire stories have been collected in Epiphanies of Blood. He has been Aurealis magazine's book reviewer for the last fifteen years, a position he has just resigned. Recent titles from his independent publishing company, MirrorDanse Books, include Rynosseros, by Terry Dowling, Written in Blood, by Chris Lawson, Immaterial: Ghost Stories, by Robert Hood, A Tour Guide in Utopia by Lucy Sussex, Confessions of a Pod Person, by Chuck McKenzie, and The Year's Best Australian SF & Fantasy, Volumes One and Two, which he co-edited with Michelle Marquardt. He currently works as a technical writer, editor and desktop publisher in the emergency services sector in NSW. www.tabula-rasa.info/MirrorDanse/.
Liz Hand is the author of many novels, including Winterlong, Waking the Moon (Tiptree and Mythopoeic Award-winner), Glimmering, Mortal Love, and Generation Loss, and three collections of stories, most recently Saffron and Brimstone. She has also been awarded a Maine Arts Commission Fellowship. A regular contributor to the Washington Post and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Hand lives with her family on the Maine Coast. www.elizabethhand.com
Jack M. Haringa is a writer, editor, and teacher living in Worcester, Massachusetts. With S.T. Joshi, he co-edits Dead Reckonings, a review journal of horror, suspense, and dark fantasy published by Hippocampus Press.
S. T. Joshi (B.A., M.A., Brown University) is a widely published critic and editor. He is the author of such critical studies as The Weird Tale (1990), H. P. Lovecraft: The Decline of the West (1990), and The Modern Weird Tale (2001). He has edited the standard corrected edition of H. P. Lovecraft's collected fiction, revisions, and miscellaneous writings (Arkham House, 1984-95; 5 vols.), as well as The Ancient Track: Complete Poetical Works (2001) and Collected Essays (2004-06; 5 vols.). He has prepared three annotated editions of Lovecraft's tales for Penguin Classics (1999-2004). His exhaustive biography, H. P. Lovecraft: A Life (1996), won the British Fantasy Award and the Bram Stoker Award from the Horror Writers Association. He has edited the critical anthologies H. P. Lovecraft: Four Decades of Criticism (1980) and An Epicure in the Terrible (with David E. Schultz; 1991), compiled the standard bibliography of Lovecraft (1981; rev. ed. forthcoming from University of Tampa Press, 2008), and (with David E. Schultz) assembled An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia (2001). He has translated Maurice Lévy's Lovecraft: A Study in the Fantastic (1988). He is the founder and editor of Lovecraft Studies. He has also prepared editions of the works of Ambrose Bierce, M. R. James, H. L. Mencken, and other authors, and is the author of God's Defenders: What They Believe and Why They Are Wrong (2003) and The Angry Right (2006). See his website: www.stjoshi.net.
Mike O'Driscoll has appeared in Fantasy & Science Fiction, Interzone, The 3rd Alternative, Back Brain Recluse, Inferno, The Dark, Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror #17, Gathering the Bones, Lethal Kisses, Poe’s Progeny, Nest New Horror #15 & 19, and Darklands vol 2. His first collection of stories, Unbecoming, was published by Elastic Press in 2006, and his short story ‘Sounds Like’ was filmed by Brad Anderson as part of the second season of cult horror series Masters of Horror. His column on horror and fantasy ‘Night’s Plutonian Shore’, appears in Black Static, and he is a regular reviewer of short fiction at The Fix Online.
Stewart O'Nan is the author of eleven novels, including Snow Angels, The Speed Queen, A Prayer for the Dying and The Night Country.
Peter Straub is the author of seventeen novels, which have been translated into more than twenty languages. They include Ghost Story, Koko, Mr. X, In the Night Room, and two collaborations with Stephen King, The Talisman and Black House. He has written two volumes of poetry and two collections of short fiction, and he edited the Library of America’s edition of H. P. Lovecraft’s Tales and the forthcoming Library of America’s 2-volume anthology, American Fantastic Tales. He has won the British Fantasy Award, eight Bram Stoker Awards, two International Horror Guild Awards, and two World Fantasy Awards. In 1998, he was named Grand Master at the World Horror Convention. In 2006, he was given the HWA’s Life Achievement Award. In 2008, he was given the Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award by Poets & Writers.
Ann VanderMeer is the founder of the award-winning Buzzcity Press and currently serves as the fiction editor for Weird Tales, the oldest fantasy magazine in the world. Work from her press has won the British Fantasy Award, the International Rhysling Award, the IHG Award, and appeared in several year's best anthologies. Ann has partnered with her husband, author Jeff VanderMeer, on such editing projects as the World Fantasy Award winning Leviathan series and The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases. A guest editor for Best American Fantasy, she is currently co-editing the following anthologies: The New Weird, Steampunk, Fast Ships, Black Sails, Last Drink Bird Head, and Love-Drunk Book Heads. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer live in Tallahassee, Florida. www.weirdtalesmagazine.net.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
F. Brett Cox, co-editor (with Andy Duncan) of Crossroads: Tales of the Southern Literary Fantastic (Tor, 2004); author of numerous short stories, critical essays, and reviews; English faculty at Norwich University in Northfield, Vermont.
JoAnn Cox
John Langan, author of short story collection Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters (Prime Books, forthcoming 2008) and numerous critical essays and reviews; English faculty at State University of New York-New Paltz.
Sarah Langan, author of novels The Keeper (Harper, 2006; finalist for Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel) and The Missing (Harper, 2007); MFA in Creative Writing, Columbia University; freelance writer currently living in New York City.
Paul G. Tremblay, author of collection Compositions for the Young and Old (Prime Books, 2004), novella City Pier: Above and Below (Prime, 2007), and novel The Little Sleep (Henry Holt); co-editor of Fantasy Magazine and the anthologies Fantasy and Bandersnatch. www.paulgtremblay.com.
ADMINISTRATOR
JoAnn Cox