Jeff VanderMeer

Jeff VanderMeer was born Jeffrey Scott VanderMeer in July 7, 1968.  He is an American writer, although he has pursued careers in editing and publishing. He was born in Belfont, Pennsylvania, but spent much of his childhood in the Fiji Islands, where his parents worked for the Peace Corps. This experience, and the resulting trip back to the United States through Asia, Africa, and Europe, deeply influenced him. He currently resides in Tallahassee, Florida. In 2003, Jeff married Ann Kennedy, editor for the small Buzzcity Press and the magazine the Silver Web.

Jeff went to the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, for three years, where he pursued a degree in Journalism, then pursued a degree in English with a minor in Latin American History. He pursues them still. Jeff also attended Clarion East at Michigan State University in 1992, along with such fellow students as Dale Bailey, Felicity Savage, Nathan Ballingrud, and Cory Doctorow.

Jeff VanderMeer has taught creative writing via the nationally-distributed student magazine Merlin's Pen, as well as such conferences as The Florida Suncoast Writers' Festival and The Seven Hills Writers' Conference. In addition to serving on the editorial board of Fantastic Metropolis, he was a founding member of the University of Rhode Island's Council for Literature of the Fantastic. In 1998, he served as the chair of the Philip K. Dick Award judges.

Bibliography

Novels

• Dradin, In Love (1996, collected in all editions of City of Saints and Madmen)
• Veniss Underground (2003)
• Shriek: An Afterword (2006)

Collections

• The Book of Frog (1989)
• 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)
• The Day Dali Died (2003)
• City of Saints and Madmen (2004, expanded from the 2002 edition)
• Secret Life (2004)
• Why Should I Cut Your Throat? (nonfiction, 2004)
• VanderMeer 2005 (promotional sampler, 2005)
• Secret Lives (forthcoming in 2006)

Anthologies edited

• 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)

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