Two-time World Fantasy Award winner Jeff VanderMeer has been a finalist for the Hugo Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, the International Horror Guild Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and many others. His recent books include Veniss Underground, the literary fantasy City of Saints & Madmen, and The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases, which he co-edited. Books by VanderMeer have made the year's best lists of Amazon.com, Publishers Weekly, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Weekly, and Locus Magazine. He lives in Tallahassee, Florida, with his wife, Ann.
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