Patrick Nielsen Hayden and Liz Gorinsky are the fiction editors of Tor.com.
Charlie Jane Anders is the author of
Lessons in Magic and Disaster, coming August 2025 from Tor Books. Her other novels include
All the Birds in the Sky,
The City in the Middle of the Night and the young-adult Unstoppable trilogy. She's also the author of the short story collection
Even Greater Mistakes, and
Never Say You Can't Survive (August 2021), a book about how to use creative writing to get through hard times. She's won the Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon, Lambda Literary, Crawford and Locus Awards. She co-created Escapade, a transgender superhero, for Marvel Comics and wrote her into the long-running
New Mutants comic. And she's currently the science fiction and fantasy book reviewer for the
Washington Post. With Annalee Newitz, she co-hosts the podcast Our Opinions Are Correct.
Patrick Nielsen Hayden, called by the Washington Post "one of the most literate and historically aware editors in science fiction," is the winner of three Hugo Awards and the World Fantasy Award for his editorial work?. He is the editor or co-editor of several original and reprint anthologies, including the Starlight series and the young adult anthologies New Magics and New Skies.
?As an editor at Tor Books for over 25 years, he is responsible for publishing the debut novels of many of the field's best writers, including Maureen F. McHugh, Susan Palwick, Cory Doctorow, Jo Walton, and John Scalzi.
James Alan Gardner is a 1989 graduate of the Clarion West Science Fiction Writers Workshop, and has had several science fiction stories and novellas appear in publications such as
Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine,
Amazing Stories, and
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. He is the author of
Expendable,
Commitment Hour,
Vigilant,
Hunted,
Ascending,
Trapped, and
Radiant. He was the grand prize winner of the 1989 Writers of the Future contest, has won the Aurora Award, and has been nominated for the Hugo and Nebula Awards. He lives in Canada.
Yoon Ha Lee is an American science fiction writer born on January 26, 1979 in Houston, Texas. His first published story, "The Hundredth Question," appeared in
Fantasy&Science Fiction in 1999; since then, over two dozen further stories have appeared. He lives in Pasadena, California.
Nnedi Okorafor is an award-winning,
New York Times-bestselling writer of mostly science fiction and fantasy for both children and adults. Her debut novel,
Zahrah the Windseeker, won the prestigious Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa. Nnedi has since won World Fantasy, Nebula, Locus, Eisner, Hugo, Lodestar, and Nommo Awards, amongst others, for her work. Nnedi has also written comics for Marvel, including
Black Panther: Long Live the King and the Shuri series. She holds a PhD in literature, master’s degrees in journalism and literature, and lives in Phoenix, Arizona, with her daughter, Anyaugo. Learn more at
nnedi.com.
PAUL PARK is the author of
A Princess of Roumania, and numerous other novels. He published his first novel in the 1980s and swiftly attracted notice as one of the finest authors on the "humanist" wing of American SF. His powerful, densely written narratives of religious and existential crisis on worlds at once exotic and familiar won him comparisons with Gene Wolfe and Brian Aldiss at their best. He lives in North Adams, Massachusetts.
Matthew Sanborn Smith is an American science fiction writer whose work has appeared at Chizine
, Albedo One, GUD Magazine, and
Challenging Destiny. He contributes to StarShipSofa and has his own podcast.
MICHAEL SWANWICK has received the Nebula, Theodore Sturgeon, World Fantasy and Hugo Awards, and has the pleasant distinction of having been nominated for and lost more of these same awards than any other writer. His novels include
Stations of the Tide, Bones of the Earth, two Darger and Surplus novels, and
The Iron Dragon's Mother. He has also written over a hundred and fifty short stories - including the Mongolian Wizard series on Tor.com - and countless works of flash fiction. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife, Marianne Porter.
Harry Turtledove (he/him) is an American fantasy and science fiction writer who
Publishers Weekly has called the "Master of Alternate History." He has received numerous awards and distinctions, including the Hugo Award for Best Novella, the HOMer Award for Short story, and the John Esthen Cook Award for Southern Fiction. Turtledove’s works include the Crosstime Traffic, Worldwar, Darkness, and Opening of the World series; the standalone novels
The House of Daniel, Fort Pillow, and Give Me Back My Legions!; and over a dozen short stories available on Tor.com. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, novelist Laura Frankos, and their four daughters.
