Ellen Datlow: The Best Horror of the Year – Volume One

R. B. Russell's first collection of strange fiction, Putting the Pieces in Place, was published in January 2009, and his second collection, Literary Remains, will be published in late 2009. He runs Tartarus Press with his wife, Rosalie Parker, and also writes music and poetry and occasionally draws illustrations for dust jackets.

Miranda Siemienowicz lives in Melbourne, Australia. Her work has appeared in literary and speculative magazines including Overland, Island, and Aurealis, and been reprinted in Australian Dark Fantasy and Horror Volume 3 (Brimstone Press).

William Browning Spencer is the author of four novels and two collections of short stories. Spencer's satirical horror novel Résumé with Monsters describes a corporate America in which Lovecraftian monsters haunt the workplace. The novel won the International Horror Award for best novel. Various creatures from Lovecraft also inhabit his novel Irrational Fears, in which alcoholics are discovered to be the progeny of an ancient underground tribe who worship Tsathoggua.

His short stories have been included in

The Year's Best Science Fiction and The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror and have been finalists for the Bram Stoker, World Fantasy, and Shirley Jackson awards. He currently lives in Austin, Texas, and is completing his novel My Sister Natalie: Snake Goddess of the Amazon, which will be published by Subterranean Press.

JoSelle Vanderhooft is the critically acclaimed author of poetry collections The Minotaur's Last Letter to His Mother, the 2007 Stoker Award-nominated Ossuary, Desert Songs, The Handless Maiden and Other Tales Twice-Told, Fathers, Daughters, Ghosts & Monsters, The Memory Palace, and Death Masks; the novels The Tale of the Miller's Daughter, and Owl Skin; and Ugly Things, a collection of short stories. She is currently at work on a series of novels.

Her poetry and fiction has been published online and in print in a number of publications, including

Cabinet des Fees, Star*Line, Mythic Delirium, MYTHIC, Jabberwocky, Helix, The Seventh Quarry.

An assistant editor of a gay and lesbian newspaper by day, she lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Ellen Datlow has been editing science fiction, fantasy, and horror short stories for almost thirty years. She was co-editor of

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror and has edited or co-edited many other anthologies, most recently The Coyote Road and Troll's Eye View (with Terri Windling), Inferno, The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Nebula Award Showcase 2009, Poe: 19 New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, and Lovecraft Unbound.

Forthcoming are, Digital Domains: A Decade of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror, Naked City: New Tales of Urban Fantasy, Best Horror of the Year, Volume 2, Haunted Legends (with Nick Mamatas), and The Beastly Bride (with Terri Windling).

She has won multiple awards for her editing, including the World Fantasy, Locus, Hugo, International Horror Guild, Shirley Jackson, and Stoker awards. She was named recipient of the 2007 Karl Edward Wagner Award for "outstanding contribution to the genre."

For more information, visit her website at www.datlow.com.