Staff Biographies
Harold Bowes and M. R. James (Senior Poetry Editors)
Harold and Mardel are a husband and wife team. Harold's poems have appeared in such electronic magazines as Snow Monkey, elimae, Taint, Failbetter, Eleven Bulls, and Pig Iron Malt. He received a Pushcart nomination from Failbetter for 2003. Harold also edits Alba, an ezine dedicated to short poems. M. R. James has a MA in English and is a part-time faculty member in the English department of a small community college. Her background is in prose fiction and 19th century American and English literature.
Mary Elizabeth Burroughs (Development and Articles Editor)
Mary Elizabeth Burroughs, a native of Florida, is a writer, illustrator, and consultant living in Oxford, Mississippi. She earned a degree in Art and English (BA), as well as one in Creative Writing (MFA). Among other things, Mary adores graphic novels, television, antique illustrations, and spices.
Kelli Carlson (Special Projects Coordinator)
Kelli is a mathematics graduate student at the University of Michigan, and is having a grand time in Ann Arbor, despite the impending or current doom of winter. She listens to indie rock, plays volleyball and soccer, reads like crazy, and makes jewelry out of such common items as safety pins and Starburst wrappers. She has also learned way more about book publishing than she ever meant to.
S. J. Chambers (Senior Articles Editor)
S. J. Chambers writes and edits in North Florida. Her non-fiction has appeared in Bookslut, Strange Horizons, Fantasy, The Baltimore Sun's Read Street blog, and Up Against the Wall. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Yankee Pot Roast, The Hiss Quarterly, and Mungbeing magazines. She loves receiving visitors at www.sjchambers.org.
Kate Cowan (Development)
Kate lives in the Bay Area, and no, she doesn't mind the weather! She is a legal assistant at a small law firm by day, and a geek by night. She formed a woodwind chamber music group (in which she plays the clarinet) and is enjoying every minute of it. When she's not working, she reads at least two books a week, writes considerably less, and tries to keep her life organized. She has seven piercings, two tattoos, two roommates, and one cactus. She likes wombats, turkey, and chocolate. She also likes lists.
Donna Denn (Reviews Contact Manager)
Donna Denn works in the books department of the area Hastings store. (It's an entertainment superstore where they sell books, movies, music and software. Also glow in the dark toilet seats, and just about any novelty item you could imagine.) She does reviews for Maggie at Compulsive Reader. She runs several reading groups at yahoogroups: Fantasy Favorites, as well as Oprah Classics. And she participates in a lot of other reading groups, or at least chatters a lot on them. Married, two cats, kids are out creating havoc on their own now. Reading is her main hobby (besides being an internet junkie). Favorite authors include (but are not limited to) George RR Martin, Robin Hobb, Stephen King, Guy Gavriel Kay, Robert Jordan, Orson Scott Card, and several more. She lives in a little town (just outside of Stephenville on a map) called Dublin in Texas where the St Patrick's Day festival includes such fun activities as cow patty bingo and blind tractor races.
Roger Dutcher (Poetry Editor)
Roger Dutcher is a poet and the editor of the Magazine of Speculative Poetry (MSP) since 1984. His poetry has appeared in Asimov's, Talebones, Star*Line, Modern Haiku and numerous other magazines. In addition to poetry he is interested in ecology, music, beer/wine and travel. Science fiction (and fantasy) have been a passion since he first discovered Ray Bradbury far longer ago than he cares to admit.
Chris Ezzell (Assistant Webmaster)
Juliana Froggatt (Reviews Editor)
Juliana has a degree in Classical Civilizations with a concentration in Latin, so questions from her fiancé about Greek roots tend to annoy her although she hopes to be able to answer them someday. But between a new job (at UC Press), a new apartment (in north Berkeley's Gourmet Ghetto, and a (new) engagement, she has less time than ever to get around to studying them.
Craig Gidney (Development)
Craig Laurance Gidney lives and writes in Washington, DC. (Yes, he's run into various politicos; he even has a slightly interesting anecdotes about Bill Clinton and James Carville). For more news about him, you can read his blog: http://ethereal-lad.livejournal.com.
Véronique Greenwood (Articles Editor)
Susan Marie Groppi (Fiction Editor / Editor-in-Chief)
Susan is a Boston-area expatriate enjoying the good weather and good food in northern California. In addition to helping run Strange Horizons, she's working towards a doctorate in the history of science.
John Garrison (Reviews Editor / Newletter Editor)
John Garrison is a writer, poet, and essayist. He lives in San Francisco with his partner and their golden retriever. When not writing, he can often be found swing and ballroom dancing.
Niall Harrison (Senior Reviews Editor)
By day, Niall is a mild-mannered medical writer; by night, an sf fan and would-be critic. He has reviewed for Interzone, Foundation, The Alien Online, and Vector. In the real world, he lives in the UK, just west of London; in the online world he blogs at Coalescent. He hates writing bios.
Jed Hartman (Senior Fiction Editor)
Jed is a technical writer, generalist, and dilettante living in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is a graduate of Clarion West. When he had spare time, before he began working for Strange Horizons, he used to have an eclectic set of interests, including fiction, movies, juggling, linguistics, theatre, 3D graphics, folk music, wordplay, games, technology, and listmaking. These days his activities mostly involve reading submitted stories.
Sharon K. Goetz (Copy Editor)
Too fond of textuality for her own good, Sharon K. Goetz works for a print-and-digital project that creates critical editions. She thought that finishing her Ph.D. (on medieval English chronicles and their manuscript contexts) would free up some time, but it hasn't. Sharon enjoys reading SF, playing video games, crocheting with thread, and hiking.
Brendan Hogg (Copy Editor)
Brendan Hogg lives in the South West of England and is training to be a science teacher, in the vain hope of improving the scientific accuracy of the next generation of SF writers.
Lawrence Hollis (Assistant Webmaster)
Pamela Manasco (Articles Editor)
Pamela is a writer and poet living in the Birmingham, Alabama area with her husband, dog, and entirely too many books.
Jacob McCollum (Assistant Webmaster)
Jacob is the local rampant. His motivation for driving to high school through the industrial smog every morning is the knowledge that he will one day leave Virginia. He writes short stories and poems sometimes, but so far he has proven to lack the long-term resolve to write a novel like he's wanted to. Maybe the notes of ideas stored in his cell phone will one day become too numerous not to put into writing.
Karen Meisner (Fiction Editor/Associate Editor)
Karen recently left California and moved into a big old house in Wisconsin, where she is writing a novel set in San Francisco. She has a colorful past and enjoys a fairly peaceful present. She is excited about the future.
David Nagdeman (Articles Editor)
David is a Chicagoan who is trying Fate in the Mountain West region. He tends, tragically, to live life through mismatched literary tropes. He has degrees in Religious Studies (B.A.) and Divinity (M.A.). If you ask what this means, he'll probably mumble something about theology, or the meaning of life, or Origen of Alexandria. This conversation is not likely to end well. It would be much more fruitful to engage him in a discussion about books, music, film, or well scripted television. Motifs of science fiction and historical fiction are generally favored.
Mark Rudolph (Senior Poetry Editor)
Mark Rudolph is a 2000 graduate of the Clarion Writers' Workshop and the editor/publisher of the print magazine Full Unit Hookup. His works, both poetry and fiction, have appeared in Byline Magazine, Chi-Zine, Louisville Review, Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, FlyTrap!, and many other places. He is currently pursuing an MFA in creative writing at Spalding University. He lives in southern Indiana with his faithful dog Monty.
Rena Saimoto (Assistant Webmaster)
Rena lives on the western end of a blue state so surrounded by red states it looks purple. She lives with two crazy hellhounds the rescue people claimed were Boxers, and a long-suffering partner. She hopes to one day have a job poking people and animals with needles in the name of "Research," but will also settle for poking people or animals with needles in the name of "Medical Treatment." Until that far-away day arrives, she spends her time trying to learn mutiple disparate things at the same time and collecting books she intends to read "someday real soon." Outside of school, Rena can be found working at IROSF, Ravenna Press, the local bookstore, the local Humane Society, the local botanical conservatory, the local organic CSA, the local cooking school, and the local EMS service and/or hospital, all of which she is listing not to brag, but to keep track of why she gets so sleepy in the evenings.
Kristin Knaus Satterlee (Copy Editor)
Mithran Somasundrum (Copy Editor)
Mithran grew up in London. In 1994 he moved to Bangkok, and then after four years, tiring of the pollution, shifted to Fukui, a small, quiet town in Japan. He lectures in physical chemistry, writes so far unpublished fiction, and still can't read kanji.
Jessie Stickgold-Sarah (Development)
Jessie began as an engineer and is now writing a dissertation on post-DNA genetics in American literature. She teaches a class on novels of cloning and artificial life. This nearly makes up for the fact that she never has time to write fiction anymore. She lives in a blue house with a yard, with her daughter, husband, roommate, and too many computers.
JoSelle Vanderhooft (Articles Editor)