Nightmare Magazine Issue 25, Women Destroy Horror! Special Issue
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Women Destroy Horror!
Special Issue Staff
GUEST EDITOR / FICTION EDITOR
Ellen Datlow
NONFICTION EDITOR
Lisa Morton
MANAGING EDITOR
Wendy N. Wagner
PODCAST PRODUCER
Gabrielle de Cuir
ASSISTANT EDITOR
Erika Holt
EDITORIAL ASSISTANT
Lisa Nohealani Morton
ART DIRECTOR
Galen Dara
COPY EDITOR
C. Liddle
PROOFREADERS
Alyc Helms
Rachael Jones
Melissa Hofelich
SPOTLIGHT AUTHORS
Caroline Ratajski
Erika Holt
Jude Griffin
Lisa Nohealani Morton
Wendy N. Wagner
COVER ARTIST
Carly Janine Mazur
ILLUSTRATORS
Reiko Murakami
Sam Guay
Shelby Nichols
Stacy Nguyen
FIRST READERS
Amber Barkley
Andrea Johnson
Britt Gettys
DeAnna Knippling
Gail Marsella
Gwen Perkins
Karen Bovenmyer
Laurel Amberdine
Lisa Andrews
Louise Kane
Robyn Lupo
Samantha Thomas
Sarah Kirkpatrick
Stephanie Lorée
Stephanie Sursi
Stephanie Hiven
Traci Castleberry
BOOK PRODUCTION / COVER DESIGN
Julia Sevin
PUBLISHER / EBOOK DESIGNER
John Joseph Adams
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About the Editors
Ellen Datlow
Guest Editor & Fiction Editor
Ellen Datlow has been editing sf/f/h short fiction for over thirty years. She was fiction editor of OMNI Magazine and SCIFICTION and currently acquires and edits stories for Tor.com. She has edited more than fifty anthologies, including the annual The Best Horror of the Year, Lovecraft’s Monsters, Fearful Symmetries, Nightmare Carnival, The Cutting Room, and Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells (the latter two with Terri Windling). Forthcoming are The Doll Collection and The Monstrous. She’s won multiple World Fantasy Awards, Locus Awards, Hugo Awards, Stoker Awards, International Horror Guild Awards, Shirley Jackson Awards, and the 2012 Il Posto Nero Black Spot Award for Excellence as Best Foreign Editor. Datlow was named recipient of the 2007 Karl Edward Wagner Award, given at the British Fantasy Convention for “outstanding contribution to the genre;” she has been honored with the Life Achievement Award given by the Horror Writers Association in acknowledgment of superior achievement over an entire career and the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award for 2014, which is presented annually to individuals who have demonstrated outstanding service to the fantasy field.
Lisa Morton
Nonfiction Editor
Lisa Morton is a screenwriter, author of nonfiction books, award-winning prose writer, and Halloween expert whose work was described by the American Library Association’s Readers’ Advisory Guide to Horror as “consistently dark, unsettling, and frightening.” Her short fiction has appeared in dozens of anthologies and magazines, including The Mammoth Book of Dracula, Dark Delicacies, The Museum of Horrors, and Cemetery Dance, and in 2010 her first novel, The Castle of Los Angeles, received the Bram Stoker Award for First Novel. Recent books include the graphic novel Witch Hunts: A Graphic History of the Burning Times (co-written with Rocky Wood, illustrated by Greg Chapman), and Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween. Also recent are the novellas Summer’s End and Smog, and the novel Malediction. A lifelong Californian, she lives in North Hollywood and can be found online at lisamorton.com.
Wendy N. Wagner
Managing Editor
Wendy N. Wagner grew up in a town so small it didn’t even have its own post office, and the bookmobile’s fortnightly visit was her lifeline to the world. Her short fiction has appeared in magazines and anthologies including Beneath Ceaseless Skies, The Lovecraft eZine, Armored, The Way of the Wizard, and Heiresses of Russ 2013: The Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction. Her first novel, Skinwalkers, is a Pathfinder Tales adventure. An avid gamer and gardener, she lives in Portland, Oregon, with her very understanding family. Follow her on Twitter @wnwagner.
Gabrielle de Cuir
Podcast Producer
Gabrielle de Cuir has narrated over one hundred titles specializing in fantasy, humor, and titles requiring extensive foreign language and accent skills. Her “velvet touch” as an actors’ director has earned her a special place in the audiobook world as the foremost choice for best-selling authors and celebrities. She is the writer and director of the Award winning short film The Delivery, which deals with an Alice-in-Wonderland version of audiobooks. Her own film credits include Ghostbusters, American President, and Fright Night. She spent her childhood in Rome growing up with her wildly artistic and cinematic father, John de Cuir, four-time Academy Award winning Production Designer, an upbringing that taught her to be fluent in Romance languages and to have an unusual appetite for visual delights.
Galen Dara
Art Director
Galen Dara sits in a dark corner listening to the voices in her head. She has a love affair with the absurd and twisted, and an affinity for monsters, mystics, and dead things. She has illustrated for 47North, Edge Publishing, Lightspeed, Fireside Magazine, Apex Publications, Lackington’s, and Goblin Fruit. Recent book covers include War Stories, Glitter & Mayhem, and Oz Reimagined. She won the 2013 Hugo for Best Fan Artist and was nominated for the 2014 Hugo for Best Professional Artist. Her website is galendara.com, and you can follow her on Twitter @galendara.