Women Destroy Fantasy!
Special Issue Staff
GUEST EDITOR / ORIGINAL FICTION EDITOR
Cat Rambo
REPRINT EDITOR
Terri Windling
NONFICTION / MANAGING EDITOR
Wendy N. Wagner
PODCAST PRODUCER
Gabrielle de Cuir
ASSISTANT EDITOR
Jude Griffin
EDITORIAL ASSISTANT
Laurel Amberdine
COPY EDITORS
Dana Watson
Laurel Amberdine
PROOFREADERS
Debra Jess
Rachael Jones
Sarah Slatton
Amanda Mitchell
SPOTLIGHT AUTHORS
Laurel Amberdine
Lee Hallison
Liz Argall
Sandra Odell
Jude Griffin
ART DIRECTOR / COVER ARTIST
Elizabeth Leggett
ILLUSTRATORS
Ashley Stewart
K. A. King
Sandra Buskirk
Tara Larsen Chang
FIRST READERS
Alyc Helms
Amber Barkley
Andrea Johnson
Britt Gettys
Caren Gussoff
Christina Vasilevski
DeAnna Knippling
Gail Marsella
Georgina Kamsika
Gwen Perkins
Jude Griffin
Kristi Charish
Laura Newsholme
Laurel Amberdine
Lianna Palkovick
Lisa Andrews
Louise Kane
Nicole Walters
Robyn Lupo
Sandra Wickham
Sarah Kirkpatrick
Stephanie Lorée
Stephanie Sursi
Sylvia Hiven
BOOK PRODUCTION / PRINT COVER LAYOUT
Michael Lee
EBOOK COVER DESIGN
Karen Jones
PUBLISHER / EBOOK DESIGNER
John Joseph Adams
MISCELLANY
In Our Next Issue . . .
This issue was a special one-off issue of Fantasy, so there is no next issue per se. But never fear! There will be plenty more fantasy in next month’s issue of Lightspeed. Coming up in November . . .
We have original science fiction by Sunny Moraine (“What Glistens Back”) and Annalee Newitz (“Drones Don’t Kill People”), along with SF reprints by Susan C. Petrey (“Spidersong”) and Roz Kaveney (“Instructions”).
Plus, we have original fantasy by Kat Howard (“A Flock of Grief”) and Matthew Hughes (“Enter Saunterance”), and fantasy reprints by Gheorghe Săsărman (“Sah-Hara”) and Jennifer Stevenson (“Solstice”).
All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author and artist spotlights, along with a pair of feature interviews. For our ebook readers, we also have our usual ebook-exclusive novella reprint and a pair of novel excerpts.
It’s another great issue, so be sure to check it out.
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Looking further ahead, there is, at least, the possibility of another issue of Fantasy down the line. When we did our Women Destroy Science Fiction Kickstarter campaign, we announced at the end of it that in 2015 we’d be doing a Queers Destroy Science Fiction! special issue. Well, as with the WDSF project, we’ll have some stretch goals to unlock, one of which will be a Queers Destroy Fantasy! issue. So keep an eye out for news about the campaign. Stay tuned to our new website for the Destroy Projects at DestroySF.com.
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About the Editors
Cat Rambo
Guest Editor / Original Fiction Editor
Cat Rambo lives, writes, and teaches by the shores of an eagle-haunted lake in the Pacific Northwest. Her 150+ fiction publications include stories in Asimov’s, Clarkesworld Magazine, and Tor.com. Her short story, “Five Ways to Fall in Love on Planet Porcelain,” from her story collection Near + Far (Hydra House Books), was a 2012 Nebula nominee. Her editorship of Fantasy Magazine earned her a World Fantasy Award nomination in 2012. For more about her, as well as links to her fiction, see kittywumpus.net.
Terri Windling
Reprint Editor
Terri Windling is a writer, editor, and artist specializing in fantasy literature and mythic arts. She has published more than forty books, winning nine World Fantasy Awards, the Mythopoeic Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and placing on the short lists for the Tiptree and Shirley Jackson Awards. She received the S.F.W.A. Solstice Award in 2010 for “outstanding contributions to the speculative fiction field as a writer, editor, artist, educator, and mentor.” Her work has been translated into French, German, Spanish, Italian, Czech, Russian, Turkish, Korean, and Japanese. She has served on the boards of the Interstitial Arts Foundation and the Mythic Imagination Institute (U.S.), and is currently a member of the advisory board for the Sussex Centre for Folklore, Fairy Tales, and Fantasy at the University of Chichester (U.K.).
Wendy N. Wagner
Nonfiction / Managing Editor
Wendy N. Wagner’s 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. She served as the Assistant Editor of Fantasy Magazine and is currently the Managing/Associate Editor of Lightspeed and Nightmare. 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.
Elizabeth Leggett
Art Director
Elizabeth Leggett is a twenty-year veteran freelance illustrator. Her artistic influences include Michael Kaluta, Donato Giancola, John Jude Palencar, and Jeremy Geddes. She completed a seventy-eight-card tarot in a single year and launched it into a successful Kickstarter (Portico Tarot and Art Prints). In December, she won two places in Jon Schindehette’s ArtOrder Inspiration, and she provided internal art for the Women Destroy Science Fiction! issue of Lightspeed and is the Women Destroy Fantasy! cover artist and art director.
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