CHARLES N. BROWN, Founder

CHARLES N. BROWN, founder, was Publisher & Editor-in-Chief of Locus Magazine from 1968 until his death in 2009. He was heavily involved in the science fiction field since the late 1940s, starting out in fandom and developing an encyclopedic knowledge of SF. He was the original book reviewer for Asimov’s, edited several SF anthologies, and wrote for numerous magazines and newspapers. Brown co-founded Locus in 1968 with Ed Meskys ...Read More

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LIZA GROEN TROMBI, Editor in Chief

LIZA GROEN TROMBI is the four-time Hugo Award winning Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Locus Magazine. A life-long reader of science fiction, fantasy, and horror, she studied literature, history, and translation at university, and worked in several fields before joining the magazine in early 2003. She has been Editor-in-Chief and Publisher since 2009. Trombi also participates in convention panels and awards juries, runs the Locus Awards Weekend and writing workshops, publishes ...Read More

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KIRSTEN GONG-WONG

KIRSTEN GONG-WONG, Managing Editor, joined Locus in 1993. A native of California’s Central Valley (Porterville, to be exact), she attended UC Berkeley, then USCl. In 1989, she returned to the Bay Area and has since refused to leave. Prior to working for Locus, she practiced law as a litigator. At Locus, she is responsible for production, advertising, general office management, and miscellaneous troubleshooting. She resides in San Leandro, California ...Read More

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FRANCESCA MYMAN

FRANCESCA MYMAN, Senior Editor, grew up in Point Reyes Station in a dome house located adjacent to what was once Philip K. Dick’s writing studio, which no doubt explains her early otherworldly dreams. She is a graduate of Yale University, and has two graduate degrees in English and creative writing, interdisciplinary with classes in art, design, film, and criticism. She has done over 90 Locus covers, all but three ...Read More

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TIM PRATT

TIM PRATT, Senior Editor, co-edited ‘zine Flytrap with Heather Shaw from 2004 to 2008 and edited anthologies Sympathy for the Devil and Rags and Bones (with Melissa Marr). His first collection, Little Gods, was published in 2003, and his first novel, The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl, was published in 2005. Collection Hart & Boot & Other Stories was a World Fantasy Award finalist, and he won a ...Read More

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ARLEY SORG

ARLEY SORG, Senior Editor plus occasional Locus film and book reviewer, was born in California but grew up in England, Hawaii, and Colorado. He studied Asian Religions at Pitzer College. He lives in the SF Bay Area, and has been known to write SF/F/H from time to time in local coffee shops. A 2014 Odyssey Writing Workshop graduate, Arley is a 2022 Kate Wilhem Solstice Award recipient. Arley is ...Read More

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BOB BLOUGH

BOB BLOUGH, Assistant Editor, is a retired actor who has traveled all over the world but is now here in the SF Bay Area. While not an aspiring writer, he is an avid reader and a long-time reviewer of short fiction. “To those writers who have entertained me, enlivened my dreary days and enriched my life, I thank you. Contrary to many who think the genre is dying I ...Read More

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LAUREL AMBERDINE

LAUREL AMBERDINE, Assistant Editor, read at least novel a day for over a decade until she married someone who occasionally wanted to talk to her, putting an end to that streak. She has published poetry and short fiction, but loves novels best of all. She lives in the Pacific Northwest, where she enjoys visiting with trees, taking naps, and teaching herself quantum mechanics. You can follow her on Bluesky ...Read More

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MARK R. KELLY

MARK R. KELLY, Web Editor, founded Locus Online in 1997 and served as webmaster and online ‘editor-in-chief’ until October 2017, when the Locus Magazine staff redesigned the site and took over day-to-day control. He still contributes some content, including ‘New Titles and Bestsellers’ listings and Blinks posts.

He has a BA degree in Mathematics from UCLA, and worked for a certain large aerospace concern in Canoga Park CA for ...Read More

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JONATHAN STRAHAN

JONATHAN STRAHAN, Reviews Editor, is an editor, podcaster, anthologist, critic, and occasional publisher. He co-edited and co-published a number of projects in Australia—most notably Eidolon, an Australian SF semiprozine and The Year’s Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy anthology series—between 1990 and 1999, before starting work with Locus in 1997. He was appointed Reviews Editor in 2002. He currently co-hosts The Coode Street Podcast with Gary K. Wolfe, is ...Read More

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SHWETA TANEJA

Shweta Taneja is Head of Partnerships for Locus and handles content syndication and business development globally. She’s an SF author, editor, and communications professional who has been helping non-profits and startups in developing their outreach, partnership, and communication strategies for more than a decade. (LinkedIn)

As an SF author, she’s published novels, short stories, and graphic novels. Two of her novels – critically acclaimed fantasy fiction series Anantya Tantrist Mysteries  ...Read More

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ALVARO ZINOS-AMARO

ALVARO ZINOS-AMARO, Roundtable Editor, is co-author of a book of interviews with Robert Silverberg, Traveler of Worlds, that was a Hugo and Locus Award finalist in 2017. Alvaro’s more than thirty stories and one hundred reviews, essays and interviews have appeared in magazines like Clarkesworld, Asimov‘s, Apex, Analog, Lightspeed, Nature, Strange Horizons, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Galaxy’s Edge, Lackington’s, and anthologies such as The Year’s Best Science Fiction & ...Read More

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TERRY BISSON

TERRY BISSON, Contributing Editor, is the author of multiple award-winning stories “Bears Discover Fire” and “macs”, and novels including Voyage to the Red Planet, Pirates of the Universe, and Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman (with Walter M. Miller, Jr.). He contributes “This Month in History” to Locus Magazine. ...Read More

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ALEX BROWN

ALEX BROWN is a queer Black librarian and writer. They have written two books on the history of Napa County, California’s marginalized communities. They write about adult and young adult science fiction, fantasy, and horror as well as BIPOC history and librarianship. Diversity, equity, inclusion, and access set the foundation of all their work. Alex lives in Southern California with their pet rats and ever-increasing piles of books. ...Read More

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CORY DOCTOROW

CORY DOCTOROW (pluralistic.net) is the author of The Lost Cause, The Internet Con, Red Team Blues, Little Brother and many other books. He was made an honourary Doctor of Laws by York University and an honourary Doctor of Computer Science by the Open University. He holds visiting professorships in library science (UNC) and computer science (OU) and is an MIT Media Lab Research Affiliate. He is a special advisor to ...Read More

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AMY GOLDSCHLAGER

AMY GOLDSCHLAGER, Contributing Editor, is an editor, proofreader, and book/audiobook reviewer who has worked for several major publishers. She is a former curator of the New York Review of Science Fiction Reading Series. In addition to her Locus column, she has contributed to the Los Angeles Review of Books, Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, AudioFile magazine, and ComicMix. She lives in Brooklyn and exists virtually at www.amygoldschlager.com. ...Read More

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PAULA GURAN

PAULA GURAN, Contributing Editor, is senior editor for Prime Books. She edited the Juno fantasy imprint from its small press inception through its incarnation as an imprint of Pocket Books. Guran edits the annual Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror series as well as a growing number of other anthologies. In an earlier life she produced weekly email newsletter DarkEcho (winning two Stokers, an IHG award, and a World ...Read More

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KAREN HABER

KAREN HABER, Contributing Editor, is the author of eight novels including Star Trek Voyager: Bless the Beasts, co-author of Science of the X-Men, and editor of the Hugo-nominated essay collection celebrating J.R.R. Tolkien, Meditations on Middle Earth and Exploring the Matrix. Her short fiction has appeared in Asimov’s, F&SF, and many anthologies. She reviews art books for Locus and profiles artists here, and for other publications, ...Read More

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GABINO IGLESIAS

GABINO IGLESIAS is a writer, journalist, professor, and book reviewer living in Austin TX. He is the author of Zero Saints and Coyote Songs and the editor of Both Sides. His work has been nominated to the Bram Stoker and Locus Awards and won the Wonderland Book Award for Best Novel in 2019. His short stories have appeared in a plethora of anthologies and his non-fiction has appeared in ...Read More

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MAYA JAMES

MAYA C. JAMES is a graduate of the Lannan Fellows Program at Georgetown University, and full-time student at Harvard Divinity School. Her work has appeared in Star*Line, Strange Horizons, FIYAH, Soar: For Harriet, and Georgetown University’s Berkley Center Blog, among others. She was recently long listed for the Stockholm Writers Festival First Pages Prize (2019), and featured on a feminist speculative poetry panel at the 2019 CD Wright Women Writer’s ...Read More

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ADRIENNE MARTINI

ADRIENNE MARTINI, Contributing Editor, discovered science fiction at a tender age when she first picked up Heinlein’s Friday. She’s was the SpecFic Floozy for Bookslut.com before writing about the field for the Baltimore City Paper and the Washington Post‘s Book World. She holds degrees in theatre and journalism, is a reformed newspaper editor and now teaches college students in Upstate New York. Her first book, Hillbilly Gothic: A ...Read More

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IAN MOND

IAN MOND, Contributing Editor, loves to talk about books. For eight years he co-hosted a book podcast, The Writer and the Critic, with Kirstyn McDermott. Recently he has revived his blog, The Hysterical Hamster, and is again posting mostly vulgar reviews on an eclectic range of literary and genre novels. You can also follow Ian on Twitter (@Mondyboy) or contact him at mondyboy74@gmail.com. ...Read More

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COLLEEN MONDOR

COLLEEN MONDOR, Contributing Editor, is a writer, historian, and reviewer who co-owns an aircraft leasing company with her husband. She is the author of “The Map of My Dead Pilots: The Dangerous Game of Flying in Alaska” and reviews regularly for the ALA’s Booklist. Currently at work on a book about the 1932 Mt. McKinley Cosmic Ray Expedition, she and her family reside in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. ...Read More

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GARY K. WOLFE

GARY K. WOLFE, Contributing Editor, has received both the Eaton Award and the Science Fiction Research Association’s Pilgrim Award for his science fiction criticism and scholarship. His books include The Known and the Unknown: The Iconography of Science Fiction (1979), Science Fiction Dialogues (editor, 1982), Critical Terms for Science Fiction and Fantasy (1986), Harlan Ellison: The Edge of Forever (with Ellen Weil, 2002), and a collection of his Locus ...Read More

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