We're proud to announce that Ann VanderMeer, Hugo Award–winning Editor-in-Chief for Weird Tales, has accepted our invitation to be our inaugural Honored Editorial Guest. She is the founder of the award-winning Buzzcity Press and a respected teacher at writing workshops, including Clarion, Odyssey and Shared Worlds. Ann has partnered with her husband, author Jeff VanderMeer, on such editing projects as the World Fantasy Award–winning Leviathan series, The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases, The New Weird, Steampunk, Steampunk Reloaded and Fast Ships, Black Sails.