John Joseph Adams is the series editor of BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY and is a New York Times bestselling editor of more than forty anthologies, including OUT THERE SCREAMING (co-edited with Jordan Peele),THE FAR REACHES (an Amazon Original Stories collection), WASTELANDS, and THE LIVING DEAD.
He is also the editor of the Hugo Award-winning digital magazine, LIGHTSPEED, and is the publisher of LIGHTSPEED and its sister-magazine, NIGHTMARE
Called “the reigning king of the anthology world” by Barnes & Noble, John is a two-time winner of the Hugo Award (for which he has been a finalist twelve times) and an eight-time World Fantasy Award finalist. He also served as a judge for the National Book Award.
John was also the editor of John Joseph Adams Books, a science fiction and fantasy imprint from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, where he published books such as the New York Times bestselling CHOSEN ONES by Veronica Roth; MACHINE LEARNING by Hugh Howey; the Philip K. Dick Award-winning BANNERLESS by Carrie Vaughn, THE UNFINISHED LAND by Greg Bear, and many others.
