Short Biography

Neil Clarke (neil-clarke.com) is the multi-award-winning editor of Clarkesworld Magazine and over a dozen anthologies, including the Best Science Fiction of the Year series. A twelve-time finalist and the 2022/2023 winner of the Hugo Award for Best Editor Short Form, he is also a four-time winner of the Chesley Award for Best Art Director. In 2019, Clarke received the SFWA Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award for distinguished contributions to the science fiction and fantasy community. He currently lives in New Jersey with his wife and two sons.

Biography

Neil Clarke is best known as the editor and publisher of the Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning Clarkesworld Magazine. Launched in October 2006, the online magazine has been a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine four times (winning three times), the World Fantasy Award four times (winning once), and the British Fantasy Award once (winning once). Neil is also a twelve-time finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Editor-Short Form (winning twice), four-time winner of the Chesley Award for Best Art Director, and recipient of the 2019 Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award from SFWA. In the seventeen years since Clarkesworld Magazine launched, stories that he has edited have been nominated for or won the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Sturgeon, Locus, BSFA, Shirley Jackson, WSFA Small Press, Stoker, and various other awards.

In 2012, Neil suffered a near-fatal heart attack while attending Readercon in Burlington, MA. The damage sustained in this incident later required that he undergo surgery for the implantation of a defibrillator. These events inspired both Upgraded, his 2014 cyborg anthology and his 2017 jump from his day job in academia (technology) to become a full-time editor.

Additionally, Neil edits Forever—a digital-only, reprint science fiction magazine launched in 2015. His anthologies include: Upgraded, Galactic Empires, Touchable Unreality, More Human than Human, The Final Frontier, Not One of Us, The Eagle has Landed, and the Best Science Fiction of the Year series. His latest anthology, New Voices in Chinese Science Fiction (co-edited with Xia Jia and Regina Kanyu Wang), was published in July.

He currently lives in New Jersey with his wife and two sons.

Editing Work

Magazines
  • Clarkesworld Magazine (Editor/Publisher), 2006 –
  • Forever Magazine (Editor/Publisher), 2015 –
  • Internazionale (Guest Editor, Storie Issue), Issue 1338, December 2019
  • The SFWA Bulletin (Editor), 2016-2019
  • Berlin Quarterly (Guest Fiction Editor), Issue 4, 2016
Anthologies
  • Clarkesworld: Year Three, (with Sean Wallace), Wyrm Publishing, 2013
  • Clarkesworld: Year Four, (with Sean Wallace), Wyrm Publishing, 2013
  • Clarkesworld: Year Five, (with Sean Wallace), Wyrm Publishing, 2013
  • Clarkesworld: Year Six, (with Sean Wallace), Wyrm Publishing, 2014
  • Upgraded, Wyrm Publishing, September 2014
  • Clarkesworld: Year Seven, (with Sean Wallace), Wyrm Publishing, 2015
  • Clarkesworld: Year Eight, (with Sean Wallace), Wyrm Publishing, February 2016
  • The Best Science Fiction of the Year Volume One, Night Shade Books, June 2016
  • Galactic Empires, Night Shade Books, January 2017
  • The Best Science Fiction of the Year Volume Two, Night Shade Books, 2017
  • More Human Than Human, Night Shade Books, 2017
  • Touchable Unreality, China Machine Press, 2017 (Published in China.)
  • The Best Science Fiction of the Year Volume Three, Night Shade Books, 2018
  • The Final Frontier, Night Shade Books, 2018
  • Not One of Us, Night Shade Books, 2018
  • Clarkesworld: Year Nine, Volume 1, (with Sean Wallace), Wyrm Publishing, 2018
  • Clarkesworld: Year Nine, Volume 2, (with Sean Wallace), Wyrm Publishing, 2018
  • The Best of Clarkesworld, (with Sean Wallace), Prime Books, 2019
  • The Eagle has Landed, Night Shade Books, 2019
  • The Best Science Fiction of the Year Volume Four, Night Shade Books, 2019
  • Clarkesworld: Year Ten, Volume 1, (with Sean Wallace), Wyrm Publishing, 2019
  • Clarkesworld: Year Ten, Volume 2, (with Sean Wallace), Wyrm Publishing, 2019
  • Clarkesworld: Year Eleven, Volume 1, (with Sean Wallace), Wyrm Publishing, 2019
  • Clarkesworld: Year Eleven, Volume 2, (with Sean Wallace), Wyrm Publishing, 2019
  • The Best Science Fiction of the Year Volume Five, Night Shade Books, 2020
  • Clarkesworld: Year Twelve, Volume 1, (with Sean Wallace), Wyrm Publishing, 2021
  • Clarkesworld: Year Twelve, Volume 2, (with Sean Wallace), Wyrm Publishing, 2021
  • Clarkesworld Volume One, (with Storycom), Chongqing Publishing House (China), 2021
  • The Best Science Fiction of the Year Volume Six, Night Shade Books,  November 2021 February 2022
  • New Voices in Chinese Science Fiction,  (with Xia Jia, and Regina Kanyu Wang), July 2022
  • Clarkesworld: Year Thirteen, Volume 1, (with Sean Wallace), Wyrm Publishing, Forthcoming 2023
  • Clarkesworld: Year Thirteen, Volume 2, (with Sean Wallace), Wyrm Publishing, Forthcoming 2023
  • The Best Science Fiction of the Year Volume Seven, Forthcoming 2023

Publishing Work

In addition to his work on Clarkesworld, through Wyrm Publishing, Neil has published books by Gene Wolfe, Charles Stross, Catherynne M. Valente and others. Wyrm also serves as the official publisher of the annual Clarkesworld anthologies.

  • Memorare by Gene Wolfe (signed limited)
  • Shriek: An Afterward by Jeff VanderMeer (signed limited)
  • Tides from the New Worlds by Tobias S. Buckell (signed limited)
  • Toast by Charles Stross (signed limited)
  • Unplugged edited by Rich Horton (trade paperback)
  • Silently and Very Fast by Catherynne M. Valente (ebook)
  • Myths of Origin by Catherynne M. Valente (trade paperback, ebook)
  • Dream Houses by Genevieve Valentine (ebook)
  • Upgraded edited by Neil Clarke (trade paperback, ebook)
  • Clarkesworld Anthologies: Realms 1, 2, Clarkesworld: Year Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine (volumes one and two), Ten (volumes one and two), Eleven (volumes one and two), and Twelve (volumes one and two) (trade paperback, ebook)
  • A Summer Beyond Your Reach by Xia Jia (hardcover, trade paperback, ebook)
  • New Voices in Chinese Science Fiction, edited by Neil Clarke, Xia Jia, and Regina Kanyu Wang (hardcover, trade paperback, ebook)

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