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 and Dave …Read More
LIZA GROEN TROMBIis 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 books …Read More
Bobbie Johnson, Associate Publisher, is an award-winning journalist, editor and publishing consultant. …Read More
KIRSTEN GONG-WONG, Managing Editor, joined Locus in 1993. A native of California’s Central Valley (Porterville), she attended UC Berkeley, then USC. In 1989, she returned to the Bay Area and has since refused to leave. At Locus, she is responsible for production, advertising, general office management, and miscellaneous troubleshooting. She resides in San Leandro, California. …Read More
CAROLYN F. CUSHMAN, Senior Editor, has worked for Locus since 1985, the longest of any of the current staff, and handles our in-house books database, writes our New and Notable section, and does the monthly Books Received column. She is a graduate of Western Washington University with a degree in English. She published a fantasy novel, Witch and Wombat, in 1994. …Read More
FRANCESCA MYMAN, Senior Editor & Art Director, 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 from Hollins and CCA. As a cover artist and designer, she has done over 130 Locus covers, …Read More
TIM PRATT, Senior Editor (genderfluid; any pronouns) is the author of more than 30 novels, including the Marla Mason urban fantasies (as T.A. Pratt) and the Axiom space opera series. Pratt is a Hugo Award winner for short fiction, and has been a finalist for Nebula, World Fantasy, Sturgeon, Philip K. Dick, Mythopoeic, Stoker, and various other awards. He posts a lot at Bluesky (@timpratt.org) and publishes a new story …Read More
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. A 2014 Odyssey Writing Workshop graduate, Arley is a 2022 Kate Wilhem Solstice Award recipient and a Space Cowboy Award recipient. Arley is also a two-time World Fantasy Award finalist and a three-time Locus Award finalist for his work as …Read More
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 believe …Read More
Sarah Weeks, Assistant Editor,is Locus’s first-ever remote staff. With scientists on one side of her family, and artists on the other, science fiction seemed like a great middle ground. Sarah loves science fiction, fantasy, and horror, and during her time away from Locus, works for Tor Publishing Group.
ALICE STRANGMAN, Editorial Assistant, (she/her) grew up in the rural north of Massachusetts. She studied English at Mount Holyoke College and now works for Locus remotely. She loves science fiction and fantasy in any medium, from literature to video games, and in her corner of the woods she can be found enjoying all of the above with her cats. …Read More
SANDRA HAN, Editorial Assistant, is a writer of speculative fiction. She was born in Seoul, grew up on Guam, and moved to New York, where she graduated summa cum laude from Columbia University with a degree in English and Creative Writing. In her spare time, she likes to read ghost, war, and AI/robot stories, as well as works in translation. …Read More
ELEANOR TROMBLA, Editorial Assistant, is a multimedia artist and writer from Marin, California. She utilizes sculpture, photo & video, oil pastels, coding, and stuff she finds in the woods. She runs a small music & culture zine in the Bay Area and is an enthusiastic lover of horror and science fiction in all its forms. She studied Rhetoric & Media at Lewis & Clark College in Portland. …Read More
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 30 …Read More
JONATHAN STRAHAN, Reviews Editor, is a World Fantasy Award-winning editor, anthologist, and Hugo Award-winning podcaster. He has edited more than 100 books, is reviews editor for Locus, a consulting editor for Reactormag.com and Tordotcom Publishing, Subterranean Press, and co-host and producer of the Coode Street Podcast. …Read More
ALVARO ZINOS-AMARO, Contributing Editor, is a Hugo- and two-time Locus-award finalist who has published over fifty stories and over one hundred essays, reviews, articles and interviews in professional markets. Traveler of Worlds: Conversations with Robert Silverberg was published in 2016; Being Michael Swanwick, Alvaro’s second book of interviews, appeared in 2023. Equimedian, Alvaro’s debut novel, was released in 2024. Alvaro continues to review, edits the Locus roundtable blog, and writes …Read More
JOANNE ANDERTON, Contributing Editor, is an award-winning author of speculative fiction, creative nonfiction, and children’s books. Her speculative fiction includes Pixerina, a haunted house novella set in the Australian suburbs, the novels in the Veiled Worlds series – Debris, Suited and Guardian – and the short story collections The Art of Broken Things, Inanimates: Tales of Everyday Fear, and The Bone Chime Song and Other Stories. Her children’s picture book …Read More
EUGEN (YU-GIN) BACON, Contributing Editor, identifies as African Australian-the one is not exclusive from the other, and she’s okay with her dualities. She is a computer scientist mentally re-engineered into creative writing. She’s a Solstice, British Fantasy, Locus and Foreword Indies Award winner, and a finalist in major awards. Eugen is an Otherwise Fellow, and was announced in the honor list for ‘doing exciting work in gender and speculative fiction’. …Read More
LIZ BOURKE, Contributing Editor, is a cranky queer person who reads books. She holds a Ph.D in Classics from Trinity College, Dublin. Her first book, Sleeping With Monsters, a collection of reviews and criticism, was published in 2017 by Aqueduct Press. It was a finalist for the 2018 Locus Awards and was nominated for a 2018 Hugo Award in Best Related Work. She was a finalist for the inaugural 2020 …Read More
ALEX BROWN, Contributing Editor, is a Hugo-nominated and Ignyte award-winning critic who writes about speculative fiction, librarianship, and Black history. Find them on Bluesky (@bookjockeyalex), Instagram (@bookjockeyalex), and their blog (bookjockeyalex.com). …Read More
SEAN DOWIE, Contributing Editor, is a Queer, biracial book reviewer and fiction writer based in Toronto, Canada. His reviews have appeared in FIYAH Literary Magazineand the Hugo-winning fanzine Nerds of a Feather. His fiction has been published in HAD, hex, and Maudlin House. …Read More
PAUL DI FILIPPO, Contributing Editor, has been writing professionally for nearly fifty years, and has published exactly that number of books. He lives in Providence RI, with his mate of the same rare vintage, Deborah Newton. …Read More
CORY DOCTOROW (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist, and journalist. He is the author of dozens of books, most recently Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse And What To Do About It (nonfiction); and the novels Picks And Shovels and The Bezzle (followups to Red Team Blues). Other notable books include the solarpunk novels Walkaway and The Lost Cause; the tech policy books The Internet Con and Chokepoint …Read More
PAULA GURAN, Contributing Editor, has edited more than fifty science fiction, fantasy, and horror anthologies and more than fifty novels and collections featuring the same. She’s reviewed and written articles for dozens of publications. She lives near her five grandchildren in Akron, Ohio, with her faithful cat Nala. …Read More
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.
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 the …Read More
RUSSELL LETSON, Contributing Editor, is a not-quite-retired freelance writer living in St. Cloud, MN. He has been loitering around the SF world since childhood and been writing about it since his long-ago grad school days. In between, he published a good bit of business-technology and music journalism. He is still working on a book about Hawaiian slack key guitar. …Read More
ADRIENNE MARTINI, Contributing Editor, discovered science fiction at a tender age when she first picked up Heinlein’s Friday. She holds degrees in theatre and journalism, is a reformed newspaper editor, taught college students, is an elected member of her county’s Board of Representatives, and is a historic interpreter at the Fenimore Farm. Of course, she has a newsletter: adriennemartini.substack.com. …Read More
ARCHITA MITTRA (she/they), Contributing Editor, is a writer, critic, editor and artist from Kolkata, India. Her work has appeared in Lightspeed, Locus, PseudoPod, Reactor and Strange Horizons, among others. She’s a two-time finalist for the Ignyte Critic’s Award for her non-fiction, while her fiction and poetry have been nominated for the Pushcart and best of the net prizes and long-listed for the Toto Award twice. …Read More
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. In 2024 he launched a Substack (Ian Mond | Substack) where he writes about everything he reads, new and old. You can follow Ian on Bluesky (@mondyboy74.bsky.social) or contact him at mondyboy74@gmail.com. …Read More
COLLEEN MONDOR, Contributing Editor, is an aviation journalist specializing in Alaska. She is the author of The Map of My Dead Pilots: The Dangerous Game of Flying in Alaska and covered aviation for Alaska Dispatch and the Anchorage Daily News and has been published in various publications and sites including Aviation International News, Skies Magazine, and Men’s Journal. You can follow her on bluesky at @chasingray.bsky.social. …Read More
ABIGAIL NUSSBAUM, Contributing Editor, is a blogger and critic, a two-time winner of the Hugo award for Best Fan Writer. Her writing has appeared in Strange Horizons, The Guardian, io9, and LARB, and has been collected in Track Changes, which was nominated for the Hugo and Locus awards. …Read More
