Previous novels include Veniss Underground and the Ambergris Cycle ( City of Saints & Madmen, Shriek: An Afterword, and Finch), reissued this year from MCD/FSG, with nonfiction titles including Wonderbook, the world’s first fully illustrated writing guide, and Booklife, the first career guide to fully integrate the internet into tactics and strategy. He was a 2019 National Book Award judge for fiction. Nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, Vulture,, and the Los Angeles Times.
He is the recipient of an NEA-funded Florida Individual Artist Fellowship for excellence in fiction and a Florida Artist Enhancement Grant. He has taught at the Yale Writers’ Conference and the Miami International Book Fair, among many others, and was the 2016-2017 Trias Writer-in-Residence at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in upstate New York. He frequently speaks about issues related to Florida, climate change, and storytelling, including at DePaul, MIT, and the Guggenheim. For eleven years, VanderMeer served as the co-director of Shared Worlds, a unique teen SF/fantasy writing camp he helped found, located at Wofford College in South Carolina.Ĭalled “the weird Thoreau” by The New Yorker, VanderMeer has lived in Florida since he was in middle school, attending the University of Florida in Gainesville before moving to Tallahassee in 1992. Over a 35-year career, VanderMeer has been a four-time World Fantasy Award winner and 19-time nominee. Clarke Award), The Strange Bird, set in the Borne universe, are being developed for TV by AMC and continue to explore themes related to the environment, animals, and our future. Dead Astronauts, Borne (a finalist for the Arthur C.
Recent works include Hummingbird Salamander and A Peculiar Peril, in addition to Theo Ellsworth’s graphic novel adaptation of his short story Secret Life. The first novel, Annihilation, won the Nebula Award and Shirley Jackson Award, and was made into a movie by Paramount in 2018. Jeff VanderMeer’s NYT-bestselling Southern Reach trilogy has been translated into over 35 languages.
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