THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Stefan R. Dziemianowicz

Stefan Dziemianowicz is an independent scholar and writer. His books include Bloody Mary and Other Tales for a Dark Night (2000), The Core of Ramsey Campbell: A Bibliography and Reader's Guide (1993), and numerous anthologies. He has compiled a number of single author collections, by such writers as Robert Bloch, Ralph Adams Cram, Jane Rice, Gerald Biss, A. Merritt, Andrew Caldecott, W.C. Morrow, Bram Stoker, Louisa May Alcott and Charles Dickens. He was an editor of the British Fantasy Award and International Horror Guild Award-winning critical magazine Necrofile: The Review of Horror Fiction (1991-99, with S.T. Joshi and Michael A. Morrison) He co-edited, along with S.T. Joshi, the three-volume Supernatural Literature of the World (2005). He has also contributed to Publishers Weekly, Washington Post Book World, and New York Review of Science Fiction.

Paula Guran

Paula Guran has worked in the fantasy field as a writer, reviewer, editor, publisher, and teacher. She is the full time editor of Juno Books, an imprint publishing a variety of fantasy with a focus on strong female protagonists. A member of the National Book Critics Circle, she currently contributes regularly to Publishers Weekly and Fantasy Magazine. Her work with the DarkEcho Newsletter garnered an unprecedented back-to-back Bram Stoker Awards for Nonfiction (1998 and 1999) as well as an International Horror Guild Award (1999). She has been nominated for the World Fantasy award twice (1997 and 2001). She's been termed "an indispensable voice in the field" and "the saving grace of horror fiction in America" as well as a great many other things that are far less flattering.

Douglas E. Winter

Doug Winter, a partner in the internationally-based law firm of Bryan Cave LLP, is the author or editor of thirteen books (including Stephen King: The Art of Darkness, Faces of Fear, Prime Evil, Clive Barker: The Dark Fantastic, and novel Run) and he has published more than 200 articles and short stories. A member of the National Book Critics Circle, he is recognized as a leading critic of contemporary horror fiction and film, and has been hailed as "the conscience of horror and dark fantasy."

His writing has appeared in such major metropolitan newspapers as the Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution; in magazines as diverse as Harper's Bazaar and Gallery; and in publications in fourteen languages on four continents. He is book columnist for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and Cemetery Dance, and music columnist for Video Watchdog; he also acted as a contributing editor of Fantasy Review and the Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural. He won the World Fantasy Award for Faces of Fear, and he has been nominated several times for that award (including twice for his own fiction), as well as for the Hugo Award and the Bram Stoker Award. He received the International Horror Guild Award twice, for his short stories "Black Sun" (1994) and "Loop" (1995).