Jeff VanderMeer

Jeff VanderMeer’s NYT-bestselling Southern Reach trilogy has been translated into over 35 languages. The first novel, Annihilation, won the Nebula Award and Shirley Jackson Award, and was made into a movie by Paramount. Other books include Hummingbird Salamander, A Peculiar Peril, Dead Astronauts, Borne (a finalist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award), and The Strange Bird. Forthcoming work includes Absolution, the fourth Southern Reach novel. VanderMeer has lectured on creative writing at MIT, Yale, Vanderbilt, and Columbia universities. Most recently, he gave the John Hersey Memorial Address at the Key West Literary Seminar. His Florida reporting has appeared recently in Current AffairsTIME, the Nation, and Esquire. VanderMeer lives in Tallahassee, Florida, with his wife Ann, cat Neo, and a yard full of native plants, where he also runs the nonprofit the Sunshine State Biodiversity Group.