Jeff VanderMeer

Jeff VanderMeer (born July 7, 1968) is an American author and literary critic. Initially associated with the New Weird literary genre, before writing his Southern Reach Series. The series' first novel, Annihilation, won the Nebula and Shirley Jackson Awards, and was adapted into a Hollywood film by director Alex Garland. Among VanderMeer's other novels are Shriek: An Afterword and Borne. He has also edited with his wife Ann VanderMeer the anthologies The New Weird, The Weird, and The Big Book of Science Fiction.