Jason Heller is an author and Hugo Award-winning editor whose work has appeared in dozens of publications, including The A.V. Club (where he was the Denver City Editor from 2006-2009 and is currently a Senior Writer), Clarkesworld Magazine (where he served as the Hugo-winning nonfiction editor), Pitchfork, NPR.org, Alternative Press, Decibel Magazine, Weird Tales, Tor.com, and Westword (as well as many other papers in the Village Voice Media chain). In addition, he contributed to Scribner's A.V. Club book, Inventory. He's a 2009 graduate of the Odyssey Writing Workshop, and his science fiction/fantasy/horror short stories have appeared in Apex Magazine, Sybil's Garage, Farrago's Wainscot, M-Brane SF, and many more. Quirk Books published his Pirates of the Caribbean tie-in, The Captain Jack Sparrow Handbook, as well as his debut novel, Taft 2012. He also appears in the Tor Books anthology The Time Traveller's Almanac, edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer. He lives in Denver with his beloved wife and neglected guitars.