Three-time Hugo Award winner Lynne M. Thomas is the Curator of Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, IL, where she is responsible for popular culture special collections that include the literary papers of over 60 SF/F authors. She is the co-author of Special Collections 2.0, with Beth Whittaker (Libraries Unlimited, 2009), as well as academic articles about cross-dressing in dime novels and using libraries to survive the zombie apocalypse.She is perhaps best known as the co-editor of the Hugo Award-winning Chicks Dig Time Lords (2010) with Tara O'Shea, Whedonistas (2011) with Deborah Stanish, and the Hugo Award-nominated Chicks Dig Comics (2012) with Sigrid Ellis , all published by Mad Norwegian Press. Along with the Geek Girl Chronicles book series, Lynne is the Editor-in-Chief of the two-time Hugo Award-nominated Apex Magazine, an online professional prose and poetry magazine of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and mash-ups of all three, and co-edited the nightclub and roller derby anthology Glitter & Mayhem with John Klima and Michael Damian Thomas. She also moderates the two-time Hugo Award-winning podcast the SF Squeecast with authors Elizabeth Bear, Paul Cornell, Seanan McGuire, and Catherynne M. Valente.