Jeff VanderMeer 1 credits

Born July 7, 1968 in Bellefonte

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. VanderMeer has been called "one of the most remarkable practitioners of the literary fantastic in America today," with The New Yorker naming him the "King of Weird Fiction".

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