CHAIR: Dara Downey
BIOS:
Ellen Datlow is a renowned science-fiction, fantasy, and horror editor and anthologist. She co-edited the Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror series from 1988 to 2008, and now edits The Best Horror of the Year, published by Night Shade Books. She has recently published When Things Get Dark: Stories Inspired by Shirley Jackson. She also consults on short fiction for Tor.com. She is a winner of the World Fantasy Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the Bram Stoker Award, and is an advisor for the Shirley Jackson Awards.
Elizabeth Hand is the bestselling author of eighteen genre-spanning novels and five collections of short fiction and essays. Her work has received multiple Shirley Jackson, World Fantasy and Nebula Awards, among other honors, and several of her books have been New York Times and Washington Post Notable Books. With the authorization of Shirley Jackson’s family, she is currently writing a contemporary novel set in Hill House, entitled A Haunting on the Hill.
Paul Tremblay has won the Bram Stoker, British Fantasy, and Massachusetts Book awards and is the author of The Pallbearers Club, Survivor Song, Growing Things, Disappearance at Devil’s Rock, A Head Full of Ghosts. His novel The Cabin at the End of the World has been adapted for film under the title Knock at the Cabin. His essays and short fiction have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly online, and numerous year’s-best anthologies. He has a master’s degree in mathematics and lives outside Boston with his family.
Reading Shirley Jackson in the 21st Century 