Kevin Brockmeier--Best American Fantasy 3 Guest Editor

Well, you heard it here first--Kevin Brockmeier will be the editor for Best American Fantasy, volume 3 (released in 2009, containing the best of American fantasy from 2008). If you've been living in a hut by the beach and don't know who Brockmeier is, there's a brief bio below the cut. (News services and news websites, please note: Matt Cheney is sending out a full press release this evening with all of the relevant details).We're really pleased about this--we love Brockmeier's fiction and we feel he'll do a wonderful job. Ann and I will stay on with BAF doing PR and administrative things, but there will be a wall between us and any editorial decisions. That will be between Matt and each new guest editor. In the meantime, though, we need to finish up selecting the contents of BAF #2!Well known for his novels The Brief History of the Dead and The Truth About Celia, Kevin Brockmeier is also an eminent short story writer, having received three O. Henry Awards (one, a first prize), the Chicago Tribune’s Nelson Algren Award, and an Italo Calvino Short Fiction Award. His stories have been published in a wide variety of venues, including The New Yorker, The Georgia Review, McSweeney's, and The Oxford American, and have been reprinted in Best American Short Stories, The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, and the first volume of Best American Fantasy. Brockmeier's short fiction has been collected in Things That Fall from the Sky and his most recent book, The View from the Seventh Layer. He has also published two children's books, City of Names and Grooves: A Kind of Mystery. He lives in Little Rock, Arkansas.