Sean Wallace
Sean Wallace (born January 1, 1976) is an American science fiction, fantasy, and horror anthologist, editor, and publisher best known for founding the publishing house Prime Books and for co-editing three magazines, "Clarkesworld Magazine", "The Dark Magazine", and "Fantasy Magazine". He has been nominated a number of times by both the Hugo Awards and the World Fantasy Awards, won three Hugo Awards and two World Fantasy Awards, and has served as a World Fantasy Award judge. Career. Wallace began publishing fiction in 1997, when he launched Cosmos Books, with Philip J. Harbottle, and released "Fantasy Annual", a  paperback magazine of British authors including E.C. Tubb, John Russell Fearn, and Sydney Bounds. In 1999, the Cosmos Books name was licensed to Wildside Press and output greatly increased, expanding with American and Australian authors. He also became a freelance editor for Wildside Press, working from Ohio. In mid-2001, Wallace stepped in to assist an ailing company, Imaginary Worlds, though it soon went into bankruptcy. Wallace then launched Prime Books to publish a few of the orphaned books, including the award-winning "City of Saints and Madmen", by Jeff VanderMeer. Later, in 2003, he licensed the company to Wildside Press , and moved from Ohio to Pennsylvania, as a full-time senior editor. In early 2009, Wallace reacquired Prime Books, and relaunched it as an independent publishing house in May that year. Wallace was twice-nominated for a World Fantasy Award in 2003 and 2004 for editing Prime Books, in the and categories. Around this time, he felt that there was a lack of short fiction available in the literary fantasy genre and to cater to this, he launched "Fantasy Magazine" in 2005, at the World Fantasy Convention in Wisconsin. During 2006 his first nationally distributed book, "Horror: The Best of  the Year" was released, and he took on a co-editing job with Nick Mamatas, with "Clarkesworld Magazine". That same year, he won the World Fantasy Award in the category for editing Prime Books. In 2009, his work for "Clarkesworld" gained recognition with Hugo Award and World Fantasy Award nominations. In 2010 and 2011, those efforts were rewarded with back-to-back Hugo Awards. Wallace and the rest of the "Clarkesworld" team also received World Fantasy Award nominations in 2010, 2012, and 2014. In 2011 he served as a World Fantasy Awards judge and in the same year he launched  the World SF Travel Fund with Lavie Tidhar. In 2013 "Clarkesworld Magazine" and its staff won the Hugo Award a third time, and in 2014 the magazine won its first World Fantasy Award. Other genre efforts Wallace has been involved with include the relaunch and management of WSFA Press; co-founding the Shirley Jackson Awards; and managing the SFWA Book Depot at the Nebula Awards conference. He lives in Germantown, Maryland with his wife, Jennifer, and their two children. Prime Books. Prime Books, founded by Wallace in 2001, is an American independent publishing house. It publishes in a mix of  literary and commercial anthologies, collections, novels, and previously published two magazines: "Fantasy Magazine" and "Lightspeed Magazine" (both sold November 2011). Its authors and editors include: