Nir Yaniv
Nir Yaniv () is an Israeli multidisciplinary artist. He was active early on as a science fiction editor in Israel. In 2000 he founded the webzine of the Israeli Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy, and in 2007 he became chief editor of "Chalomot Be'aspamia", Israel's only professionally printed SF&F magazine. As an author, Yaniv's short fiction has appeared in Weird Tales, Apex Magazine, "The Best of World SF" and others. He collaborated with World Fantasy Award winning author Lavie Tidhar on two novels, including the "deranged sci-fi extravaganza" (per The Jewish Quarterly) "The Tel Aviv  Dossier" and released the English language collection "The Love Machine & Other Contraptions". Yaniv has been active as a musician from early on, initially with the Israeli jazz-funk band Plutonium and more recently with the Emmy Award winning soprano Hila Plitmann. He released several independent albums, including "the first Hebrew-language SF Music themed album", "The Universe in a Pita". From 2013 he has also been making short films as a writer/director, including the animated "Liftoff", a "touching, hand-illustrated piece of a man’s journey to the moon".