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Sheila Williams
| Full Name: |
Sheila
Williams |
| Born: |
September 27, 1956
Springfield, Massachusetts, USA |
| Occupation: |
editor |
| Nationality: |
American |
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Biography
Sheila Williams is the two-time Hugo Award winning Editor of Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, which has won the prestigious Locus Award for Best Magazine in 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014.
Sheila's interest in science fiction began in her early years in western Massachusetts, when her father read Edgar Rice Burroughs books to her as a child. By the time Sheila was in sixth grade, her parents found her a British anthology abroad called Adventure Stories for Girls, which she read no less than a dozen times. Sheila went on to graduate from Elmira College, New York, studying at the London School of Economics junior year, and received her Master's from Washington University in St. Louis.
In addition to her editorial stewardship of the magazine, Sheila Williams is the editor/co-editor of more than two dozen best-selling science fiction anthologies. One of Sheila's proudest accomplishments is co-founding, with Rick Wilber in 1993, the Dell Magazines Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing, co-sponsored by Dell Magazines and The International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts. The Award--with its cash prize, conference appearance, and in-depth consultation with Sheila and other established authors--encourages young writers and helps them form lasting relationships with other aspiring writers. Many of these finalists go on to become published authors.
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