Jacob Weisman
Jacob Astrov Weisman is an American editor of Science Fiction and Fantasy. He founded Tachyon Publications, an independent publishing house specializing in genre fiction, in 1995. His writing has appeared in The Nation, Realms of Fantasy, The Louisville Courier-Journal, The Seattle Weekly, The Cooper Point Journal, and in the college textbook, Sport in Contemporary Society, edited by D. Stanley Eitzen.
Weisman received the World Fantasy Award in 2018 for the anthology The New Voices of Fantasy. He was also nominated for the World Fantasy Award in 1999, 2009 and 2010 for his work at Tachyon.
He lives in San Francisco, where he and his wife Rina Weisman run the SF in SF reading series along with moderator Terry Bisson.Editor
