F. Brett Cox's fiction, essays, and reviews have appeared in numerous publications, and he co-edited, with Andy Duncan, Crossroads: Tales of the Southern Literary Fantastic (Tor, 2004). Scheduled to appear in 2009 are two new stories: "She Hears Music Up Above" in Phantom, an original anthology from Prime Books edited by Paul G. Tremblay and Sean Wallace, and "Nylon Seam" in the Online Annex to Interfictions 2, an original anthology from Small Beer Press edited by Delia Sherman and Christopher Barzak. His most recent critical essay, "Fragments of a Hologram Rose for Emily: William Gibson, Southern Writer," appeared in The Cultural Influences of William Gibson, the "Father" of Cyberpunk Science Fiction: Critical and Interpretive Essays (Edwin Mellen Press, 2007). Other fiction, essays, and reviews have appeared in Century, Black Gate, The North Carolina Literary Review, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Black Static, Postscripts, The New England Quarterly, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Paradoxa, Science Fiction Weekly, and Science Fiction Studies. Brett has served as a member of the Bram Stoker Awards Additions Jury, was chair of the 2009 SFRA Pilgrim Award jury, and is a juror for the Shirley Jackson Awards. He is a member of SFWA, HWA, and the Cambridge SF Writers Workshop, and was a Special Guest Writer at the 2009 Science Fiction Research Association conference. A native of North Carolina, Brett is Associate Professor of English at Norwich University in Northfield, Vermont, and lives in Roxbury, Vermont, with his wife, playwright Jeanne Beckwith.