Paula Guran is the editor of the Pocket Books/Juno Books fantasy imprint (www.juno-books.com). She has edited three anthologies, the International Horror Guild Award-nominated Embraces (Venus or Vixen, 2000), Best New Paranormal Romance (Juno, 2006), and Best New Romantic Fantasy 2 (Juno, 2007). In the last three years she's edited two further anthologies, Best New Romantic Fantasy 3 and Warrior Women (Juno, 2008), a collection, and forty novels ranging from cyberpunk to urban fantasy to supernatural romantic suspense to "high literary" feminist sf/f. In an earlier life she produced weekly email newsletter DarkEcho (winning two Stoker Awards, an IHG Award, and a World Fantasy nomination), edited magazine Horror Garage (earning another IHG and a second World Fantasy nomination), and contributed reviews, interviews, and articles to numerous professional publications, including Publishers Weekly, Cemetery Dance, Cinefantastique, Locus and Locus Online, Icons of Horror, Supernatural Literature of the World, SciFi Magazine, Weird Tales, The Third Alternative, and Barnesandnoble.com; in addition to a variety of other jobs in genre publishing, she served as the administrator of the International Horror Guild Awards for more than a decade, chaired the Horror Writers Association Bram Stoker Awards Jury for two terms, and served as a World Fantasy Award judge in 2001. She is sometimes a publisher herself and is author John Shirley's (www.john-shirley.com) literary agent. Guran lives in Akron, Ohio. During breaks from college her two younger sons reside with her and the basement becomes a live music venue.