David Hartwell, a Guest of Honor at Readercon 13, has an elaborate website (www.davidghartwell.com) that includes many unusual sights. In 2006 he won the Hugo for Best Professional Editor, having been a finalist for that award on 14 previous occasions. Last year he was a Best Professional Editor Hugo nominee in both Short Form and Long Form, and won the award in the latter category. He is a 1988 World Fantasy winner (Special Award, Professional), and was a finalist at least four other times (three times runner-up). He has edited or co-edited many anthologies including the long-running annual series Year's Best SF and Year's Best Fantasy. Recent projects include The Space Opera Renaissance (co-edited with Kathryn Cramer, Tor, 2006) and The Science Fiction Century, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 (Orb Books, 2006).

Hartwell is a senior editor at Tor/Forge. He was a consulting editor at NAL (1971-'73) and at Berkley ('73-'78) and director of SF at Timescape ('78-'83) and Arbor House/Morrow ('84-'91). In the meantime, he has consulted for Gregg Press ('75-'86), Waldenbooks Otherworlds Club ('83-'84), Tor (‘83-'94), and the BOMC (1989), edited Cosmos magazine (1977-'78), and been an administrative consultant for the Turner Tomorrow Awards (1990-'91). He was editor and publisher of The Little Magazine (1965-'88; literary), co-publisher, with Paul Williams, of Entwhistle Books (1967-'82), and co-publisher, with L.W. Currey, of Dragon Press (1973-'78). Since 1978 he has been Dragon Press's proprietor; since 1988 they have published The New York Review of Science Fiction, a 19-time Hugo nominee as best semiprozine (1989-2007) and two-time Readercon Small Press Award Winner (1989, '91); he is the magazine's reviews and features editor. Since 2009, he has also been the proprietor of the Dragon Press Bookstore.

His book reviews and articles have appeared in Crawdaddy (1968-'74) and Locus (1971-'73), Publishers Weekly, Top of the News, and The New York Times Book Review, and in Best Library Essays, Editors on Editing, and other books. He is the author of Age of Wonders: Exploring the World of Science Fiction (1984, Walker/McGraw-Hill, rev. ed. 1996, Tor). He has been a founder and administrator of a number of sf institutions: the World Fantasy Convention and Award since 1975 (board chairman since 1978); the Philip K. Dick Award since 1982; Sercon since 1987, executive board member of the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts since 1995. He was a judge of the first Readercon Small Press Awards. He is an Advisory Board member of the SF Hall of Fame and Museum and presently a Hall of Fame Judge. He has been an Advisory Board Memberof the Western Connecticut College Writing Program since 2004. He received the Skylark Award from NESFA in 2006 and was made a Fellow of NESFA in 2008. He is the only living book editor listed among "200 Most Important People in Science Fiction" in 200th issue of STARLOG.

He earned his Ph.D. (in comparative medieval literature) from Columbia; he has taught sf and contemporary literature and writing at the Stevens Institute of Technology (1973-'76), at Clarion West (1984, '86, '90, 2000, '09), Clarion South Writing Workshop, Brisbane, Australia (2004), and has been a Visiting Professor at Harvard Summer School (1987-'93), and at New York University (1993). He lives in Pleasantville, New York.