Ed Meskys is the founder and longtime editor of the well-known fanzine Niekas. He has been in fandom since 1955, and started Niekas in 1962. Niekas received the fanzine Hugo in 1967, and had been nominated in 1966 and again in the 1990s. [it was at a Noreascon and I do not remember whether that was in 1990 or 1998.]

He and his wife Sandy live in rural New Hampshire with his Seeing-Eye dog Gyro (nicknamed Killer because he has murdered and dismembered three Teddy Bears), and their fourth hand cat, Amber. He has one 35 year-old son, Stanley, from a first marriage. He is also active in the blind civil rights movement thru the National Federation of the Blind, and in Lions Clubs.