Gordon Van Gelder has been the editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction since the beginning of 1997, a post for which he has twice won the Hugo Award for Best Editor Short Form (2007 and 2009). He became the magazine's publisher in 2000. Through the 1990s, he worked as an editor for St. Martin's Press, where he worked on a variety of fiction and nonfiction titles (including mysteries, sf, fantasy, nonfiction, and unclassifiable books). He was an editor (and occasional reviewer) for The New York Review of Science Fiction from 1988 to 1994. He lives in Hoboken, New Jersey. F&SF has a web site at www.fandsf.com.

His books as editor include (with Edward L. Ferman) The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: The Fiftieth Anniversary Anthology (New York: Tor Books, 1999), One Lamp: Alternate History Stories from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2003), In Lands That Never Were: Tales of Swords and Sorcery from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2004), Fourth Planet from the Sun: Tales of Mars from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 2005), and The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction (Tachyon, 2009). Most recently he edited an anthology of stories about climate change, Welcome to the Greenhouse (OR Books, 2011).