Gary K. Wolfe is contributing editor and senior reviewer for Locus magazine, where he has written a monthly review column since 1991 and currently sits on the board of the Locus Science Fiction Foundation. He has also written considerable academic criticism of science fiction and fantasy, including the Eaton Award-winning The Known and the Unknown: The Iconography of Science Fiction (Kent State University Press, 1979), David Lindsay (Starmont House, 1979), Critical Terms for Science Fiction and Fantasy: A Glossary and Guide to Scholarship (Greenwood Press, 1986), and Harlan Ellison: The Edge of Forever (with Ellen R. Weil, Ohio State University Press, 2002). His most recent book, Soundings: Reviews 1992 — 1996 (Beccon, 2005), received the British Science Fiction Association Award for best nonfiction, and was a finalist for the Locus Award and the Hugo Award. Wolfe has also received the Pilgrim Award from the Science Fiction Research Association and the Distinguished Scholarship Award from the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts. In 2007, he received a World Fantasy Award for criticism and reviews. His essays have appeared in Science-Fiction Studies, Foundation, Extrapolation, Conjunctions, Modern Fiction Studies, The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, and other journals, as well as in many collections and reference books, including a forthcoming chapter in The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy. His second reviews collection, Bearings: Reviews 1997-2001, appeared in April 2010 from Beccon, and a collection of his academic essays, Evaporating Genres: Essays on Fantastic Literature, will appear at the end of this year from Wesleyan University Press. Wolfe has also edited Up the Bright River, the first posthumous collection of Philip Jose Farmer stories, which will appear from Subterranean Press in December.

A graduate of the University of Kansas (where he studied with James Gunn) and the University of Chicago, Wolfe is Professor of Humanities and English at Roosevelt University in Chicago. He often finds himself confused with two other GWs, and finds one of these confusions to be quite flattering.