A man with short gray hair and glasses is wearing a black polo shirt. He is standing in front of a bookshelf filled with various books and decorative items, looking at the camera with a slight smile.

Jeff VanderMeer

Jeff VanderMeer is the New York Times bestselling author of the Southern Reach series, including 2024’s Absolution. His other novels include Hummingbird Salamander; the Borne novels (Borne, The Strange Bird, and Dead Astronauts); and the Ambergris Cycle (City of Saints & Madmen, Shriek: An Afterword, and Finch) Annihilation, the first volume of the Southern Reach series won the Nebula Award and Shirley Jackson Award and was adapted into a movie by Paramount. He has spoken at MIT, Columbia, Yale, and Vanderbilt, and gave the 2024 John Hersey Memorial Address at the Key West Literary Seminar. Environmental nonfiction by VanderMeer has appeared in Time, The Nation, Current Affairs, and Esquire, among others.