Surprising many people, Susan Marie Groppi has announced that she is leaving the Strange Horizons fiction editing staff after nearly eight years at the magazine, seven as editor in chief (for which stint she won a World Fantasy Award). This announcement comes a month after Karen Meisner also left the fiction department, leaving Jed Hartman the last editor standing.
Susan, who will be “actively involved” in the process of hiring her and Karen’s replacements, says, “Our goal is to put together a strong and fabulous editorial team that will continue to publish groundbreaking fiction from all over the speculative fiction spectrum — and represent all of the voices in our community. We’ve already started speaking to a few promising candidates, but we’re interested in hearing from applicants who we might not have already considered, so we invite anyone who’s interested in what we’re doing at Strange Horizons to consider applying for a position as a fiction editor.”
In 2006 and 2007, I had the pleasure of reviewing several books for SH. Niall Harrison (then head of the reviews department, now editor in chief) and Susan were terrific to work with, and I was very proud to be affiliated with the magazine. I hope they can find some wonderful new editors to carry on SH‘s tradition of excellence.



