SFWA Staff and Support
Kate Baker, Executive Director
When not managing the daily operations of SFWA, Kate Baker is the two-time Hugo Award and World Fantasy Award winning Podcast Director and Non-Fiction Editor for Clarkesworld Magazine. She has narrated over 350 short stories/audio books/poems. She has also read for various other venues such as StarShipSofa, Escape Pod, The Drabblecast, Cast of Wonders, and Fantasy Magazine.
Why you should contact Kate:General membership issues (including but not limited to — log in problems, renewals, new memberships, questions, etc.), general questions not answered by the sfwa.org website, invoices/payments, organization queries, and general technical questions.
Steven H Silver, Event Manager
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Steven H Silver has been SFWA’s event manager since 2008, helping to run the Nebula Award Weekend, New York Reception, and SFWA’s Worldcon presence. In addition, he has been running conventions since the 1990s and was programming chair for Chicon 2000 and Vice Chair for Chicon 7. His fiction has been published in Helix, BlackGate, StarShipSofa, and various DAW anthologies. He has edited collections and anthologies for DAW and NESFA and from 2004-2012 ran ISFiC Press.
Why you should contact Steven:
Information about the Nebula Awards weekend, BookExpo America, Worldcon, the New York Reception, or other Events that SFWA coordinates throughout the year. Ideas for additional events or improvements to those SFWA already does.
Terra LeMay, Events Coordinator
Why you should contact Terra:
To volunteer at the SFWA Nebula Conference and Awards Ceremony, or at events where SFWA has a presence. Terra can also give you information about how to contribute books or periodicals for distribution at the Nebula Conference.
Email Terra LeMay
Jeremiah Tolbert, SFWA Webmaster
Jeremiah Tolbert is an assemblage of skunks and badgers uneasily cooperating inside of a stereotypical “nerd” Halloween costume. He has been the SFWA webmaster for many seasons, now.
To keep the collective’s litters fed with the finest in human foodstuffs, he write science fiction and fantasy short fiction and develops and designs websites for authors, publishers, and small businesses as Clockpunk Studios.
Contact him about:
Technical website or forum site matters or issues with SFWA email systems.
Aimee Picchi, Nebula Awards Commissioner
Aimee Picchi is volunteering as the assistant Nebula Awards Commissioner for 2017-2018, helping Nebula Awards Commissioner Jim Hosek with the Nebula reading list and in other duties.
Aimee Picchi is a journalist and SFF writer who lives in Vermont’s biggest city, which is actually very small. Her fiction has appeared in publications including Intergalactic Medicine Show, Flash Fiction Online and Daily Science Fiction, and she’s a graduate of the Viable Paradise workshop. As a journalist, her work focuses on business and finance, and her pieces have been published at CBS MoneyWatch, Consumer Reports, Bloomberg News and other publications.
Aimee is a former classical musician, and is a graduate of Juilliard Pre-College and the Eastman School of Music, where she played the viola. She enjoys a good viola joke, but warns you she’s heard them all.
Jim Hosek, Nebula Awards Commissioner
Jim Hosek will be assisting Dawn Hebein with the role of Nebula Award Commissioner. Starting in 2016, he will be managing the Nebula Award reading list and other duties.
Jim’s day job is as a veterinarian in Chicago. He has a house call practice on the north side and own an animal hospital in Brookfield, IL. He attended the University of Illinois and also spent a year in Philadelphia training at the University of Pennsylvania Veterinary Hospital. During one of his emergency rotations he actually got to take care of Gardner Dozois’ cat. He also worked for six months at an animal hospital in Georgetown, Grand Cayman, where he learned to drive stick shift driving on the left side of the road.
Jim’s first professional sale was to Stanley Schmidt for Analog in 2006 and he has been a member of SFWA every since. He had a great time volunteering with the Nebula Staff during the 50th anniversary. He is currently working on a mystery series featuring a veterinarian and am represented my Mary C. Moore of Kimberley Cameron & Associates.
Django Wexler, Discussion Board Moderator
Django Wexler graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh with degrees in creative writing and computer science, and worked for the university in artificial intelligence research. Eventually he migrated to Microsoft in Seattle, where he now lives with two cats and a teetering mountain of books. When not writing, he wrangles computers, paints tiny soldiers, and plays games of all sorts.
Why You Should Contact Django: Django keeps our member discussion board’s orderly. Email Django