Jonathan Strahan

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Jonathan Strahan, born in 1964 in Belfast, is an Australian editor, critic, and podcaster who works mainly with science fiction, fantasy, and horror. His family moved to Perth, Western Australia, in 1968, and he earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Western Australia in 1986.

In 1990 he co-founded Eidolon: The Journal of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy, serving as co-editor and co-publisher until 1999. He also co-published Eidolon Books, which released works by several authors. In 1997 he travelled to Oakland, California to work for Locus as an assistant editor and wrote a regular review column until March 1998. He returned to Australia and, in early 1999, resumed reviewing for Locus, later becoming Reviews Editor (2002–present). His reviews have also appeared in Eidolon, Eidolon: SF Online, and Foundation.

Strahan has won numerous awards, including the Aurealis Award, the William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism and Review, the Ditmar Award, and the Peter McNamara Achievement Award. He has been nominated for the Hugo Award nineteen times and won the World Fantasy Award (Special – Professional) in 2010. His anthologies have won the Locus Award for Best Anthology four times (2008, 2010, 2013, 2021) and the Aurealis Award seven times.

As a freelance editor, Strahan has edited or co-edited more than sixty original and reprint anthologies and seventeen single-author collections published in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and translated into many languages. Since 2014 he has been a consulting editor for Tordotcom Publishing and Tor.com, acquiring and editing two novels, 36 novellas, and a selection of short fiction.

In 1999 he founded The Coode Street Press, which published The Coode Street Review of Science Fiction and co-published Terry Dowling’s Antique Futures; the press is now inactive. He co-hosts the Coode Street Podcast with Gary K. Wolfe; the show won the Hugo Award in 2021 and has produced more than 550 episodes. Strahan has been married to Marianne Jablon since 1999, and they live in Perth with their two daughters.

From late 2012 to early 2013 he edited Eclipse Online, an online extension of his Eclipse anthology series, which ceased publication after Night Shade Books changed ownership.