John Joseph Adams is the editor of the anthologies Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse (Night Shade Books, 2008), Seeds of Change (Prime Books, forthcoming August 2008), and The Living Dead (Night Shade Books, forthcoming September 2008). He is currently working on Federations, an original anthology about intergalactic societies (Prime Books, 2009), and Brave New Worlds, a reprint anthology of dystopian fiction (Night Shade Books). In addition to his work editing anthologies, he is also the assistant editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Adams has written reviews for Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, and Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show and is the print news correspondent for SCI FI Wire (the news service of the SCI FI Channel). His non-fiction has also appeared in: Amazing Stories, The Internet Review of Science Fiction, Locus Magazine, Novel & Short Story Writers Market, Science Fiction Weekly, Shimmer, Strange Horizons, Subterranean Magazine, and Writer's Digest. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in English from The University of Central Florida in December 2000. He currently lives in New Jersey.