Gary K. Wolfe, a Readercon guest of honor in 2015, is Emeritus Professor of Humanities and a former dean at Roosevelt University and a reviewer for Locus, reaching his 400th monthly column in 2025. His reviews have been collected in Soundings (BSFA Award 2006; Hugo nominee), Bearings (Hugo nominee), and Sightings, and his Evaporating Genres: Essays on Fantastic Literature (Wesleyan) received the Locus Award in 2012. Earlier books include The Known and the Unknown: The Iconography of Science Fiction (Eaton Award, 1981), Harlan Ellison: The Edge of Forever (with Ellen Weil), and David Lindsay. For the Library of America, he edited American Science Fiction: Nine Classic Novels of the 1950s (2012), and American Science Fiction: Eight Classic Novels of the 1960s (2019). He received the Pilgrim Award from the Science Fiction Research Association, the Distinguished Scholarship Award from the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, and a World Fantasy Award for criticism. His 24-lecture series How Great Science Fiction Works appeared from The Great Courses in 2016. He has received fourteen Hugo nominations, two for his reviews collections and twelve for The Coode Street Podcast, which he has co-hosted with Jonathan Strahan since 2010 and which won the 2021 Hugo and Ditmar Awards.