Graham Sleight lives in London, UK, and has been writing about sf and fantasy since 2000. His work has appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Foundation, Interzone, SF Studies, Strange Horizons, and The Los Angeles Review of Books among other venues. From 2006-12, he wrote a column for Locus on classic sf. He was editor of Foundation from 2007-13. He was then the Chair of Trustees until 2024 of the Science Fiction Foundation (https://sf-foundation.org/), the charity that publishes Foundation and maintains the SFF collection at the University of Liverpool.
His essays have appeared in Snake's-Hands: the Fiction of John Crowley (Turner and Andre-Driussi, eds.), Polder: A Festschrift for John Clute and Judith Clute and On Joanna Russ (Mendlesohn, ed.), LGBTQ America (Hawley, ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Modern Fantasy Literature (James and Mendlesohn, eds.), Parabolas of Science Fiction (Attebery and Hollinger, eds.), among others. In the UK, he can be found writing introductions to books in Gollancz's "SF Masterworks" and "Fantasy Masterworks" series.
He’s written about Doctor Who, most recently in The Doctor's Monsters: Meanings of the Monstrous in Doctor Who (I B Tauris, 2012). He co-edited the BSFA-award nominated The Unsilent Library: Essays on the Russell T. Davies Era of the new Doctor Who (SF Foundation, 2011) with Simon Bradshaw and Antony Keen. The BSFA award winner that year was The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (sf-encyclopedia.com), for which he is also an editor—though a junior partner—along with John Clute, David Langford, and the late Peter Nicholls. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction won a Hugo Award in 2012 as Best Related Work.
He’s currently working on a couple of books that he can’t quite talk about yet. Hopefully that’ll change very soon. This is, slightly scarily, the 25th anniversary of his first Readercon. His web site is grahamsleight.com .