Jeff VanderMeer’s novels include Annihilation, Borne, and Dead Astronauts. His short fiction has appeared in over three hundred magazines and anthologies including Black Clock, Vulture, Slate, and Library of America’s American Fantastic Tales. VanderMeer’s latest novel, Hummingbird Salamander, focuses on the mystery of an eco-activist’s life and death and the peculiar gift of a taxidermied hummingbird she gives to a stranger.