Francesca Myman is a senior editor and art director at Locus Magazine, where she has worked for eighteen years. Locus, as the 30-time Hugo Award-winning trade journal of the science fiction, fantasy, and horror field, is the perfect place to pursue her lifelong passion for science fiction and fantasy literature, art, and community. Supporting that diverse and awesome community is the biggest honor of her life. Her editorial duties include convention coverage and photography, chasing publishers for forthcoming books lists, event planning for the Locus Awards, art books wrangling for the renowned Locus Recommended Reading List, selecting artists to interview for spotlight features and special issues, undersea beastie upkeep, and many other strange and wonderful tasks.

She also contracts with Locus as a cover artist and has completed over 130 Locus covers, most with her original artwork, as well as countless interior layouts, spot graphics, ads, logos, book covers, and other visuals for the day job and other clients. Art, science, and technology are areas of interest. She holds a BA from Yale University in Women’s and Gender Studies with a concentration in “Women, Fantasy, & the Arts” and an award-winning thesis on the iconology of female robots and cyborgs in modern fiction, film, and art. She also holds two graduate degrees in English and creative writing from California College of the Arts and Hollins University, and graduated from Clarion West in 2000. She lives in Oakland, CA with her two polydactyl calico cats, Magic and Marginalia.