Jeff VanderMeer is an American author, editor, and literary critic, born on July 7, 1968. Initially associated with the New Weird literary genre, VanderMeer achieved mainstream success with his bestselling Southern Reach Series. The series' first novel, Annihilation, won the Nebula and Shirley Jackson Awards, and was adapted into a Hollywood film by director Alex Garland.

Among VanderMeer's other novels are Shriek: An Afterword and Borne. He has edited, with his wife Ann VanderMeer, several influential and award-winning anthologies such as The New Weird, The Weird, and The Big Book of Science Fiction.

VanderMeer has been described as "one of the most remarkable practitioners of the literary fantastic in America today," with The New Yorker naming him the "King of Weird Fiction". His fiction is noted for eluding genre classifications while incorporating themes and elements from genres like postmodernism, ecofiction, the New Weird, and post-apocalyptic fiction.

His most recent novel, the national bestseller Borne, received widespread critical acclaim. His nonfiction has appeared in prominent publications such as the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Atlantic, Slate, Salon, and the Washington Post.