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Jo Fletcher (b. 1958) is a poet, writer, critic, journalist and publisher. She won the International Society of Poets’ Editors’ Choice Award in 1996, the British Fantasy Society’s Karl Edward Wagner Award in 1997 and the World Fantasy Award in 2002. She has been published widely, and her work has appeared in, amongst other titles, The Mammoth Book of Werewolves, The Mammoth Book of Frankenstein, The Mammoth Book of Dracula, Now We Are Sick, The Tiger Garden: A Book of Writers’ Dreams, Dark of the Night, White of the Moon, Freaks Geeks and Sideshow Floozies, Cthulhu and the CoEds, Short Trips: A Christmas Treasury and Daughter of Dangerous Dames. As “Featured Poet” she contributed a Zodiac cycle to The Urbanite magazine. She has edited a number of anthologies, including Gaslight & Ghosts and Secret City: Strange Tales of London (both with Stephen Jones), and the mosaic children’s novel Horror at Halloween. Her first poetry collection, Shadows of Light and Dark, was short-listed for the British Fantasy Award. Non-fiction has included The World’s Greatest Mysteries and a number of military and historical works. In 1985 she joined the fledgling independent publishing company Headline and masterminded the launch of Headline’s fantasy, SF and horror list, introducing award-winning writers like Dan Simmons, Michael Bishop, and brought Charles L. Grant’s acclaimed horror anthology series Shadows to the U.K. She left Headline in 1988 and worked for Mandarin (1988-90), then moved to Pan to run the newly revitalized genre list. She is currently Editorial Director of Gollancz, which she took over in 1994.