Toni Weisskopf

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Toni Weisskopf
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BornAntonia Katherine Flora Weisskopf
(1965-12-12) December 12, 1965 (age 58) [1]
Waltham, Massachusetts
Pen nameT. K. F. Weisskopf
Occupation
NationalityAmerican
Genre
Spouse Hank Reinhardt (d. 2007)
Partner Jim Baen (d. 2006)
ChildrenKatherine

Toni Weisskopf (born Antonia Katherine Flora Weisskopf on December 12, 1965) is an American science fiction editor and the publisher of Baen Books. She has been nominated four times for a Hugo Award. She has won the Phoenix Award, the Rebel Award, and the Neffy Award for best editor. She uses the nom de plume T. K. F. Weisskopf as an anthology editor.

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Biography

Weisskopf was born on December 12, 1965, in Waltham, Massachusetts. [1] [2] [3] Her family moved to Brooklyn when she was three years old, and then to Huntsville, Alabama, when she was twelve. [2] She graduated from Oberlin College in 1987 with a degree in anthropology. [2]

She has one daughter, Katherine, with Jim Baen. [4] Following Baen's death, she married Hank Reinhardt, who died on October 30, 2007. [5]

Career

Upon graduation in 1987, she was employed by Baen Books as an editorial assistant. [2] She worked various jobs there until becoming executive editor, a job she had until the death of founder Jim Baen in 2006. Since that time, she has been the publisher at Baen. [6] She has edited a number of Baen anthologies under the name T. K. F. Weisskopf. [3]

She won the Phoenix Award in 1994 for excellence in science fiction, [7] as well as the tongue-in-cheek Rubble Award, an anti-award given out annually to a fan or professional who has "done something humorously ignominious". [8] Her first publication, a vampire anthology titled Tomorrow Sucks, was co-edited with Greg Cox and published by Baen in 1994. [9] A follow-up anthology, Tomorrow Bites, was released in 1995. [10]

Weisskopf received the Rebel Award in 2000 for "lifetime achievement in Southern Science Fiction Fandom". [7] Her next set of anthologies, Cosmic Tales: Adventures in Sol System (2004) and Cosmic Tales II: Adventures in Far Futures (2005) contained science fiction adventure stories. Transhuman, an anthology co-edited with Mark L. Van Name, was published in February 2008. Weisskopf was the editor guest of honor for the 2010 North American Science Fiction Convention, ReConStruction. [11] She was nominated for a Hugo Award four times in the Best Professional Editor category: in 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016. She was awarded the Neffy Award as Best Editor in 2015. In February 2015 Toni was an Editor Guest of Honor and Keynote Speaker at the 33rd annual Life, the Universe, & Everything professional science fiction and fantasy arts symposium. [12]

In 2020, she co-edited with Christopher Woods an anthology, Give Me LibertyCon, that established a scholarship in honor of Timothy Bolgeo, founder of LibertyCon, an annual science fiction convention in Chattanooga, Tennessee. [13] She was announced in July 2020 as the Editor Guest of Honor for Discon III, the 79th World Science Fiction Convention. [14] Due to controversies over the online community Baen's Bar maintained by Baen Books, she was removed as Editor Guest of Honor on February 19, 2021. [15]

Bibliography

Weisskopf edited the following anthologies as T. K. F. Weisskopf:

Awards and recognition

Weisskopf has received the following awards and recognition:

YearOrganizationAward title,
Category		WorkResultRefs
1994 DeepSouthCon Phoenix Award
Excellence in Science Fiction		n/aWon [7]
2000 DeepSouthCon Rebel Award,
Lifetime Achievement in Southern Science Fiction Fandom		n/aWon [7]
2013 Worldcon Hugo Award,
Best Professional Editor 		n/aNominated [19]
2014 Worldcon Hugo Award,
Best Professional Editor 		n/aNominated [20]
2015 Worldcon Hugo Award,
Best Professional Editor 		n/aNominated [21]
2015 National Fantasy Fan Federation Neffy Award,
Best Editor		n/aWon [22]
2016 Worldcon Hugo Award,
Best Professional Editor 		n/aNominated [23]

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