Shawna Lee McCarthy (born 1954) is an American science fiction and fantasy editor and

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Career

McCarthy edited various magazines for several years, starting as editorial assistant and editor of Firehouse Magazine before working as the managing editor at Asimov's. In 1983, she took over from

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as the editor-in-chief of '' Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine'', a change under which the magazine "acquired an edgier and more literary and experimental tone." During her time at ''Asimov's'', McCarthy edited four anthologies of stories from the magazine (''Isaac Asimov's Wonders of the World'' (1982), ''Isaac Asimov's Aliens & Outworlders'' (1983), ''Isaac Asimov's Space of Her Own'' (1984) and ''Isaac Asimov's Fantasy!'' (1985)), and received the 1984 Hugo Award for Best Professional Editor (she was nominated for this award three times). She left the magazine in 1985 and was succeeded by Gardner Dozois. After leaving ''Asimov's'', McCarthy became an editor for Bantam in 1985 and co-edited the first two volumes of that publisher's ''Full Spectrum'' anthology series with Lou Aronica, ''et al.'' Upon leaving Bantam in 1988, she began working as a literary agent, first with Scott Meredith, then with Scovil Chichak Galen, and now as an independent. In addition, she was the fiction editor of '' Realms of Fantasy'' magazine from its debut in 1994 until its closure after the October 2011 issue.

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