Teresa Nielsen Hayden is a consulting editor for Tor Books. Authors she has edited at Tor include Poul Anderson, Steven Brust, Avram Davidson, John M. Ford, Shariann Lewitt, Jane Lindskold, James White, Robert Charles Wilson, Jo Walton, and Charles Stross. At various points in her career she has also edited comic books, literary criticism, and utopian literature. She has been among the instructors at Viable Paradise for twenty-one straight years, and she has run the weblog Making Light since 2002. Her essay collection Making Book (NESFA Press, 1994) was a finalist for the Hugo Award; for other writing and publishing, she has been a Hugo finalist four other times. In 2003, she and her husband Patrick Nielsen Hayden were awarded the Edward E. Smith Memorial Award (the "Skylark") for service to the field, and in 2016 they were guests of honor at the World Science Fiction Convention. A second collection of her essays, Making Conversation, was published by NESFA Press in connection with that Worldcon.