LIZA GROEN TROMBI is publisher and editor in chief of Locus magazine. A life-long reader of SF, she studied Spanish literature, history, and translation at SFSU and copyediting and line-editing at Editcetera before joining the magazine in early 2003. She has been Editor in chief since 2009. She also participates in convention panels and awards juries, runs the Locus Awards Weekend and a quarterly writing workshop, publishes books with Locus Press, and serves as board president of the Locus Science Fiction Foundation. She has won four Hugo Awards. She lives in the Bay Area with her two daughters and her partner, author Daryl Gregory.