Guest of Honor
Fan Guest of Honor:
Leigh
Grossman
Erstwhile Lunacon Co-Programming Head
Leigh Grossman is a writer, college lecturer, editor,
and occasional reviewer. He teaches in the English Department at the
University of Connecticut and is the president of Swordsmith
Productions, a book development and book production company that is
currently developing online courseware for universities in the
Philippines. Grossman is the author of thirteen published books from
six different publishers, and has reviewed books for Absolute
Magnitude, Horror magazine, and Wavelengths. Previously, he was the
Pre-Press Production supervisor at Avon Books, an editor at Byron
Preiss Visual Publications/Multimedia, and a college-level history and
writing instructor. He lives in northeast Connecticut.
As an editor, Grossman's credits include annotated
editions of Dracula, Frankenstein, and H. P. Lovecraft's works, as well
as Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's 3-volume feminist reworking of Dracula (The
Angry Angel, The Soul of an Angel, and the forthcoming The Angel of
Death), as well as many other works of literature, science fiction and
fantasy, and nonfiction.
Grossman currently teaches at the University of
Connecticut (writing, book publishing, science fiction, and fantasy),
and has previously taught at Rutgers (European history) and Bloomfield
College, where he was something of a jack-of-all-trades (American
history, women's history, the West in American history, the literature
of business, writing and creative writing, etc.). He was one of the
original instructors in the Weekends at Bloomfield College B.A. program
for adult learners. He has a dual B.A. (Temple University, 1988) in
history and English, and an M.A. (Rutgers, The State University of NJ,
1990) in modern European history, with a focus on 19th century British
history, especially the history of reading.
Grossman's writing credits include recent novels The
Green Lion and The Golden Thorns; nonfiction works The Red Sox Fan
Handbook, The Adult Student's Guide, and The New England Museum Guide;
along with several other books, and he was the original review editor
for Horror magazine (where he primarily reviewed dark fantasy). He went
on to write reviews for Wavelengths and Absolute Magnitude. In addition
to nonfiction, Grossman writes fantasy and historical fiction.
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