Toni Weisskopf


Toni Weisskopf 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.

Biography

Weisskopf was born on December 12, 1965 in Waltham, Massachusetts. Her family moved to Brooklyn when she was three years old, and then to Huntsville, Alabama when she was twelve. She graduated from Oberlin College in 1987 with a degree in anthropology.
She has one daughter, Katherine, with Jim Baen. Following Baen's death, she married Hank Reinhardt, who died on October 30, 2007.

Career

Upon graduation in 1987, she was employed by Baen Books as an editorial assistant. She worked c=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. She has edited a number of Baen anthologies under the name T.K.F. Weisskopf.
She won the Phoenix Award in 1994 for excellence in science fiction, 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". Her first publication, a vampire anthology titled Tomorrow Sucks, was co-edited with Greg Cox and published by Baen in 1994. A follow-up anthology, Tomorrow Bites, was released in 1995.
She received the Rebel Award in 2000 for "lifetime achievement in Southern Science Fiction Fandom". Her next set of anthologies, Cosmic Tales: Adventures in Sol System and Cosmic Tales II: Adventures in Far Futures 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. 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.
She has a forthcoming 2020 anthology, Give Me LibertyCon, that will help establish a scholarship in honor of Timothy Bolgeo, founder of LibertyCon, an annual science fiction convention in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Awards and recognition

Weisskopf has received the following awards and recognition:
YearOrganizationAward title,
Category		WorkResultRefs
1994DeepSouthConPhoenix Award
Excellence in Science Fiction		n/a
2000DeepSouthConRebel Award,
Lifetime Achievement in Southern Science Fiction Fandom		n/a
2013WorldconHugo Award,
Best Professional Editor		n/a
2014WorldconHugo Award,
Best Professional Editor		n/a
2015WorldconHugo Award,
Best Professional Editor		n/a
2015National Fantasy Fan FederationNeffy Award,
Best Editor		n/a
2016WorldconHugo Award,
Best Professional Editor		n/a