James Frenkel has been a publisher, packager, and editor for over twenty years. Editor of Dell’ s science fiction imprint in the late 1970s, he published Bluejay Books, a major trade publisher in the field in the mid-1980s. He is currently a consulting editor for Tor Books. He also edits the Collier Nucleus series of classic SF and fantasy reprints. He lives in New York with his wife, Joan D. Vinge, with whom he is collaborating on several fiction anthologies.