Jessica Amanda Salmonson

Jessica Amanda Salmonson (born January 6, 1950) is an American author and editor of fantasy and horror fiction and poetry.
Writing career.
Author.
Salmonson is the author of the "Tomoe Gozen" trilogy, a fantasy version of the tale of the historical female samurai Tomoe Gozen. Her other novels are "The Swordswoman", "Ou Lu Khen and the Beautiful Madwoman", an Asian fantasy, and a modern horror novel, "Anthony Shriek".
Her short story collections include "A Silver Thread of Madness"; "Mystic Women"; "John Collier and Fredric Brown Went Quarreling Through My Head"; "The Deep Museum: Ghost Stories of a Melancholic"; and "The Dark Tales". Poetry collections include "Horn of Tara" and "The Ghost Garden".
Editor.
Salmonson was the editor of the anthologies "Amazons!" and "Amazons II"; "Heroic Visions" and "Heroic Visions II"; "Tales by Moonlight" and "Tales by Moonlight II"; and "What Did Miss Darrington See: An Anthology of Feminist Supernatural Stories".
She has also edited a series of single-author collections of ghost stories and weird tales, many of them of historical significance to genre literature, including volumes by Marjorie Bowen, Alice Brown, Thomas Burke, Olivia Howard Dunbar, Hildegarde Hawthorne, Julian Hawthorne, Augustus Jessopp, Sarah Orne Jewett, Anna Nicholas, Fitz-James O'Brien, Vincent O'Sullivan, Georgia Wood Pangborn, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Mary Heaton Vorse, Jerome K. Jerome.
From 1973 to 1975, she was one of the editors of "The Literary Magazine of Fantasy and Terror", a small-press magazine. She openly documented her coming out as a transgender woman in this journal. She went on to edit "Fantasy Macabre" from 1985 until the final issue, #17, in 1996. The magazine was subtitled "Beauty plus strangeness equals terror."