15 Facts About Toni Weisskopf

Toni Weisskopf was born on Antonia Katherine Flora Weisskopf on December 12,1965 and is an American science fiction editor and the publisher of Baen Books.

Toni Weisskopf has been nominated four times for a Hugo Award.

Toni Weisskopf has won the Phoenix Award, the Rebel Award, and the Neffy Award for best editor.

Toni Weisskopf uses the nom de plume T K F Weisskopf as an anthology editor.

Toni Weisskopf's family moved to Brooklyn when she was three years old, and then to Huntsville, Alabama, when she was twelve.

Toni Weisskopf graduated from Oberlin College in 1987 with a degree in anthropology.

Toni Weisskopf worked various jobs there until becoming executive editor, a job she had until the death of founder Jim Baen in 2006.

Toni Weisskopf has edited a number of Baen anthologies under the name T K F Weisskopf.

Toni Weisskopf 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".

Toni Weisskopf received the Rebel Award in 2000 for "lifetime achievement in Southern Science Fiction Fandom".

Toni Weisskopf's next set of anthologies, Cosmic Tales: Adventures in Sol System and Cosmic Tales II: Adventures in Far Futures contained science fiction adventure stories.

Toni Weisskopf was the editor guest of honor for the 2010 North American Science Fiction Convention, ReConStruction.

Toni Weisskopf was nominated for a Hugo Award four times in the Best Professional Editor category: in 2013,2014,2015, and 2016.

Toni Weisskopf was awarded the Neffy Award as Best Editor in 2015.

Toni Weisskopf was announced in July 2020 as the Editor Guest of Honor for Discon III, the 79th World Science Fiction Convention.