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Neil Clarke is a Hugo Award-nominated and World Fantasy Award-nominated American editor and publisher. He is the owner of Wyrm Publishing and the publisher/editor of Clarkesworld Magazine, an online science fiction/fantasy magazine.

In 2009, “Clarkesworld edited by Neil Clarke, Nick Mamatas & Sean Wallace” was nominated for a Hugo Award in the category Best Semiprozine. This coincidentally occurred in the same year that the World Science Fiction Society was slated to ratify an amendment to the awards rules which would eliminate the Semiprozine category. Clarke successfully spearheaded the resistance to this by establishing the “Save The Semiprozine” group on Facebook and rallying supporters to vote down the amendment.

Neil Clarke was also nominated for a 2009 World Fantasy Award for his work on Clarkesworld. Additionally, "A Buyer's Guide to Maps of Antarctica", a short story by Catherynne M. Valente which was published in Clarkesworld 5/08, was nominated for the 2009 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story.

Prior to publishing Clarkesworld, he ran the online bookstore, Clarkesworld Books for nearly eight years.

Clarke and his family reside in New Jersey.