You should be a part of the fictionmags mailing list. We've discussed this to death there, but I think Campbell had a large inventory of material, according to Mike Ashley . . . However, "it was still not possible to be sure which stories had been acquired by which editor."

The thing that strikes me about this list, and coincidentally some other reading I'm doing lately, is those dates. Everyone talks as though women are somehow new to the SF field, and yet when you go back and actually look at the sources, women were there all the time. It's just somehow they're invisible, and every few years someone looks around and says, "Huh, where did all these women come from? They weren't here before!"

Yep. Can't say I've ever seen anyone write about this in particular.

Female scholar blindspot?

Um, Shawna is STILL an editor, at REALMS OF FANTASY.

And WEIRD TALES has a female editor right now, too: Ann Vandermeer.

Marion Zimmer Bradley, Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine, 1988-1999.

Mary Anne Mohanraj, Strange Horizons, 2000-2003
Susan Marie Groppi, Strange Horizons, 2004-present

If you're including small press, then don't forget

Beth Wodzinski - Shimmer Magazine - 2005-present

Judith Merrill.

She edited, among other things: England Swings SF, an annual collection (Year's Best - which happens to have been among the better year's bests) and at least one other anthology (who's title escapes me at the moment) that was 'feminist sf' oriented.

You should also add Judy-Lynn Del Rey to the list, and I believe that kate Wilhelm did a little editing too....

and Ginjer Buchanan over at Ace Books, not to mention Elisabeth Wollheim and Sheila Gilbert at DAW and Teresa Nielsen-Hayden at TOR....

Élisabeth Vonarburg, Solaris, 1983-1985, and she has worked as a literary director for it at other times, and again since 2000.
Reference: http://www.noosfere.org/heberg/auteurstf3/biographie.asp?site=58

Also: I linked to your entry from whileaway.

Edited at 2010-01-08 05:43 pm (UTC)

Diane Walton, OnSpec, ????-present
http://www.onspec.ca/about.htm
And a lot of other names on that page, if you include fiction editors as well as managing editors.

Jovanka Vuckovic, Rue Morgue Magazine, June 2002 — Present
http://www.rue-morgue.com/
http://ca.linkedin.com/in/jovankavuckovic
http://www.fearzone.com/blog/jovanka-vuckovic

(ETA: though it's not a fiction magazine, afaik)

Edited at 2010-01-08 06:26 pm (UTC)

You don't have the McKennas, from Aeon.

Depending on what you want to list, Andromeda Spaceways has had (and does have) many female editors.

Or Sarah Endacott's Orb, speaking of Australians again.

Mary Gnaedinger - Famous Fantastic Mysteries 1939-1953

Just found out she did some of A. Merritt's Fantasy magazine, too - 1949-1950.

wendy bradley, farthing. the editors of Lennox Avenue, The editors of Ideomancer, the editors of Abyss & Apex, and me for Fortean Bureau & Sybil's Garage.

Glad to see this list. Particularly glad to see you included Cele Goldsmith, who I think is particularly underknown/underacknowledged. According to Wikipedia:

"Among her discoveries were Thomas M. Disch, Ursula K. Le Guin, Keith Laumer, Sonya Dorman (as a fiction writer), and Roger Zelazny. She was also instrumental in bringing Fritz Leiber out of an early writer's-block-induced retirement (a 1959 issue was devoted entirely to his fiction), and was among the first US editors to publish British author J. G. Ballard."

But also glad to see everyone else on the list. Especially the people I hadn't previously known about.

Here are a couple of additions to the list:

Strange Horizons is tricky. Mary Anne was the editor-in-chief from 2000 through 2003, as you noted, and Susan Marie Groppi has been editor-in-chief since 2004. (For us, "editor-in-chief" is a title that corresponds roughly with what some other venues might call "publisher.") But Susan has been a fiction editor since 2000. Chris Heinemann (also female) was also a fiction editor from 2000 through 2003, and Karen Meisner has been a fiction editor since mid-2003. Susan and Chris and I, and then Susan and Karen and I, have collectively made all the decisions about what fiction we publish.

For award-nomination purposes, we generally ask that people think of Susan as "the" editor of the magazine; that's a lot simpler than trying to explain our structure. But most of the editors on your list are or were fiction editors. So if I were putting together such a list, I would definitely include Chris and Karen on it.

I should also note that we've had a bunch of other female editors in other departments: poetry, articles, reviews, art, music, etc. But I'm guessing that you're focusing primarily on fiction.

Another addition to your list: Kelly Link has been, as I understand it, co-editor of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet since 1996.

One more thing, though this isn't really amenable to the kind of list you're making: I think it's worth acknowledging now and then, even if not in this list, that there have been women in prominent positions behind the scenes in a lot of contexts. A couple of examples off the top of my head: Sheila was an editorial assistant at Asimov's starting in '83, I think; Carina Gonzalez was the first reader at Realms for a while; Kelly was the first reader at Sci Fiction; and SH has had three female first readers since late 2008. (Karen Burnham, Erin Kissane, Brianna Privett.) In general, first readers and editorial assistants and such don't get enough recognition, imo, regardless of gender. But again, I realize that's not what your list is about; this is just a side note.

Updated, as best as I can.