Patrick Huyghe is presently the editor-in-chief of Anomalist Books and the publisher of ICRL PRess. Previously he was the editor of the Simon & Schuster imprint, Paraview Pocket Books, and before that the editor of the pioneer POD publisher Paraview Press. Under the company name JustDuckie, he has also created and maintained several web sites, including The Anomalist and Small Comets, the news site for information on the discovery of small comets.
Huyghe holds a BA in social psychology from the University of Virginia and an MS in journalism from Syracuse University. After two years of editing and writing on the staffs of Us and Newsweek magazines, he turned freelance in 1980. For the next two decades he wrote for dozens of magazines, from The New York Times Magazine and Discover, to Psychology Today and Reader's Digest, Health and Omni, Audubon and The Sciences, and many others. [Sample 1, 2, 3] During his two decades as a science writer he also served stints as contributing editor to both Science Digest and Omni.
Huyghe has authored four books: Glowing Birds: Stories from the Edge of Science (Faber & Faber, 1985), Columbus Was Last (Hyperion, 1992), The Field Guide to Extraterrestrials (Avon, 1996), and Swamp Gas Times (Paraview Press, 2001); and co-authored five others: The Big Splash with Dr. Louis A. Frank (Birch Lane Press, 1990), The Field Guide to Bigfoot and Other Mystery Primates with Loren Coleman (Avon, 1999), The Field Guide to UFOs with Dennis Stacy (Quill, 2000), The Field Guide to Ghosts and Other Apparitions with Hilary Evans (Quill, 2000), and The Field Guide to Lake Monsters, Sea Serpents and Other Mystery Denizens of the Deep with Loren Coleman (Tarcher, 2002)
Huyghe has also contributed to Time-Life, Reader's Digest, and Scribner's book series, taught science writing at the college level, produced public TV documentaries for WGBH-Boston and WNET-New York, and written exhibit text and interactive scripts for the Liberty Science Center in New Jersey, the Petrosains Science Discovery Centre in Malaysia, and Monsanto's "Beautiful Science" exhibit at EPCOT.
