She’s the editor in chief of Strange Horizons, which has been nominated for multiple Hugo awards.
No, she's the co-editor in chief. There are probably five or six of them, not unlike banks having fifteen VPs because VP sounds impressive to people who don't know that banks have fifteen VPs.
In today's science fiction industry, I don't doubt that they've been nominated for multiple Hugo awards. The list of Hugo finalists is absolutely huge, let alone nominees.
Science fiction is near and dear to me, and I've been devouring it for going on thirty years now. I'm extremely selective about any material published past the turn of the century, and especially any material published this decade, because the quality has gone WAY downhill since the glory days of Isaac Asimov, Ursula LeGuin, L. Sprague de Camp, Larry Niven, Arthur C. Clarke, Greg Bear et al. Sadly, even some of the old greats like Neal Stephenson have gone downhill in these latter days.
TTON had a bunch of great writers involved and plenty of solid ones (MCA, MRY, Ziets, Heine, McComb—I know Colin has his flaws but he’s not some neophyte); what TTON needed was an editor, not a better class of prose stylist.
No, what T:ToN needed was for those guys to do most or all of the writing rather than mainly being a dog and pony show for the name-drop prestige. Had they collectively done the bulk of the writing, it wouldn't have been so disgraceful, even if a baboon had been editor.
Rationalize all you like, but writing is a completely results-based profession and doesn't conform to the requirements of political correctness and affirmative action. Only talent can produce good writing, not wishes and feelings.
Or because you're sad and miserable.
Bad writing will do that to a person, especially one who was as bright-eyed and hopeful about the Kickstarter revival as I was in 2012.