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Jayme Lynn
Blaschke
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Jayme Lynn Blaschke's been pursuing
short fiction for the better part of the decade, and has
recently had work appear in the British magazine
Interzone and Writers of the Future Vol. 14.
A graduate of Texas A&M University, Jayme worked for
seven years as a newspaper journalist before accepting a
public affairs position with Scott and White Hospital in
Texas.
Currently, Jayme is working on a series of author
interviews for Interzone as well as two novels. A
non-fiction article on U.S. editorial perceptions of
Australian science fiction is scheduled for the Autumn issue
of Eidolon, the Australian SF journal.
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Tippi N.
Blevins
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I was born in Taiwan, but have been in Texas most of my
life, where I now live with four dogs and miscellaneous
family. I study anthropology and biology, sometimes in
school, sometimes not. In my spare time, I am a web page
designer. The rest of the time, I write.
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Kristen
Britain
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Kristen Britain can be found in Maine paddling a canoe in
stillwater, ambling through the woods to mountain summits,
or sitting along the rocky shore listening, watching, and
daydreaming. Green Rider is her first novel.
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B.A.
Chepaitis
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B.A. Chepaitis is author of the "fear" series of novels
out through Ace, which include The Fear Principle,
The Fear of God (April, 1999) and Learning
Fear (November 1999). Chepaitis is past recipient of the
Associated Writing Programs new journals award for fiction;
a semifinalist in the Chesterfield film project; and
finalist in the Open Voice award for fiction. Along with
writing, Chepaitis is director of the storytelling troupe
THE SNICKERING WITCHES, and faculty at the New York State
University at Albany.
B.A. Chepaitis has also sold a mainstream literary
novel,Feeding Christine, to Bantam. If all goes well,
the contract should be signed soon.
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James
Clemens
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I was born in Chicago, Illinois, in
1961. With my three brothers and three sisters, I was raised
in the Midwest and rural Canada. There, I explored
cornfields, tadpoles, and frozen ponds, dreaming of worlds
and adventures beyond the next bend in the creek.
Eventually, forced to grow up, I went to school at the
University of Missouri where I graduated with a doctorate in
veterinary medicine in 1985.
During one especially icy Midwestern winter, the lure of
ocean, sun, and new horizons eventually drew me to the West
Coast where I established my veterinary practice in
Sacramento, California. Presently, I share my home with two
Dalmatians, a stray Shepherd, and a love-sick parrot named
Igor.
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Cory
Doctorow
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I'm 28, and it's been 11 years
since my first (semiprofessional) publication. It's only in
the last two years that my stories have started selling to
pro markets, and the sales have gone off like a firecracker
string: four to Asimov's, two to SF Age,
Realms of Fantasy, Amazing Stories, Year's
Best Science Fiction, Northern Suns and on and
on. On the nonfiction front, it's even better, with regular
sales to Wired and Sci-Fi Entertainment, a
column in SF Age, and now, a book deal (!),
co-writing The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing
Science Fiction for Macmillan (with Karl Schroeder).
I'm a Torontonian born and bred, though I've lived in
Mexico and Costa Rica, and I dream of returning to the
tropics. In my daily life, I'm Chief Information Officer of
a technology startup called SteelBridge, developing advanced
Web applications. Coming from Toronto means that I've grown
up in a city rich in science fiction resources; of especial
note are Judith Merril and the reference library that bears
her name, Bakka, the world's oldest science fiction
bookstore, and the Cecil Street Workshop, which includes
some of Canada's finest sf writers.
My Internet column in Science Fiction Age is the
longest running sf Internet column still on the go: I've
just completed my fourth year in that berth. I write
occassional stories for the Globe and Mail, Canada's
national newspaper; most recently, an interview with William
Gibson.
My work centres around a few themes: political dissent
(my parents are Trotskyists, and I've been going to protest
rallies since infancy); garbage, kitsch and ephemera (an
avowed packrat, I live in a full-to-bursting warehouse
chock-a-block with popcult trash); and the utopian vision
implicit in the Disney Theme Parks. I'm currently working on
a near-future novel that explores all of these, set in a
post-human Walt Disney World.
I've been getting good buzz since I broke out in the
field: "Craphound" won the SF Age Reader's Choice
poll, and I was a finalist for the 1998 Sturgeon and Aurora
Awards. But the best is this quote from Gardner Dozois,
editor of Asimov's and The Year's Best Science
Fiction, writing about my story "Craphound:" "Doctorow's
story serves mostly to hold a mirror up to human nature, but
the odd corner of human nature it examines is fascinating,
and the story is smoothly and expertly written, with some
good detail and local color and some shrewd insights into
human nature and human culture, and an almost Bradburian
vein of rich nostalgia running through it (although the
nostalgia is quirky enough that perhaps it might more
usefully be compared to R.A. Lafferty or Terry Bisson than
to Bradbury); one of the more accomplished performances so
far this year."
Bradbury, Bisson and Lafferty! Colour me stoked!
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Stefano
Donati
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No biography submitted.
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Oscar L.
Fellows
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Oscar L. Fellows grew up in west
Texas, during the 50's, on the Mexican border. He was a U.S.
Marine during the Viet Nam era, and worked in the oil fields
after leaving the service. He married and settled into a
twenty-one year career with the federal government, as a
Facilities Manager in several national parks, and an
Operations Chief of civil engineers for the U.S. Air Force.
He has lived and worked in such places as the Grand Canyon,
the Navajo Reservation in Arizona, The Virgin Islands and
Kennedy Space Center.
He writes hard science fiction, military fiction and
techno-thrillers. His novel, Operation Damocles, was
nominated for the 1998 Prometheus Award. It is about a civil
revolt in a near future America, a NASA cover-up and an
orbital super weapon controlled by the rebels.
He has just finished Catalyst, a novel in which an
archaeologist working in the Amazon discovers a secret Nazi
technology from WW2 that could start the nuclear armageddon.
This manuscript is currently in the hands of his agent and
may see publication in year 2000.
His current work in progress is another science-espionage
novel called Temblor Station #5, about a near-future
earthquake prevention service, part of the US Geophysical
Service. A terrorist is threatening to trigger a major quake
under San Francisco, unless the government pays off.
Another military science fiction adventure novel called
The Cadre is also developing. A Chinese warlord wants
to take over the world, and only a class of green Annapolis
midshipmen stands in his way.
Fellows currently lives with his wife in Austin, Texas,
and runs Fellows Research Group, Inc., as his day job.
Reader e-mail is welcome.
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Ian
Irvine
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Ian Irvine lives in the mountains
of northern NSW, Australia. He is a marine pollution expert,
for the past 12 years running his own consulting company,
working in Australia, Asia and the Pacific. He has developed
some of Australia's national marine environmental
guidelines.
His epic fantasy quartet, The View from the
Mirror, is being published by Penguin Books Australia at
6-monthly intervals. The final volume, The Way between
the Worlds, will be launched at Aussiecon 3 (57th
Worldcon) in Melbourne in September 1999.
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J. Patrick
Jensen
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Fiona
Kelleghan
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I was born April 21, 1965, in
South Florida, where I have lived all my life; I am a
librarian at the University of Miami; I have Master's
degrees in literature and library & information science.
I have published scholarly articles, book reviews, book
chapters, and interviews in the fields of SF&F&H. I
do not yet own a cat, but I am afraid the Book Jacket Police
will come to take me away so my husband Paddy and I are
going kitten-hunting real soon now. I am going to have a web
page up Any Day Now; just waiting for the librarian who runs
our website to return from vacation.
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Stephen
Kenson
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Steve Kenson is a freelance writer of material for
fantasy role-playing games, known for his work in FASA
Corporation's Shadowrun game setting. Technobabel,
for the Shadowrun line, is his first novel.
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Maureen
Jensen
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Maurene Jensen lives in Salt Lake
City, Utah. She started her writing career in the sixth
grade with an assignment to write a Short story. Finally,
school made sense! The teacher gave her an A+ for great
imagination. This was her first attempt at writing science
fiction.
She was hooked.
She works on the graveyard shift in the depths of a
clinical laboratory to finance her writing habits. She also
seems to do all her best work throughout the dark of the
night.
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Ellen
Klages
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Bio from Ellen's web page:
ellen was born in a small coal-mine. she has advanced far
beyond other mortals in the pursuits of comedy, writing, and
auctioneering.
Ellen also has written several non-fiction books,
including Harbin Hot Springs (history, 1991, HS
Publishing), The Science Explorer (kids science
experiments, with Pat Murphy, 1996, Henry Holt), The
Science Explorer Out and About (ditto above, 1997),
The Brain Explorer (puzzles, problem-solving, and
cognition for kids, with Pat Murphy, 1999, Holt). Her agent
is shopping her new novel.
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Steven Mohan
Jr.
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Steven Mohan, Jr. spent two years of
his early childhood living in the Philippines, an experience
that left him with a lifelong fascination for other
cultures. After graduating from Northwestern University with
a degree in Mechanical Engineering and a naval commission,
he completed a shipboard tour in which he visited the
Persian Gulf, Southeast Asia, and the South Pacific. Steve
currently lives in Pueblo, Colorado with his wife and three
children.
Steve's been writing seriously for about six years.
"Conservator" was his first professional publication. He
also has had a story accepted by Aboriginal Science
Fiction.
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Devon
Monk
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Devon Monk is the alpha female of a
four generation home, where the walls are reputed to be
elastic and the back door is never closed. She has one
husband, two beautiful sons and a soft spot for pet lizards.
Although she was born on a tiny island in Alaska, she has
spent most of her life in Oregon and has the rust stains to
prove it. Her love of reading myths and legends at a young
age, eventually lead her to the wonders of science fiction
and fantasy.
She has learned that good coffee helps to keep her up
with her mostly-nocturnal writing schedule. She has also
learned that in-line skating helps to keep her up with her
mostly diurnal kids. Devon's works have appeared in such
magazines as Altair, Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy
Magazine, Odyssey, Pulp Eternity and MZB's Sword and
Sorceress Anthology. She also writes a column and essays
for a national fishing and hunting magazine.
Devon Monk is a member of the Next Wave Writers'
Collective, along with fellow writers, Charlene Brusso, Lynn
Flewelling, James Hartley and Jason Tanner. On a good day,
the squids dance.
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Robert L.
Nansel
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Robert L. Nansel was a robotics
engineer, but gave up his day job to write SF in 1995--the
year he attended Clarion West. Previous publications include
"The Next Best Thing" that appeared in Pulphouse #19
in '95. Robert continues to explore robotics in his monthly
non-fiction column "Amateur Robotics Notebook" which appears
in Nuts and Volts magazine.
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Scott
Nicholson
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Scott Nicholson won the Hubbard Gold
Award in the latest Writers of the Future contest, and was a
finalist the year before. He is currently marketing several
novels, and his first fiction collection Thank You For The
Flowers will be released in autumn of 2000. Nicholson works
as a journalist in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North
Carolina.
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Kathy
Oltion
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Kathy Oltion currently works in a medical laboratory in
Eugene, Oregon and writes when she's not at the lab, or
digging in the garden or playing clarinet in the Analog
Mafia Ragtime Band. She is a two-time winner in the Star
Trek: Strange New Worlds contest, with a story in each
of the first two volumes.
To prove she can also write in her own made-up world, she
has sold two stories to Dr. Stanley Schmidt at
Analog. The first was published in the September 1998
issue. That story, "While You Wait," was listed in
Locus's recommended reading list for 1998 and won the
coveted "Jerry Oltion Really Good Story Award." Her first
novel, a Star Trek collaboration with her husband in the New
Earth series, will be coming out in the summer of 2000.
She shares her living space with her husband, Jerry, and
Ginger, the obligatory writer's cat.
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Christopher
Rowe
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Christopher Rowe is an expatriate Kentuckian, living in
Washington D.C.
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Cynthia
Seelhammer
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Cynthia was born in Minnesota, has worked as a newspaper
reporter and a librarian, and is now town manager of Queen
Creek (pop. 4,000), which is about an hour SE of Phoenix.
She attended Clarion in 1992.
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John
Shanahan
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John Shanahan's work has appeared in Shadow Sword
magazine and the digest anthology Between, from the
publisher of Not One of Us. His work will also be
seen in an upcoming issue of MindMares.
By the light of day, John is an editor for a trade
publication and teaches writing.
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T. M.
Spell
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T. M. Spell attended Clarion '98 at
Michigan State University, and the '98 Writers of the Future
Workshop in Los Angeles, California. She has a B.A. in
English literature and journalism from Flagler College in
St. Augustine, Florida. She has worked as a professional
journalist, an administrative assistant, and a lingerie
stock clerk, among other things. Her favorite dead authors
include Shakespeare, C. S. Lewis and James Tiptree, Jr. Her
favorite living author is Neil Gaiman. Her interests include
bad B horror movies that she thinks are good, Roman and
Byzantine history, and the psychology of enmity.
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Garth
Stein
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Garth Stein, an acclaimed documentary filmmaker, was
co-producer of the Academy Award-winning short film, "The
Lunch Date," and director of "When Your Head's Not a Head,
It's a Nut," an award-winning documentary. The
great-grandson of a Tlingit Indian, he was raised in Seattle
and lives in New York City with his wife and two sons.
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Victoria
Strauss
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I was born in Exeter, New
Hampshire. When I was a child my family moved
constantly--until I was 14 I never lived in the same place
or attended the same school for more than two years in a
row. In addition to several U.S. states, I've lived in
England, Ireland, and Germany.
I wrote my first novel when I was 17. The Arm of the
Stone isn't my first published novel, but it's the first
to have a large enough print run to qualify for the Campbell
award. In addition to writing fiction, I review books for SF
Site, and maintain Writer Beware (a resource on literary
scams) for the SFWA website.
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Shane
Tourtellotte
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I was born in 1968, and reside in
northern New Jersey--the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
makes further precision impossible. A succession of
indifferent jobs, from the halls of cubicle-dom to the
bowels--or at least the navel--of government, left me
craving work that paid handsomely for short hours. So
naturally, I took up writing. Dear Lord, what was I
thinking?
Four years later, I have found creative fulfillment and
professional respect (though I'm still hoping for more
money). I am a member of SFWA and the Artemis Society, and
am slowly introducing myself to that parallel universe that
is SF fandom.
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Delia
Marshall Turner
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Delia Marshall Turner lives outside Philadelphia with her
husband of over twenty years, her teenaged daughter, her two
cats, her iguana, and her Ph.D. She teaches elementary
school, is a nationally ranked saber fencer, and writes
novels in the spaces in between.
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Paul
Urayama
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Paul Urayama was born in 1971, in Los
Angeles, California. He is currently a visiting scientist at
Cornell University, and is working on his PhD in
(biological) physics from Princeton University.
He became interested in science fiction while working on
his senior thesis in plasma physics with SF writer/scientist
Dr. Gregory Benford at UC Irvine. That was in 1994, and Paul
has been feeling like the oldest twelve year old ever since.
"Why didn't anyone tell me about SF while I was growing up?"
he wonders.
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Ramona
Louise Wheeler
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Ramona Louise Wheeler has been
writing science fiction all her life, and the characters in
her first sale to Analog are regular players in an ongoing
series. Ramona contributes her success to working with famed
SF writer Hal Clement, "The Father of Hard SF" for the last
fifteen years. Ramona has worked as road crew, sound
technician and promo artist for 25 years for her husband’s
rock and roll band, in tours on both sides of the Atlantic.
She resides in southern Massachusetts but Liverpool, England
is the band’s other home.
Her other publication is a self-produced Web site on
Egyptian mythology, which gets over a hundred readers daily.
It went online in 1996. WALK LIKE AN EGYPTIAN, A Modern
Guide To The Religion And Philosophy Of Ancient Egypt .
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Mackay
Wood
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Mackay Wood is a Colorado writer
whose background is history and the law. A lifelong love of
horses led her to study horsemastership in Somerset,
England--the heart of King Arthur country. The unparalleled
setting allowed Wood to develop an already keen interest in
post-Roman and medieval Britain, and she returned home to
finish a degree in English Constitutional History. These
experiences, along with a love of books and a childhood
tempered by "Alice in Wonderland" and "The Hobbit," impelled
Wood to write medieval fantasy.
Wolf's Cub was favorably reviewed in Publishers
Weekly on 10/26/98, and in Library Journal,
11/15/98.
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