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Program Participant List

as of 8/3/2008

Many thanks to the Participant Bio Team: Dan Kimmel, Ronnie Seagren, Theresa Crater, Kate Barnes, Sharon Akey, Ann Wilkes, Suzanne Rogers Gruber, and Leslie Howle. They rock!


Daniel Abraham
Mario Acevedo
John Joseph Adams
Ann Aguirre
Peter Ahlstrom
Brad Aiken
Camille Alexa
Lou Anders
Kevin Anderson
Arlan Andrews
Nancy Atherton
Scratch Bacharach
Gerri Balter
John Barnes
Mitzi Bartlett
Stephen Baxter
Robin Baylor
Greg Bear
Christopher Becker
K. A. Bedford
Michael Bellomo
Carol Berg
Mark Bernstein
Joshua Bilmes
Patricia Blair
Blind Lemming Chiffon
Kent Bloom
Margaret Bonham
David Boop
Stephen Boucher
Robbie Bourget
Ben Bova
Patricia Bray
Sage Bray
Ian Brazee-Cannon
David Brin
Michelle Brothers
Mike Brotherton
Charles N. Brown
Todd Brun
James Bryant
Ed Bryant
MM Buckner
Robert Buettner
Lois McMaster Bujold
Peter Bullock
Pat Cadigan
Fred Capp
Lillian Stewart Carl
Jeff Carlson
Steve Carper
Michael Carroll
Erin Cashier
John Caspell
Sarah Castle
Ann Chamberlin
Peri Charlifu
Terence Chua
Richard Chwedyk
Cheryl Clark
Fred Cleaver
David Coe
Glen Cook
Brenda Cooper
Paul Cornell
Kathryn Cramer
Theresa Crater
Critter Crunch
Ctein
Raymond Cyrus
Jared Dashoff
Ellen Datlow
James Stanley Daugherty
Valentine Davis
Susan de Guardiola
Jeff DeLuzio
Gay Ellen Dennett
Scott Dennis
Jetse deVries
Diane Dieter
William Dietz
Lucienne Diver
Vincent Docherty
Linda Donahue
John Douglass
Dan D. Dubrick
Jennifer Dunne
K. Schuyler DuPree
Richard Dutcher
Don Eastlake
Jill Eastlake
Tom Easton
David Louis Edelman
Scott Edelman
Laurie Edison
Bob Eggleton
Gary Ehrlich
Janice Eisen
Alex Eisenstein
Phyllis Eisenstein
Kate Elliott
Nina Else
J. Alan Erwine
Jorge Espinoza
Paul "Dr. Snark" Estin
Erin Evans
April Faires
SL Farrell
Bill Fawcett
Moshe Feder
Gary Feldbaum
Cynthia Felice
Jeff Fennel
Susan Fichtelberg
Sheila Finch
jan howard finder
Carl Fink
Melanie Fletcher


Eric Flint
Michael Flynn
Phil Foglio
Tillie Fong
Joseph Formichella
Richard Foss
Steve Francis
Sue Francis
Valerie Frankel
D. Douglas Fratz
Pamela Freeman
James Frenkel
Evan Friedman
Carol Fritz
Tom Galloway
Chris Garcia
Haley Elizabeth Garwood
Rob Gates
Helen Gbala
Janice Gelb
Denise Gendron
Michael Georges
David Gerrold
Allan Gilbreath
Diana Gill
Herb Gilliland
Laura Givens
Shoshana Glick
Lynn Gold
Rani Graff
Mark Graham
Roy Gray
Ashley Grayson
Daryl Gregory
Karen Haber
Rosemary Hahn
Gay Haldeman
Joe Haldeman
Beverly Hale
Francis Hamit
Warren Hammond
Larry Hancock
Delphyne Joan Hanke-Woods
Lisa Deutsch Harrigan
Jed Hartman
David Hartwell
Colin Harvey
Peter Heck
Sibylle Hechtel
John Hemry
Samantha Henderson
Howard V. Hendrix
Jack Heneghan
Diana Herald
John Hertz
Rusty Hevelin
Bill Higgins
Carol Hightshoe
Lynda Hilburn
Leigh Ann Hildebrand
Laurel Anne Hill
Deanna Hoak
P. C. Hodgell
Larry Hodges
Emily Hogan
Tore Hoie
Robert Hole
Butch Honeck
Steven D. Howe
Dave Howell
Leslie Howle
Daniel Hoyt
Sarah Hoyt
Robert Hoyt
Tanya Huff
Elizabeth Hull
Jim Humble
Scott Humphries
Walter Hunt
Faith Hunter
Greg Hyde
Tamie Inoue
Elaine Isaak
Ben Jeapes
Jane Jewel
Matthew Johnson
Karen Jordan
Michael Kabongo
Jordin Kare
Mary Kay Kare
James Patrick Kelly
Kay Kenyon
John Kessel
James Killius
Daniel Kimmel
Lancer Kind
Ellen Klages
Peter Knapp
Paul Knight
Dani Kollin
Eytan Kollin
Ernie Korshak
Marilyn Kosmatka
Mary Robinette Kowal
Nancy Kress
Susan Krinard
Bonnie Kunzel
Tim Kuzniar
Jay Lake
Heidi Lampietti
Geoffrey Landis
Glenda Larke
Alexis Glynn Latner
Bill Laubenheimer
Sharon Lee
Evelyn Leeper
Mark Leeper
Bruce Leonard


Edward M. Lerner
Fred Lerner
David D. Levine
Jeremy Lewis
Tony Lewis
Jacqueline Lichtenberg
Alan Lickiss
Rebecca Lickiss
Guy Lillian
Mark Linneman
Jean Lorrah
Brooke Lunderville
Victoria Lundy
Perianne Lurie
Bradford Lyau
Rebecca Lyons
Bob MacIntosh
Char MacKay
Emily Mah
Laura Majerus
Joseph Major
Elissa Malcohn
Julia S. Mandala
Laurie Mann
Jim Mann
John Mansfield
Lisa Mantchev
Kathy Mar
Louise Marley
Darlene Marshall
Bob Marshall
George RR Martin
David Martin
Lee Martindale
Joseph Martino
Marty Massoglia
Theresa Mather
Bill Mayhew
Margaret McBride
Wil McCarthy
Sheila McClune
Patricia McCracken
Ian McDonald
Julie McGalliard
Christian B. McGuire
Pat McMurray
Clayton McNally
Beth Meacham
Paul Melko
Farah Mendlesohn
Ed Meskys
Perry Middlemiss
Karen Miller
Steve Miller
Bruce Miller
John Miller
Mary Miller
Tim Miller
Jim Minz
Matt Mishalak
Petrea Mitchell
L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
Rebecca Moesta
Erik Mona
Ted Monogue
Helen Montgomery
Elizabeth Moon
John Moore
Cheryl Morgan
Mary Morman
Melissa Morman
James Morrow
Mike Shepherd Moscoe
F.C. Moulton
Edward Muller
Pati Nagle
Kristin Nelson
James Nelson Lucas
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Teresa Nielsen Hayden
Larry Niven
Gerald "G. David" Nordley
Elaine Normandy
Andrea Novin
Jody Lynn Nye
Ronald Oakes
Jana Oliver
Mark Olson
Priscilla Olson
Margaret Organ-Kean
Robin Owens
Joshua Palmatier
Carole Parker
Lauren Patten
William H. Patterson
Kate Paulk
Joe Pearce
Lawrence Person
Matthew Peterson
Pierre Pettinger
Sandra Pettinger
Julia Phillips
John Picacio
John Pomeranz
Andrew Porter
Anne Prather
Lettie Prell
William Priester
Cary Quinn
Cat Rambo
Steve Rasnic Tem
Eric Raymond
Robert Reed
Mike Resnick
Eric T. Reynolds
Kat Richardson
David B. Riley
Uncle River


Chris Roberson
John Maddox Roberts
Robin Roberts
Linda Robinett
Madeleine Robins
Kevin Roche
Roberta Rogow
Benjamin Rosenbaum
Mary Rosenblum
Howard Rosenblatt
Andrew Ross
Patrick Rothfuss
Matthew Rotundo
Diana Rowland
David A. Rozansky
Ann Marie Rudolph
Tony Ruggiero
Deb Rule
George Rule
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Michelle Sagara West
Brandon Sanderson
Kathy Sands
Peggy Rae Sapienza
Christian Sauvé
Robert J. Sawyer
John Scalzi
Sam Scheiner
Stanley Schmidt
Lawrence M. Schoen
Ken Scholes
Ronnie Seagren
Stephen Segal
Chuck Shimada
Sharon Shinn
Joey Shoji
Barry Short
Joe Siclari
David Silver
Steven Silver
Robert Silverberg
Jon Singer
Graham Sleight
Kathleen Sloan
Howard S. Smith
Randy Smith
Dean Wesley Smith
Kenneth Smookler
Melinda Snodgrass
Joe Sokola
Lisa Spangenberg
Henry Spencer
Kevin Standlee
Harold Stein
Jeanne Stein
Adam Stemple
Rick Sternbach
Alan Stewart
S.M. Stirling
John Stith
Jonathan Strahan
H. G. Stratmann
John Strickland
Charles Stross
Anton Strout
Jeff Sturgeon
Kathy Sullivan
David Summers
Michael Swanwick
Shanna Swendson
Patrick Swenson
Al Tegen
Penny Tegen
Brad Templeton
Bryan ThaoWorra
Bill Thomasson
Amy Thomson
Don Timm
Ian Tregillis
Tom Trumpinski
Harry Turtledove
Mary Turzillo
Gerry Tyra
Sandy Tyra
Mark L. Van Name
Carrie Vaughn
Jeff Walker
Rene Walling
Michael J. Walsh
Charles Walther
Jo Walton
Joy Ward
Suanne Warr
Pierce Watters
Lawrence Watt-Evans
Toni Weisskopf
Patty Wells
Lee Whiteside
Tom Whitmore
Art Widner
Ann Wilkes
Edward Willett
David J. Williams
Nathaniel Williams
Sean Williams
Sheila Williams
Susan Williams
Connie Willis
Courtney Willis
Cordelia Willis
Eleanor Wood
Patricia Wrede
Frank Wu
Ben Yalow
C. F. Yankovich
Jim Young
Marc Scott Zicree
Alvaro Zinos-Amaro


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David Brin

David Brin

David Brin lives in San Diego County with his wife and three rambunctious teens and "one hundred very demanding trees." He has degrees in astrophysics, electrical engineering, and a PhD in space physics. Since his first publication in 1981, David has won numerous Hugos (nominated twelve times), Nebulas, Locus awards and the John W. Cambell award. His novel, The Postman, inspired Kevin Costner's movie of the same name. David also reports that he's been on TV a lot lately, with appearances on the History Channel's "The Universe," "Life After People," and "The ArchiTECHS." A founding member of SIGMA, the SF "think tank," he consults about technological dangers and trends.

As a "scientist/futurist" David writes about a wide variety of concerns, including the Earth and its future, both short and long term. "But SF has to be fun, too!" he says, a spirit he shared as Guest of Honor at the 2007 Worldcon in Yokohama. Looking to the future of science fiction as well, he published the "Out of Time" series aimed at out future generation of readers and scientists. His latest book is a young adult novel called Sky Horizon.
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Carol Berg

Colorado author Carol Berg grew up in Texas, where the hot summers were perfect for reading. She majored in mathematics at Rice University, but also took every English course that listed "novels" on the syllabus — just so she would have time to keep reading. She also has a second degree in computer science. Carol, her husband, and their three sons live in the foothills of the Colorado Rockies.

Carol began writing when a friend convinced her to exchange letters "in character." "Eighteen months and sixty-four letters later, [we] had produced a whole story, and the writing game was officially out of control." Carol put her engineering career on hold to become a full-time writer. Since Transformation was published in 2000, Carol's books have won the Colorado Book Award for genre fiction, the Prism Award for best romantic fantasy, and the Geffen Award for best translated fantasy. They have been translated into six languages and read, so readers tell her, on five continents, on a submarine underneath the Mediterranean, in the war zone of Iraq, and on the slopes of Denali. She was the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers' 2006 Writer of the Year.

She spends a lot of her non-writing time speaking at writers' conferences, workshops, schools, and science fiction conventions around the world, mentoring young writers. As she explains it, "Fantasy is the oldest form of storytelling." Kirkus Reviews calls her newest novel, Breath and Bone, "Absolutely superior."
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Carol Berg

Robert Buettner

Robert Buettner

Robert Buettner has been a military intelligence officer, National Science Foundation fellow in paleontology, hard-rock prospector, petroleum geologist, and Natural Resources lawyer in Colorado. His best-selling Orphanage was nominated for the Quill Award as Best Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror novel of 2004, and was compared to Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers and Joe Haldeman's The Forever War, written for the post-9/11 generation.

Away from the keyboard he leads an active life. Said Buettner, "At various times, I've scuba'd, snowboarded, rock-climbed, marathoned, and bicycled. All badly. Two bears have encountered me at close quarters and lived to tell the tale." He lives in the Blue Ridge foothills north of Atlanta, with his family and more bicycles than a grownup needs. He's looking forward to seeing his SF and writing friends in Colorado again at Denvention.

Little Brown Orbit released book three in the series, Orphan's Journey, in April 2008, and will release book four, Orphan's Alliance, in November 2008. Visit him at www.RobertBuettner.com.
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Lillian Stewart Carl

After growing up in Missouri and Ohio, Lillian Stewart Carl discovered she loves the sea and the mountains, especially Scotland, which is the inspiration for many of her books and short stories. A childhood friend of Lois McMasters Bujold, she has always written stories. In fact, Lillian and Lois did one of the very earliest Star Trek fanzines back in 1968. Lillian gets many of her writing ideas from extensive traveling.

Lillian loves music, especially Celtic. She has compared the process of writing to knitting or playing the piano, but her latest revelation is that writing is similar to tai chi, "especially when it comes to balancing on one foot for extended periods."

Lillian's latest book is Blackness Tower from Juno Books, and she's co-editing a retrospective on Bujold's science fiction work, The Vorkosigan Companion, due out in 2009. Her twenty-fifth short story sale will appear in The Dimension Next Door from DAW this fall.
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Lillian Stewart Carl

Phyllis Eisenstein

Phyllis Eisenstein

Phyllis Eisenstein was born and grew up in Chicago. She attended the University of Chicago where she majored in chemistry, then English, then psychology, then dropped out after 3 years to marry Alex. She then joined her husband in Germany and lived there for a couple of years while he was in the Air Force. She said, "There's nothing like being forced to live in a foreign country to make you appreciate the country of your birth."

After going back to school and getting a B.A. in Anthropology, Eisenstein sold her first story in 1969. Since then she has sold thirty-some stories, six novels, and one nonfiction book. She's written book reviews for two Chicago newspapers as well as nonfiction for various publications. She is has also taught various workshops, including Writers Digest School and at local colleges, and has been adjunct faculty at Columbia College since 1989.

She notes, "I grew up as a butcher in the family grocery store, so when I became a teacher it was fairly hard for my students to gross me out in their writing (some of them tried!)." She now works in advertising at the largest ad agency in Chicago. She's been nominated for three Nebulas and two Hugos, and has won the SF Chronicle award and the Balrog Award, which, she notes, is the "heaviest award ever in SF world."

Her most recent books are The Book of Elementals (an omnibus edition of two of her novels) and Night Lives (a short story collection). She currently has an unsold novel and is looking for publisher while trying to write next novel. And she's still married to Alex.
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Daniel M. Kimmel

Daniel M. Kimmel is a Boston-area film reviewer and past president of the Boston Society of Film Critics. Growing up in New York, he attended the University of Rochester and took a degree in psychology because "film studies" was considered the academic equivalent of basket weaving in the ‘70s. He then moved to Boston to attend law school. He practiced law for several years but finally decided that all the people telling him he didn't "look like a lawyer" were probably right.

He has been reviewing for the Worcester Telegram and Gazette since 1984 and also serves as the Boston correspondent for Variety, the "Bible of Show Business." Kimmel's byline has appeared in numerous publications, including the Jewish Advocate, the Christian Science Monitor, the Internet Review of Science Fiction, the Boston Globe, Film Comment, and Cinefantastique. His reviews can also be found at rottentomatoes.com. He currently teaches at Suffolk University, including a class on SF and horror films, as well as lecturing before various groups.

His book on the history of the FOX television network, The Fourth Network: How Fox Broke the Rules and Reinvented Television was brought out by Ivan R. Dee, Publisher in 2004 and received the Cable Center Book Award. His history of DreamWorks, The Dream Team – The Rise and Fall of DreamWorks: Lessons from the New Hollywood, was published in 2006. He also contributed the essay "The Batman We Deserve" to the SmartPop book Batman Unauthorized, which came out earlier this year.

Daniel A. Kimmel
Photo by Carsten Turner
Kimmel is a regular panelist at Arisia, Boskone, and Lunacon, and has spoken at several Worldcons and NASFiCs over the past ten years, trying to make up for all the years he had no idea about organized fandom, even when Noreascon 2 was taking place only a few blocks from his apartment. He takes his personal philosophy from the comedian George Burns who noted that the secret to success is to find out what you enjoy doing, and then get someone to pay you for it. His latest book, I'll Have What She's Having: Behind the Scenes of the Great Romantic Comedies, is due out in September of 2008.
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Louise Marley

Louise Marley

Louise Marley is a former singer of both folk music and classical music. She was singing Tisbe in "La Cenerentola" at Seattle Opera when her first novel, Sing the Light, was published by Ace. Since then she has published Sing the Warmth and Receive the Gift, completing the trilogy The Singers of Nevya, which will be reprinted in an omnibus edition in 2009. She followed those novels with The Terrorists of Irustan and the Endeavour Award-winning The Glass Harmonica, and moved into hardcover with The Maquisarde and The Child Goddess, which also won the Endeavour Award.

She began writing under the pseudonym Toby Bishop to publish Airs Beneath the Moon and Airs and Graces, the first two books of The Horsemistress Saga. Airs of Night and Sea, the third book of the trilogy, will appear in December of 2008.

At OmegaCon in Birmingham, Alabama in March of 2008, Louise's old folk group, Earthwood, celebrated a reunion with two performances. A CD will be out later this year, titled "Earthwood Returns."

Besides music, Louise loves kids, dogs, good food and wine, yoga, and golf. The order changes depending on the day, but kids are always #1. How does she juggle writing, singing, family and everything else in her life? She says, "There is no art without discipline."
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Ronnie Seagren

Ronnie Seagren is a Colorado native who grew up in San Francisco, then returned to Denver in her teens. She has a B.A. in geology from the University of Colorado. Married for thirty-seven years, she has three sons and three granddaughters. Ronnie started writing while still in high school and has published two novellas as well as the novel Seventh Daughter. In addition to writing, her creative pursuits include nature photography, sewing, and painting. "I have a passion for anything creative," she says, which she inherited from her grandmother. She is currently working on another action fantasy novel concerning hazardous waste dumping and ancient spirits in New Mexico.
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Ronnie Seagren

Stephen Baxter

Stephen Baxter

Stephen Baxter's science fiction novels have been published in the UK, the US, and in many other countries including Germany, Japan, and France. His most recent publications are The H-Bomb Girl (YA, Faber), Time Odyssey 3: Firstborn (with Sir Arthur C Clarke, Del Rey) and Time's Tapestry 4: Weaver (Gollancz). His non-fiction includes the books Deep Future, Omegatropic and Revolutions in the Earth: James Hutton and the True Age of the World (biography), published in the US as Ages In Chaos. He has published over 100 SF short stories, several of which have won prizes including the Philip K. Dick Award, the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, the British Science Fiction Association Award, the Kurd Lasswitz Award (Germany) and the Seiun Award (Japan). They have been nominated for several others, including the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Hugo Award, and Locus awards.

Audio Movies dramatized his novel Voyage for BBC Radio, broadcasting it in six weekly parts from 12 April to 17 May 1999. He has also done his own writing for TV and movies including development work on the BBC's Invasion: Earth, broadcast in April-May 1998 and the script for Episode 3 of Space Island One, broadcast on Sky One on 21 January 1998.

Baxter was born in Liverpool, England, in 1957. He has degrees in mathematics from Cambridge University; engineering from Southampton University; and in business administration from Henley Management College. He worked as a teacher of maths and physics, and for several years in information technology. He is also a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society. Seeking new goals, said Baxter, "I applied to become a cosmonaut in 1991 - aiming for the guest slot on Mir eventually taken by Helen Sharman - but fell at an early hurdle." His first professionally published short story appeared in 1987. He has been a full-time author since 1995 and currently serves as Vice-President of the British Science Fiction Association and a Vice-President of the H. G. Wells Society. He is also a member of the SETI Post-Detection Taskgroup, a subgroup of the IAA SETI Permanent Study Group. You can visit his website at www.stephen-baxter.com.
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