Program Participant Biographies, Continued

Alan Lickiss

Alan Lickiss fell in love with reading short stories almost as soon as he learned to read. When he began writing he naturally started with short stories. He has since had several short stories published in various magazines and anthologies. While he has stretched his skills to also work in novel length, short fiction remains one of his favorite forms to read and write. His complete bibliography can be seen at www.lickiss.net.

Alan, his wife Rebecca, and their children, live along the front range of Colorado.
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Andrew Porter

Andrew I. Porter, 62, sold his semi-prozine, Science Fiction Chronicle, to DNA Publications in 2000 and was fired in 2002; he started the magazine in 1979. A 25-time Hugo Award nominee, he won the fanzine Hugo in 1974 for Algol and the semiprozine Hugo in 1993 and 1994 for Science Fiction Chronicle, a 1991 Worldcon Special Committee Award for “Distinguished Semiprozine Work”, and in 1992 a Special British Fantasy Award.

Since getting into fandom in 1960, he’s published many different titles (including the newszine S.F.WEEKLY), been active in fan groups in NYC, worked on conventions in the US, Canada and overseas, and was on the central committee of the 1967 Worldcon, NYCon 3. With John Bangsund, he was responsible for the dream of Australia hosting the worldcon becoming reality. He’s been a fan Guest of Honor at several conventions, most notably the 1990 Worldcon, ConFiction; also SummerCon in Toronto, and Norwescon in Seattle.

In publishing, he’s been a proofreader and copy editor, assistant editor on F&SF from 1966-74, associate editor at Lancer Books, and a trade magazine editor and ad production manager on such titles as Rudder, Quick Frozen Foods (under Sam Moskowitz), Construction Equipment and Electro-Procurement. He was editor/designer of The Book of Ellison, published to honor the 1978 worldcon GoH. He has sold articles and photos to Publishers Weekly, Omni, the New York Times, etc. He’s attended hundreds of conventions and more than 35 worldcons; this is his second Denvention.

A resident of New York City and retired since 2002, he is now a cancer survivor, having successfully battled liver bile duct cancer in 2007.

Photo by Ellen Datlow
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Ann Aguirre

Ann Aguirre is the author of Grimspace. She has been a clown, a clerk, a voice actress, and savior of stray kittens, not necessarily in that order.

She grew up in a yellow house across from a cornfield, but now she lives in sunny Mexico with her husband and two adorable children who sometimes do as they're told. Her work runs the gamut from paranormal romance to urban fantasy with a pit stop at romantic SF for her Jax series.

These days, she writes full time and then some. Her newest book, Wanderlust, will be released in August.

Although Aguirre has attended some conventions she notes, "This will be my first WorldCon."
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Brenda Cooper

Brenda Cooper's short fiction has appeared in Nature, Analog, Asimov's, Strange Horizons, The Salal Review, and multiple anthologies. Her novels include Building Harlequin's Moon (2005) with Larry Niven, The Silver Ship and the Sea (2007), and Reading the Wind (July, 2008).

Cooper grew up in California, and earned a BA from Cal State Fullerton. As a technology professional, she started out in Aerospace, where she worked on some of the early efforts to apply knowledge engineering to the field. She is currently CIO of the City of Kirkland, Washington http://www.ci.kirkland.wa.us/home.htm

Also a working futurist, Cooper writes regularly for Futurist.com and gives talks about the future, technology, and writing. As a futurist, she is interested in how new technologies might change the world, particularly for the better. Which doesn't stop her from being worried about what we might do to each other, or the planet we live on.

Cooper lives in Bellevue, Washington with her partner, Toni Cramer, Toni's daughter Katie, and three dogs. See www.threedogsblog.com if you're interested in learning how three women and three dogs coexist, sometimes comically. Her adult son, David Cooper, a firefighter/paramedic, helps her out with all the fire scenes that show up in her books. When there's time, she likes to walk half marathons, and has finished two this year, as well as her first duathalon. Feel free to drop by www.brenda-cooper.com or www.futurist.com.
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Brooke Lunderville

Brooke Lunderville is a pharmacist by day, a banjo-player filker by night, and a super nerd 24/7. She notes, "I perform as a filk duo with ace guitarist John Caspell, and write a lot o' filk songs on serious topics such as livejournal, dry-cleaning, and cell division."

A graduate of the University of British Columbia, she practices pharmacy in Burnaby, BC, dispensing drugs, advice, and daydreaming about how to keep suspensions stable in zero-g. She earned a reputation in school for bringing her banjo to social events and singing about such things as pinocytosis and pharmacokinetics, despite which her classmates still speak to her.

She enjoys reading SF and yelling at the screen when TV shows do impossible things with drugs. When not occupied as a drug dealer, she performs her songs about science, science fiction, and the giant squid at filk conventions and medical conferences.

Website: http://catfish.dhs.org/~happyfish/filk/
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Camille Alexa

Camille Alexa currently lives in Portland, Oregon and in Austin, Texas. She holds undergraduate degrees from the University of Toronto in Women’s Studies (interesting, but not terribly useful), Fine Art (useful and terribly interesting, and as lucrative as advertised), and English.

Camille is a full member of Broad Universe and of the Science Fiction Poetry Association. She writes for The Green Man Review and is Poetry Editor for the literary print zine Diet Soap.

She prefers her humor dark and her horror funny and can often be found near Littlebird Blue or on LJ at camillealexa.
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Chris Roberson

Chris Roberson’s novels include Here, There & Everywhere, The Voyage of Night Shining White, Paragaea: A Planetary Romance, X-Men: The Return, Set the Seas on Fire, The Dragon’s Nine Sons, and the forthcoming novels End of the Century, Iron Jaw and Hummingbird, and Three Unbroken and the comic book mini-series Cinderella: From Fabletown With Love. His short stories have appeared in such magazines as Asimov’s, Interzone, Postscripts, and Subterranean, and in anthologies such as Live Without a Net, FutureShocks, and Forbidden Planets.

Along with his business partner and spouse Allison Baker, he is the publisher of MonkeyBrain Books, an independent publishing house specializing in genre fiction and nonfiction genre studies, and he is the editor of anthology Adventure Vol. 1. He has been a finalist for the World Fantasy Award three times—once each for writing, publishing, and editing—twice a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and three times for the Sidewise Award for Best Alternate History Short Form (winning in 2004 with his story “O One”). Chris and Allison live in Austin, Texas with their daughter Georgia. Visit him online at www.chrisroberson.net.

Photo by Sophia Quach
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Dani and Eytan Kollin

Dani Kollin and Eytan Kollin are newly signed Tor authors with their first (of three) novels, The Unincorporated Man, releasing in March, 2009. Their editor is David Hartwell and the book's pre-release has already received high acclaim from such distinguished writers as Kage Baker, Gregory Benford and Robert Sawyer. The Kollin brothers have the distinction of being one of the few sibling collaborative science fiction writers in the history of the genre and their most frequently asked question is, “How on earth do you manage to write together with minimal loss of blood?”

Eytan is a teacher of history, government and economics currently living in Pasadena, California. His hobbies include historical reenactments, chess, and battle recreation with historical melee weapons.

Dani is an advertising executive currently living in Los Angeles, California. He works as a creative director in the print, broadcast, packaging and new media fields. In addition to being happily married and the proud father of three, Dani is an avid endurance cyclist and surfer.

The book's official website can be found at: www.theunincorporatedman.com

Dani's blog, which offers a unique perspective on the freshman year of authorhood, can be found at: dkollin.livejournal.com
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Elizabeth Hull

Elizabeth Anne Hull taught SF and creative writing at Harper College, Palatine, IL, for over 30 years. A past president of the Science Fiction Research Association, she's published both fiction and non-fiction articles in venues from Locus to 20th Century SF Writers, and has served as a juror for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for over 20 years. She's also a past president of the Palatine Area League of Women Voters and remains active in juvenile justice issues and family violence prevention. She is married to Frederik Pohl with whom she edited Tales from the Planet Earth.
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Evelyn Leeper

Evelyn Leeper has been nominated for the Hugo for Best Fan Writer twelve times for her convention reports, travelogues, and book reviews, and is currently a judge for the Sidewise Awards for alternate history.

She discovered fandom when then-future husband Mark signed her up for the UMass SF Society in 1968. In 1978 they founded the Bell Labs SF Club and their own (soon) weekly fanzine, which has gone through several title changes until it settled down as the weekly MT VOID (pronounced "Empty Void") which has now had over 1500 issues.

Although a panelist at many conventions, Leeper remains the fan. Asked who she would like to be on panels with, she said it would be difficult to say, "Most people I find fascinating I would rather be in the audience for, because then I can focus entirely on what they are saying, not what I want to say."

She and her husband have traveled to more than forty different countries. You can take a look at her various reports at http://www.geocities.com/evelynleeper.
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