Interaction Program Participant Biographies
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Tom Easton is a well-known science
fiction critic (he started writing the SF magazine Analog's book review column in 1979). He holds a doctorate in
theoretical biology from the
Scott Edelman
Scott Edelman is currently the editor-in-chief of both SCI FI (a print magazine) and Science Fiction Weekly (a Web magazine). Previously, he was the founding editor of the award-winning magazine Science Fiction Age, which resulted in four Hugo Award nominations in the category of Best Editor. He has also edited such magazines as Sci-Fi Universe, Sci-Fi Fli,x and Satellite Orbit. His short stories have appeared in the anthologies Crossroads: Tales of the Southern Literary Fantastic, Men Writing Science Fiction as Woman, Once Upon a Galaxy, Mars Probes, Moon Shots and others, and magazines such as Absolute Magnitude, The Journal of Pulse-Pounding Narratives, and The Twilight Zone. His short-story collection These Words Are Haunted is available from Wildside Press. In 2004, he was awarded the Sam Moskowitz Award for "outstanding contributions to the field of science fiction fandom."
Les Edwards
Les Edwards has been a professional
illustrator for 30 years. He has worked for all the major publishers in the
Lilian Edwards
Notorious former fanzine fan, former TAFF winner, former conrunner, former Live Journaller, former small furry thing from Galaxy Zog, Best Bang Since The Big One, and soon to be former major international Internet lawyer. One or more of these is a lie.
Apart from working as a freelance
English teacher and technical translator, Stefan Ekman
works as fantasy specialist for a major Swedish publishing company. For the
past decade, he has also travelled around
Russell B. Farr was born in
Jude Fisher is the author of three epic fantasy novels for adults (Sorcery Rising, Wild Magic, and Rose of the World), a children's fantasy novel (The Secret Country) and the offical Visual Companions to Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings movie trilogy. As Gabriel King she co-authored four novels with M John Harrison. She is also, in another life, the publishing director of the Voyager fantasy and sf list at HarperCollins (publishers of Robin Hobb, George RR Martin, David Eddings, Raymond Feist, Terry Goodkind and Kim Stanley Robinson), and was for many years the publisher of JRR Tolkien.
Jo Fletcher
Jo Fletcher is a publisher, an
award-winning poet and writer, journalist, and ghost-writer. She is currently
editorial director (with Simon Spanton) of Gollancz, one of the
Melanie Fletcher spends her time writing, fencing, knitting, working miracles with help pages, quilting, building dollhouses, Speaking To Engineers, tending cats, cuddling a Bodacious Brit, and wishing she had more sleep. Her most recent fiction credits include "That Time of the Month" (Fundamentally Challenged, Pi In The Sky Press), "A Rose By Any Other Name” (The Four Bubbas of the Apocalypse, Yard Dog Press) and "A Hell of a Note" (The Anthology from Hell – Humorous Stories from Way Down Under). In addition, her essay "Yasureyoubetcha: SF-Speak That Doesn't Make Your Ears Bleed" appeared in Stepping Through the Stargate: Science, Archaeology and the Military in Stargate SG1from BenBella Books. An expatriate Chicagoan from the South Side, Melanie is proud to be a member of the SFWA Musketeers, the Dallas-Fort Worth writing group FutureClassics, and the Democratic Party.
Jeffrey Ford
Jeffrey Ford is the author of a
trilogy of novels – The
Physiognomy, Memoranda, and The Beyond. His most recent book length works of fiction
are The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque
(2002), and in 2005, a stand-alone novella, “The Cosmology of the Wider World”
(July, PS Publishing), and a novel, The
Girl in the Glass (August,
Morrow). He has published over 60 short stories in a variety of publications
and in 2005 his short fiction has (or will) appear in SciFiction, F&SF, Journal
of Pulse Pounding Narratives,
and The Book of Voices. A new collection of his stories, The Empire of Ice Cream, is due from publisher Golden Gryphon in March
of '06. He is a three-time recipient of The World Fantasy Award and has also
won a Nebula. He lives in south
Diana Pharaoh Francis is the author of fantasy novels Path of Fate and Path of Honor. In 2003, Path of Fate was nominated for the Mary Roberts Rinehart Award in Fiction. Her ugly vampire story, "All Things Being Not Quite Equal," was selected for the Best of Dreams of Decadence, published by Roc Books in 2003. She holds a BA & MA in creative writing, and a PhD in Literature and Theory. She currently teaches at the University of Montana-Western. She is an assistant editor for The Broadsheet.
Born in
Esther Friesner
Esther M. Friesner
is the author of over 30 novels and over 100 short works. Her stories
"Death and the Librarian" and "A Birthday" won the Nebula
Award in consecutive years, with the latter also being a Hugo finalist. Her
most recent/upcoming short story publications include "The Fraud" (in
Asimov's), "Last Man Standing" and
"Helen Remembers the Stork Club" (both in Fantasy & Science Fiction). Upcoming novels include Temping Fate (Penguin/Puffin) and Crown
of Sparta, Sword of Troy (Random House). She has two adult offspring
and lives with her husband in
Al Fritzsche
Albrecht M Fritzsche works as an IT specialist in the automotive industy. He has published the book Die Welten der Science Fiction (The Worlds of Science Fiction) and several articles on media culture.
Gregory Frost is the author of,
most recently, Fitcher's Brides (Tor), a recasting of the tale of
Bluebeard as a dark fantasy of horror and redemption and a World Fantasy Award
finalist; and the short story collection Attack of the Jazz Giants & Other Stories (Golden Gryphon Press). He's currently
at work on a large fantasy project entitled Shadowbridge and a screenplay. He was the 2004 Fiction
Writing Workshop Director at
Tom Galloway
10 things I've done you probably haven't: won on a game show, had Neil Gaiman tell people "to burn [me] as a witch," had Harlan Ellison try to get me dates on a radio show, hacked a Harvard-Yale football game for MIT, been one of the first 100 people on Usenet, yelled "Red Alert" on the DS9 Ops set, helped to teach Nobel Prize winners the Macarena, caused $10,000 to be raised for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, beaten Mark Waid and Kurt Busiek in comics trivia, and been Tuckerized in Star Trek and Justice League comics.
Janice Gelb blew into fandom at the
appropriately nicknamed HurriCon (SunCon,
the 1977 Worldcon). Since then, she has participated
in numerous apas, spends way too much time posting on
the Internet, and has worked on many conventions, notably running Program Ops
at MagiCon, the Millenium Philcon, Noreascon 4, and this
convention! She also ran the Hugo ceremony at LAcon
III. She was the 1999 DUFF North American representative at Aussiecon
3 where, in a fit of madness, she also volunteered to run Program Ops. In the
Real World, she is a senior developmental editor at Sun Microsystems in
David Gerrold
David Gerrold is a figment of his own imagination. Please do not encourage him. He'll just go off and write another book. (43 and counting.) Find out more about David Gerrold at www.gerrold.com
Gary Gibson
Gary Gibson is the author of two
science fiction novels for Tor UK, and is based in
Greer Gilman
Greer Gilman's thorny novel, Moonwise, will reappear this summer in hardcover, from
Prime Books. It won the Crawford Award and was shortlisted
for the Tiptree and Mythopoeic
Fantasy Awards. Her novella, "A Crowd of Bone," which is set in the mythscape of Moonwise, won the
World Fantasy Award in 2004. It is the second story in the Ashes cycle, a
triptych of variations on a winter myth. The first, "Jack Daw's Pack," was a Nebula finalist for 2001, and has
been reprinted in the 14th
Year's Best Fantasy and Horror
and in the anthology, TEL : Stories. She is working on the third. Her poem,
"She Undoes" has been reprinted several times, most recently in Jabberwocky. Ms. Gilman was a John W. Campbell finalist for 1992. She
has been interviewed by Michael Swanwick for Foundation, by Sherwood Smith for the SF Site, and by
the
Laura Anne Gilman published her first short story in 1994, while clawing her way up the corporate ladder as an assistant editor. Nine years and two dozen short story publications later, she gave up the post of Executive Editor of Roc Books/Penguin USA in order to become a full-time writer. Her second novel in the Retrievers'series, Curse the Dark, has just been released, following the Locus best-seller Staying Dead, with several more under contract. She is also under contract for a YA fantasy trilogy Grail Quest for HarperChildren's, scheduled for early 2006.
Carolina Gomez Lagerlof I have been active in Swedish fandom since 1985. I have organized several Swedish SF-cons and I am a committee member of Scandinavian Science Fiction Society and the Tolkien Society Forordrim. I have been working at the Swedish Patent Office since 1993, where I handle patent applications concerning pharmaceuticals and organic chemistry.
Kathleen Ann Goonan
(www.goonan.com) is the author of Queen
City Jazz (BFSA Finalist), Mississippi Blues (Darrell Award Recipient), Crescent City Rhapsody, and Light
Music, both Nebula finalists.
These comprise her Nanotech Quartet. She is also the author of The Bones of Time, shortlisted for the
Arthur C. Clarke Award. She recently spoke about nanotechnology at
Joan Gordon
A life-long reader of SF and fantasy, I have been an academic specializing in SF since 1980. I have co-edited two scholarly books, Blood Read: The Vampire as Metaphor in Contemporary Culture, and Edging Into The Future: Science Fiction and Contemporary Cultural Transformation, and am an editor of Science Fiction Studies. I've been doing a lot of writing and thinking about the conjunction of utopia, genocide, and the alien contact novel. I've also published an article on, and an interview with, China Mieville.
Gavin Grant
Gavin J. Grant is a freelance writer,
editor, and designer. He runs Small Beer Press; co-edits the zine Lady
Churchill's Rosebud
Wristlet and The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror with Kelly Link; and co-hosts the KGB
Fantastic Fiction Series with Ellen Datlow. He
reviews for BookPage and Xerography
Debt among others and his
fiction publications include The
Third Alternative, Strange Horizons, and Scifiction. After trying various coastal metropolises, he
has settled for slightly higher ground in an old farmhouse in
Roy Gray
My short SF has been published in Interzone, the small press and webzines. My drama
reviews were also published in Interzone and online. I won two Science in Print
(Physics in Print) prizes in the '90s. In collaboration with Phil Emery I won a
UK Public Awareness of Science grant in 2003. We had to prepare an outline for
a television drama script that involved realistic science or engineering and
scientists or engineers. My articles and humour and
even poetry have appeared in publications such as Mindsparks, Physics
World, Pharmaceutical Technology (
In many ways, Colin Greenland's
early SF and fantasy, especially the novels Other Voices and
Harm's Way, were the precursors for the New Weird and the
current British boom, but he's too old and fat and tired to go through that all
again. Instead, he's writing strange, evocative slipstream books, like Finding Helen, and the glacially accreting Losing David. He lives in
Simon R Green
I have published over 30 novels, most famously the Deathstalker series, and the current Nightside series. I am a New York Times best-selling author, published in fifteen countries and as many languages. Before becoming a full time author I worked the usual assorted jobs, including shop assistant, bicycle repair mechanic, journalist, actor, eccentric dancer, and mail order bride.
Jim Grimsley
lives and writes in
Jon Courtenay Grimwood
was born in
Patrick J. Gyger
Patrick J. Gyger
is the director of Maison d'Ailleurs (
Haber is the author of eight novels including Star Trek Voyager: Bless the Beasts, and co-author of Science of the X-Men. She recently edited Best Science Fiction of 2003 with Jonathan Strahan. Other recent publications include Exploring The Matrix: Visions of the Cyber Present, a collection of essays by leading science fiction writers and artists, and Transitions, with Todd Lockwood, a retrospective of the artist's work. In 2001 she edited the Hugo nominated essay collection celebrating J.R.R. Tolkien, Meditations on Middle Earth. Her short fiction has appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and many anthologies. She reviews art books for Locus magazine and profiles artists for various publications including Realms of Fantasy. With her husband, Robert Silverberg, she co-edited Best Science Fiction of 2001, 2002, and the Best Fantasy of 2001 and 2002. She is continuing the "Best of" series with co-editor Jonathan Strahan. Upcoming in 2005: Fantasy, The Best of 2004 edited with Jonathan Strahan (ibooks, February 2005), Science Fiction: The Best of 2004 edited with Jonathan Strahan (ibooks, February 2005), Crossing Infinity a science fiction novel of gender identity and confusions (ibooks).
I was born 1943 in
Peter F Hamilton
Peter F Hamilton is the author of
10 SF novels, including the Night's Dawn Trilogy and the Commonwealth Saga. He
lives in
Elizabeth Hand is the author of
seven novels, the most recent of which is Mortal Love, and
two short story collections, Last
Summer at Mars Hill and Bibliomancy. She has received two World Fantasy Awards, two International
Horror Guild Awards, the Tiptree, Nebula, and Mythopoeic Society Awards, as well as an Individual
Artist's Fellowship in Literature from the Maine Arts Commission and the
National Endowment for the Arts. She is a longtime reviewer and essayist for
the Washington Post; a columnist for Fantasy and Science Fiction; as well as a reviewer for other publications.
She lives on the coast of
Susan Hanniford Crowley
Susan Hanniford
Crowley, an active member of SFWA, a published poet, a writing teacher, and
non-fiction author, is best known for her fantasy short stories that have
appeared in anthologies edited by Marion Zimmer Bradley: "Ladyknight" in Spells of Wonder,
"Piper" in Sword
& Sorceress IX, "Cecropia" in Sword
& Sorceress XV, and
"Heartleaf" in MZBFM. Currently, Susan's SF novel is under
consideration. She's now working on a dragon fantasy novel set in
Christina Hansen
Although still somewhat new to organised fandom I've been interested in science fiction since kindergarten -- when other kids were playing house, I was pretending to be an astronaut. I entered fandom in the late '90s via media fandom and am still most active in that area. My most notable fannish activity probably is using every opportunity to make people see the greatness that is Farscape. I tend to get obsessive, bordering on the obnoxious, when I really like something... ;-)
Donna Maree Hanson has published speculative fiction short stories, reviews and newspaper articles. She is currently compiling Australian Speculative Fiction: a Genre Overview, a non-fiction book showcasing Australian speculative fiction. She also co-edited Encounters (CSFG, 2004), an anthology of Australian speculative fiction with Maxine McArthur, and edited the collection The Grinding House (CSFG, 2005), by Kaaron Warren. She was Chair of Conflux, the 43rd Australian National Science Fiction Convention and chair of Conflux 2.
My latest book is Futures: 50 Years in Space (with Sir Patrick Moore), which has a Hugo
nomination (Best Related) and received the Sir Arthur Clarke Award on
Lisa Deutsch Harrigan
Lisa Deutsch Harrigan is or has been Treasurer of The Mythopoeic Society; Chairman of Westercon 40, Chairman of Mythcon 10, treasurer to more Mythcons, and good costumer too (mostly hall costumes). I've been in fandom for –- well more years than I want to imagine. A well-rounded fan into costuming, JRR Tolkien, LotR the Movie, fantasy, Asimov, Bradbury, SF, Star Trek, Star Wars, Babylon 5, Farscape. Mother to Jenevieve Paurel Davis, and Harold Harrigan III; grandma to Christopher, Matthew, and Jonathan: all fans, too. All in all, it's been a good full fannish life, and there are still more years to enjoy!
Harry Harrison has been active as an SF
professional since the 1950s when he was a member of the Hydra Club, a group of
writers and artists who met regularly in
Niall Harrison is a member of third row fandom and a would-be critic. His reviews have appeared (or will appear shortly) in Interzone, Foundation, Vector, and at The Alien Online.
Jed Hartman is Senior Fiction Editor for the online prozine Strange Horizons. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared or will soon appear in Clean Sheets, Wet, Blowing Kisses, Flytrap, and All-Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories.
David G.Hartwell is a Senior Editor for Tor/Forge Books. He is the proprietor of Dragon Press, which publishes The New York Review of Science Fiction, criticism by Samuel R. Delany, and other books; and the President of David G. Hartwell, Inc., a consulting editorial firm. He is the author of Age of Wonders and the editor of many anthologies, including The Dark Descent, Masterpieces of Fantasy and Enchantment, The World Treasury of Science Fiction, Northern Stars, The Ascent of Wonder and The Hard SF Renaissance (co-edited with Kathryn Cramer) and a number of Christmas anthologies, among others.. John Updike, reviewing The World Treasury of Science Fiction in The New Yorker, characterized him as a "loving expert." He has won the Eaton Award, the World Fantasy Award, the Science Fiction Chronicle Poll, and has been nominated for the Hugo Award more times than anyone else. He also has theories about fashion in clothing, especially men's neckties. A lot more info is available at his website, always badly in need of updating
Merrie Haskell is a polyglot with a degree in
anthropology, and has been the curator of a
widely cited Arthurian website for the past ten years. She is also a SF/F
writer: recent fiction publications include "Huntswoman" in Strange Horizons and "Reparations" in Fortean Bureau. Merrie works in a library by day and
reads slush for
Dana Hayward
Dana Hayward is the digital
archivist and DAM manager for HarperCollins Children's Books in
Allison Hershey
Allison Hershey has been creating fantasy art professionally for over 20 years. Her illustrations have appeared in Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine, Aboriginal SF, Whole Earth Review, and the Writers of the Future anthology. She has been involved in electronic and illustrative art for computer companies since 1992. She was a founding member of The Dreamers Guild, a computer game company, and was art director for the games "Inherit the Earth" and "Faery Tale Adventure II". Currently she is co-producing an online comic strip for Wyrmkeep Entertainment (www.InheritTheEarth.com). She is also launching a line of ceramic sculptures with her brother.
Inge Heyer
Inge Heyer was born and
raised in
Beth Hilgartner has published five children's books (a picture book, three YA fantasies, and a historical fiction novel) and four books for adults: A Business of Ferrets; A Parliament of Owls (both dark epic fantasy); Cats in Cyberspace (humorous science fiction); and Prey-Part Politics (the forthcoming sequel to C in C). In addition to her writing, she is an Episcopal priest, an avid gardener, a dressage rider, and a musician; occasionally, she sleeps. She is currently working on three separate projects: An Ambush of Tigers (the third book in the Bharaghlaf series); Feline Diplomacy (the next Cats adventure), and a prequel to A Murder for Her Majesty (her YA historical fiction novel).
Martin Hoare
I am very much a traveling fan, going to conventions in as many countries as I can. I'm a convention fan, a conrunner, a past Eastercon chair (more times than anybody else), and a part-time Hugo Acceptor for Dave Langford. I'm fond of recreational explosives. In the Grown-up world I am an Implementation Architect on the (NHS) National Program for IT. This will be the biggest computer system that we will know about in the world. I sometimes find it strange to talk about kilo-servers and petabytes. My speciality is radiology.
Robin Hobb
is the author of three well-received fantasy trilogies: The Farseer
Trilogy (Assassin's Apprentice, Royal Assassin, and Assassins
Quest), The Liveship Traders Trilogy (Ship of Magic, Mad Ship, and Ship of
Destiny) and the Tawny Man
Trilogy (Fool's Errand, Golden Fool, and Fool's Fate). Her current work in progress is entitled Shaman's Crossing. Robin Hobb lives and works in
P C Hodgell
P C Hodgell is the author of fantasy novels God Stalk, Dark of the Moon (now available together as Dark of the Gods), and Seeker's Mask, as well as the short story collection Blood and Ivory. She is currently at work on the fourth novel in the series, To Ride a Rathorn, due out for next year's Worldcon. When not writing, she teaches, rides (and falls off of) her Saddlebred mare, knits, does stained glass, and dotes on her four cats.
Andrew Hogg
Andrew Hogg is a member of Third Row Fandom, but one that really doesn't want to take over fandom. Most likely to call you a Wronghead but please take no offence. It's just that you're wrong. In the head. Obsessed by robots and superheroes in the way grown men shouldn't be.
Robert Hole, Jr
Robert is an itinerant artist, biologist, and general gad-about. His day job involves working with kids and wild animals. He's been showing his art regularly for about ten years, five at cons. In his copious spare time he programs radio-sf.com.
John-Henri Holmberg
John-Henri Holmberg has published
around 270 fanzines, been chairman of the Scandinavian SF Society and of four
Swedish national cons, Guest of Honor at four Swedish and one Norwegian con,
and won various Swedish fan awards for best fanzine, best fan writer, and best
fan, in addition to the professional Jan Broberg
excellence in criticism award. With a degree in literature from
Valerie Housden
Valerie Housden went to her first convention in 1981 but didn't find the weirdos with guitars until 1986, when she ventured through the door labelled "filk." She runs the filk choir the N'Early Music Consort (the nMC), for whom she has done multipart harmony arrangements of filksongs by various filkers, and whose CD, Voices Going West she produced in 1999. The nMC will be GoH at FilkOntario, the Canadian filkcon, in 2007. She is also a member of the filk band Cosmic Trifle, who were GoH at FilkContinental, the German filkcon, in 2004. Her song "Catsblood" won the British Filk Award (now known as a "Sam") for Best Serious Song in 1990, and her song "Following in Valentina's Footsteps" won the Filk Gold Sam in 2000. In 2004 she was inducted into the Filk Hall of Fame. She enjoys reading literary SF and vows she will get round to submitting The Great Novel to a publisher one of these centuries...
Dave Howell is the founder of the Seattle Book Company an e-book publishing company (www.seattlebook.com and www.alexlit.com), designer of its literary collaborative filter, and was, once upon a time, Employee #7 at Wizards of the Coast. He was also the Chairbeing for Foolscap 1, an SF conference now up to number VII, and a member of Norwescon's ConCom for numbers 12 through 17. He moonlights as a Guinea Pig for Cheapass Games. Some of his clocks, parking stickers, and photo-manipulations have appeared at previous Worldcon art shows. Find out more about Dave Howell at
Tanya Huff
Tanya Huff lives and writes in
rural