Bios
Week 1: Sean Williams |
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Since Sean Williams work first appeared in print in the early 1990s, he has published over sixty short stories, four collections, and twenty-two novels aimed at adult, young adult and child readers, making him one of Australia's most prolific and diverse authors. His work has appeared in numerous languages, on-line, and in spoken word editions, and has been listed more than once on the New York Times-bestseller lists. Multiple winner of both Ditmar and Aurealis awards for science fiction, fantasy and horror, he also works in the Doctor Who and Star Wars universes and has a long list of collaborations with friend Shane Dix behind him. He is a former winner and now a judge of the international Writers of the Future Contest. |
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Australian speculative fiction writer Marianne de Pierres is the author of the Parrish Plessis series and The Sentients of Orion series. Her short stories have appeared in anthologies alongside authors like Harlan Ellison, Gene Wolfe, Jack Williamson and Terry Dowling. Marianne has worked as a free-lance reviewer, interviewer and features writer. She has been a judge for the Aurealis Awards for speculative fiction and has worked in an SF bookshop. Marianne has a Bachelor of Arts (Film and TV and Literature) from Curtin University, Perth, and a Post Graduate Certificate of Arts (Writing, Editing and Publishing) from the University of Queensland. She lives in Brisbane, Queensland with her husband and three sons. You can visit her website at: www.mariannedepierres.com |
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Margo Lanagan has published poetry, novels and speculative fiction short stories for adult, young adult and junior readers. Her collection, Black Juice, won two World Fantasy Awards, a Victorian Premier's Award, two Ditmars and two Aurealis Awards, and was shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and made an honour book in the American Library Association’s Michael L. Printz Award. The story ‘Wooden Bride’ was shortlisted for the James Tiptree Jr Award, and ‘Singing My Sister Down’ was nominated for many other awards, including a Nebula and a Hugo. Her third collection, Red Spikes, published in Australia in October 2006, was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize and longlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, has been nominated for a World Fantasy Award for Best Collection and is the Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year for Older Readers. Margo lives in Sydney. She has just completed a fantasy novel, Tender Morsels, which will be published in late 2008. Margo's blog is at http://amongamidwhile.blogspot.com/ |
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Jack Dann is a multiple-award winning author who has written or edited over seventy books, including the international bestseller The Memory Cathedral; The Man Who Melted; The Silent, a novel of the Civil War; The Rebel: An Imagined Life of James Dean; and a number of short story collections: Timetipping, Jubilee, Visitations, The Fiction Factory, and Promised Land, a companion volume to The Rebel. Dann lives in Australia on a farm overlooking the sea and “commutes” back and forth to Los Angeles and New York. He is a recipient of the Nebula Award, the Aurealis Award, the Ditmar Award, the World Fantasy Award, the Peter McNamara Achievement Award, and the Premios Gilgamés de Narrativa Fantastica award. Dann was co-editor of the groundbreaking anthology of Australian stories, Dreaming Down-Under, which won the World Fantasy Award in 1999. He edits the Magic Tales anthology series with Gardner Dozois; and his anthology, Gathering the Bones, of which he is a co-editor, was included in Library Journal’s Best Genre Fiction of 2003 and was shortlisted for The World Fantasy Award. He is currently working on Dreaming Again. His website can be found at www.jackdann.com |
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Kelly Link's debut collection, Stranger Things Happen, was a Firecracker nominee, a Village Voice Favorite Book and a Salon Book of the Year. Stories from the collection have won the Nebula, the James Tiptree Jr., and the World Fantasy awards. Her second collection,Magic for Beginners, was a Book Sense pick (and a Best of Book Sense pick); and selected for best of the year lists by Time Magazine, Salon, Boldtype, Village Voice, San Francisco Chronicle, and The Capitol Times Kelly is an editor for the Online Writing Workshop and has been a reader and judge for various literary awards. With Gavin J. Grant and Ellen Datlow she edits The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror ( St. Martin's Press). She also edited the anthology, Trampoline. She has visited a number of schools and workshops including previous stints at Clarion East at Michigan State University, Clarion West in Seattle, WA, and Clarion South. Kelly lives in Northampton, MA. She received her BA from Columbia University and her MFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Kelly and her husband, Gavin J. Grant, publish a twice-yearly zine, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet -- as well as books -- as Small Beer Press. Kelly will teach Weeks 5 & 6 as part of the anchor team. |
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Gavin J. Grant is an editor, publisher, book designer and writer. He runs Small Beer Press and with Kelly Link edits the zine Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet. He is a co-editor of The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror and co-host of the KGB Fantastic Fiction Reading Series. His speculative fiction stories have appeared in Polyphony 4, Salon Fantastique, SciFiction, Strange Horizons, and Lone Star Stories. He reviews for BookPage and Xerography Debt and has been published in publications such as TONY, Clamor, Rain Taxi, Snow Monkey, FUHU, Say…, The Urban Pantheist, and others. He lives in Northampton, MA. To find out more about Small Beer Press and Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet visit: www.lcrw.net Gavin will teach Weeks 5 & 6 as part of the anchor team. |
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