Paul Park
Excerpt:
The creature paused at the top of the ravine, then turned into the mist and disappeared. From down below I watched it fade. But I had seen it clearly in the dry fields above the village, a shambling figure bigger than a bear. I had seen its naked face and chest, long forehead, black hair. Astonished, heart thumping, I’d followed it upstream into the rocks.
Bio:
These days I live in North Adams, Mass., and teach writing part-time at Williams College. I have a wife and two children, a son and a daughter, and live a scrupulously middle-class life. I am the author of (count 'em!) twelve books of science fiction, fantasy, and historical fiction. I have often taught at Clarion West in Seattle and Clarion in Michigan, now in San Diego.
Publications:
Soldiers of Paradise (Arbor House Books, 1987)Sugar Rain (William Morrow, 1989)The Cult of Loving Kindness (William Morrow, 1992)Coelestis (Harper Collins, 1994)The Gospel of Corax (Soho Books, 1996)Three Marys (Cosmos Books, 2000)If Lions Could Speak, and Other Stories (Wildside Press, 2002)No Traveller Returns (PS Publishing, limited edition, 2004)A Princess of Roumania (Tor Books, 2005)The Tourmaline (Tor Books, 2006)The White Tyger (Tor Books, 2007)The Hidden World (Tor Books, 2008)
Writing Description:
You can't make any progress as an artist in America without producing the same work over and over. I try never to repeat myself, needless to say. If something works well in a previous book, or if I manage to create some traction, I won't revisit either the subject matter or technique.
Writing Goals:
I'm teaching the first week of Clarion West this year. After that, I will finish the second part of a sequence of metafictional pseudo-memoirs that I'm working on. It's tentatively titled "A Visit to the Nursing Home." It's meant to work in a larger sequence with "Ghosts Doing the Orange Dance," which is set in the future. "A Visit to the Nursing Home" is set in the present, and I will be doing another one set in the past.
Website:
www.sfwa.org/members/park/
