Instructors for 2009
Clarion West is pleased to announce that the instructors for our 2009 workshop session are John Kessel, Karen Joy Fowler, Elizabeth Bear, Nalo Hopkinson, David G. Hartwell, and Rudy Rucker, the 2008 Susan C. Petrey fellow.
John Kessel's elegant fiction depicts characters in darkly humorous situations that test the boundaries of what is real. His provocative “Stories for Men” received the 2002 Tiptree Award; his other awards include the Nebula, Sturgeon, and World Fantasy. Kessel teaches writing and English literature at North Carolina State University; he is a force behind the professional workshop Sycamore Hill.
Karen Joy Fowler is the author of six novels and dozens of short stories, all marked indelibly by her remarkable, witty voice, yet as different from one another as chartreuse is from physics. Winner of the World Fantasy Award and two Nebulas, and a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, Fowler is a brilliant writer, a compassionate teacher, and an intuitive critic.
Elizabeth Bear combines speculative fiction with mystery, thrillers, and romance to create compelling tales of future and magical worlds. Since her first professional publication in 2003, Bear has published twelve novels and over fifty short stories and poems. Her many awards include the Campbell and Locus, and a Hugo for her 2007 story “Tideline.”
Nalo Hopkinson, author of the Gaylactic Spectrum Award-winning novel The Salt Roads, writes provocative fiction that challenges our assumptions about history, race, and gender. Her novels and short stories draw on her Caribbean heritage to create a powerful, unique voice and a perspective that is rich with island folklore. Hopkinson’s recent novel The New Moon’s Arms won Canada’s Prix Aurora and Sunburst Awards.
David G. Hartwell is Senior Editor for Tor Books. He has edited or co-edited scores of anthologies, among them The Year’s Best SF and The Year’s Best Fantasy. A veteran instructor of four CW workshops, he founded the influential New York Review of Science Fiction. Hartwell works with many of the field’s top authors, including Gene Wolfe, Greg Benford, and Michael Bishop. He has received the Eaton Award and the World Fantasy Award.
Rudy Rucker is a startlingly original writer and thinker, a teacher, philosopher, mathematician, computer scientist, and the author of thirty books of fiction, biography, and science. An influential cyberpunk ally and the originator of the term “transrealism,” Rucker is an inspiring lecturer and a proponent of “gnarl,” the creation of art that lives at the boundary between order and chaos. Rudy Rucker is the 2009 Susan C. Petrey Fellow.
Photo of John Kessel, copyright Cheryl Gottschall; used with permission.
Photo of Elizabeth Bear, copyright S. Shipman; used with permission.
Photo of Karen Joy Fowler, copyright Laurie Roberts; used with permission.
Photo of Nalo Hopkinson, copyright David Findlay; used with permission.
Photo of David G. Hartwell, copyright Ellen Datlow; used with permission.
Photo of Rudy Rucker, copyright Tina Mills; used with permission.
