Nancy Kress

Nancy Kress is the author of twenty-six books: three fantasy novels, twelve SF novels, three thrillers, four collections of short stories, one YA novel, and three books on writing fiction. She is perhaps best known for the “Sleepless” trilogy that began with BEGGARS IN SPAIN. The novel was based on a Nebula- and Hugo-winning novella of the same name. She won her second Hugo in 2009 in Montreal, for the novella “The Erdmann Nexus.” Kress has also won three additional Nebulas, a Sturgeon, and the 2003 John W. Campbell Award (for PROBABILITY SPACE). Her most recent books are a collection of short stories, NANO COMES TO CLIFFORD FALLS AND OTHER STORIES (Golden Gryphon Press, 2008); a bio-thriller, DOGS (Tachyon Press, 2008); and an SF novel, STEAL ACROSS THE SKY (Tor, 2009).

Kress's fiction, much of which concerns genetic engineering, has been translated into twenty languages. She often teaches writing at various venues around the country. Kress lives in Rochester, New York, with Cosette, the world’s most spoiled toy poodle.

Walter Jon Williams

Walter Jon Williams is a New York Times and London Times bestselling author, and the author of Hardwired, City on Fire, and The Praxis.  He has written 30 volumes of fiction in 30 years, as well as being nominated for ten Nebula Awards, six Hugo Awards, the World Fantasy Award, and the Philip K Dick Award.  He has also written for movies, television, and the gaming field.

He has participated in the Sycamore Hill and Franklinia workshops, as well as being a founding member of the Very Small Array and Critical Mass workshops.  He is the founder of the Rio Hondo professional workshop, held for the last eight years in Taos, as well as the founder of Taos Toolbox, the workshop for new writers. 

“Walter good.  Monsters bad.”  (Ian Tregillis, Clarion 2005)

Carrie Vaughn
Special Lecturer

"Carrie Vaughn is the New York Times bestselling author of a series of novels about a werewolf named Kitty.  The seventh in the series, KITTY'S HOUSE OF HORRORS, is due out January 2010.  Carrie's first young adult novel, VOICES OF DRAGONS, is due out in March 2010.  She's also published many short stories in various magazines and anthologies and is a contributor to the Wild Cards series, edited by George R. R. Martin.  An Air Force brat, Carrie grew up all over the U.S. but managed to put down roots in Boulder, Colorado, where she's been for the last ten years.  She doesn't ski, but is instead working on her ambition to become a world traveler.  For more information, visit her at www.carrievaughn.com."