Instructors for 2008
Clarion West is pleased to announce that the instructors for our 25th Anniversary workshop session to be held in 2008 are Paul Park, Mary Rosenblum, Cory Doctorow, Connie Willis, Sheree R. Thomas, and Chuck Palahniuk, the 2008 Susan C. Petrey fellow.
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 Paul Park's many impressive novels and short stories include Celestis and A Princess of Roumania. He uses familiar archetypes in unfamiliar ways to convey the depth and variety of human experience. His creative daring has gained him award nominations and critical praise. He is an inspirational and popular Clarion West instructor.
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 Mary Rosenblum brings to her work a passion for justice and a thorough understanding of science, technology, and their human impact. Rosenblum also writes mysteries under the name Mary Freeman. She attended Clarion West in 1988. Her first book, The Drylands, won the 1994 Compton Crook award.
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 Cory Doctorow writes idea-driven fiction with a political edge. He is a digital rights theorist and lecturer, co-editor of the geek culture blog Boing Boing, and a contributor to Wired and Popular Science. His "Anda's Game" appeared in The Best American Short Stories for 2005. Doctorow is a winner of the John W. Campbell Award.
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 Connie Willis's numerous books include revered SF classics The Doomsday Book and Passage, and multiple story collections. She has won six Nebulas and nine Hugos, and is a veteran Clarion West teacher. Willis excels at story deconstruction; her keen analysis illuminates the humor, love, and redemption found in both the comic and tragic.
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 Sheree R. Thomas began editing her ground-breaking, World Fantasy Award-winning anthology Dark Matter 1 while a Clarion West student. Her work brought long-overdue recognition to genre writers of color. Thomas's stories, essays, and poems appear in Essence, Callaloo, and Vibe. A New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow, she is currently at work on Dark Matter 3.
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 Chuck Palahniuk's novel Fight Club was made into a controversial cult film. Two of Palahniuk's books have been nominated for the Bram Stoker Award; his novel Choke was a New York Times bestseller. A self-described minimalist, Palahniuk blends horror and satire in genre-crossing stories about nontraditional protagonists. He is the 2008 Susan C. Petrey Fellow.
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Photo Credits
Photo of Paul Park, copyright © 2006 Leslie Howle; used with permission.
Photo of Mary Rosenblum, copyright © 2007 Leslie Howle; used with permission.
Photo of Cory Doctorow, copyright © 2005 Bert Nagle; used with permission.
Photo of Connie Willis, copyright © 2006 Leslie Howle; used with permission.
Photo of Sheree R. Thomas, copyright © 2006 Angeli R. Rasbury; used with permission.
Photo of Chuck Palahniuk, copyright © 2002 Chris M. Saunders; used with permission.
