This is the list of Clarion West alumni, according to our records. If you are an alumnus and would like to add, remove, or correct your name, please contact communications@clarionwest.org. We can also add a pen name or a Web link to your name, if you have one you would like to include.
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1971
| Students | Instructors |
| Susan Rubinyi Anderson Scott Bradford F. M. Busby Lin Nielsen Cochran Stephen Compton Larry A. Frost Donald A. Glover Philip Haldeman Brian Hargus Gustav Hasford Dean Hodgson Susan Lucum James Patrick Muir Maggie Nadler Brad R. Reddersen William Leslie Semple JT Stewart Bruce Taylor David Williams Ilze Zigurs |
George Clayton Johnson Harlan Ellison Joanna Russ Samuel R. Delany Ursula K. Le Guin |
1972
| Students | Instructors |
| Susan Rubinyi Anderson Mildred Downey Broxon F. M. Busby Steve Carper Bruce Allen Collins Arthur Byron Cover Scott Edelstein Larry A. Frost Philip Haldeman Stephen L. Hust Mary M. Johnson Richard C. Newsome Julian Reid Neil M. Ruttenberg Robert M. Sabella John Shirley Gene Van Troyer Lisa Tuttle Herb Williams David Wise |
Avram Davidson Frank Herbert Harlan Ellison Robert Silverberg Terry Carr Ursula K. Le Guin |
1973
| Students | Instructors |
| Margot Adler Russell Bates Glen Chang Lin Nielsen Cochran Gustav Hasford Dawn Johanson Doug Kinnaird Joe Manfredini Steve Miller Dvora Olmstead Richard J. Petrowich Susan Purviance Lucinda J. Seaman Mark Sherman John Walters David White David Wise |
Harlan Ellison James Sallis Joanna Russ Peter S. Beagle Terry Carr Ursula K. Le Guin |
1984
| Students | Instructors |
| Richard Clement Greg Cox Kathryn E. Cramer Kenneth Crawford Donna Davis Rysdyk Bruce Chandler Fergusson Michael Gilbert Linda Jordan Kay Kinghammer Dan O’Keefe Cara Inks Reed Jeremy Robkin Rhea E. Rose Carol Severance Amy Thomson Jill Zeller Diane Zimmerman |
Arthur Byron Cover David Hartwell Norman Spinrad Suzy McKee Charnas Terry Carr Vonda N. McIntyre |
1985
| Students | Instructors |
| Betsy Allbright Gerri Balter Luella Burrows Elmer Eells Pamela K. Hicks Les Howle Christopher Kadoshima Kevin Kerr Steve Martin Claudia O’Keefe Susan Palwick Alan Roberts Richard Singer Scott Stolnack Slattery Tyler Jeff Williams Shirley Winston N. Lee Wood |
Arthur Byron Cover Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Marta Randall Norman Spinrad Octavia E. Butler Samuel R. Delany |
1986
| Students | Instructors |
| Virginia Allen Janet Bellwether Steven Bryan Bieler David E. Cortesi Alissa Johnson Mark Manning Nancy Thalia Reynolds Michael Scanlon Patrick J. Swenson |
David Hartwell Ed Bryant Joan D. Vinge Norman Spinrad Patricia McKillip Suzy McKee Charnas |
1987
| Students | Instructors |
| Kathleen Alcalá Karen Allendoerfer Colleen Anderson Dan Bennett Laura Brenner Michael Croteau Kathryn Drennan Ron Drummond Kij Johnson Shirley Johnston Susan Kray Dave Myers Hillary Rettig Clélie Rich David Sandner Dean Shomshak Michael Stearns Richard Terra Kit Townsend Dick Trtek Gordon Van Gelder Janet Elliott Waters |
Connie Willis Ed Bryant Octavia E. Butler Samuel R. Delany Tappan King Ursula K. Le Guin |
1988
| Students | Instructors |
| James Bartow Charié Craig Mike Crosson Gregg Fackler John Gibbons Kathleen Ann Goonan Diane Hall Eric Harpell Phoebe Harris Jane Hawkins Jon Inouye Diane Mapes Henry Millstein Michaelene S. Pendleton Constance Roe Mary Rosenblum William M. Shockley Beverly Suarez-Beard Sage Walker Deborah Wessell Chris Willrich |
Elizabeth A. Lynn Gardner Dozois Greg Bear Joan D. Vinge Orson Scott Card Peter S. Beagle |
1989
| Students | Instructors |
| Mary Bachran Jennifer W. Bellack Adam Bridge Daren Bush Diana M. Castro David M. Charles Wendy Counsil Tony Daniel Diane K. Dieter Carol Dorf Janice M. Eisen K. Emil Erickson James Gardner Carolyn Ives Gilman Guy Hail Darrell Kastin Konstantine Kyriacopoulos Byron LaDue Paul MacRae Kevin Mims Jodi Kimbell Scanlon |
Amy Stout Connie Willis Karen Joy Fowler Lucius Shepard Orson Scott Card Roger Zelazny |
1990
| Students | Instructors |
| Tavis Allison Marcella Belton Michael Scott Bricker Arinn Dembo Robert Devereaux Susan Grossman Paul Grunwell Paul Helweg Christine Henderson David Herter Sally Kohonoski Clinton Lawrence David Lewis Rebecca V. Neason Carol Nussbaum Steve O’Hara Brooks Peck Leonard Rysdyk Blaise Selby S. Lee Singer |
David Hartwell Gene Wolfe Karen Joy Fowler Lewis Shiner Pat Murphy Vonda N. McIntyre |
1991
| Students | Instructors |
| Dilip Agarwal David Boone Sari Boren Martin Cirulis Mark Coen David Duck Coupe Shelby Goerlitz P. J. Groeneveldt Chris Hall Amy Axt Hanson Jed Hartman Connie Hirsch Marilyn Husted Karen Jensen Pat Kava Myrna Ougland Kitty Perry Lawrence Schimel Terri Trimble Bill Tuttle |
Ellen Datlow Emma Bull George Alec Effinger Lisa Tuttle Lucius Shepard Samuel R. Delany Will Shetterly |
1992
| Students | Instructors |
| Vincent G. Bonasso Gene Bostwick Mark Bourne Lee Capps Robert D. Carroll Danny Daniels Richard Garfinkle Andrew P. Hooper Sonia Orin Lyris Alexandra MacKenzie Tom Marcinko Daniel Marcus David Marusek Holly Wade Matter Todd Johnson McCaffrey Kate Schaefer Nisi Shawl Jim Snowden Cynthia Ward Amy Wolf |
Gardner Dozois Howard Waldrop John Crowley John Shirley Nancy Kress Pat Cadigan |
1993
| Students | Instructors |
| Mark T. Adams Robert Boyczuk Candyce Byrne Mark Corliss Robert Dennis Patrizia DiLucchio Anthony Dollar Ian Hagemann Morgan Hua Cid Hughes Louise Marley Marybeth H. O’Halloran Jean Oldham Caroline D. Rhodes Sande Simpson Will Swagel W. Bradford Swift David G. Taylor Ben Trumble Robert Vamosi |
Alice Turner Connie Willis Geoff Ryman Greg Bear Lucius Shepard Pat Murphy |
1994
| Students | Instructors |
| Paul T. Allen Renée Awana Michael P. Belfiore Öjvind Bernander Ellen T. Brenner Mike Brotherton Pedro M. Domingos Andy Duncan Bronwynn Elko M. W. Keiper Pamela Marks Syne Mitchell Eric S. Nylund Jay O’Connell Carol D. Pinchefsky Melissa Lee Shaw Byron Tetrick Ray West Kelly Winters Robert Wojtasiewicz |
Beth A. Meacham Elizabeth Hand Joe Haldeman Lisa Goldstein Michael Swanwick Nancy Kress Tappan King |
1995
| Students | Instructors |
| David Cowper Alyx Dellamonica Glenn Hackney Joseph P. Haines Zeke Kamm Fiona Kelleghan Doug Lain Timalyne Lindquist-Frazier Shirley W. Mercer Donald Moore Joseph Murphy Robert Murphy, Jr. Robert Nansel Marcus Nordenstam Donna Palomaki Kristi Pierce Miguel Ramos Jessica Reisman Jane Shiau Ron Wodaski |
Howard Waldrop Joan D. Vinge John Crowley Katherine Dunn Michael Swanwick Gardner Dozois |
1996
| Students | Instructors |
| Brett Baker Jeremy Bloom Lyman Caswell Kenneth Crawford Christopher Doyle Craig Gidney Neile Graham Robert Guffey Eric Johnson Bryn Kanar Judy McCrosky Elizabeth McDowell Michael Meltzer Richard Poss Justina Robson Kurtis Roth Christopher Rowe John Serna Anson Smith Rich Warren |
Ellen Datlow Geoff Ryman Jack Womack Pat Cadigan Rachel Pollack Terry Bisson |
1997
| Students | Instructors |
| Bill Burkett, Jr. Leah Cutter Clayton B. Evans Rob Furey John Gerner Susan Jett Bob Kruger Alexander Lamb Katherine Major Mary Anne Mohanraj Nancy Jane Moore Barbara Pfeffer Billauer Therese Pieczynski Naomi Gayle Rivkis C. J. Silverio Richard Wadholm Robert Wexler |
Beth A. Meacham Lucius Shepard Michael Bishop Nicola Griffith Samuel R. Delany Suzy McKee Charnas Tappan King |
1998
| Students | Instructors |
| Daniel J. Abraham Michael Bateman R. S. Blum Karen M. Cupp Jeffrey A. Deveaux Ellen Levy Finch Karen D. Fishler Christyna Ivers Burke T. Kealey Ruth Nestvold John Olsen Diana Rowland Chiara Shah Susan Lee Tamela Viglione David Wellington Eric M. Witchey |
Carol Emshwiller Connie Willis Gardner Dozois George R. R. Martin Lucy Sussex Paul Park |
1999
| Students | Instructors |
| Sarah Brandel Christine Castigliano Duncan Clark Sanford L. Clarke Monte Cook Daniel G. Dick Andrea Hairston Jay Lee Joslin Leah Kaufman Margo Lanagan Ama B. Patterson Elizabeth S. Roberts Joe Sutliff Sanders Tom Sweeney Sheree Renee Thomas Trent Walters Stephen Woodworth |
Gordon Van Gelder Greg Bear Gwyneth Jones Howard Waldrop Nancy Kress Octavia E. Butler |
2000
| Students | Instructors |
| Alexander C. Austin Greg Beatty Julian Brown Albert L. Folsom Kameron Hurley Miriam Hurst David Levine William Mingin Francesca Myman Paulette Rousselle Inez Schaechterle Andrew T. Scott A. E. Silas David R. Silas Amy Sisson G. Patrick Weekes Jennifer Whitson |
Candas Jane Dorsey Carol Emshwiller David Hartwell Geoff Ryman John Crowley Pat Murphy Paul Park |
2001
| Students | Instructors |
| Karen Abrahamson Michael Barry Avi Bar-Ze’ev Stephanie Burgis Linda De Meulemeester Susan Ee Raymund Eich Ari Goelman Kiini Ibura Carla J. Johnson Sean Klein Samantha Ling Liu Emily Mah Tippetts Benjamin Rosenbaum Allan Rousselle Patrick Samphire Ibi Aanu Zoboi |
Brad Denton Connie Willis Ellen Datlow Jack Womack Nalo Hopkinson Octavia E. Butler |
2002
| Students | Instructors |
| Lynette Aspey Robert Brown Dario Ciriello James Wallace Harris L. Jackson Adrian Khactu Simran Khalsa Daniel Llinas Traci L. Morganfield Elizabeth Nice Christopher Pommier Wendy Schaffer Doug Sharp Diana Sherman James P. Thomas Ysabeau S. Wilce Genevieve Williams |
Gardner Dozois Joe Haldeman John Crowley Kathleen Alcalá Pat Cadigan Paul Park |
2003
| Students | Instructors |
| Carl Allery K. Tempest Bradford Wendy Bradley Anna Feruglio Dal Dan Michael Henderson Anthony Jacob Hensley Alexander H. Jennings Robin Jensen Claire Light Gabriel Morgan Claudius Reich Carl Sieber Marsha Sisolak Bob Sojka Daniel Starr Eliani Torres Jeffrey Weitzel |
China Mieville Elizabeth Hand Kathleen Ann Goonan Nancy Kress Patrick Nielsen Hayden Samuel R. Delany |
2004
| Students | Instructors |
| R. R. Angell Jesse Buerk Brian Conn Alec Deason Adele Gardner Ajit A. George Vylar Kaftan Alice Kim April Lott Darja Malcolm-Clarke Meghan McCarron Anil Menon Ernest Reimer D. Smith Jeff Spock Deb Taber Greer Woodward |
Charles de Lint Geoff Ryman James Patrick Kelly John Kessel Kelly Link Larissa Lai Pat Murphy |
2005
| Students | Instructors |
| S. Hutson Blount Ada Milenkovic Brown Mischa DeNola Kristine Dikeman Amy Eastment Kira Franz Chris Furst Stephen Gold Ann Leckie Heather Lindsley Edo Mor E. C. Myers Cat Rambo Karen M. Roberts Rashida J. Smith Katie Sparrow Rachel Swirsky James Trimarco |
Andy Duncan Connie Willis Gordon Van Gelder L. Timmel Duchamp Michael Swanwick Octavia E. Butler |
2006
| Students | Instructors |
| Mark Bukovec Ben Burgis Tina Connolly Tristan Davenport Rebecca Gold Nicole Gresham Guy Immega Julie McGalliard Maura McHugh Ian McHugh Meghan Sinoff Nancy Nivling Shawn Scarber Gord Sellar David A. Simons James Trombetta Tinatsu Wallace Caroline Yoachim |
Maureen McHugh Ellen Datlow Ian MacLeod Nalo Hopkinson Paul Park Vernor Vinge |
2007
| Students | Instructors |
| Cassie Alexander Jon Allison Christopher Caldwell Roz Clarke Benjamin Crowell Gary Dauphin Carrie Devall Jocelyn Paige Kelly Amy Lau Dominica Phetteplace Sharon K. Richards Stacy Sinclair Melinda Thielbar Michael R. Underwood Lilah Wild David J. Williams David Zasloff Derek Zumsteg |
Graham Joyce Kelley Eskridge Larissa Lai Nancy Kress Patrick Nielsen Hayden Samuel R. Delany |
2008
| Students | Instructors |
| Pritpaul Bains Marguerite Croft Theresa DeLucci Caren Gussoff Tracy J. Harford Shane Hoversten Kristin Janz Rajan Khanna Douglas Lucas Carlton Mellick III An Owomoyela Pamela Rentz Christopher Reynaga Eden Robins Carol Ryles Owen Salisbury Jim Stewart Kira Walsh |
Chuck Palahniuk Connie Willis Cory Doctorow Mary Rosenblum Paul Park Sheree Renee Thomas |
2009
| Students | Instructors |
| Siobhan Carroll Steven A. Ellmore Katrina S. Forest Randy Henderson Lucas Johnson Jordan Lapp Rochita Loenen-Ruiz Kris Millering D. J. Muir Nate Parkes Isis Persephone D’Shaun Tom Rodgers Vicki Saunders J. M. Sidorova Emily C. Skaftun William Vandemark Joel Walsh D. Elizabeth Wasden |
David Hartwell Elizabeth Bear John Kessel Karen Joy Fowler Nalo Hopkinson Rudy Rucker |
2010
| Students | Instructors |
| Michael Alexander Frank Ard K. C. Ball Stephanie Denise Brown Adam Brymora Abbey Chung Cassandra Rose Clarke Lauren Dixon Jack Graham Jude-Marie Green Tod McCoy Remy Nakamura Sandra M. Odell Erik Owomoyela Nick Pidgeon Andrew Romine Stephanie Louise Scudder Tracie Welser |
Michael Bishop Maureen McHugh Nnedi Okorafor Graham Joyce Ellen Datlow Ian McDonald |
2011
| Students | Instructors |
| Alisa Alering Alex Bear John Coyne Corinne Duyvis Erik David Even S. Gilbow Eliza Hirsch Catherine Krahe Jei D. Marcade Jenni Moody Jack Nicholls Mark Pantoja David Rees-Thomas Maria Romasco-Moore Jeremy Sim Anne Toole Nicholas Tramdack Alberto Yáñez |
L. Timmel Duchamp Margo Lanagan Nancy Kress Charles Stross Minister Faust Paul Park |
2012
| Students | Instructors |
| Brenta Blevins Bryan Camp Indrapramit Das Sarah Dodd M. Huw Evans Greg Friis West Laura Friis West James G. Harper Alyc Helms James Herndon Nicholas Houser Georgina Kamsika Henry Lien Helen Marshall Kim Neville Cory Skerry Carlie St. George Blythe Woolston |
Kelly Link Connie Willis George R. R. Martin Chuck Palahniuk Mary Rosenblum Gavin Grant Stephen Graham Jones |
2013
| Students | Instructors |
| Helena Bell John Costello Geetanjali Dighe David Edison Fabio Fernandes Jennifer Giesbrecht Vince Haig Nicole Idar Alex Kane Nick Lancaster Usman Malik Liam Meilleur Shannon Peavey Kelly Sandoval Allison Solano Hugo Xiong JY Yang E. Lily Yu |
Samuel R. Delany Joe Hill Margo Lanagan Ellen Datlow Neil Gaiman Elizabeth Hand |
2014
| Students | Instructors |
| Adanze Asante Alexander Berman Christopher Carlson Curtis C. Chen Shannon Fay Christy Johnson Rich Larson Michael Matheson Ian Muneshwar Chinelo Onwualu Sandra Monica Martins Reis Pinto Rhiannon Rasmussen-Silverstein Steven Rickards Michael Smith Jae Steinbacher Yang-Yang Wang Marlee Jane Ward Alison Wilgus |
Kij Johnson John Crowley Ian McDonald Charlie Jane Anders Paul Park Hiromi Goto |
2015
| Students | Instructors |
| Rebecca Campbell Garret Johnston Justin C. Key Margaret Killjoy Samuel Kolawole Thersa Matsuura Monidipa “Mimi” Mondal Tegan Moore Nana Christine Neulieb Laurie Penny Evan J. Peterson Dinesh Pulandram Michael Sebastian Nibedita Sen Jake Stone Leo Vladimirsky Julia M. Wetherell |
Andy Duncan Eileen Gunn Tobias Buckell Connie Willis Nalo Hopkinson Cory Doctorow |
2016
| Students | Instructors |
| Taimur Ahmad Betsy Aoki Elizabeth Bartmess T. Jane Berry Octavia Cade Paul DesCombaz Alex Filipowicz Lora Gray C.A. Hawksmoor Jon Lasser S. Qiouyi Lu Gunnar Norskog Emma Osborne Shiv Ramdas Mitchell Shanklin Jessica Silbaugh-Cowdin Gabriel Teodros Cadwell Turnbull |
Paul Park Stephen Graham Jones Elizabeth Bear N.K. Jemisin Sheila Williams Geoff Ryman |
2017
| Students | Instructors |
| Shweta Adhyam E. L. Bangs David Bruns Andrea Chapela Mark Galarrita A. T. Greenblatt Iori Kusano Patrick Lofgren Alexandra Manglis Robert Minto Stephanie Malia Morris Andrea M. Pawley Joanne Lim-Pousard Vina Jie-Min Prasad Adam Shannon Emma Törzs Izzy Wasserstein Gordon White |
Daryl Gregory Kij Johnson John Chu Connie Willis Daniel José Older Pat Cadigan |
2018
| Students | Instructors |
| Rafeeat Aliyu E.C. Barrett Carson Beker Rachel Broderick N. C. Calder Isabel Cañas Woody Dismukes Clay P. Greene Dora Klindžić Wen Ma Ted Mahsun Rodrigo Assis Mesquita Brittany Pladek Gregory Scheckler Jen Sexton-Riley Rachel Simmons Dennis E. Staples Natalia Theodoridou |
Daniel Abraham Ken MacLeod Yoon Ha Lee Karen Lord Karen Joy Fowler Ellen Datlow |