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Author Description John (Joseph Vincent) Kessel co-directs the creative writing program at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. A winner of the Nebula, Locus, Sturgeon, and Tiptree Awards, his books include <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1138865.Good_News_from_Outer_Space" title="Good News from Outer Space by John Kessel" rel="nofollow noopener">Good News From Outer Space</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1138861.Corrupting_Dr__Nice" title="Corrupting Dr. Nice by John Kessel" rel="nofollow noopener">Corrupting Dr. Nice</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1138863.The_Pure_Product" title="The Pure Product by John Kessel" rel="nofollow noopener">The Pure Product</a>, and <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2880461.The_Baum_Plan_for_Financial_Independence_and_Other_Stories" title="The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories by John Kessel" rel="nofollow noopener">The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories</a>. His story collection <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1138866.Meeting_in_Infinity" title="Meeting in Infinity by John Kessel" rel="nofollow noopener">Meeting in Infinity</a> was a <i>New York Times</i> Notable Book. Most recently, with <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/73418.James_Patrick_Kelly" title="James Patrick Kelly" rel="nofollow noopener">James Patrick Kelly</a> he has edited the anthologies <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/424609.Feeling_Very_Strange_The_Slipstream_Anthology" title="Feeling Very Strange The Slipstream Anthology by James Patrick Kelly" rel="nofollow noopener">Feeling Very Strange</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/948138.Rewired_The_Post_Cyberpunk_Anthology" title="Rewired The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology by James Patrick Kelly" rel="nofollow noopener">Rewired</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6458631.The_Secret_History_of_Science_Fiction" title="The Secret History of Science Fiction by James Patrick Kelly" rel="nofollow noopener">The Secret History of Science Fiction</a> and <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12034495.Kafkaesque_Stories_Inspired_by_Franz_Kafka" title="Kafkaesque Stories Inspired by Franz Kafka by John Kessel" rel="nofollow noopener">Kafkaesque</a>. Born in Buffalo, NY, Kessel has a PhD in American Literature, has been an NEA Fellow, and for twenty years has been one of the organizers of the Sycamore Hill Writers Workshop.

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