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Here's a short blurb about each person attending Clarion 2000.

  Jennifer Baumer

Jeff Cross

  Stuart Dimond

Natasha Donnelly

  Arthur "Buck" Dorrance

Hi. Name's Arthur "Buck" Dorrance.
I've answered the survey for those who'll wade thru it. I'm married with one daughter in college. Been in the Navy, currently a nurse anesthetist, with a MS in biology being my last degree. Make my home in rural PA. Read a lot, though not fast enough to keep up with my buying habits. Write too slowly. Went to James Gunn's two-week workshop in '98
and '99; active on Critters.

Frankly, I'm intimidated by the likelihood of being among those more prolific and creative; must have gotten in by some sort of affirmative action program.

Anyway, looking forward to meeting all of you, and may we all land multi-million dollar movie adaptations of our Nebula-winning novels.

 Linda Dunn

Linda J. Dunn is a workaholic afflicted with the Impostor Syndrome. She is convinced that everything she's achieved in life is the result of good luck and she's really incompetent. Where optimists see the glass as half-full and pessimists see the glass as half-empty, Linda is convinced that this is really someone else's glass and sooner or later, they're going to ask for it back.

She began her work career as a seamstress in a clothing factory and attended college part-time until she graduated nineteen long years later. Linda now manages a state-wide network of computers for a small, federal agency and cringes at the words "privatization", "subcontracting", and "RIF".

After working ten-hour days and writing all evening, Linda spends her spare time moving truckloads of mulch around in the yard, trying to turn it into a world-class garden. In winter, she spends that time exercising to fend off middle-age slump, and fretting that she's not getting enough writing done.

  David Findlay

 Paula Fleming

After getting an M.A. in European history, I decided to enter the business world. After getting an M.A. in management, I decided I wanted to write speculative fiction. After graduating from Clarion, I'll decide ... to write speculative fiction. Promise. I live in Minnesota with two large, exuberant dogs, two cats, and a husband. When I'm not writing or making a living as a consultant, I enjoy gardening, hiking and cross-country skiing.  And reading, duh.

  James Gilmer

 Derek James

Derek James was bred and raised in Texas. He has no idea where the impetus to put words on pages for money came from, but it happened sometime during his days at the University of Texas at Austin (possibly the result of a  falling object). He went on to graduate with a BA in English and a Teaching Certificate, and he taught high school for three years. Fed up with the public education system, he moved to Japan for two hears, where he taught English. After having his fill of sashimi and sumo he returned to Dallas, Texas where he teaches writing at a community college and lives the carefree lifestyle of bachelorhood.

  Susannah Mandel

Joe Murphy

  Mark Rudolph

Mark E. Rudolph (no, the E does NOT stand for Eglantine) has worn many different hats over the years: some to help fill his empty stomach and others just for the fun of it. He has been a substitute teacher, an associate instructor/graduate student, a female impersonator/disc jockey (some things happen at the same time), a timekeeper (a very dull job), a computer network consultant, a technical writer, a vacuum cleaner sales representative (for three entire weeks!), a night manager of a convenience store (where I learned how to say, "Have a nice day." and give incorrect change simultaneously), a project team leader, and a librarian's assistant.

What he has NOT been is a professional writer of speculative fiction, which is what he decided to be after he read _Moon of Three Rings_ by Andre Norton in the 7th grade. What happens to a dream deferred? It explodes in the year 2000 and propels the dreamer to East Lansing, Michigan in the middle of summer!

As for his educational background, he has a B.A. in Mathematics and has attempted three different post-graduate degrees: M.A. in Mathematics, M.F.A. in Creative Writing, and M.B.A. Each time, he developed Sudden Career Dementia (SCD) and lapsed into a state of scholastic paralysis--only to awaken months later to realize that he missed final exams completely. If you happen to meet a fellow sufferer, DO NOT GIVE HIM/HER ANY MONEY! It will only exacerbate the disease.

Currently, Mark lives in New Albany, Indiana, which is across the  Ohio River from Louisville, Kentucky. In November, he resigned from his position as an Internet engineer for a bloated, multinational, revenue-generating behemoth of an insurance company and is waiting for his spiritual guide, Pocahontas, to tell him what to do next--though lately his guide seems to sound an awful lot like Lucille Ball impersonating a Native American princess. The spirit world needs more rocket scientists and fewer comedians.

Kelly Searsmith

  Trey Thoelcke

As a boy, Trey wanted to be Darrin Stephens, who had the coolest job on TV (when asked what he was working on, Darrin just made stuff up--how cool is that!). But taken aback by the sudden change in Darrin's appearance, Trey reconsidered. He briefly toyed with the idea of being the Red Barron or Ringo Starr, before finally in his teens settling on being Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Of course, he quickly discovered that there already was one. So he continues even to this day his search for someone else to be, usually by attempting to create fictional characters more interesting than himself. Watch him in action (kind of like looking at a fish in a tank) at http://members.aol.com/heytrey.

Karen Traviss

Karen Traviss has been writing science fiction in earnest since early 1998, and has sold to Odyssey, Valkyrie, Neverworlds and Spaceways Weekly. She's a journalist by profession (print and broadcast) and also works in public relations.

    Stacey Wenkel

Stacey was raised by a pack of wild corndogs.  No, wait, that isn't right.  She was kidnapped by evil purple bunny men from Neptune.  Er, no, that's not it, either.  Stacey grew up in southern California and wrote pretty much any chance she got.  After several years of delusions that she was going to be the next [insert her favorite author at the moment here], she realized that writing and getting published was actually work.  Amazingly enough, she's still going at it.  No longer in California, she calls Erie, Colorado home for the moment and lives with 2 ferrets, a dog, her fiancé, and her Boo.