Christopher McKitterick, M.A.
Christopher
McKitterick, M.A. is an author, editor, college teacher, astronomer,
and back-yard engineer.
His debut novel,
Transcendence, is now available; his second,
Empire
Ship, is just about fully revised; and his next, The
True-Life Space
Adventures of Jack and Stella, is underway.
His short work has appeared in Analog, Artemis, Captain
Proton, Extrapolation, Mythic Circle, Ruins:
Extraterrestrial, Sentinels: In Honor of Arthur C. Clarke,
Synergy SF, Tomorrow SF, Visual Journeys,
Westward Weird, World Literature Today, and elsewhere. He
teaches writing at the University of Kansas.
Chris is Director (with Kij Johnson and founder
James Gunn) of the
Center for the Study of Science Fiction, which offers a program to get
science fiction into the hands of young people. If you are interested in
helping keep our genre vital through the influx of new readers, and you
want to help youngsters enjoy the thrill and sense of wonder you
remember, get involved! He’s also helped launch an educator-focused
outreach and resource program through the Center called
Tech-writing projects have included a weekly astronomy newsletter,
science articles, and software-related documentation and advertising
materials. When he lived in Seattle, he served as editor, writer, and
documentation manager for the Microsoft Windows
Resource Kits, which
technically makes him a best-selling author. He doesn’t like to think
too much about that. On the other hand, his contributions to those
projects helped win a bunch of STC awards in technical communication,
which he thinks is kinda cool.
Chris earned degrees in English: undergraduate from the
University of
Wisconsin–Eau Claire in 1991, and his master’s from the University
of Kansas in 1996.
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