Michael A. Burstein is the winner of the 1997 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. To date, he has published about 40 stories.

Stories of note include: “TeleAbsence” (Analog, July 1995; Analytical Laboratory Award, Hugo nominee), “Broken Symmetry” (Analog, February 1997; Hugo nominee), “Cosmic Corkscrew” (Analog, June 1998; Hugo nominee), “Reality Check” (Analog, November 1999; Nebula nominee and Sturgeon nominee), “Kaddish for the Last Survivor” (Analog, November 2000; Hugo nominee and Nebula nominee), “Spaceships” (Analog, June 2001; Hugo nominee), “Paying It Forward” (Analog, September 2003; Hugo nominee), “Decisions” (Analog, January/February 2004; Hugo nominee), “Time Ablaze” (Analog, June 2004; Hugo nominee), “Seventy-Five Years” (Analog, January/February 2005; Hugo nominee), “TelePresence” (Analog, July/August 2005; Hugo nominee), “Sanctuary” (Analog, September 2005; Analytical Laboratory Award, Nebula nominee).

Burstein is a 1994 graduate of Clarion. He has served as Secretary of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Vice President of the New England Science Fiction Association, and is an elected member of his local Town Meeting and Board of Library Trustees. He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts, with his wife Nomi, who works as a technical writer. This summer, he taught as a guest lecturer at the Odyssey workshop.

When not writing, he edits science textbooks and teaches with Grub Street.

More information can be found on his webpage at www.mabfan.com, or on his blog, mabfan.livejournal.com.