James Patrick Kelly has had an eclectic writing career, which explains his presence as Guest of Honor at Readercon 19. He has written novels, short stories, essays, reviews, poetry, plays and planetarium shows. The novels include Freedom Beach (with John Kessel) (Bluejay Books, 1985) and Wildlife (Tor, 1994); his short fiction has been collected in Think Like a Dinosaur and Other Stories (Golden Gryphon Press, 1997), Strange But Not a Stranger (Golden Gryphon Press, 2002), and most recently The Wreck Of The Godspeed (Golden Gryphon Press, 2008). His short novel Burn (Tachyon Publications, 2005) won the Science Fiction Writers of America's Nebula Award in 2007. He has won the World Science Fiction Society's Hugo Award twice: in 1996, for his novelette "Think Like A Dinosaur" and in 2000, for his novelette, "Ten to the Sixteenth to One." His fiction has been translated into eighteen languages. With John Kessel he is co-editor of Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology (Tachyon, 2006) and Rewired: The Post Cyberpunk Anthology (Tachyon, 2007) and the forthcoming The Secret History Of Science Fiction (Tachyon, October 2009). He writes a column on the internet for Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine and is on the faculty of the Stonecoast Creative Writing MFA Program at the University of Southern Maine and the Board of Directors of the Clarion Foundation. He produces two podcasts: James Patrick Kelly's StoryPod on Audible and the Free Reads Podcast. His website is www.jimkelly.net.