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Vice President of IAF, writer, performer and public radio personality. Boston, Massachusetts Ellen Kushner is a novelist, performer and public radio personality. Her first novel, Swordspoint, was hailed as the progenitor of the "MannerPunk" school of fantasy; her second novel, Thomas the Rhymer, based on a Scottish Border ballad, won both the Mythopoeic and the World Fantasy Awards. Her most recent novel, The Fall of the Kings, was written in collaboration with Delia Sherman. Since 1987, Ellen Kushner has been a producer and announcer for WGBH Radio, Boston, creating and hosting a wide variety of local and national public radio programming. In 1996 she created PRI's award-winning public radio program Sound & Spirit with Ellen Kushner, a weekly exploration of myth and music called by Bill Moyers "the best program on public radio bar none!" Sound & Spirit is broadcast on over 100 national public radio stations and online at www.wgbh.org/spirit. Ellen Kushner's children's story The Golden Dreydl: a Klezmer Nutcracker for Chanukah (2001 Gracie Allen award for radio broadcast), which she performs live with Shirim Klezmer Orchestra, is available on CD from Rykodisc. For Rykodisc she also put together the collection Welcoming Children Into the World. Her adult performance piece, Esther: the Feast of Masks, is broadcast on public radio and tours the United States. Her short fiction and poetry has appeared in anthologies including several editions of The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling. She has been an instructor at Michigan Clarion, Odyssey Workshop, Cape Cod Writers' Center, and at ISIS(Interstitial Studies Institute at SUNY/New Paltz, with Heinz Insu Fenkl). She has also been a judge for the James Tiptree, Jr. Award; serves on the board of the Boston Early Music Festival, is an active member of Terri Windling's Endicott Studio for Mythic Arts, and a proud co-founder of the Interstitial Arts Foundation. Kushner is also a popular public speaker in a variety of venues from synagogues to science fiction conventions. When she's at home, she's in Boston (where she loves to garden and hates to open the mail); she also spends a lot of time in New York City (where she's working on a musical theatre piece with composer Ben Moore), in Paris (where she takes long walks and eats pastry that looks like jewelry sitting in the windows), and in Tucson, Arizona (where the desert is very quiet and beautiful). She is a good cook and a terrible housekeeper. She likes to sing. Find out more at www.EllenKushner.com. Read Ellen's essay The IAF: an Introduction. |
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