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Clarion West 2000: Dramatis Personae
The People of Clarion West 2000 (photos)
(Students and Faculty/Staff)
All 17 students in one file
Room 1107
Alec Austin
Outward appearance
Generally dressed all in black. A round face, half-Chinese. Smooth black hair with a ponytail. Enigmatic pendant.
Inside information
Undergraduate math major at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Keeper of the comics library. Nuclear reactor operator.
What s/he is writing about
Space war. Gardens of stone, with nothing living. Celebrity babies with rich, missing parents and mysterious relatives.
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Room 1108
Greg Beatty
Outward appearance
A solid, rounded frame; a round face with a quiet smile. A mysterious scar on his chin.
Inside information
A grad student in English at the University of Iowa; his dissertation is on serial killer novels.
What s/he is writing about
The power of art, and why you should fear it. A vast anti-alien conspiracy. A tripartite alien.
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Room 1109
Julian Brown
Outward appearance
Thin, dark-haired, with green-rimmed glasses (his contacts are in the mail) and a charming South African accent.
Inside information
Came all the way from Durban, South Africa. University student; history major. This year's Sue Petrey scholar.
What s/he is writing about
A plastic skeleton in an archaeological dig. Rats fleeing a burning cane field. Psychic shape-shifting alien cockroaches.
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Room 1111
Andy Scott
Outward appearance
Lean, powerful, centered. Brown hair, clean-shaven. The quiet one; didn't socialize at all for the first week.
Inside information
Drove all the way from Madison, Wisconsin. Brought his own chair. Practices kendo, burns incense and jogs.
What s/he is writing about
A mysterious trading family, vast and powerful, invaded two times by a force that devours nobility.
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Room 1112
Albert Folsom
Outward appearance
Lean, with gray hair and large glasses. A high, sensitive voice. When he speaks it's worth listening.
Inside information
Pharmacist from Salem, Oregon; our most generous chef. His partner Eric has excellent taste in chocolate cakes.
What s/he is writing about
A bombastic alien ambassador who gets cooked and eaten. A girl and her doll, on a boat.
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Room 1113
Miriam Hurst
Outward appearance
Compact frame, henna'd hair, glasses, charming Kiwi accent. Often barefoot, revealing one toe shorter than the rest.
Inside information
Currently, a medical writer, but has worked as a doctor and want to get back to it.
What s/he is writing about
The end of religious faith, in a culture whose religion has a basis in fact. Alien archaeology.
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Room 1114
Francesca Myman
Outward appearance
Small and rounded, with wild hair. Sunburnt chest from the Fremont Fair. Giggles. Always wears medieval gowns.
Inside information
Recently graduated from Yale; BA in Women's Studies. Award-winning essay on cyborgs and robot women in fiction.
What s/he is writing about
An Arabian Nights tale whose beautiful language was, alas, in a story that ran out of time.
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Room 1115
Paulette Rousselle
Outward appearance
Large, bright, intense eyes and a truly spectacular amount of brown hair. More computer T-shirts than God.
Inside information
Graphic artist from Redmond, Washington. Former molecular biologist. Former Mac tech support person. Husband also writes SF.
What s/he is writing about
The effects of technological telepathy, memory storage. A god who causes war and gets his comeuppance.
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Room 1116
Inez Schaechterle
Outward appearance
Tall and red-haired, with a voice that brooks no interference. Earrings in odd places and three tattoos.
Inside information
Grad student from U. Nevada at Reno. EYE-nez from Nev-ADD-a, not EE-nez from Nev-AH-da. Her parrots masturbate.
What s/he is writing about
A finely crafted tale of a saint's foot, which arrives in a Southwestern retirement community and brings miracles.
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Room 1118
Anne Silas
Outward appearance
Short, round, with dark hair. A very quiet voice, but worth hearing. Often wears a Tardis key.
Inside information
Training as a medical transcriptionist on Bainbridge Island, WA. Published a novel 20-odd years ago. David's sister.
What s/he is writing about
Only one story so far: a narrative in which the grass remains while people come and go.
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Room 1119
Amy Sisson
Outward appearance
Slender, with an oval face and large round glasses. Very straight hair, dark blonde with light highlights.
Inside information
Research Assistant for a labor union. Has worked for Locus, waitressed, supported a green card Ph.D. husband.
What s/he is writing about
The dangers of Pokemon. A society in which all births are twins, who fight to the death.
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Room 1120
Jennifer Whitson
Outward appearance
Five-foot two... "and a half!" Matchstick-thin but bursting with energy. Elfin face, but can be serious.
Inside information
Psych major in her fourth year at the University of California, Irvine. Swaps waitress stories with Amy.
What s/he is writing about
A fractal story. The return of the South Green Cut-Up Man, serial killer, through a college student.
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Room 1121
Bill Mingin
Outward appearance
A solid, quiet man who dresses plainly. Sometimes even seen in the halls in a white(!) T-shirt.
Inside information
Lives in suburban New Jersey formerly worked for a German book/journal company in New York City.
What s/he is writing about
An old man meets a physical therapist who may possibly be the reincarnation of his dead daughter.
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Room 1122
David Silas
Outward appearance
A tall man, lanky. Brown hair, a beard, a nice smile. Typically wears khakis and a polo shirt.
Inside information
Tech writer/editor for a software testing company near Seattle. Lives on Bainbridge Island, Washington. Anne's brother.
What s/he is writing about
A Greek tragedy: a woman must sacrifice her own brother, who spared her in a previous sacrifice.
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Room 1123
Patrick Weekes
Outward appearance
Bright eyes, bright smile, cute little goatee. Lucky Hawaiian review shirt. Random martial-arts moves in the halls.
Inside information
Works at a startup in Silicon Valley, doing HTML and Javascript. Two stories were published. Martial artist. Vegetarian.
What s/he is writing about
The tell-tale fern. A bodyguard with Medusa hair. A life changed by bees. Tales of eight immortals.
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Room 1124
David Levine
Outward appearance
A strange, asymmetrical face. A scary smile. Glasses that darken in sunlight. A long black ponytail. Balding.
Inside information
Works for Intel in Portland, Oregon. Between jobs at the moment, moving from manager to software engineer.
What s/he is writing about
Faster-than-light drive developed during an asteroid war. An astronaut who may have killed his partner. Aetheric travelers.
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Room 1125
Kameron Hurley
Outward appearance
A bold, powerful frame; a face with large eyes; brown hair that appears to be beyond control.
Inside information
History major at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks, and an order-processing clerk at a book publisher.
What s/he is writing about
A space traveler who does not know she is now unique. Gritty battles in the distant past.
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