John Kessel co-directs the creative writing program at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. A winner of the Nebula Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Award, the Locus Poll, and the James Tiptree, Jr. Award, his books include Good News from Outer Space, Corrupting Dr. Nice, and The Pure Product.

His story collection, Meeting in Infinity, was a New York Times Notable Book of 1992. Writer Kim Stanley Robinson has called Corrupting Dr. Nice "the best time travel novel ever written."

Most recently, with James Patrick Kelly he edited the anthologies Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology and Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology. He lives with his wife and daughter in Raleigh, North Carolina.

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