2009 Clarion Instructors

Holly Black
Holly Black is the author of several bestselling contemporary fantasy novels for kids and teens.  Her books include The Modern Faery Tale  series, The Spiderwick Chronicles,  and the graphic novel series, The Good Neighbors.  She lives in Amherst with her husband, Theo, in a house with a secret door. Her website is at www.blackholly.com.

Larissa Lai
Larissa Lai is a Canadian writer with a PhD from the University of Calgary. Her first novel, When Fox is a Thousand, was published in 1995, shortlisted for the Canada First Novel Award, and won her an Astraea Foundation Emerging Writers Award. Her second, Salt Fish Girl, was shortlisted for the James Tiptree award in 2002. She has worked in Calgary, Ottawa, and Vancouver as an activist researcher, writer, organizer and editor. She currently teaches English at the University of British Columbia.

Robert Crais
Robert Crais attended the Clarion Writers Workshop in 1975. Since that time, he has authored numerous teleplays, screenplays, short stories, and fifteen novels, which currently appear in translation in more than forty countries. His novel, Hostage, was a New York Times Notable Book in 2001, and was produced as a motion picture starring Bruce Willis. Crais has received an Emmy nomination from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the Anthony Award from the World Mystery Convention, the Shamus Award from the Private Eye Writers of America, the Macavity Award from Mystery Readers International, and was the 2006 recipient of the Ross Macdonald Literary Award.  He and his wife live in Los Angeles. Detailed information about his publications, citations and honors, and personal appearances can be found at www.robertcrais.com

Kim Stanley Robinson
 Kim Stanley Robinson lives in Davis California with wife Lisa Nowell, a chemist with the U.S. Geological Survey.  They have two sons.   He has published fourteen novels and four story collections,  and been translated into twenty-three languages.  In 1995 the U.S. National Science Foundation sent him to Antarctica as part of their Antarctic Artists and Writers' Program, and in 2008 the Sequoia Parks Foundation invited him to join their Artists In the Back Country program in Sequoia National Park.  He has a B.A. and Ph.D. in literature from UC San Diego.   He attended Clarion as a student in 1975, and taught  Clarion in 1988.  More information about Robinson is available on Wikipedia.

Elizabeth Hand
Elizabeth Hand is the multiple-award-winning author of nine novels and three collections of short fiction. Since 1988, she has been a regular contributor to the Washington Post Book World, Village Voice, DownEast Magazine, Salon, and the Boston Globe, among others, and also writes a column for the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Her most recent novel, Generation Loss, received the inaugural Shirley Jackson Award. Wonderwall, a novel about the French poet Arthur Rimbaud and her first book for young adults, will be published in October, 2009. She lives on the coast of Maine with her partner, UK critic John Clute, where she is at work on a book called Available Dark.  Further information can be found on her website at www.elizabethhand.com.

Paul Park
Paul Park is the author of a book of short stories and ten novels, most recently a four-volume Fantasy series about an alternate version of Rumania before the first world war. He lives in Berkshire County with his wife and two children, and teaches at Williams College. More information about him is available on  Wikipedia.

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