Chris McKitterick is an author, editor, technical writer, teacher, amateur astronomer, and back-yard engineer. He received his B.A. degree in English from the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire in 1991, and his M.A. in English from KU in 1996. He has also studied astronomy and psychology, among other things.
Since his work first saw print in 1984, he has sold work to markets including Analog, Artemis, Captain Proton, E-Scape, Extrapolation, Mythic Circles, NOTA, Ruins: Extraterrestrial, Synergy SF, Tomorrow SF, Top Deck magazine, various TSR publications, Visual Journeys, and a bowling poem anthology. Recently, a poem of his was set to music. His first novel, Transcendence, (announcement coming soon!) is due out in 2010 from Hadley Rille Books.
McKitterick is nominations director of the Theodore A. Sturgeon Memorial Award for best short SF story of the year, and is a juror on the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best SF novel of the year. Since 1992, he has assisted teaching the CSSF Writer’s Workshop for Science Fiction. He is also the guest editor for the upcoming World Literature Today special science fiction issue (go here to see the call for submissions).
Technical-writing publications have included astronomy newsletters, science articles, manuals, and advertising materials. He has also regularly written for the Microsoft Windows Server Resource Kits series, where he was a documentation manager. His contributions to these projects have earned a number of Society for Technical Communication (STC) awards.
In addition to his involvement with the Center for the Study of SF, McKitterick teaches (and designed a certificate program in) technical communication for KU. Fun former jobs include planetarian, observatory assistant-director, trainer, and game store promoter.
Chris at the SFWA Nebula Awards in 2008.
McKitterick lives in Lawrence, Kansas, with a cat and a hamster. Check out his personal website:
KU mailing address:
English Department
University of Kansas
Wescoe Hall
1445 Jayhawk Blvd, Room 3001
Lawrence Kansas 66045-7590
Email address: cmckit@ku.edu
Office address: Room 3040, Wescoe Hall
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Kij Johnson.
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The Center for the Study of
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Director James Gunn.
Associate Director Kij Johnson.
Associate Director Chris McKitterick.
AboutSF Coordinator Nate Williams.
Volunteer Librarian Bruce Sherwood.