John Kessel
Author · 14 books
John (Joseph Vincent) Kessel co-directs the creative writing program at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. A winner of the Nebula, Locus, Sturgeon, and Tiptree Awards, his books include Good News From Outer Space, Corrupting Dr. Nice, The Pure Product, and The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories. His story collection Meeting in Infinity was a New York Times Notable Book. Most recently, with James Patrick Kelly he has edited the anthologies Feeling Very Strange, Rewired, The Secret History of Science Fiction and Kafkaesque. Born in Buffalo, NY, Kessel has a PhD in American Literature, has been an NEA Fellow, and for twenty years has been one of the organizers of the Sycamore Hill Writers Workshop.
Series
Books
The Dark Ride
The Best Short Fiction of John Kessel
2022
Stories for Men
2005
Buffalo
2003
Pride and Prometheus
2008
Freedom Beach
1985
The Year's Best Science Fiction
Eighteenth Annual Collection
2001
Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 124, January 2017
2017
Corrupting Dr. Nice
1997
Good News from Outer Space
1989
The Pure Product
1997
The Moon and the Other
2017
Meeting in Infinity
1992
Pride and Prometheus
2018
Another Orphan
2003
