James Patrick Kelly

James Patrick Kelly (born in Mineola, New York in 1951) is an American science fiction author. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Notre Dame in 1972, with a B.A. in English Literature. After graduating college, he worked as a full-time proposal writer until 1977. He attended the science fiction workshop, Clarion, twice; once in 1974 and again in 1976. He made his first fiction sale in 1975, and has since been a major force in the science fiction field. Throughout the 1980s, he and friend John Kessel became involved in the humanist/cyberpunk debate. While Kessel and Kelly were both humanists, Kelly also wrote several cyberpunk-like stories, such as "The Prisoner of Chillon" (1985) and "Rat" (1986).

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He frequently teaches and participates in science fiction workshops, such as Clarion and The Sycamore Hill Writer's Workshop.

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He is a frequent contributor to Asimov's Science Fiction, and for the past several years has contributed a non-fiction column to Asimov's, "On the Net." He has had a story in the June issue of Asimov's for the past twenty years.

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