About Christopher McKitterick
CSSF Director

    cmckit@ku.edu

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, his M.A. in Creative Writing from KU in 1996, and continued post-graduate studies in SF and fiction-writing with James Gunn for years afterward. 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, Sentinels: In Honor of Arthur C. Clarke, Synergy SF, Tomorrow SF, Top Deck magazine, various TSR publications, Visual Journeys, Westward Weird, and a bowling poem anthology, and new fiction will appear soon in Aftermaths. A poem of his was also set to music.

His debut novel, Transcendence, is widely available, now in its second edition; his second, Empire Ship, is just about fully revised; and his next, The Galactic Adventures of Jack and Stella, is underway.

Chris was honored to be guest editor (and webmaster) of the special World Literature Today "International Science Fiction" issue, with much internet-exclusive content available online. He also wrote several pieces for the issue and website. He was keynote speaker at the 2012 UCO Liberal Arts Symposium XXIV, where he presented "Science Fiction: Mythologies for a Changing Age."

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 taught the CSSF Writers Workshop in science fiction with James Gunn, and took over leading the Workshop starting in 2010.

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 several courses in technical communication for KU. Fun former jobs include planetarian, observatory assistant-director, trainer, and game store promoter.

McKitterick lives in Lawrence, Kansas, where he dwells amid thousands of books in the Center's lending library, restores old vehicles, and watches the sky. For more (including downloads of his debut novel), check out his personal website:

http://christopher-mckitterick.com

Published Books

Transcendence

Contact Information

KU mailing address:

Chris McKitterick
English Department
University of Kansas
1445 Jayhawk Blvd, Room 3001
Lawrence Kansas 66045-7590

Email address: cmckit@ku.edu

Office address: Room 3040, Wescoe Hall

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Updated 4/25/2013