#attended clarion writers

JAMES PATRICK KELLY was born April 11, 1951 in Mineola NY. He earned a BA in English Literature at the University of Notre Dame in 1972 and attended the Clarion Writers' Workshop in 1974 and '76. He began writing full time in 1977. In 2005 he joined

NNEDI OKORAFOR was born April 8, 1974 in Cincinnati OH to Nigerian/Igbo immigrant parents. She received a master's degree in journalism at Michigan State University and a PhD in English at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and later worked as an a