John Kessel

John Joseph Vincent Kessel, born September 24, 1950, in Buffalo, New York, is an American author renowned for his science fiction and fantasy works, including novels like Good News From Outer Space (1989), Corrupting Dr. Nice (1997), The Moon and the Other (2017), and Pride and Prometheus (2018), as well as collaborations such as Freedom Beach (1985) with James Patrick Kelly.[1][2] A prolific short story writer with collections like Meeting in Infinity and winner of awards including the Nebula, Theodore Sturgeon, and Locus Awards, he is a professor of creative writing and American literature at North Carolina State University since 1982, where he helped establish the MFA program.[3][4]