Christopher McKitterick
Christopher McKitterick (born 1967) is an American writer of science fiction, educator, and academic concerned with the field. He is Director of the new Ad Astra Center for Science Fiction and the Speculative Imagination, and long-time director of the Center for the Study of Science Fiction. These programs at the University of Kansas support lectures, classes, workshops, awards, conferences, and educational-outreach resources for teachers and readers of science fiction. McKitterick was nominations director for the Theodore Sturgeon Award for the best short SF story of the year (1993-2016), and a juror for and Chair of  the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (2002–present). He completed degrees in creative writing: undergraduate from the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire in 1991, and master's from the University of Kansas in 1996. McKitterick teaches science fiction, technical communication, and creative writing in the English department of the University of Kansas and fiction-writing workshops around the world.