Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany

Bill Campbell is a native of Pittsburgh and an alumnus of Northwestern University. Throughout his varied and illustrious career, he has done everything from assembling Christmas toys in Cleveland; loading trucks, bookkeeping, and being an AmeriCorps volunteer in Atlanta; coordinating an elementary school literacy program in D.C. to teaching English as a second language in the Czech Republic. He's also the former publisher of the independent magazine, Contraband, and the music trade magazine, CD Revolutions.

Bill is the author of four books and has recently started a publishing company, Rosarium Publishing. His first novel, Sunshine Patriots, is a semi-satirical, anti-war, military sf novel. A special 15th Anniversary edition will be released next month. My Booty Novel, which he likes to call "fluff for nerds," came out in 2007. Pop Culture: Politics, Puns, and "Poohbutt" from a Liberal Stay-at-Home Dad was released in September, 2010, and his incendiary, anti-racism hip-hop satire, Koontown Killing Kaper, came out in February 2012 to much angst and consternation.

Bill lives with his family in the Washington, DC, area.

Nisi Shawl is the author of the James Tiptree, Jr. Award-winning collection Filter House. Delany pronounced her one of the best short story writers he has ever read. Previously she edited Bloodchildren: Stories by the Octavia E. Butler Scholars, and WisCon Chronicles 5: Writing and Racial Identity. With Rebecca J. Holden, Shawl co-edited Locus Award finalist Strange Matings: Science Fiction, Feminism, African American Voices, and Octavia E. Butler. Since its inception in 2011 she has edited reviews for The Cascadia Subduction Zone, a feminist literary quarterly. She’s a co-founder of the Carl Brandon Society and a board member for Clarion West.