Ursula K. Le Guin is our foremost living science fiction writer. She is the recipient of multiple Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and World Fantasy Awards and in 2014 she was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Author Residence- Portland, Oregon Author Hometown- Berkeley, California Brian Attebury, editor, is professor of English at Idaho State University and the editor of Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. He edited The Norton Book of Science Fiction (1997) and, with Ursula K. Le Guin and Karen Jay Fowler, is the author of Stories About Stories- Fantasy and the Remaking of Myth (2014) and Decoding Gender in Science Fiction (2002), among other books.