Background
Her mother, Sterling Sturtevant, was an Academy Award-winning art director for animated films who worked for Playhouse Pictures, Universal Postal Union and Charles Schulz.
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Amy Casil
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A four-year National Merit Scholar, she graduated from Scripps College in 1983 with bachelor"s degrees in British/American Literature and Studio In 1999, she received her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Chapman University with full honors, under committee chair James P. Blaylock.
Career
Her writing has often included Southern California themes. She was the first female editor and publisher of the Claremont Colleges" newsmagazine. She twice received the Crombie Allen Award for fiction writing at the Claremont Colleges.
Casil was the director of Family Service Association in Redlands, California from 1987 to 1997.
From 1998 to 2005, she taught English and creative writing at several Southern California colleges, including Chapman University and Saddleback College. Since 2005, she has been Director of Development for the Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization Beyond Shelter.
Casil attended the Clarion Science Fiction Writer"s Workshop at Michigan State University in 1984. "Jonny Punkinhead," which appeared in the July 1996 New Writers issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, was her first published genre story.
"Chromosome Circus" was a nominee for a HOMer Award on the CompuServe San Francisco and Fantasy Forum.
Buzz Aldrin: Pilot of the First Moon Landing (2004)
Coping With Terrorism (2005)
As editor
switch.blade "School"s Out" Fictionwise original anthology (2002)
To Kiss the Star and Other Stories–short fiction collection with introduction by David Brin
Covers of Bone Music, Pandora and Balak.
Achievements
Politics
John Dewey: Founder of American Liberalism (2006).
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United States
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Academy award; Crombie Allen Award; Nebula Award; Writers of the Future
Writers of the Future (WOTF) is a science fiction and fantasy story contest that was established by L. Ron Hubbard in the early 1980s.Writers of the Future (WOTF) is a science fiction and fantasy story contest that was established by L. Ron Hubbard in the early 1980s.