JEANNE ROBINSON is a writer, choreographer, former dancer and teacher. She studied at the Boston Conservatory and the Martha Graham, Alvin Ailey and Erick Hawkins schools, and performed with Beverly Brown Dance Ensemble in New York. Artistic Director of Halifax’s Nova Dance Theatre for eight* *years, she choreographed thirty original works. Her Hugo and Nebula winning 1976 novella “Stardance” pioneered the concept of zero gravity dance, and inspired three novels. Robinson is a lay-ordained Buddhist monk in the Soto Zen lineage of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi.

SPIDER ROBINSON is renowned for his “Callahan’s Place” series of best-selling novels. With his wife, Jeanne, he has written the Hugo- and Nebula-winning “Stardance” series. Winner of three Hugo Awards and a Nebula Award, he currently resides on an island near Vancouver, British Columbia, and writes a regular editorial column, “Future Tense,” for the Globe and Mail. He is a favorite guest at sci-fi conventions across the United States and Canada.



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