Professor George Guthridge teaches English, business communications, educationand humanities for the University of AlaskaFairbanks, Bristol Bay Campus and is internationally recognized as a leading authority on using accelerated learning to teach language arts. He has taught high school for nine year, including eight in alaskan villages,and is in his 20th year teaching on the college level or university level. He has four times been nationally honored for excellence in teaching, including having been named on of the 78 top educators in America, manily for having coached village high school and junior high school teams to three national in academics. This year he was co-winner of Alaska's Outstanding Distance Educator Award.
Professor Guthridge also worked as a small bussiness owner, technical writer, science magazine editor-in-chief, freelance writer and educational consultant. He has published six novels, with two more under contract, and has sold over 70 pieces of short fiction to major periodicals and anthologies. His short stories and novelties have appeared in translation in Germany, France, Croatia, Japan, and Indonesia, and have three times been finalist for the Nebula and Hugo awards for the years best fiction and fantasy. In 1998 he and co-author Janet Berliner won the Bram Stokers Award for the years best horror novel, for Children of the Dusk, the third book of their Madagascar Manifesto series. The series is scheduled to be reprinted in 2002.
In his spare time, he enjoys camping, watching movies, and the opera, snorkling, exploring caves, and traveling in thailand with his wife, Noi.