Kilczer, Jean

While majoring in art in high school - yeah, they let us do that at Prospect Heights H.S. in Brooklyn, with nude models, too, I realized that the creative juices were flowing in a different direction: science fiction and fantasy writing. One evening when there was nothing good on TV, I took pen in hand and wrote a short science fiction story titled: The Aliens. "Well," said I, "that wasn't so hard," having no idea how poorly written it really was, and how skewed was the science in the fiction. But it launched me into a love of writing and a passion to become the best writer possible.