Cathy Palmer-Lister

Cathy discovered SF/F while still in high school when she ran across books by Isaac Asimov and Jules Vernes, but fandom managed to escape her notice until about twenty years ago when she heard a radio reporter casually mention she was going to a science fiction convention after her last broadcast of the morning. Cathy fed the dogs and ran out the door. It was Con*Cept, then in its second year. A year later, Cathy was a member of four SF/F clubs and a gopher at Con*Cept. Currently, she is chair of Con*Cept, her first love; editor of WARP, MonSFFA's clubzine; a member of the Prix Aurora Awards committee; and founder/moderator of the Canadian Con-Runners Yahoo Group. What keeps her in fandom? Fans, of course! Where else but at a fan-run convention like Con*Cept and Ad Astra does one find so many creative, imaginative, and fun-loving friends?